Error 4005 fix for Windows 7

Fellow unkown error (4005)ers,

I've gone through this and every other forum I could find on this topic... bottomline - I tried to update to IOS7 for my iPad2, and it decided that what it wanted to do was go back to the factory defaults and didnt give me a choice... I've been trying for the past three days now to get it to take... when the device is not hooked to my little netbook (Toshiba NB255 running Windows 7) it tells me to connect to iTunes... when I connect to inTunes it says it has found a device in recovery mode and I need to restore... I click OK, restore iPad restore and update... now the fun:

1) It says extracting in iTunes, the iPad continues to tell me to connect to iTunes

2) Takes a couple minutes to extract, then sits for 5ish minutes "Preparing the iPad for restore"

3) iPad screen flashes, gets a feint glow, and iTunes says "Waiting for iPad" for 5ish minutes

4) "The ipad "ipad" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (4005).

I am limited by being in Afghanistan right now on what I can do to fix this (no second computer, no Genius Bar)... I don't care about any of the data (which I think is lost anyway), I just want to be able to facetime with my wife and daughter. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.

The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down page in case one of them applies.

Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.

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My ipod touch suddenly died and cannot be turn on. Then, I put it on the boot loop to restore but it failed. I also tried to restore by put it on the DFU Mode but then again it failed. The pop up message showed up by the end of the process is this --> The iPod "iPod" could not be restored. An unknown error occured (4005).

P.S. I already tried your procedure but the same message still pop out

P.S.S. PLEASE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLP!!!

This solved my issue on 2 devices! Thank you!

Yes, my phone also not getting on, it doesn't go further to itune-restore, before during upgrading iOS there was error 4013 now it's 4005, I’ve tried all said methods and suggestions published at apple and all other sites but still couldn't make my phone alive...I think this problem isn’t solved yet and if you follow any apple’s presenter that throw you at link erro1611 to follow up, that’s totally worthless and wastage of time... hope someone will help us by telling a way that really could fix this problem... hope 😟

I had this same issue for about 12 hours.

Fixed now here is how.

I have ipad 4 wifi 64gig

i tried everything. DFU IN AND OUT.

RECOVERY IN and OUT.

NOTHING WORKED UNTIL THIS.

i got a program called semi restore. it only works for firmware 6.1 through 6.1.2

my ipad 4 was firmware 7.0.4.

I ran the program as administrator and then plugged in my ipad. while it was identifing my ipad it exited recovery mode for me. i didn't even run the program on my ipad.

Didn't work for me.

This happened on both my iPad and Iphone after the most recent updates. It previously happened when I intentionally tried to restore the phone because it was losing music for no apparent reason.

I have to take the phone or pad to my home computer, connect it, and then it reinstalls the software update. THen I have to either set it up as a new phone or pad, or do a full restore.

Apple is going to lose me as a customer if this doesn't get resolved. Shouldn't have to do a full restore from two locations every time you do a software update.

hells_exile. I did, I tried it and all other advise. I ended up passing it off to our resident Apple Guru... he says he tried everything short of popping it open and trying to reset the battery; he's advise is to wait till I get home and take it to an Apple store for some professional love... guess its Skyping off the old netbook for the next 6 months. Thanks for the help though!

Did not work for me....

i just experinced as well, i'm restarting my PC. n trying to restoring my again, n it's worked...

hope this can be helping...

Mine came up with this error and my phone was stuck on the connect to itunes. I updated windows and now it seems like it is trying to restore it I hope!! Its not stuck on that screen anymore. Funny because something kept stopping me from restarting my phone

Please help! I also got the same problem. I've been trying for days to restore my iphone 5. The phone suddenly turned to black screen, then switched Off by itself. When I turned it On again, it was stuck in apple logo. I've searched online for the possible solution and decided to that Recovery mode thing, in the hope of restoring my phone to its original state even if it means losing my personal files.

During the restoration process, the itunes was stuck in the waiting for iphone while the phone stuck in the apple logo with a loading figure below. I also observed that the said loading figure (which I believe to ,supposed to be, moving to signify a loading process) was not moving at all. Then an error message suddenly appears on the itunes with the error 4005. I've tried a lot of things as advised by the apple site on the web, from Re-installing itunes to switching to another computer. Btw, I'm using a Windows 7 32-bit PC. Please help!!! 😟

My iPad plugged in not nothing, but if you connect to the pc the pc senses the iPad, but say k is in recovery, I do Apple appears recovery after the bar downstairs, but not going anywhere! iTunes is waiting for response from the iPad.

yes, it worked for me. Thanks for posting this solution 🙂