iPhone 5S stuck in recovery mode

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iPhone 5S stuck in recovery mode

Hi, I recently tried to restore my iPhone to iOS 9.0.2 since it wasn't running that well on iOS 9.1. Now it says to restore my iPhone (which I'm fine with). iTunes says that I have to then restore my phone then update it since that's the only option I can choose but then it gives me an error message (5). So I press update and restore but it says that I then have to restore my phone again and goes through the same loop. If anyone's got an explanation and a solution please post it here.

iPhone 5S-OTHER, Other OS, null

Posted on Dec 2, 2015 7:25 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 5, 2015 5:24 PM in response to Leonidas Pegios

Downgrading is not supported by apple and you cannot downgrade to iOS 9.0.2 anyway since apple stopped signing that firmware. In order to restore your device to working condition on iOS 9.1, you must put the iPhone 5S into DFU mode and then restore from iTunes.

To put your iPhone into DFU mode:

Plug your device into your computer with a USB cable.
Turn off the device.
Hold the Power button for 3 seconds.
Hold the Home and Power buttons for 10 seconds.
Release the Power button but keep holding the Home button.
After about 15 seconds you will be alerted by iTunes saying that it has detected a device in Recovery Mode.

Now click on Restore and wait for the restore to finish!

Hope this helps!

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Answer 2

Dec 3, 2015 12:44 AM in response to sebster101

I tried doing this... it seemed to have worked but it didn't work at the same time. It doesn't give me Error Code 5 but it gives me Error Code 2005. I searched this up and found that I need to switch USB cables etc. I tried everything there but I still get Error Code 2005.

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Answer 3

lllaass

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Dec 5, 2015 5:24 PM in response to Leonidas Pegios

Did you try ALL the actions of:

Get help with iOS update and restore errors - Apple Support

for error 2005?

Those include trying on another computer and the section on possible hardware problems?

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Answer 4

GeeCue42

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Dec 3, 2015 7:43 AM in response to sebster101

Thank you, sebster. I had a similar problem with my Iphone 5S and I did what you suggested and it worked! Thank you.

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Answer 5

Dec 5, 2015 5:23 PM in response to lllaass

What's funny was I tried this on 2 PCs already. I then used my Mac and did the same thing and it worked... it is strange why it only worked on my Mac instead of both my PCs

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