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ML1996 Author

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Water damaged Iphone stuck in recovery mode

basically my iphone went through the washer so then I immediately wiped it down and then wrapped it up in a towel and placed it into an airing cupboard for around 2 days then finally decided to give it a try, to my amazement I plugged the iphone 5 into my laptop with itunes open and it turned on and the touch screen worked fine. However, the screen was clearly still had water in as you could see from looking at it so I thought the best idea would be to turn it off and place it back for another 24 hours. 24 hours later and I then went to plug it in once more and the logo kept showing so as I was clicking away on the home button i stupidly put the phone into recovery mode which at the time didn't seem bad as i knew all I'd have to do is restore it which i tried but unfortunately the iphone restores to a halfway point where i then receive a message stating error(3) and it is stuck in recovery mode and my lock/power button doesn't work so i cannot even make it go back to normal as many videos showed on youtube. any advice?!?!?!?

iPhone 5, iOS 7.1.1

Posted on May 28, 2014 7:25 PM

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ML1996 Author

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May 30, 2014 6:37 AM in response to Lyssa

I got my phone out of recovery by simply taking the sim out the iphone and it restored but now i cant activate it. I didnt use any software to get it out of recovery mode

adrinpu

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Dec 1, 2015 11:15 PM in response to ML1996

i had the same problem but i fixed my phone. i dropped my phone in soda today and didnt realize it was in there for a lil. i was freaked out so i turned it off immediately. it kept turning on by itself, i dont know why, so i decided i might as well use it. i was experiencing some app crashing so i restarted the phone and the connect to itunes thing happened! i found this thread but no solutions. i was upset about having to get a new phone. i realized this was happening because my home button had already been broken from abuse and the soda was probably making this worse. i got desperate and popped the home button out and the phone restarted completely fine. only problems i have now are the speaker wont work bc it says its on an ipod dock and theres some cosmetic damage to the screen, but it works fine! i know this was over a year ago or whatever but im just posting in case someone else needs this advice.

Water damaged Iphone stuck in recovery mode