7.0.2 update broke iphone

Me too!! Earliest appointment I can get at my local apple store is next thursday! Taking the P***!!!

Couple questions:

• Is the phone screen black while in DFU mode?
• How long should it take to restore once the ipsw file is selected? My itunes says "Preparing iPhone for restore..." but nothing else noticable is happening. normal?

Thanks, Mike

The hosts file are located on a windows pc in the following directory

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Hi mike, Yeah this takes a while to restore

Btw, if you do not have the correct ispw (iphone, ipad, ipod Firmware) go to the following link http://www.ipswdownloader.com/ and download the correct ispw file and follow my steps in my earlier post

Regards,

HI trying to do the restore following your instructions, but i cannot do the step telling to erage the last to lines with the words apple in it, since i have nothing as in the file.

I fixed mine... For me the only part missing was for my laptop to recognize the iPhone and hook it to iTunes. a couple of attempts (and probably being aletred to the when it tries to mount it and "wake" the phone up right before) did the trick. up and running again.

The experience, however, was one that will drive me in the future to consider other alternatives to Appls... :-(

Hi thanks for the help so far. I've now found "hosts" and am downloading the firmware to my laptop as mentioned in one of your posts last night.

When I put my phone in DFU mode my screen doesn't remain black, as soon as I let go of the power button (after 10 seconds) I get the same connect to iTunes image. Is this me doing something wrong? My phone is not vibrating when I connect to laptop but laptop tells me (iTunes) my phone is there. When I first tried this last night I kept getting a 3194 error message now its telling me that it can't detect the phone.

I'm completely computer technically illiterate (despite being a well educated individual who can do most things on a pc) I blame baby brain I've got worse!!!

Fingers crossed that when this firmware downloads it works.

Wahoo something is happening!

Sometimes a PC running Windows would not recognize a device on an usb for seemingly no reason. One moment before it was still recognized, then when you try to read the usb device a while later, it is no longer readable. You can see the progress in the Windows status bar, where it's trying to read the usb device and failing.

My work around was to switch the usb device to another usb port. If the usb device still fails to be read after changing to all available usb ports, then a pc reboot will get the usb device readable again. Don't know why, but it works for me.

Thanks everyone I've managed to do it since downloading the firmware, as soon as I'd done that it did it straight away. Phew! It's bloody horrible though!!!!

what do you have to do from there? ive found the host thing what next?? step by step please

Here is a easier method for this problem.

On my PC it acted like the device was detected but never showed in Itunes.

I found this section that metions the USB driver. Go to http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538

Now it didnt show that Apple USB driver loaded but I did have "Apple iPhone" in "Portable Devices" in the device manager (Windows 8) I unplugged and watched it disappear. So I knew I needed the driver listed in the link above.

Next I chose update driver on the Apple iPhone in device manager and pointed the USB driver listed in the link above.

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\Drivers

(may differ on OSs)

Then it added that driver and I heard it connect. You may end up with a device apple Iphone afterwards with a "!" on it if so just uninstall it and let it be redirected by scanning for hardware.

It should then come up ok in Itunes.

I like this fix better because no screwing with phone or reinstalling Itunes.

Good Luck!

was able to fix my issue by downloading and restoring from another computer. Must have something to do with a corrupted update file

The same problem for me, and the solutions mentioned early did fix it, though it took a long time to restore. I'm on a mac laptop so I thought I'd compile the notes from Frikkienand ChrisVaz347into one post.

1. Put your phone in DFU mode

Step One

Open iTunes and connect the iPhone to your Mac.

Step Two

Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button at the same time.

Step Three

After exactly 10 seconds release the Sleep/Wake button.

Continue holding the home button until iTunes pops up a message telling you that it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.

2. on your mac, open terminal. At the cursor, type or paste:

sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

Then hit control + x to exit. Y then enter.

Then type or paste:

sudo dscacheutil -fllushcache

3. At this point, going back and doing the restore finally worked for me. Without doing step 2 it was taking me in a loop of trying to restore and failing.

Hope this helps.