The general method of recovery for an iphone stuck in recovery mode is an itunes restore – great if you have recently performed an itunes backup, tragic if you have not. if your last itunes backup was a while ago, you risk losing any data added to your device since your last itunes backup.. Ios 8 update nightmare! ios 8 update let me without the iphone 5. i just updated to ios 8.0.1 on my iphone 5 16gb, mobile carrier is 3 three uk.since the update i lost the mobile network entirely,(carrier setings disappear) and it shows "no service".. I thought it is technically right because there would be no baseband in that phone. gave it another try with restore/update to latest 8.2 firmware but now iphone is stuck at restoring firmware at 99.9% every time..
Hey all, i got an iphone from a friend that would not turn on, so after charging it for a couple days i went to load it into itunes, itunes tells me that it is in dfu mode which means that the only option is to restore. when i try to restore it it loads everything up fine until it gets to 75% where it restores the iphone firmware. once it gets to this spot it just stays there for hours until i. For those of you stuck in recovery mode with your iphone 5s and having an errror message on itunes (-50) stuck in a loop at 60% during restoration of the iphone.. After repeated firmware update failures (progress bar freeze syndrome), having attempted to restore the iphone 7 on multiple macintosh computers, i eventually left the phone in the freezer for 45 minutes and then it completed the restore on the second attempt..
