Iphone 3 bricked

Iphone 3 is bricked how do I start it back again.its sentimental as the phone was used by my dad who has passed away.
please help.

Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- Also try DFU mode after try recovery mode
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try another cable
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar
BTW, this is the iPod touch forum

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I have had the exact thing happening the past 2 days, but I have not been to the Apple Store.. that was my plan tomorrow. But it sounds like it will be a wasted trip! I have spent hours and hours searching for anything online with my issue, and your's is the ONLY one I have found. So thank you. My phone is recognized in iTunes as "in recovery mode.." and I click the Restore and it comes up with the same error message. Have tried it on two different Macs with exact results, each separately downloading the update (thought the download might be corrupt, but no).

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Interestingly, I had a very similar experience when doing this to my iPod touch, but not my iPhone 3GS.
My girlfriend has been using my iPod touch, using Windows XP to sync with iTunes and I had the same results. I ended up reinstalling iTunes, rebooting the iPod and laptop each and every way with no results.
I later found that plugging the iPod into my MacBook, it saw the iPod straight away, downloaded and installed the 3.1.3 firmware and it was up and running again.
In this instance, it seemed to be something to do with Windows XP. Don't know if this is what actually CAUSED the error in the installation, but it's all that I could work out. Haven't had any issues with the 3.1.3 firmware since, but here's to Apple releasing some much needed updates and changes to the overall UI of the firmware soon! I feel it's lagging behind a bit now.....

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Was your phone jailbroken or hacked? If so, the Geniuses at the local Apple store can NOT fix that. The phone would have to be replaced. An out of warranty replacement costs $$.
Otherwise, it sounds like there was a hardware failure.
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They do not brick, but it would be necessary to either turn off Find My iPhone prior to restoring the device or knowing the Apple ID/password that the Find My iPhone was setup with to turn it off afterwards.
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PLEASE HELP, iPhone bricked, but not in the 'usual' ways

I have a horrible problem with my iPhone, which usually I have been able to fix most iPhone problems. I've seen a lot of issues as I used to administer a 200 strong iPhone4 fleet, but this has me stumped!
I have an iPhone4 GSM. Up until yesterday it was running iOS 5.1.1, and wanted to upgrade to iOS 6, not jailbroken.
I upgraded iTunes to the latest 10.7.0.21 (x64) and did a full backup/transfer purchases.
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Then I restored from my backup. At this point everything was working perfectly. I have completed the iOS6 welcome wizard thing and was using my iPhone, iOS6 was working.
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I watched the restore start, I went and got some coffee and came back a few minutes later. iTunes seemed like it had completed the restore. But my phone was off, tried to wake it up with the home button, nothing. So I waited about a minute just incase it was busy doing something, but it wasn't.
After a minute I just tried to power it on normally just with the sleep button, held it for just 2 seconds or so and the silver apple logo came on.. for about 7 seconds.. then turned off again, nothing.
Tried it again and the same thing happened.
After the second appearance of the silver apple logo, I have been unable to get ANYTHING to happen again (no Silver apple logo, nothing)
I then tried to reset with holding home and sleep together (I waited 60 seconds, nothing).
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Tried putting it into recovery mode (both ways), nothing.
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Try this. First, remove battery and hold the power button down for about 10 seconds, then replace the battery and hold down command-option-p-r while hitting the power button. Hold those keys until you hear the start up chime three times, then release the keys. Any better?

SOLVED - iPhone Bricked by Update Device Driver Not Installed Error 1602

iPhone 4 / Windows 7 x64 / iTunes 9.2.1.5
My iPhone normally interfaces with iTunes on my PC via USB cable without issues.
iTunes prompts to update the iPhone when a new version of iOS is released. Each time, the update has failed as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1275.
The update process stops, the "Connect to iTunes" screen is all that displays on the phone, and an utterly informative alert message comes up in iTunes along the lines of "Error 1602 (or 1604), The iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred." Along with this, the iPhone ceases to be recognized as a USB device by Windows 7, with a little notification tray pop-up informing me that "Device Driver Software was not successfully installed". The iPhone no longer shows up as a device in iTunes.
The generic troubleshooting steps listed at http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1275 (changing USB ports, changing USB cables, restarting the computer, uninstalling and reinstalling all Apple software, etc., etc.) were a useless waste of time, but following the links for USB troubleshooting led to this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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See Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
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I have upgraded to 2.0 software and downloaded some free apps and the phone worked fine until today. Today i used the YPMobile app and it crashed taking iPhone along with it. It seems iPhone will not reboot to UI and does not completely shutdown either. It has the apple icon on the screen and doesnt respond to any buttons or combinations. Connecting to Itunes doesnt recognize the phone. Any
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It seems iPhone will not reboot to UI and does not completely shutdown either. It has the apple icon on the screen and doesnt respond to any buttons or combinations.
You said the phone would not shut down or respond to any button combinations. Then how did you get it to go into recovery mode?
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IPhone bricked after a week, suspect a bad battery.

My wife and I both pre-ordered ours on the first round and received the phones on Feb 7th. I activated mine right away, but had to charge her's because it didn't have a charge. Everything worked fine for a little over a week until one night she plugged it in to charge it and the next morning it was completely dead. She tried charging on a different outlet and with a different charger - would never come on.
I tried connecting it to iTunes to see if I could get it to come on after performing multiple hard resets. I called Verizon tech support and they indicated this is the first they have heard of this happening. I took it in to a local Verizon store and they took it in the back and confirmed that there was a problem and they would replace it. The new phone had an almost full battery at which point I asked if that were normal seeing as how the problem phone arrived without a charge. He said all the phones he has activated had a full charge.
I now think that my wife received a phone with a faulty battery. What ***** is that she had just taken some videos of our baby and hadn't transferred them to the computer.
Lesson Learned:
If your iPhone comes without a full charge be aware that there could be an issue down the road so you should backup your phone everyday, especially if you have precious memories stored on it.

