HELP. I'm stuck in the "set-up" screen on may laptop when attempting to view my stuff..
Hello there, friendly internet stranger!
Okay, so I'm having a bit of an issue here... I'm trying to view my iPhone 4S's Files and whatnot on my laptop, (my phone is hooked up to the laptop, btw,) and when I click on the little "iPhone" icon, I am brought to the "Set-Up/System Restore" page. My iPhone is relatvily new, it's been working perfectly fine for a few months now, and I have it running on iOS 7.0, so I highly doubt it's the phone that's the problem.
But, I've tried tapping on the system restore, go through that process for about 15-20 minutes, only to be greeted by this screen of great evil, mocking me.
I've read somewhere on another fourm that perhaps resetting my phone to factory settings will help fix the issue, but I REALLY don't want to erase all my music, texts, ect. I really wish to know if there's another way. (plus, it seems kinda silly for all this trouble JUST to migrate a custom-made ringtone file... )
Is there a fix to this stupid bug? PLEASE HELP ME.
Thank you, and God bless.
So this is not the computer that the device normally syncs with, iTunes is working exactly as designed.
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Can anyone help me with this issue???Connect your iTouch to your PC then open iTunes, if iTunes does not recognize your device, try to hold the SLEEP Button and the HOME button at the same time (iPod Reset) for a couple of seconds until the "Charging Tone sounds, now you should be seeing your device name in the iTunes " Device List". If you do, just click RESTORE and iTunes will automatically restore your iTouch to original set-up and download the iOS6 update.
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If that does not work, use this:
Putting iPod into Disk Mode
and try to restore you ipod.
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