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erasing All Contents and Settings is taking a long time, showing circle loading logo.. is this normal?

I decided to first "restore" my phone in the itunes store and then i "Erase(d) All Contents and Settings". Its been taking longer then a couple hours and it is not showing the apple logo is is showing the circle loading screen. Is this normal? Please help! 🙂

iPhone 4

Posted on Aug 19, 2011 10:39 AM

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Lawrence Finch

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Posted on Aug 19, 2011 10:42 AM

It is NOT normal. An iPhone 4 should erase in a few seconds. The iPhone 3G and iPhone Classic would take several hours, but the 3GS and 4 are almost instantaneous (because all they do is delete the phone's encryption key).

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Jan 13, 2014 6:03 AM in response to Ank.65

Restore the phone from Recovery Mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

erasing All Contents and Settings is taking a long time, showing circle loading logo.. is this normal?

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