iPhone Recovery Mode, How To
Apple, iPhone, iPod July 31st, 2008Since so many people have been having trouble with their iPhones I figured I would do a quick how to on putting your iPhone into recovery mode. Now this is your last line of defense so don’t jump to this step immediately, turning off the phone or trying to force quit the application (hold down home button) or even force restart (hold down lock and home button for 8 seconds) are a lot better because you won’t lose any backed up data but if you can’t get the darn phone to boot here’s what you do.
- Hold down the lock button and home button to force turn off the iPhone.
- Hold the home button down as you plug in the USB cable between your iPhone and your computer.
- Let go of the home button when a “Connect to iTunes” screen appears.
- iTunes will recognize that your iPhone is in recovery mode and allow you to restore from the latest firmware version.
- If you have a good backup of your iPhone it iTunes will offer to let you set up the iPhone as a new device or restore from the backup.
I don’t suggest restoring from a backup just because I haven’t had any good luck doing that but the couple of times that I restored the phone and set it up as a new phone it was a heck of a lot more stable than the time I restored from a backup.
I hope this helps you all and if you want tips on how to keep your iPhone stable you can read my post about it here or the follow up to it here.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
im only 14 so i dont know everything about iphones. im pretty good with electronics, but i just couldnt figure this one out! haha, but anyway, thank you so much for posting this, it helped a lot
=)
November 29th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
My iPhone seemed to be be until today when I plugged the headphones, it sort of switched off itself. I tried to get it back using iTunes but nothing worked. Then I decided to restore to the default settings, the process started but iTunes keeps telling me “unknown error (2006)”. Any ideas?
November 29th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
@U-london
I would navigate to ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates and delete the 2.2 firmware file, called something like iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw. Then try to restore the phone again. If you are getting any errors at all don’t restore from a backup, just do a clean install and have iTunes look at it as if it was a brand new device.
It’s also possible that your iPhone is connected to a hub instead of directly to your computer’s USB port, if so connect it directly to your computer, the iPhone sometimes has trouble when it isn’t directly connected.