Stuck in recovery loop after attempted update.

"timasher



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My iPad 3, with error code 9, just came out of a 30min freezer vacation......and with the help of 3uTools, restored straight away!

Anyone have an issue with your iPad or iPhone not wanting to stay in DFU mode when you’re recovering? It will switch to recovery mode on its own which makes the computer think it has disconnected in the middle of the restore. Can’t seem to get around this to restore it.

"A little late to the party but I'm seriously SHOOK.

My iPhone 6s got stuck in a recovery mode loop after the battery draining, my home button is also broken so I had pretty much no hope for a successful hard reset. I wanted to avoid restoring and losing data so I tried updating my iPhone through iTunes five times with no success. I came across people having success with booting with inserted lightning headphones and since I don’t have any, I decided to try booting with my regular jack earphones in.

it. worked. No data lost.

!!!!!!!!

thank you so much for mentioning it, I'm off to have some wine because duh."

"I know this is old but I had similar problems this week. I tried everything I could find online to fix it, I'll list my journey so you can rule out anything you've tried. I know I was grateful for every option I found online I hadn't tried!!

3rd gen ipad died whilst in use with Bluetooth turned on. Got stuck in reboot loop and wouldn't turn off properly to charge (I.e. kept booting as soon as got any charge so never got enough charge to boot).

Tried the spamming home button to stay on battery screen so it'd charge but not boot, didn't work for me either. Tried charging on iTunes cable screen (whilst charging on wall, not connected to PC), still no luck.

Finally tried to connect to iTunes, downloaded 1.5gb update to PC but kept saying waiting for ipad on iTunes, with ipad showing apple logo and progress bar which never moved. Was then stuck in recovery mode! Itunes eventually gave error message saying either 9 or 2009 suggesting connection cable error.

The cable I was using was brand new as I read a lot of people suggested their problems were fixed with new cable, so figured, why not? I knew this wasn't the issue now so kept trying. After in excess of 20 tries to update software and restore it still wouldn't work, varying error messages.

Then using same process (connect to itunes and update ipad software if required or restore if that's not an option), same progress bar appears on ipad but never moves, and then 2.5hours later laptop pinged to say ipad restored! And sure enough it's working again. Don't lose hope people, keep clicking update and/or restore and it eventually will work.

I should add, I also contacted apple support and the only further suggestion they gave me re: waiting for ipad message in itunes was to take it to apple store to see if they could do anything else. They suggested my laptop was the issue but all same equipment and cabling used and it's now working.

I was on verge of jailbreak options if this hadn't worked soon. I only posted in the hope it might help someone else as I know how frustrated I was trying to this this issue.

Good luck!"