iOS 6 upgrade causing recovery mode

@EikeWeinberg - That TinyUmbrella software is amazing, Fixed my failed iPhone 4S update (iOS 6.1) by fixing then exiting my recovery. Update installed correctly and all data is intact.

My wife's iphone 4 has done exactly the same thing. Into recovery mode. Needs to be factory reset but will lose all photos and videos etc. Never fear. Found a great piece of software called iexplorer. Downloaded for free. Treats your I device as an external hard drive. Copied all media including photos, videos and recordings to a new folder on the PC. Going to reset it now. BACK UP YOUR DATA REGULARLY. DONT LOSE PRECIOUS MEMORIES. You have to purchase the software if you want to copy contacts across. Not sure of the cost. But its the media most will be interested in.

I woke up in the middle of the night with my phone turning on the itunes picture. Got up to plug it into computer and it says that i have to recover. Why is this still an issue after so many months?

MaryJo can you please tell me how to get that software? my IPhone has been stuck in recovery **** for over a week now and I need i back!!! Thanks for any help.

Caro

Download the application TinyUmbrella on the right side of this page (http://thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com/) and pick your version, either Windows or Mac. There's options for exiting recovery or fixing the recovery. I was able to fix mine and I now have the latest version. I also backed everything up immediately.

hi, does this work with iphone 5 😢?

thank u

The blog says:

"6.0.2 and 6.1 support for all relevant devices has been added. "

This software should work with the iPhone 5 since it supports those updates.

hey guys ow to recover what system will i donload..

I've been having the same problem every single **** update. I have a iphone 4. It's driving me totally nuts.

I just ran into this issue when trying to update my 4S to 6.1.

iTunes alone wouldn't let me restore. TinyUmbrella couldn't get it out of recovery. Editing the Hosts file didn't work.

Finally, I entered DFU mode (method) and iTunes was then able to restore to factory settings (with 6.1 installed). Luckily, iTunes had made a backup when I tried doing this initially, so I'm restoring that now. Hopefully everything will be in place.

I had previously jailbroken, so I don't know if that's the reason. If so, well, I guess that's the risk I was willing to take. If not, shame on Apple for rolling out updates that cripple phones like this. The average owner doesn't have the wherewithal to jump through obscure techy hoops to fix things like this.

DFU mode was something I forgot to mention. I believe my iPhone 4S was in DFU mode while I used TinyUmbrella. It had already been in that mode after trying alternative methods to fix the issue.

Same thing happened to my 4S just now. It has never been jailbroken.

It seems to be able to restore from the iCloud backup OK, though, so it is not a major annoyance, but still: disappointing.

This just happened to me! WTH?!

This helped me when my iPad 2 upgrade froze. Thanks for the tip!

But I dowloaded the 6.1 firmware instead (5.1.1 didn't work).

Ok this has been very dissapointing.

I mean you have bought something that wants to be considered as a smart device and from a smart provider. The hardward is fine but the s/w really *****!

How smart is it when is entirely depanding on the directory path itunes store everything in your computer?

In my case I couldn't make the update on-the-air. DFU mode.

Then itunes. But asked me to restore to factory settings the iphone!

I did so. Had no other option. Then tried to restore from iclud. Said 'sorry we cannot resotre some of your staff" and that's all.... Seriously now? WHY? And I cannot resore things from itunes since I got new laptop and couldn't tranfert things back (now you call this smart after all this years!).

I do not care about music. I can find thisa again. But all the other stuff...

This is so embarrasing daer Apple and you should do smth for your clients. Because I pressed 'Agree" on the terms doesn't mean anything becasue you forced me to in order to proceed.

I had always this feeling that I have a device that I am not its master. I was alwys afraid of that. Being full not for security reasons that much but for not having the control. I do not want itunes in order to do everything. Or make itunes flexible. It was taking me months to update ios always because I had been afraid of this incidents.

It's hard to innovate nowdays. We see that. You see that coming. Make it easier then. Really user-friendly.

Move to the next step. Still depending on the cable and itunes that most people don't like but made them to use.