Recover an iPhone Stuck or Hung In DFU Recovery mode from iTunes

November 11, 2011 4 Comments

If your iPhone gets stuck in iTunes DFU Recovery mode  - possibly due to trying to upgrade a jailbroken iPhone to a regular  iTunes iOS upgrade (which you can’t do),  there are a couple of tools to get it out of recovery mode DFU.

Get the latest Redsn0w   — Mac OSX redsn0w 0.9.10b6b  or  Windows redsn0w 0.9.10b6b

Before you try the tools its worth a try a manual try on the iPhone – hold the power button for 15 secs – then boot by holding the home button – if that doesn’t work try the below.

- Quit iTunes

- Launch redsn0w and click on Extras

redsn0w-launch-for-dfu-extras

 

- Connect the iPhone

- Click on Recovery Fix

recovery mode iphone dfu

 

- Connect the iPhone and follow the remainder of  the onscreen instructions.

 

Another tool with an exit recovery dfu mode is Tiny Umbrella

- Quit iTunes

- Connect the iPhone

- Launch Tiny Umbrella and click on either ‘Exit’ or ‘Fix’ recovery

tiny umbrella fix recovery dfu mode

 

To upgrade an previously jailbroken IPhone to iOS 5 and preserve existing baseband check here.

Related posts:

  1. Recover and Restore iPhone 3GS with Error 1015 stuck in Recovery Mode in iTunes
  2. Re-flashing the 06.15.00 iPhone 3GS BaseBand
  3. iOS 5.0.1 Released via iTunes Jailbreakers need to hold off the Upgrade
  4. Upgrade jailbroken iPhone to iOS 5.1.1 and preserve baseband with redsn0w
  5. How to find out which Boot Rom Am I ? Old or New for iPhone 3GS
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  • newby

    What to do if ‘Exploit failed.’ appears?

  • http://twitter.com/neo1piv014 Isaac VanHaverbeke

    All I get when going through RedSn0w is “The connected device doesn’t support untethered options.”

  • Vig Vishal

    i m doing above using redsnow but give me error ipsw extraction failure

  • Laksanth_bv

    Hi Neil,

    I had Jail broken & upgraded to ios5.1. Everything was working fine. For some reason i tried to restore using iTunes standard restore option & ended up in Recovery mode. Tried to get out of recovery mode… phone started but keeps flashing & kind of keeps restarting… not sure what’s happening.

    Now when i try to custom restore it gives me a 3194 error. Any help please?