iOS 8.0.2 Update - Stuck in recovery mode

I am having same issue too. I saw No Carrier, then it rebooted and stuck in Recovery mode. Any help?

Samedeal for me. Shows power cord and iTunes, connected to iTunes and it says phone is in recovery mode and only option is to reset phone...

If the iPhone is in recovery mode, the data has already been lost. There are some programs that claim they can restore data, but I have not seen anyone here name one that worked as expected.

Unfortunately, you've learned a very hard lesson - backup your data before updating your phone, including importing the photos to your computer.

~Lyssa

This article might help with that: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946.

iPhone's don't have hard drives that get written over, so recovering data is much more difficult, if not impossible.

~Lyssa

Hi Mehdi,

If you have now imported your Photo Stream photos into iPhoto, then you can sync them back to your phone after you finish restoring it from your last backup.

Restore your iOS device (see the section with this title in the link below):

Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings

Once you have restored, you will see a link in the article that tells you how to set up the device using a previous backup.

Once the backup is complete, hook your device up to the Computer you sync with (if it is not already hooked up and showing in iTunes), and click on the device to display the Device Profile screens to the right of the sidebar. Click on the Photos tab, and you will see the option to Sync "Selected Events, Albums, etc." Once you select that option, go to the list of Albums and Events below that and select the Albums or Events that you want to sync back to the device.

Check all of the other tabs to make sure you have them set up the way you want the iTunes library items sync'd, and then click on "Sync" or "Apply" to sync to the device.

One other tip. In iPhoto, if you click on iPhoto>Preferences>Photo Stream, you can select options to automatically import your Photo Stream photos so you know that they are always imported to your iPhoto Library automatically. When it does the automatic import, it labels the imports in the Events Folder like this: September 2014 Photo Stream. So they are easy to find in Events, and can then be moved into Albums if you wish:

Cheers,

GB

Hi Mehdi,

Any notes that were on the backup when you created it should restore to your device when you do the Restore from Backup!

Cheers,

GB

Me too! A hard lesson that could have been avoided if

a) Apple had gotten this rotten update to not brick our iPhones and iPads

b) The software update insists on plugging into iTunes and doing a backup first.

I've lost 2 weeks of activity. Darn it. And Apple: You suck

Having the same problem on my Ipad 3. I have connected to iTunes and downloaded the ios 8.02 app twice, on 2 separate laptops and i am still stuck on connect to itunes. This is so frustrating. I should have just stayed on the ios 8.01.

Did you follow the instructions in the link? You are in Recovery Mode, and need to follow the instructions here:

IOS RECOVERY MODE RESTORE

Cheers,

GB

Use a program called RecBoot. My iPhone 5s got stuck in Recovery Mode when I updated to iOS 8 without a backup. Took it right out of Recovery Mode without losing anything.

lol this hasn't been resolved. Currently in this exact situation with this new update.

FIXED!!!! For me anyway, and I hope for you!

So I tried to update to ios 8 and after downloading the software itunes trdiied to update my iPad 4. I recieved the error 3004 and was stuck in the "Connect to iTunes" screen and could not get out of it. Completely annoyed!

But then I remembered something from when I used to fiddle with iphones. I opened a program I had called TinyUmbrella, which can be used to force boot out of recovery mode (the "connect to itunes" screen).

My ipad was still connected to itunes and in recovery mode. I opened TinyUmbrella, selected my ipad (which was just shown by the serial number), then clicked "Exit Recovery" and BAM!!! It immediately kicked my out of the recovery screen and started my ipad back up to my home screen.

Now, my ipad was still on 7.1.3 since the update to ios 8 had failed. But I didn't care, my ipad was fully functional again just like I left it before. Thank God for TinyUmbrella! Here's the CNET link for TinyUmbrella if you need it:

http://download.cnet.com/TinyUmbrlla/3000-18545_4-75766724.html