Comments on: My Almost-Broken iPhone (and How I Recovered It) http://www.mcmahonweb.com/2008/04/02/my-almost-broken-iphone My site about all things... Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Gus the iphone overlord http://www.mcmahonweb.com/2008/04/02/my-almost-broken-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-26 Gus the iphone overlord Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:28:53 +0000 http://www.mcmahonweb.com/?p=35#comment-26 What you actually did is put the phone into DFU mode. Switch off the phone wait 5 seconds hold down home and poewr button for 10 secs then release the power button (keeping the home button depressed for 10 secs) with the next 10 secs itunes will recognise the phone is in dfu recovery mode and will allow recovery.(to note the screen will be black on your phone!) What you actually did is put the phone into DFU mode. Switch off the phone wait 5 seconds hold down home and poewr button for 10 secs then release the power button (keeping the home button depressed for 10 secs) with the next 10 secs itunes will recognise the phone is in dfu recovery mode and will allow recovery.(to note the screen will be black on your phone!)

]]> By: iphonejoe http://www.mcmahonweb.com/2008/04/02/my-almost-broken-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-20 iphonejoe Tue, 27 May 2008 03:48:59 +0000 http://www.mcmahonweb.com/?p=35#comment-20 I put my iphone in the dock while holding the home key for 27 minutes and it finally worked! Thanks! I put my iphone in the dock while holding the home key for 27 minutes and it finally worked! Thanks!

]]> By: Jordan http://www.mcmahonweb.com/2008/04/02/my-almost-broken-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-23 Jordan Thu, 15 May 2008 03:12:58 +0000 http://www.mcmahonweb.com/?p=35#comment-23 Thank you so much. I almost died when ibrickr said there could be a major problem. i just held down and it popped right back up. you are my hero. Thank you so much. I almost died when ibrickr said there could be a major problem.

i just held down and it popped right back up.

you are my hero.

]]> By: Shannon http://www.mcmahonweb.com/2008/04/02/my-almost-broken-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-21 Shannon Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:18:50 +0000 http://www.mcmahonweb.com/?p=35#comment-21 glad it was helpful. :) glad it was helpful. :)

]]> By: Jan http://www.mcmahonweb.com/2008/04/02/my-almost-broken-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-25 Jan Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:01:18 +0000 http://www.mcmahonweb.com/?p=35#comment-25 Man, you are my personal saviour... I had exactly the same problem after knowingly and willingly playing around with different hacking applications thinking that I couldn't do any harm since it would all be software related. However, after it went into this constant reboot state and holding the sleep/wake and home buttons only caused it to re-reboot, I did get cold feet :-) Anyway, just holding the home button while the rebooting occurs did exactly as you suggested. It showed the disconnected usb cable, and iTunes could now find the iPhone again. Thank you for sharing this for me to see :-) Man, you are my personal saviour… I had exactly the same problem after knowingly and willingly playing around with different hacking applications thinking that I couldn’t do any harm since it would all be software related.

However, after it went into this constant reboot state and holding the sleep/wake and home buttons only caused it to re-reboot, I did get cold feet :-)

Anyway, just holding the home button while the rebooting occurs did exactly as you suggested. It showed the disconnected usb cable, and iTunes could now find the iPhone again.

Thank you for sharing this for me to see :-)

]]> By: Shannon http://www.mcmahonweb.com/2008/04/02/my-almost-broken-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-24 Shannon Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:14:10 +0000 http://www.mcmahonweb.com/?p=35#comment-24 I don't think you are missing anything. It may be that I got lucky. After this post, I tried messing with my phone again, and I almost couldn't get it working again. It took several tries. I don’t think you are missing anything. It may be that I got lucky. After this post, I tried messing with my phone again, and I almost couldn’t get it working again. It took several tries.

]]> By: Rob http://www.mcmahonweb.com/2008/04/02/my-almost-broken-iphone/comment-page-1#comment-22 Rob Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:44:29 +0000 http://www.mcmahonweb.com/?p=35#comment-22 I have the exact same siyuation, But I have been holding down the home button for 10 minutes, and no dock cable screen, just constant scrolling reboot, Is there a step I am missing? I have the exact same siyuation, But I have been holding down the home button for 10 minutes, and no dock cable screen, just constant scrolling reboot,

Is there a step I am missing?

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