Iphone 4 in recovery mode after failed attempt to restore

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Iphone 4 in recovery mode after failed attempt to restore

I decided to do a system restore on my Iphone 4 GSM yesterday. Now it keeps getting stuck at around 10% when 'Restoring Iphone Software'.

The IOS was up to date, so is the Itunes version. It's in recovery mode, and I can't turn it back on, install the IOS again or anything of the sort. I tried restoring it from DFU also, it still won't work. Tried reinstalling Itunes, to no avail.

I don't believe it's bricked, is it? Since it is being recognised when connected to Itunes.

Any chance it gets stuck like that just because it takes a long time to restore it? (I had a lot of stuff on it, and it's the first proper restore attempted on this device)

Any idea of how I might fix this?

Thanks in advance.

iPhone 4, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Jun 8, 2013 7:40 AM

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mario49

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Jun 10, 2013 1:56 PM in response to Hazza312

Hi Hazza312,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.

Since a restore did not complete, take a look at this article:

iOS: Unable to update or restore

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808

Best of luck,

Mario

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Jun 10, 2013 2:08 PM in response to mario49

Thank you for your answer!

I managed to fix it by erasing the iOS I already had on the laptop from the previous update, downloaded it again, and restarting the process of restoring the phone.

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