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iPhone help!

Patriks7

Patriks7

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So, I just got home about one hour ago and just took out my iPhone to check something, when I notice it was pretty warm to the touch. I take it out of the case to see the Apple logo on the front screen and vibrating once in a while, as if it was turning on. So I plug it into my computer. After about 2 minutes, nothing happened. I then look into iTunes and it was frozen! No matter what I try, nothing helps :(
Any suggestions?
 
OK I'll try that. Hopefully it'll work.
Is there any way to restore it without iTunes? Like by pressing some buttons? Or any safe mode?
 
I've had it not stop vibrating before and all I did was hold down power and home until it rebooted. Problem solved.

By the way, I've had this problem with every cell phone I've owned. Literally.
 
Patriks7 said:
OK I'll try that. Hopefully it'll work.
Is there any way to restore it without iTunes? Like by pressing some buttons? Or any safe mode?
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Hold the home button+Lock button for 7 seconds. Your iPhone will perform a hard reboot. Then you should be able to restore in iTunes. Just click restore on the summary page. BTW you should click "setup as new iPhone" once you restore. If there are any errors iTunes will sync those back to the iPhone. This has happened to me before.
 
If none of the advice above works then you can try a hard restore. By powering off the iPhone by holding home and power button until the screen goes black and then holding the home button while you connect to iTunes. This forces a restore and fixes 99% of locked iPhones.

David
 
FCP.guru.guy said:
If none of the advice above works then you can try a hard restore. By powering off the iPhone by holding home and power button until the screen goes black and then holding the home button while you connect to iTunes. This forces a restore and fixes 99% of locked iPhones.

David
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I tried everything, but nothing worked :( When I use your method it just freezes my iTunes that I have to force quit it. I'll try connecting it do a different machine once I get the chance. Might work.
 
OK, so I have finally managed to get it into recovery mode. But it asks me to update to 2.2.1 and I don't want to do that. I downloaded the 2.2 firmware, but there is nothing to choose that will install it :( Help anyone?
 
Moi un Mouton said:
I think you hold down the option key on a Mac and when you click Restore it lets you browse for your 2.2 firmware file
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Yes I did that, but there is nothing to open in the file. I downloaded it as a zip, unzipped it, but in iTunes when I open the folder there is nothing to open :(
 
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