ANY ONE KNOW WHAT IS ERROR 3 IN ITUNES WHEN I TRY TO RESTORE IPHONE 5 TO IOS 7 IT STUCKS IN THE END AND AFTER 30 MIN THIS COME OUT "UNKNOWN ERROR 3" CAN SOME ONE HELP ME PLZ

Will give it a shot, thank you much!!

one thing though, how can i check the settings if I cant even get into the phone? Its stuck in recovery mode and wont restore.

I tried to restore my ipad mini from 6.1.2 to 7.0.2 and stuck at same problem 😟

I am also facing the same issue.

four days back, my power buttton stopped working.

Then my sim card slot stopped reading like it was stuck at gsm/cdma band.

Even without simcard it said searching..

then I changed the power button and antenna strip myself as my iphone5 is uk ee and i live in india.

Everything was fine and I booted the phone.

The power button worked like a new device... but the searching problem still remained.

I hard resetted my phone but to no vail. even Find My phone was not turning off.

then I forced my phone to recovery mode and downloaded iphone5,2 7.0.2,11A501_restore.ipsw from web and flashed it.

At the start it recognised and everything was good until the "restoring iphone firmware" was stuck at the end point.

I tried every trick on net. Even tried to downgrade.. but it was blocked.

at the last it is either stuck at firmware or itunes unknown error (3)

Please somebody help me to recover this PAPERWEIGHT to a phone again...

Same here ,dont know what to do

These errors seem to be very similar to the error codes (1 or -1). The troubleshooting for the error codes in updating or restoring would be under the article TS3694. Follow those troubleshooting steps see if that helps. Usually shutting down security software (firewalls and/or antiviruses), making sure your up to date on the software, using the back usb ports on desktops, making sure laptops are plugged in to a power source, and maybe trying a different cable, are good steps to take in the troubleshooting as well.

I have tried everything! Read every article I could find, searched hours and hours online for info....not a **** thing. Everyone keeps refering me to a few documents like TS3694 and some others. They dont work. This is some serious bs!!!! Thought maybe it was a ios 7.0.2 issue, so I waited untill 7.0.3 came out and tried to restore with that, and in every way possible. dfu, recovery, even tried using redsnow just to go in and boot....nothing....apple people dont even know *** error code 3 is. Some people are saying its a hardware issue....but how? this all happened when upgrading to 7.0.2

All this thing does now is get stuck at the restoring firmware part of the restore, and its the very last 2%.....

f'in ******...no one can help....least if I cant use it as a phone anymore let me atleast get the software running so i can use it for a ipod, not a paper weight.

Mine has the exact same problem, last 2% or so the error pops up. Now I can't even boot the thing up. It s***s... big time... any solution for this? Is it because of IOS 7? Coz mine started out from that too... mine is iPad mini...

Just to update :

I tried updating my other ipad mini to see if its itunes or something else might be the problem. And that one has no problem at all. Its working fine. So now I am really at my ends meet with this dead one. Its jus the unlucky one to go through this...

I have the same problem with an iPhone 5. The status bar did not recognize the network (indicated "searching ...") so I decided to upgrade the IOS. Download the version 7.0.2 and the update appeared to me the "unknown error (3)". Now I can not get the device in recovery mode. Probe placing the device in DFU mode, but neither finished the update.
Among many attempts, appeared the version 7.0.3, which also download, but gives the same error.
As Apple staff informs me, has to be a bug in the device.
Someone found a solution?? or all devices have failed?

Regards

Has anyone here tried uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes? Making a new user account and installing iTunes there? Theres always something left to try.

I have the same problem. Now i can´t recover my iphone 5. Thi su..ks big time?? Wake up Apple!!!!

Hi guys, After quite a while trying to fix the Iphone, i finally took it to the Apple store, The iphone is bricked and Apple said it was going to cost 149 Pound to fix, which happens to be more then an Iphone 4 is worth. Unfortunatly i was no longer covered by warrenty. I would contact Apple and try and get it repaired for free if you are covered by warrenty. There is currently no fix for bricked iphone with error 3/-3. Please ignore people that say this error does not exist, as im sure we are all very aware that it does.

well, my iPad has the same error and I am slowly trying everything possible. If my product is bricked I am finally done with Apple and will be getting a surface Pro. This is completely unacceptable. The update seems to proceed fine until the last few percent and then the same error message 3 repeatedly.

I had the same problem with an iphone 4 when updating to ios 7. I tried custom firmware (5.1.1) and other official ios .ispw with no resolve plus other various solutions including several versions of itunes and the latest version. Usually get error 3194 or code 11. To my surprise after I switched computers from my windows 7 x64 laptop to my 32-bit desktop, it came out as code 3 on the latest itunes restore attempt. So I attempted to restore from the computer lab at my college and THANK HEAVENS it WORKED!! I don't know if it is computer specific or something else I'm no expert.

No sure if it helps but I suggest using different computers, it worked for me. Oh and if it does, DO NOT UPDATE AGAIN, I updated to ios 7.0.3 and it crashed AGAIN on my laptop. Back to the computer lab. Sighhhh