Can I back up my iphone 4 while it is in recovery mode?
I was trying to update my phone to ios7 and it got stuck in recovery mode. I don't have it backed up anywhere because my computer was unintentionally destroyed. Is there any way to back it up while it's in recovery mode on another computer? I can use a separate profile on my wife's computer, so I don't think getting it over written by another person's iTunes account will be a problem...
If it's in Recovery mode it's usually too late to back it up. No harm in trying, but if it doesn't appear in iTunes the answer is no.
Were you backing up to iCloud? If so you can restore from that.
The upgrade instructions warn you to make a backup.
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So I am trying to back up my iPhone 5.
I have an old laptop that is rather useless - my iPhone was originally backed up to this about a year ago.
I now really really need to back up my iPhone again as have completely run out of storage and want to secure my photos.
My old laptop seems to have deleted iTunes!!!
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rabidrabbit wrote:
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rabidrabbit wrote:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
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Close your iTunes,
Go to command Prompt -
(Win 7/Vista) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES, right mouse click "Command Prompt", choose "Run as Administrator".
(Win XP SP2 & above) - START/ALL PROGRAMS/ACCESSORIES/Command Prompt
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Hit "ENTER" key
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
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