Help, iPad2 stuck in a loop and wont restore

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Help, iPad2 stuck in a loop and wont restore

I have an iPad2 that is frozen in a loop (goes from a dim apple logo to a bright apple logo to a black screen over and over again). I have tried all the hard restore, DFU, reboot, etc even let the battery die down then recharge but that didn't work either. I have the latest itunes version, uninstalled and reinstalled it. It tries to restore and it looks like it might work but right at the end of downloading firmware itunes goes back to the regular page and doesn't recognize the iPad and my iPad2 goes back to the loop. Does anyone have any idea how to get out of this?

Posted on Jun 10, 2015 1:25 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 10, 2015 1:56 PM in response to Emiko South

Have you tried entering recovery mode. Press and hold the home button while plugging in the usb charge into the iPad. It should show the iTunes logo - open iTunes and a pop window will ask what do you want to do. Click restore - update.

Hope this helps. 🙂

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Emiko South Author

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Jun 10, 2015 5:07 PM in response to mwallis1997

Yes I tried that, that's what I meant by hard restore, I meant hard recovery. it went through almost the whole process then just kicked off and itunes went back to the "home" screen with my music and my ipad went back to looping. A friend said to remove all ipad stuff from my computer and try downloading the ipad restore again because sometimes it gets corrupted so I tried that this afternoon and after the download it came up with error 3004 but at least my iPad is not looping anymore it is just a black screen but still can't get it operational. Thanks anyway.

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Jun 11, 2015 5:46 AM in response to Emiko South

Your welcome - just out of interest what iOS is your iPad 2 running?

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Jun 11, 2015 5:54 AM in response to Emiko South

Have you tried any of the suggestions in here? Take a look to be sure.

If you see Error 3194, Error 17, or 'This device isn't eligible for the requested build' in iTunes - Apple Support

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Emiko South Author

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Jun 11, 2015 6:26 AM in response to Demo

Yes, I've tried all that, the only thing I have not tried yet is restoring it on another computer because I don't have another one and haven't asked friends that have itunes yet.That is my last hope. Oh by the way it has gone back to the looping again.

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Emiko South Author

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Jun 11, 2015 7:44 AM in response to mwallis1997

I assume the most recent 8.3??? but not positive.

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