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naniscola

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Apr 28, 2019
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Germany
My wife's iPhone SE was overloaded with data and hung up while rebooting. Then after attempting to update to the newest firmware, I kept stuck in recovery mode. The problem is, that the iPhone is too full for recovery. Because my wife didn't make a backup, I want to avoid a flat install. Unfortunately every recovery tool I tried gave the same error and denied work in the middle of the process. I discovered a windows tool called "no erase ipsw", that modifies ipsws up to version 10.3.3 in that way, that it makes the installer think that it does a complete new install, although it replaces only the system files and lets the user files untouched. Unfortunately is the resulting ipsw not accepted by iTunes, because it is "unsigned", lets say too old for Apples authentification process.
My only hope as far as I see now is to make iTunes think, it is a new ipsw.
Second possibility would be to modify a new / signed ipsw in that manner, that it becomes smaller than the original to save installer space, because the iPhone is over full.

Can anybody out there give a hint? Thanks!
 
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Minorite

macrumors 6502a
May 8, 2018
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iMazing has an option to reinstall iOS in DFU mode without erasing data, but not sure if it will work in your case. Still a chance though.
 

jpadhiyar

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Oct 15, 2012
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Ahmedabad, India
RecBoot is also a notable software package. I once used this software when I had iPhone 4 running on iOS 7. I found this link; so please try out this and then share your feedback.

 
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