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How can I recover my iPhone 4 without restoring? It went into the recover mode while I was updating it.

I think part of the problem is my memory space had been exceeded. I own a 8 gb, but it had about 8.2 according to itunes. I was going to delete some pictures and videos after updating, but it never came back. Now it's just a screen with the usb pointing to itunes.


I've tried:

  • Holding the home button and power button for 10-15 seconds
  • iRecovery
  • TinyUmbrella
  • RecBoot
  • Crying
  • Pleaing


However, as soon as the "reboot" apple appears for a couple seconds, the recover screen comes back (usb->itunes).



Can anyone help me? I have family pictures that I don't want to delete.


-Sannie

iPhone 4, iOS 6.1.2, Verizon iPhone

Posted on Mar 12, 2013 12:09 PM

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Mar 12, 2013 9:15 PM in response to o1sealedkiss

  • Quit out of iTunes
  • Go to the hosts file. For Mac OS X this is located at: /etc/hosts or /private/etc/hosts and in Windows it is located at: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
  • Open the hosts file with Administrative privileges so that changes can be made and saved (eg: sudo nano /etc/hosts)
  • Look for a line that resembles something like this:
  • 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
  • Put a # in front of that to comment it out, making it now look like this:
  • # 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
  • Save the hosts file
  • Flush DNS cache and restart iTunes


To flush the DNS cache: Open Terminal and type dscacheutil -flushcache <Return>

How can I recover my iPhone 4 without restoring? It went into the recover mode while I was updating it.

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