Phone Stuck in Recovery MODE HELP

Vonwachtstain

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I honestly never had or seen bricked iPhone. I usually fix them for family and friends and I have seen some pretty bad ones that were just maliciously stuck on Apple logo or iTunes screen. Some of them took really long time (whole night). My guess is it's never software. If its truly bricked it's hardware (dropped or waterdamaged). Don't worry you will fix it eventually.
 
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Vonwachtstain said:
I honestly never had or seen bricked iPhone. I usually fix them for family and friends and I have seen some pretty bad ones that were just maliciously stuck on Apple logo or iTunes screen. Some of them took really long time (whole night). My guess is it's never software. If its truly bricked it's hardware (dropped or waterdamaged). Don't worry you will fix it eventually.
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I've heard of two bricked iPhones in three years on this forum. Both were jailbroken and both were replaced by Apple when they couldn't fix them, either. It's extremely rare, but possible. I fix them for people, too. I've had two that it took me about six hours to fix.
 
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Im finally getting some progress.... at least some.. still not there yet!

Ok iTunes is restoring the custom ios 5.0.1 and all go`s fine till i get to a screen were there is a Apple logo over a status bar that should fill with white till the end of it, but nothing happens :( it just stays the same. Apple logo on top of the status bar. What in the hell will I do now :(
 
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budd i have tired that... it works it says im in dfu byt in iTunes it still says im in recovery mode. still i do
a restore and same result, stuck at the same screen.

Lads this is day 3... Heh ye def know more then me lol please try think whats wrong 4 me
 
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I can get iTunes to do a restore using a custom iOS made by sn0wbreze.
All go`s to plan, iTunes restores the phone and then when I get to the screen with the Apple logo above the progress bar nothing happens :( Its been stuck on that screen now for the last 3 hours or so...

Were in the hell do I go 4rm here?

Just to say how I got iTunes to do the restore, I changed the host file, I put a # in front of the Apple ip address and all went ok , if I don't have that done to the host file iTunes will just give me an error at the 1st hurdle.

Please lads help me .... I have even went to a internet cafe and tried a different PC but stil the same result.

At this stage I am on my hands and knees begging for help!
 
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Something in the custom firmware might be causing your restore to get stuck. Do you know anybody with a Mac that could make a custom firmware using Pwnage Tool?
 
Ricey83

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Ok i put thee iOS rom into redsnOw and clicked boot in extrs,
I don't know what happened, but it worked :)

I had tried this before a few times but it never worked, I just done it there abd now my phone is back to life :)

Thanks to everyone for all of your help.
Il be sticking around here now this is a
gr8 board......................................
 
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