Comments on: How do You Restore a Bricked (non-Jailbroken) iPhone?

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:28:22 +0000

Thank you so much! I was worried that my phone wasn’t going to work because it kept running through the start up.
thanks for all your help

By: Leo Bridgeford

Leo Bridgeford — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:17:44 +0000

Charles Strickland – Thank you for your 2008 post!
I was experiencing the the horrors of the “wheel of death”.
1. The phone was stuck in the reboot cycle.
2. iTunes would not properly recognize the phone when it was successfully put into DFU mode using PWNAGE.
3. The phone would not charge.

I was searching and searching for any answer to this problem (simple, complex… Anything!)

Your was simple, just involving a little more patience with the hard reboot steps…

It may seem like a small thing, but as you said when you are panicking because you’ve lost all your data and contacts, it is an enormous relief to regain access to it all again.

Regards,
Leo

By: Moe

Moe — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:21:18 +0000

This helped me soo much, ithought i was gonna lose my warantee. Thank you soo much.

By: reality is

reality is — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:41:20 +0000

Hey Gerald,
Any non functional iphone is a brick. Some are permanently bricked, many are temporarily bricked.

Just because your head is a brick doesn’t make you a brick expert!

By: Charles Strickland

Charles Strickland — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:39:27 +0000

Chris, I already tahnked you for this info, regrettable I had to use it this morning – in panic mode. I do in home computer repairs and was due to leave for first housecall in a little over an hor when I plugged the phone in to charge it. I saw that there was a new update and thought that I shouldn’t do this right now and then on a whim decided to do it anyway, what the heck, I had an hour! Well it failed and and the phone ended up in a constant reboot mode and was useless. You don’t realize how much you rely on this phone until you really need it!

I tried the rstore and it failed!!!

Now it is really Panic time, update failed and restore would not work, phone in constant reboot mode, and I have to leave in less than an hour for my first house call! Remembered that the new software download was over 200 meg in size, but I couldn’t see it in iTunes. I did a search of the hard drive and found the file in my profile under App Data\roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes. There were 4 of them there so I took the newest and moved it someplace else and hooked the phone back up to the computer – restore worked!!!

This answers my question of how to restore your computer to an earlier version of iTunes, I just wish I didn’t have to figure it out in panic mode!

I hope you and your readers find this info useful.

Chuck
Promising never to update unless I have plenty of time!

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blog.zog.org/tag/geld | www.geldmuseum.nl — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:29:05 +0000

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By: john

john — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:23:20 +0000

i just got a new ipod touch and i is brictd

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By: techman224

techman224 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:05:18 +0000

If you have a iPhone that doesn’t work, and you can’t get it working, then you are pretty much out of luck saving it, you have to restore it in DFU mode, which formats everything.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:09:01 +0000

I had a similar crash/freeze problem with my 80gb ipod..

Tried for a week to restore,charge it fully, drain it fully and and restore. Mashing buttons made it start once but soon just died again. Ended up taking it to the dealer and of course, my warranty had run out 1 week prior (had i have taken it in when it first happened, i’d have been completely covered)

In the end they replaced it due to the 5 year extended warranty i bought from the retailer. Had there have been a different brand with an 80gb model at the time I’d have begged for a refund to get that one.

I share the same opinion of itunes, it will forever elude me the allegiance some people have to that brand..

By: Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:44:01 +0000

My iPhone keeps bricking on me and it’s driving me nuts. I’m restoring it again as I write this comment. You can find more details on my blog at http://www.chucksmith.de/?p=7.

By: Vishal Mistry

Vishal Mistry — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:20:49 +0000

Wow! This was helpful!

By: Gerald

Gerald — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:45:50 +0000

The answer to your post’s title question is: You don’t.

A “bricked” phone is one that is IRREPARABLE. If it can be fixed, it is not “bricked”, it is merely , “frozen”, “inoperable”, or “broken”.

How to fix frozen: Hard reset
How to fix inoperable: Do a system restore.
How to fix broken: System Restore or Take to Genius Bar.

How to fix bricked: You can’t. That’s what makes it “bricked”.

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