does reiboot work?

IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!
Believe it or not, all i had to do was download, plug in my phone click on exit recovery mode and all of this took around 5 minutes; for someone who had their phone stuck on that screen for hours this is a huge relief!:)

Is your device showing the USB cable with the iTunes icon on it? If it is, then your device is in Recovery mode, and it is too late to save anything. If you have no backup (you aren't using iCloud automatic backup?), then you will have to set up your device from scratch, and any photos not imported to your computer are gone.

Sorry,

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my iphone 7 locked up hard during a IOS 11 update. The apple logo was on the screen and stayed there for hours. I couldn't turn the phone off or use the 2 button reset (power button and home button). I did a little research and found a few tech site recommending Reiboot. One was Cnet. Anyways, there was a link to the free download site and I was able to get it downloaded in a couple minutes. There was no need to create an account or anything like that. it just said plug your phone in to the USB cable on the computer and start it. It took a minute or so to find the phone. It confirmed it was an iPhone 7 and then told me to hit the recovery button (or something to that affect). It took a couple of minutes, but then the phone showed the iTunes recovery logo. A couple minutes after that, and the phone came back. I had to run the IOS update again, but it worked fine the next time.

Recboot MAY kick the iPod out of Recovery mode (the iPod's screen shows USB plug and iTunes icon). It al depends upon why it went into recovery mode. However, it it shows an Apple icon then it is not in Recovery mode and Recboot will not help.

You may be able to get some info off the restored iPod by:

How to perform iPad recovery for photos, videos

Wondershare Dr.Fone for iOS: iPhone Data Recovery - Wondershare Official

http://www.amacsoft.com/ipod-data-recovery.html

iPod recovery software to restore lost music files

My iPhone 5 got stuck in DFU mode. ReiBoot DIDN'T WORK AT ALL. Don't buy this stuff. You can try the free 3utools instead.