Cant get past find my iphone
I've just updated my 3GS to OS5 and I can't get past the Find My iPhone selection screen...not letting me restore :-(
I had the same problem last night... I solved it but really just got around it.
background
- Existing setup was itunes 9.x with an IPOD worked great for many years
- bought a new iphone 4 monday
- connected to windows 7 64bit dekstop and got the setup text in itunes for "find my iphone" with two options (jave script links) that were dead links did nothing - you are stuck here
- tried my other laptop (also already loaded with itunes 9.x same result
- tried upgrading itunes to 10.2.1 same results
- wiped the iphone same results
- removed itunes - used reg cleaner to scrub all references and loaded 10.2.1 itunes fresh from a download (rebooting laptop a lot) Same results
How i got around it after 5 hours of trial and error
- I got my laptop that never had itunes installed ever - loaded itunes 10.2.1 and then attached the iphone 4 to sync - it installed a new driver for the iphone and the iphone was successfully connected to itunes. I synced to this itunes without any issues. although there was nothing to sync from this machine.
- I then took the laptop back to the machine that I had not removed itunes (just upgraded itunes) and it was able to connect to itunes and sync without any issues. I had to be make sure it was defined to this laptops copy of itunes but it works now without issue.
I can only conclude that the driver or older version of itunes had set the device in a strange state in regards to syncing and establishing connectivity for a sync with itunes and defining it to a new machine with a new install of itunes and having the driver for iphone 4 freshly installed cleared that state it was in.
More work should be done by the apple engineers to determine technically what the root casuse is but I was able to get around the issue.
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ThxI had the same problem last night... I solved it but really just got around it.
background
- Existing setup was itunes 9.x with an IPOD worked great for many years
- bought a new iphone 4 monday
- connected to windows 7 64bit dekstop and got the setup text in itunes for "find my iphone" with two options (jave script links) that were dead links did nothing - you are stuck here
- tried my other laptop (also already loaded with itunes 9.x same result
- tried upgrading itunes to 10.2.1 same results
- wiped the iphone same results
- removed itunes - used reg cleaner to scrub all references and loaded 10.2.1 itunes fresh from a download (rebooting laptop a lot) Same results
How i got around it after 5 hours of trial and error
- I got my laptop that never had itunes installed ever - loaded itunes 10.2.1 and then attached the iphone 4 to sync - it installed a new driver for the iphone and the iphone was successfully connected to itunes. I synced to this itunes without any issues. although there was nothing to sync from this machine.
- I then took the laptop back to the machine that I had not removed itunes (just upgraded itunes) and it was able to connect to itunes and sync without any issues. I had to be make sure it was defined to this laptops copy of itunes but it works now without issue.
I can only conclude that the driver or older version of itunes had set the device in a strange state in regards to syncing and establishing connectivity for a sync with itunes and defining it to a new machine with a new install of itunes and having the driver for iphone 4 freshly installed cleared that state it was in.
More work should be done by the apple engineers to determine technically what the root casuse is but I was able to get around the issue. -
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Free Find My iPhone
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Not Now
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Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you see the "connect to iTunes" screen on your iPhone, that means its in Recovery Mode and needs to be restored.
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PC ***** get a Mac.
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