Is ios 7 update killing iphone 4 and 4s

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Is ios 7 update killing iphone 4 and 4s

I spoken with four friends who tried to update their 4s to ios7 and all including myself have had the update kill our phones. We've all tried to restore with the new itunes and we keep getting the message: "itunes has detected an iphone in recovery mode. You must restore this phone before it can be used with itunes." Of course there's no other way to restore it since the ios 7 update seems to have killed the phone. Nothing but Black screen– basclly a usless brick. I run my business from my phone. Didn't apple test ios 7 on the iphone 4s. What do we do? This is way worse than the Apple maps fiasco last year!

iPhone 4S, iOS 7, 32 gig memory

Posted on Sep 18, 2013 2:50 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 18, 2013 4:54 PM in response to Godot Still Waiting

Why not let iTunes restore the device from your backup?

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Answer 2

jjkraw

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Sep 18, 2013 4:59 PM in response to Godot Still Waiting

I just updated my 32G iPhone 4 and it certainly isn't dead. I'm playing around with various things to see if/how they work. Basic functions like calling and iMessage work for me.

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Answer 3

Sep 18, 2013 5:03 PM in response to Godot Still Waiting

When an iPhone is in recovery mode you must restore to factory settings. Keep in mind its only been a few hours since the release of iOS 7 so there are millions of people trying to update. I myself have not been able to update because of this so I will wait till the traffic dies down.

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Sep 18, 2013 5:43 PM in response to THEcheesewire

The problem is that it won't / can't. Tried multipal times. Mine seems completly dead. Nothing works at all. No screen functions, nothing! ios 7 seems to have completly killed it. No wait for activation. Just a dead lifless Crapple iphone!

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Answer 5

Sep 18, 2013 5:48 PM in response to Godot Still Waiting

I have an iPhone 4. I didn't lose complete function, but I feel your pain. iTunes threw up some error message during the middle of the install and my iPhone was forced into Recovery Mode. I had to Restore System Software (ugh!), then Restore the phone from Backup (double ugh!), then re-Sync all my apps (triple ugh!) which took several hours. Of course, this couldn't happen till I connected to the authorization server, which took 45 minutes.

All in all, waste of an afternoon. I do hope you can find your Backup and restore everything. Mine was further complicated by the fact that after finally upgrading to iOS 7, iTunes now says "This iPhone has never been backed up to iCloud", when in reality it has backed up to iCloud roughly 1,000 times. 😠

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Answer 6

Sep 18, 2013 5:56 PM in response to Godot Still Waiting

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5322773

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Answer 7

Sep 18, 2013 6:00 PM in response to mrmoose18

Yea, I backed up to icloud just before updating to ios7. Nothing that you back up to icloud actually does back up. icloud like ios7 is pure crap. I have an a.m. apointment at the apple store G -bar tomorrow. If they can't fix it for free (warrenty is expired) I'm heading to the Sprint store and getting a Samsung phone like my wife has (never had any issues with it and loves it). Her iphone 4s died four months ago. She swore off Apple products and never regretted it. I'm now at that point. I've been a long time Apple finatic but no more. They need to get rid of Time Cook. He's signle handedly destroyed Steve's company. Wouldn't it be nice if they actually tested these updates on older phones like the 4s instead of just saying it will work and be wonderful. My 4s might make a nice hockey puck. With ios7 it's not good for much more.

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Answer 8

Sep 19, 2013 12:31 PM in response to Godot Still Waiting

totally agree my lively hood was on my 4s too not to mention all my family photos, now all gone due to crappy software update thats fried my phone??????? :-/

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pdroth

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Sep 19, 2013 12:33 PM in response to vinfromgb

You don't backup your photos?

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Sep 30, 2013 11:55 AM in response to Godot Still Waiting

My moms iphone 4S keeps dying after the ios 7 update, just a black screen. If I hold down the lock button and home button down for about 10-15 seconds the phone automatically turns on. Give this a try see if it works for you until you can find the real problem. At least you'll have your phone working.

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Answer 11

Crabbedh

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Oct 11, 2013 11:36 AM in response to Godot Still Waiting

I think the WiFi/Bluetooth IC inside the iPhone 4S has some manufacturing problem. I am unsure if it is related to quality of soldering; heat issues with the IC itself, or an antenna issue. iOS 7 seems to be taxing that system more than older OSes and 2 days after I updated to iOS7, my WiFi and Bluetooth died.

There are people who claim that you can put your phone in the fridge and/or heat it very hot with hairdryer and that will fix it somewhat.. The fridge actually worked for me, for about 5 minutes.. That indicates a heat issue with the IC. The blowdryer might indicate a solder issue.

I think the undeniable thing here is that Apple has now discovered a manufacturing and/or design flaw in the iPhone 4S in the WiFi/Bluetooth system. These problems never show up until time passes. There is sometimes no way to truly simulate the passage of time.

I'm hoping that they will blanket replace those phones that are outside the warranty as Microsoft did with its infamous Red Ring of Death problem on the XBoxes.

You pay a premium for an Apple Phone.. sometmes Apple might have to eat some of that profit for failures that are really not anyone's fault.. but certainly not the customer's.

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Answer 12

Oct 20, 2013 10:40 AM in response to mrmajorrager

Thanks. I was having the same issue and this worked for me. I'm back up and running in 15 seconds.

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