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

Using Apple Configurator to Prepare my attached iPad with the "latest" software fixed the problem for me, as per RavingWalrus' post in the following related thread:

[https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4764679?answerId=21103519022#21103519022]

The result is that IOS 6.1 is now installed on my iPad 2.

Thanks RavingWalrus.

Clearly this problem didn't happen to every iPad2, but it did affect many iPad2's. Mine is over a year old, perhaps those that they sell now have had a defect addressed that mine doesn't have. Someone from Apple could probably tell us the common denominator here, but judging from the support experience reported on these threads and all over Google, they are oblivious to the issue.

The Apple Configurator works for anyone that can use it. This leaves Windows folks out in the cold, I know, and I am sorry that I don't know anything about using Apple devices with a Windows system. Keep looking though - now we have demonstrated that it is not your network, your firewall, your A/V software, or anything else but Apple who is at fault here (assuming you have the exact same problem that I did about not being able to contact the server loop).

FYI, after having issues before, I just downloaded the update again using the usual, non ipsw direct link process and it worked properly. Whatever was wrong seems to have been fixed. Just thought I'd pass it along.

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In one of the threads I read using Internet explorer is causing the file to save in zip format. Use firefox. Additionally, even if it is zip - unzip the file and make sure you have a restore*.ipsw file on your PC. Then shift-restore will allow you to select this file.

That was my quistion but im using an ipod touch 4th generation and its making me soo mad!

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This advice has saved not only my iPad Mini but an expensive and lengthy trip to my nearest Apple store.

The only hard part was getting the iPad into recovery mode, you really do need to hold those buttons down for the full 10 seconds...

My iPad is now reset and charging up in readiness for the next stage of putting all my info back on it :-)

Glad it work for you too :-)

Thank you very much, thought my iPad was 'dead'.

This worked for me but I had to downlaod the file using Firefox...not IE...

Good luck people!

My Ipad is stuck in recovery mode as well. I'm guessing that once I restore it I will lose all of my files, photos, videos, data, etc? I checked my iCloud and I guess they aren't synced on there. Is there any way to recover my files once I restore my Ipad? I wouldn't care so much, but my son's birth videos and photos are on it...:(

Thank you so much for this. I have now managed to restore and do not have to take my iPad to see a 'genius' at the Apple store. They had an appointment ready for me in a WEEKS time. You are fantastic :)

We took the ipad back to the Apple store at Southdale in Edina, MN and had a 1:00 appt. they took the ipad resored it and we were out the door by 1:08. The ipad was restored back to factory settings...luckly we did not have much on it so not much to reset. Nothing I tried was working at home and the Apple people were wonderful.

I have done all of the above. It will go through the entire process and at the very end it says "This Ipad cannot be restored due to an unknown error. Error code (-1).... HELP!!!

Techmadness, this possibly will mean nothing to you as you have been thanked by many, many people on here already but I would just like to genuinely extend my gratitude to you for this suggestion.

A bit of an explanation, I have been without work for some months and have been unable to afford to get my iPad fixed, as apple were charging me what I thought was an incredible amount to fix a cracked screen before they would touch it. Therefore, I have been without my iPad since the beginning of December whilst still paying for it as we decided to get it on a "pay-weekly" system and way of paying as we honestly believed it would pay for itself in the long run this way, which up until it went off, it did.

When my iPad broke and was unfixable by Apple, I had lost a lot of work that I had stored upon it and couldn't get back. Now, as I have used this fix to restore my iPad to it's former glory, I can download everything back onto my own tablet and work from it whenever I wanted to, which I genuinely believe will help me get back up and running with work and start, really, improving my life.

I wish I knew your real name to thank you properly, but you have made a hollow man feel whole again. Thank you my friend, thank you and best wishes to you, your family and anyone that comes into contact with you.

I am eternally grateful. Seriously. You'll never know how much.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I have the same problem, sadly. Tried all of the above a number of times this evening and getting same message when it eventually fails. This Ipad cannot be restored due to an unknown error. Error code (-1) Any help with this gratefully received!