Stuck at "Connect to iTunes" (error 4005)

Hi,

Just want to thank you in 2017 for your advice which worked when my hubby's phone showed a plug & iTunes & froze because he interrupted an update. I plugged it into my computer apple, of course & it gave me 2 choices, update or factory settings. It took 3 goes but it eventually worked!

Your advice is still helpful in iPhone 5S! Thank you!

Prodijy.. thank you for that .... i have been at it for days now and my iphone 6 plus always hangs with nothing on the screen. itunes reads waiting for iphone for hours. tried exiting recovery mode by holding them buttons so many times,.. nothing worked. i was losing hope and going to forget about it and get a new one.. but one last time just wanted to try it out by searching articles here.. your solution to changing the usb ports did the magic. all my usb ports are usb3, so took your advice and tried my sons pc in usb 2. i started hitting myself for all that trouble i went through and not able to fix it. but with your advice am up and running.. thanks for this advice.. very very helpful... just replying to your answers so others can try it as well.. thank you

Error 4005 is a "can't load package error".

Apple servers are absolutely blocked by millions of people trying to do the same as you all over the world. Just wait 24h and you'll be able to do it without a problem.

I'm having the same problem but on itunes it says it's preparing iphone for restore and then iphone recovery mode

itunes is restoring the software on this iphone. Don't know if to unplug and turn everything off or to leave and let it run it's course.

Can someone help!

Same problem, Tried to do the press home button and power button thing. Still didn't work.

Better not to unplug. Just leave it as it is.

Patience and everything will be fine.

OK but it looks like the phone is off. Should I turn it on? It's connected to Itunes

All of a sudden I heard the sound and the screen is still black but the itunes logo and the cord are showing now on the phone.

I'm going to leave it alone and wait until tomorrow.

Thanks for all your advise.

Try the home button once. Does it come on? If not you may want to reset the phone from iTunes.

As I said, better leave it and give it time

Yeah I'm on recovery mode and it's my 5th time to try restore it and the error 4005 still comes up. I guess leaving it would be the best?

That's what I would do.

Same thing happened to me, botched update, entire iPhone wiped, and now it won't restore properly. So angry and frustrated. What a massive F-up.

Any solutions yet?

My ipad is stuck in connect to itunes. Only thing i can do is power it off and on. But the screen is still there.