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

Two days ago I heard of people around me the new update for the ipad2 is out so I went to settings checked if there was one and there was one. So I clicked on download and so it went on it turned off after it and got stuck on the screen where you see you have to connect to itunes. I connected it to itunes and it said its in recovery mode. I clicked on recovory and fix it so it went downloading after 12 min maybe it was finished but came up with the error 1403 that the downloading was damaged and corrupted.... So I tried agin but I keep getting the same message and two days have gone by and still cant use my Ipad? Anyone else has this problem with his/her ipad 2? Anyone else who fixed it? Is apple working on it?

iPad 2, iOS 6

Posted on Jan 30, 2013 9:55 AM

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Jan 31, 2013 2:11 PM in response to rdugas999

Rdugas999 stop!


Windows will only download the file and will not change it to a zip, your have something else changing the file extension to zip.


Change the file extension back to .ipsw then go back into iTunes.


Do no extract the file, it isn't an archive so you risk damaging the file.

If you have to download the file again, turn off all download managers, browser add one etc and use Internet explorer.

Alternatively when instead of left-clicking the file link, try right-clicking and select 'save-as' and make sure the file type is .ipsw

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

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