My Ipad 2 is stuck in recovery mode after the update 6.1

My iPad 3 appeared to be dead one morning in Feb 2015, about 2.75 years after I had bought it. It was fine the day before. I thought maybe the AC adapter or charging circuit was bad, so plugged it in using a different adapter and cable. No change. Finally found that doing a reset (the sleep & home keys down for ~30 seconds) while plugged in to my MacBook Pro brought it to life, at least partially. Apparently I was able to get it into recover mode, but I was never able to recover. I tried with different cables and different computers. I get the apple logo and a progress bar below it, and my iTunes will eventually say "waiting for iPad", but nothing appears in the progress bar no matter how long I wait. Eventually iTunes reports an unknown error (9). I took it to an Apple store to see a genius, but all she did was the same stuff I had tried to do. She told me it must be the logic board and it would cost $299 to fix. I was loath to pay that. Instead I bought a new iPad mini, which is my preferred size anyway. Now I still have the iPad 3 and I have this very slight hope that the genius was wrong and that there really is a way to fix the problem. I am suspicious that anything just "broke" on its own while the iPad was sitting there in it's stand. It could be, but it seems more likely that something happened via WiFi (hacked or updated or something) which has screwed up the firmware/software. Anyway, I'm following this thread and hoping someone has some good ideas for me to try.

I do not see the solution. Could someone send me firmware fix?

did you get the deleted fix?

hi

I've got an iPad 2 - it kept freezing, so did the reset (home/power thing) when it goes through the set up screens it gets stuck on agree terms and conditions and won't let you agree - after searching online i have tried connecting to iTunes and doing a restore and update, keeps saying there is a problem with the iPad that requires it to be updated or restored, have done both but still comes up with error message, now its stuck in recovery mode

any help would be much appreciated, it may be old now but id rather it didn't have to go in the bin xx

Can anyone please help me with what the solution was here? It's no longer posted on the website and my iPad just did the same thing to me and they said they couldn't help at the apple store because of a "hardware" issue, but it is in pristine condition. 😟

Hi all,

Can anyone send me the original link which was deleted please?

My ipad2 when plugged into iTunes just shows the apple logo and bar and iTunes just says waiting for iPad. Doesn't matter how long you leave it plugged in:-(

Many thanks in advance

Just wanted to say thanks.

All this time later, these tips still helped me recover my iPad. 🙂

This helped me:

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