iPhone 4 stuck in recovery mode, wont restore - Error (9)

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follow the directions on this site, your iphone should recover after following them. it helped me fix my iphone 4.

http://www.iphone4jailbreak.org/forum/error-1013-failed-upgrade-4-2-stuck-in-rec overy-mode.html

I agree Tom,

I'm in this boat now. I have Bricked my iPhone trying to do the iOS update and now I am doing all I can to bring it back.

I have recboot and tinyunbrella installed on my work machine now in hopes of getting this phone back up and running. The only reason i haven't used them yet is because I was still in the process of copying my iphone backup files off my powerbook to move to a machine that worked.

iTunes Died while trying up update... it won't load anymore... and after restarting and reinstalling a few times, Now the Hard Drive hasa SMART Failure... so copying the files (4500+) with errors ever 20 files or so has been a nightmare.

So, in finding out that Apple will not help me if i use these programs, even though they are suggested here many times... i guess i can say i am glad i have not yet...

I am fortunate to live fairly close to an apple store... I would hate to be much further.

I'll be going to one Wednesday now... Hope they can help.

I would rather they Fix the phone... and get my files back... if not... a New phone wouldn't be so bad I guess.

Managed to get it working!!!!

tried the same restore process on someone else computer and it worked... What gives!

Happy to have it back... Now i just need to fugure out where to put the back up files from my laptop onto this machine...

Why is the file structure different?

SIGH.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3481728?start=0&tstart=0

Try to drain out battery. If you leave it in recovery mode for a day, it will drain out battery. After that try to restore from itunes. It works for me.

Just had the same as tom298... NAND failure just 6 weeks out of warranty and they want the best part £200 for a replacement handset.

A retailer who'd like to retain brand loyalty would be quick to sell and backdate an extended warranty; clearly Apple are too big for this now.

Hi, can someone help me please. I tried to downgrade my OS drom 5.0.1 to 4.3.3 but now im stuck in recovey mode and when i try to restore my iphone 4 i get error 21. I cant do anything pls help me

There is no legitimate way to downgrade iOS without hacking your phone or your computer. This is Apple's tip on that error: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694#error21 but it assumes that the phone has not been hacked. Give it a try anyway.

You can also check to see if your attempt to downgrade corrupted the network database on your computer. Open your hosts file and if you see any lines that contain gs.apple.com remove the lines. In Mac OS X the hosts file is in /etc/hosts. In Windows (any flavor) it is c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts..

i have the same problem with my phone, i have it for a year and a half (its guaranteed for two years) but there's no apple store in Ireland, just registered apple sellers or whatever, so i'm trying to figure out if i should bring my iphone there or to the place where i bought it (the shop where i bought it is not affiliated with any network) in the hope that either one of the stores will either fix it or give me a replacement?! what do you think seeing as how you've been through the process? thankss!

Hey to all ..I was having the exact issues, if not worst. I have iphone 4, and I am on ios 5.1 with bb 4.12.01. I tried restoing with itune , fixing with tiny umbrela, editing my "hosts" file located in(windows/sys32/drivers/etc) but all to no avail...I came across this last step and it fixed it for me