Updated to iOS 11.0.0, 2 days later iPhone (6s Plus) stuck on boot logo and wont recover either.
I have an iPhone 6s plus that I updated to iOS 11.0.0, about a day or two after its release on the 19th of September. It worked fine for 2 days. On day 3, when I woke up I saw that my iPhone was stuck on the boot logo (black apple logo with white background). I had plugged it in to a transcend usb 3 hub connected to my macbook which was in closed lid clamshell mode.
Since then, each time I connect it to iTunes, it shows the phone is in recovery mode. All attempts to recover or restore the phone with firmwares either directly downloaded by itunes or by manually downloading it from developer.apple.com (be it ios 11.0.0, 11.0.1 or 11.0.2), and with genuine apple lightning cables directly connected to the macbook's usb port, have failed. I have tried it on 2 macbooks, each have two usb ports. One of them got the High sierra update and tried again on high sierra as well. I have the most current iTunes version installed. And if thats not enough, I have tried it with 3 different original apple lightning cables!
I keep getting error 09.
Apple Support on chat advised me to try and clean the lightning connector on the iPhone, which I did, and when it didn't work either, on their advice I took it to an authorised service center.
At the service center they made the same attempt but the restore process failed. Since my iPhone is out of warranty I was asked to pay for a replacement. I was told my iPhone isn't even being detected in their service center softwares, let alone be able to run diagnostic test to find the fault. The cost to find the fault by opening an out of warranty iPhone is less than one tenth the cost of a replacement but I was told thats not an option as the team in Bangalore that authorises such requests would reject it! As, in any case, the customer eventually has to pay up the cost of the replacement of an iPhone that cannot be detected at the first place! This, as I was told, is to save the customer from an 'unneeded' expense of a hardware check.
As ridiculous as it sounds, this means having to not only bear a cost which is much higher than the resale value of the device, and living up with only 6 months of warranty given on an out-of-warranty replacement device, and never knowing if there was some problem that other hardware I use with my iPhone (like the USB hub or the Apple lightning dock) might have caused, but also, if there was a mistake from the side of Apple when I had got my phone's broken display replaced with a replacement cost.
In any case, I am not spending any money on a replacement device which won't get me half the amount on a resale.
Is there anyway, I can get it up and running?
Note: have tried the recovery process by manually trying to enter the recovery/dfu mode several times, as well.
