Stuck in Recovery Mode

This does not save the data on your iPhone. It only restores from your most recent back up.

1.Turn off your device. If you can't turn it off, press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time and wait a few seconds for it to turn off.

2.Plug the device's USB cable into your computer only.

3.Hold down the device's Home button as you connect the USB cable to it.

4.When you see the Connect to iTunes screen, release the Home button. If you don't see this screen, try steps 1 through 3 one more time.

5.Use iTunes to restore your device.

Additional Information:

If you started your device in recovery mode by mistake, restart it to exit recovery mode. Or you can just wait—after 15 minutes the device will exit recovery mode by itself. If you want a faster way to fix iPad stuck in recovery mode, try iPad data recoverysoftware.

I had the same problem with my iPhone when i was restoring, it went into recovery mode and wasn't being detected by iTunes, so what i did was search around and tried lots of different methods, including the home and power button method (None of them worked for me) so i took my iPhone to the apple store near me and they said it carrier locked halfway through the restore and then they unlocked it and it was fine and finished restoring and was fine and i haven't had any further problems with it.

Hope that helps

The best way to get out of this situation is to use a well-known tool called TinyUmbrella.

First of all download TinyUmbrella http://thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.in/
Now, making sure your device is connected to your computer, launch TinyUmbrella
It will automatically detect that your iPhone 5 is stuck in recovery mode
Select the Exit Recovery button and it should throw your iPhone 5 out of recovery.
Alternatively, you can right-click on your iPhone 5 name from a list at the side

of TinyUmbrella and select Kick out of recovery.

Hi!

I downloaded iOS7 via a Wi-Fi network earlier today, and I've been waiting to install it until recently. However, I was having a couple errors when I tried installing it, so I turned it off and back on again, and it started installing just fine.

However, after a while, the iPhone 4 went into recovery mode and I attempted to restore it on iTunes 11.1. The problem is that when the "iPhone Software Update" file finishes downloading, iTunes gives me the notification that my "iPhone is in recovery mode. You must restore this iPhone before it can be used with iTunes." all over again.

I've repeated this process three times now. If anyone could give any assistance it'd be most helpful.

Thanks!

My iphone 4 enter into recovery mode after i press the software update through wifi. I didn't backup for quite a long time, neither in itunes nor icloud. all my data and photo that i don't want to lost is inside. I tried to call apple support and other phone technicians, they said no choice but need to restore in itunes and all data will gone. I tried recboot and reiboot as well, none of them work.

Just before I give up, I saw "redsn0w" and give it a try. I download it to my pc, and the compatible ios firmware(IPSW of iOS). Amazingly, it works!! My iphone exit the recovery mode without losing any of my data and photo 🙂🙂

Hope this might help others who are desperate like me to save the photo 🙂🙂

I'm very sorry to inform you that, as of now, there's no way around this. My brother is a computer scientist, so he fooled around with my iPhone 4S for a few days, trying to access the phone's memory while in restore mode or in DFU mode. He tried everything, even trying to access the memory in LibUSB on Lunix, since iOS is UNIX based underneath and has the same libraries. The phone would just refuse to let anyone access the memory, and acts like a corrupted drive.

The reason to this happening is that all A5+ devices have a locked bootloader, and no one has yet figured out how to unlock it yet. If my iPhone was a 3GS or a 4, then I would have been able to retrieve my photos, because the jailbreak community has been able to unlock the bootloader on those devices, thus being able to create a SHSH connection and then accessing the memory.

There has been talks in the jailbreak community to unlock the bootloader on A5 and A6 devices, but that hasn't happened yet. If you're very patient, and you want your photos so badly, you can leave your phone in restore mode until they figure out how to unlock the bootloader on the newer iPhones, then you'll be able to retrieve your photos back.

Programs like Wondershare Dr.Fone and Tenorshare only work if the phone is working. I tried to fool around with them, and they don't work unless your phone is fully functioning.

I thought about doing a full restore of the phone, and then using photo-restoring programs that will let you restore photos after being deleted, but my brother discovered that wouldn't work, because A5+ devices have encrypted memory, so once the memory is wiped, it's impossible to retrieve anything back.

After all this, I just decided to restore my phone (I had over 5000+ photos all gone), because I need my iPhone for work. I restored some of my photos from my Facebook and Instagram profiles, and just decided it's time to take some new photos and new memories. 🙂

i waited for 30 minutes but nothing happened. so i am going to sleep now but i think still nothing will happen. so this is actually letting those people who has the same problem to click the link if im not mistaken. thanks anyways.

as i searched that redsnow is an app for jailbreaking. will it literally jailbreak the ipad/iphone or is it just a term used to be able to get out of the recovery thing?

i just download redsn0w into my pc, then connect to my iphone to get out from recovery mode. after it finish running the process, my iphone is restarted automatically and everything go back to normal. i did not use it to jailbreak.

you may search redsn0w - recovery fix

My tinyumbrella 7.11.00 isn't working and I tried to update my iPhone 4 from iOS 6.1.2 to iOS 7.1.2 and I'm stuck in recovery mode. I really need some help getting my iPhone 4 out of recovery mode. Could you help me? Please and Thank you

hello,

i see that some of you have the same problem i had. forever recovery mode

you can try doing what i did.

1. i entered recovery mode. (home+power button, then let power button go when the apple shows)

2. i started the itunes recovery and after the first time the whole bar completes it turns off and starts up again, thats where i removed the cable immediately.

3. filled all my info as new phone.

4. now i added all my old stuff back that i had backed up on itunes

hope it works for you guys

got error 4005 after an update. Tried having it serviced here in the Philippines after going through a lot of TS with Chat but still no luck. But a Apple service provider here in the Philippines said that my Iphone 5 cannot be serviced because it was purchased in MY. Without even checking the phone it is sooooo disappointing Apple as a great company brushing off their customers like that.

There's a particular program running in your back ground that prevents the Ios 7 working It may be Icloud but I'm not 100% sure. What i can say is If you Close all the programs that run in the back ground (except the sound, virus scanner and itunes) by clicking on the little arrow on the bottom right side of windows 7. The phone will then restore.

best of luck guys

i also has the same problem, but i always stuck in restoring firmware session, anyone can help me because i use many step.. but the problem still cannot be solve, always show connect to itunes. please, i very need help.