IPhone Bricked

cotwold

Can anyone help me with my phone.

I deleted the settings and all content on my iphone using the general setting options. The iphone switched off and started to reboot, the Mac logo was on the screen and a loading bar was below it. Basically i had to turn the phone off at the time but it was only half finished loading so i ended up holding the home and power button to switch it off.

Now it wont turn on (which i wasn't that surprised by) but itunes wont recognise it either. The only response i can get out of it is if i hold down the power button the mac logo appears against the black screen. :(

Ham'nd'egger

cotwold wrote: »

Can anyone help me with my phone.

I deleted the settings and all content on my iphone using the general setting options. The iphone switched off and started to reboot, the Mac logo was on the screen and a loading bar was below it. Basically i had to turn the phone off at the time but it was only half finished loading so i ended up holding the home and power button to switch it off.

Now it wont turn on (which i wasn't that surprised by) but itunes wont recognise it either. The only response i can get out of it is if i hold down the power button the mac logo appears against the black screen. :(

Is the iPhone showing up as an external device on your desktop or folders? If not, try and see if it shows up on another computer with iTunes updated and see if it will let you update your firmware on the phone first off. Hopefully it will complete the update and get you back into business.

I assume that it hasn't been jailbroken or anything....

Sad Professor

cotwold wrote: »

Basically i had to turn the phone off at the time but it was only half finished loading so i ended up holding the home and power button to switch it off.

Big no-no this.

Now it wont turn on (which i wasn't that surprised by) but itunes wont recognise it either. The only response i can get out of it is if i hold down the power button the mac logo appears against the black screen. :(

It's booting. After what happened before, this might take a while. Plug it into the charger and try again. If the Apple logo comes up, leave it alone and see if it comes back. Don't do another hard reboot while it's doing this.

john__long

Try this?

1. Get it into iPhone Recovery mode.
2. Restore in iTunes

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=367

cotwold

Sad Professor wrote: »

Big no-no this.

I know i feel so foolish but i was convinced the loading had frozen

Sad Professor wrote: »

It's booting. After what happened before, this might take a while. Plug it into the charger and try again. If the Apple logo comes up, leave it alone and see if it comes back. Don't do another hard reboot while it's doing this.

It comes up and after about a minute it just turns off. My mac nor my pc is recognising it and they both have the latest itunes update.

john__long wrote: »

Try this?

1. Get it into iPhone Recovery mode.

I cant get it into recovery mode

john__long

How about DFU mode?!

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1034

cotwold

Oh thank you so much john_long, i'd been trying that all morning and it wouldnt work but i decided to give it another try now and its worked and ive restored everything. Drama averted.

john__long

No problem!

DFU mode can be tricky. Often times switching the cable to a different USB port is enough.

Glad it's all sorted!

cotwold

Yeah i've had to do it before and it really can be tricky to get the timing right.