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iPhone stuck on "Restoring Firmware" bar. Help!

My iphone 3gs is stuck in recovery mode and whenever i try to restore it, the progress bar gets stuck at about 99%. I have searched everywhere on the web to try and solve it. I've done things from editing my host file to reinstalling itunes. I am freaking out! Nothing has worked! I have IOS 5 and fully updated itunes. Any help would be appreciated!

iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Nov 10, 2011 4:56 PM

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Nov 13, 2011 4:14 PM in response to TomFabio

TOOK ME 4 HOURS and I Finally got it and i just had to tell everyone else whos stuck on this.


My Solution is that if you have a router, sometimes the ports through the router are blocking access to the Apple Update Server. So you must either :


MAKE YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION DIRECTLY TO YOUR COMPUTER THATS DOING THE RESTORE



CHANGE YOUR ROUTER SETTINGS IF YOUR GOOD WITH NETWORKING


this is for any iphone on any firmware I HOPE THIS HELPS!

iPhone stuck on "Restoring Firmware" bar. Help!

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