HT201210 iPhone freezing during restore.....

My iPhone 4 keeps freezing about 60% way through a restore, according to iTunes when the firmware is being updated. Any ideas how to fix? I have tried a different computer, disabling my security software etc. and still no luck :o( (Windows)

I was doing exactly what you suggested for hours prior to posting my question. I tried restoring, I tried restore/update over and over and it would always freeze between 25-75% through. I restarted my laptop 20 times, uninstalled and reinstalled itunes 4 times. Finally, today I was so frustrated that when I saw it freeze up one more time, I just pulled the power cord out of my laptop and walked away. An hour later I booted back up and set it to restore before I left the room and ....magic, it finally worked. Whether the unplug event had any real connection, I don't know.
If anyone does freeze during an update and has the "connect to itunes screen with the red itunes logo" stuck on their iphone screen, modular 747 is correct. Just keep trying the restore/update through itunes, but be prepared to do it non-stop for almost 72 hours like I did.

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I have been working on this for 3 hours now and I use my phone as my alarm clock and I am laughing at how I'm going to figure out how to get up tomorrow. Can someone call me? No. Phone won't turn on past the plug into iTunes logo. Maybe I should have just kept a landline, datebook and alarm clock. Please help!

Arafatsapey, dead wrong. The current iTunes for for windows is compatible with:
Windows System Requirements
PC with a 1GHz Intel or AMD processor and 512MB of RAM
Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, 32-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8
64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8 require the iTunes 64-bit installer
400MB of available disk space
Broadband Internet connection to use the iTunes Store
Above from:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Yudna, I would install the latest iTunes if not already installed
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

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I was only able to restore the phone after booting into Windows and using the Windows version of iTunes. Kinda pathetic.

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I'm trying to restore my iphone and it keeps freezing during the restore process at around 60%. I get the apple logo and then the progress bar stops a little over half way. The progress bar in itunes freezes at around 99%.
Can anyone help me get this fixed? Is there a way to erase the iphone and start from scratch?
Cheers,

Disable all security apps (firewall, antivirus/spyware, etc.) running on your Mac.
See this support article:
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I restore the iphone 2 days ago, and the itune try to download the 1.02 iphone firmware for restore, but it kept download ... showing like 110mb/97mb. ( suppose it will stop at 97mb, 100%).
So i turn to use another computer which had the firmware downloaded before, and after the restore of iphone, the iphone screen was freeze, i only can see the Earth, Slide for emergency....but i cannot slide the bar, and i cannot do anythings.
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Try resetting the iphone. Press and hold the "off" button on top and the menu button on the front at the same time. Then turn the phone back on again using only the top button as usual. That may unfreeze it.

IPhone crashes during restore

I have an iPhone 5s, bought 14 months ago (without Apple Care, so out of warranty).
Background Information:
Since I updated to iOS 8.1.1, my iPhone has been crashing infrequently, in: Blue screen, Apple logo, back to blue screen, Apple logo, etc. This would solve itself after an hour or two (sometimes more), and the phone would then be useable again.
However, even though it would take a long time sometimes, eventually the phone would crash again. I went to my local Apple Premium Reseller (iCentre Delft, the Netherlands), and they said I should restore the phone via iTunes. I did and it worked fine for approximately 5 days. But then, this morning, it crashed again. Same thing as before. But this time it DID NOT go back to usable, and I decided to try and hook it up to iTunes again. It wasn't recognized, however, and therefore I could not restore my phone. I called Apple Support, and they said I should put the phone into recovery (DFU) mode. I did, and it clearly shows the iTunes logo with the lightning cable. But now comes the problem:
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When I connect to iTunes, I get the normal messages requesting me to reset the phone (2). It starts just fine, but when the first white appears on the bar on the iPhone, it gets stuck (while the bar in iTunes keeps moving). 10 seconds later, and the blue screen pops up again, after which it heads back to the basic recovery mode screen. On iTunes I get error 9, which shows USB connection issues. However, I doubt that this is the case and suspect that it gives this error because it has nothing else to give.
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HEy dear,
for take your device to recovery mode you have to hold home and power then release the power and hold the home for 10 second. Then the iTunes will apear.
BUt for DFU mode you have to hold the home button until the itunes recognize your device and be availabe on your iTunes but there wont be any iTunes logo on your iPhone screen everything will be black on your iPhone. Try restoring your iPhone in DFU mode.

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Ok, a few seconds into my sync, my iPhone freezes.
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Well like many other iphone users my little bundle of joy decided it didn't like one of the app updates (happened during the voicenote update) and decided to reboot and get stuck on the apple logo "screen of death".
Firstly i put it into recovery mode (holding power and home button down then restarting while still holding down the home button)
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You were right - waiting solved the "freezing" of the restore process. It didn't even take much longer than two or three hours this time (maybe because I already had a couple of hours done the time before?).
Sadly my problem wasn't solved, but I guess that was because the backup itself was faulty.
Apple should really not automatically replace a good backup - especially not after a restore that could be broken (because a part of iTunes crashed, for example, which did happen to me already twice out of two times I started a restore "project").

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I have recently moved to the UK from Australia and my phone has been getting really hot and dying really quickly so I decided to update to the latest software as soon as it became available (6.0.1 I think it's called). During the update, my phone froze on the screen with the apple and the loading bar underneath at only about 5%. After two hours I had to go out so I unplugged my phone thinking I would still be able to use it. Apparently not. When I returned home and plugged my phone in, it said I have to restore it. I have since tried restoring it three times but it keeps freezing on the same spot (about 5%) and I don't know how to fix it. Any suggestions?
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Try placing your iPhone in recovery mode.
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