From this support document http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694
Error 4000, 4005, 4013, 4014, and 4016
After you perform each step, try to restore your device.
Restart your computer.
Disconnect all your USB devices from your computer and connect to another USB port.
Use a different USB cable.
Uninstall third-party security software.
Try restoring using an alternate computer.

2.0.2 is the problem (step by step on how I bricked 2 iPhones in 2 days)

So yesterday I made a trip to the Apple store by my work to take care of my bricked 3G (by bricked I mean it's siting on the loading screen and doing nothing). Here's how it bricked.
I was moving icons around and deleting apps in the menus (2.0.2), I got a phone call from a friend, as soon as he hung up the iPhone was frozen. Plugging into iTunes did nothing but freeze itunes.
So I ended up getting a replacement phone, bricked that this morning, here's how.
I was moving icons around and deleting apps in the menus (2.0.2 again), after doing so, I clicked on the settings, iPhone bricked. Plugged it into iTunes @ work, seems to be doing something, prolly going to have to restore.
UPDATE: Couldn't restore, looks like another trip to the Apple store this evening.
So what this tells me is that Apple needs to scrap the 2.0.2 update ASAP, put 2.0 or 2.0.1 (or release 2.0.3) back on iTunes so I don't have to deal with a $300 paperweight.
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Stop wasting time to go to Apple store. A lot of people got stuck at the Apple Logo and I think we should also start a title for S.A.D (Silver Apple of Death) together with 3G reception thread.
I have also encountered numerous iBrick, S.A.D and all you need to do is:
1. Completely shut off your iPhone by press WAKE/SLEEP and Home Button until you iPhone is completely shut off.
2. HOLD the HOME button while connecting the Sync cable to your iPhone and PC. (DO NOT RELEASE THE HOME BUTTON YET)
3. Wait until your iPhone enters the Recovery Mode. Which you will see the picture telling you to connect to iTunes.
4. Go to iTunes and click on Restore iPhone.
Sorry, this is a very long process and extremely tedious. You must need iTunes to un brick your phone. You can't do power recycle like every other cell phone on the market. Pitty Apple!
So DON'T WASTE TIME AND GAS to go to Apple store for exchange when iBrick, unless you just want a new phone again.
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Help, windows vista doesn't recognize iphone, can't restore

Hello everyone, I'm having a problem syncing my iPhone 3g with iTunes to restore it. I received an iphone 3g 16gb from a friend because he didn't want to try to fix it. He told me it broke after he dropped it. Boots up to the apple logo and just stays there, sometimes spinning, sometimes not.
So I started reading around the net trying to find ways to fix it. I've tried hard resetting (home and wake/sleep same time for 10 secs) and that didn't help. I've tried hooking it up to an itunes with the most recent update and restoring from there. The problem is, my laptop doesn't detect the iphone at all. I have a VAIO with VISTA Business and it is not detecting the phone at all when I plug it in, doesn't show up in device manager or give any indication that the iphone is plugged in other than when I plug it in, the phone boots up to the apple. I've tried plugging in the phone and going into recovery mode from there and I can bring up the screen that shows itunes and the usb cable but nothing shows up in itunes. I've tried getting into DFU mode, but my laptop is still not detecting it.
I'm running out of ideas so I thought I'd post on the web. Has anybody run into this problem before? I've googled it and checked this forum and others and havent found anything. Is my iphone bricked? Anyone with any experience with similar problems, please let me know!

A bit of a long shot but you could try and reset the nvram using a stop+N key sequence. Like I said a bit of a long shot which I do not expect to work as it seems you have tried most things.
I assume that both keyboards work ok on another system and that there are not loose connections between the keyboard, mouse, monitor and the system.
Does the system boot up, pass diags, etc when the ttya is used. It might be worth while stress testing the system with something like SUNVts.
You need to also keep in mind this might genuinely be a connector fault with the motherboard, perhaps caused while taking the system apart or moving it.

IPhone 4.0

With using iPhone 4.0 as a developer I haven't been able to talk to anyone about this but when using iAd and lets say I want to download the app it is advertising will it take me directly out of app I was in into the app store? Because wouldn't that ruin the point of staying in the app or will just a sign in for download message pop up and will it download in the background without leaving app?
If Apple is so secure about their location APIs what will happen if the ad wants to show you lets say Target stores around you, anyone notice during the keynote it didn't have to ask and just went straight to knowing your location? Will this be changed being that this is only the developer preview?

You need to understand that if you do it, you do so at your own risk. It's a beta, so it's buggy and unstable and subject to crashes and complete device failures. Many apps will have problems as they have not been tested and updated with the 4.0 software, and there really isn't any point in upgrading to the beta unless you are a dev as many of the features that Apple is releasing have to be utilized by developers in their apps anyway.
If you update to the beta and your iPhone bricks, as many have, I do not believe Apple has to replace your iPhone. And then you are going to feel pretty stupid.

Iphone keeps disconnecting and reconnecting

Greetings,
I spent nearly 3 hours this afternoon figuring out why my iphone crapped out after upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2. I actually had a problem upgrading after the first update to the iphone firmware as well (on the first update way back in july/august, miraculously it just started working after about 2 hours of messing with it). I would get strange error codes such as the ones in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275 such as error codes 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, 19, -18, -48, -50, 1002, 1011, 1601, 1602, 1603, 1604, 1608, 1609, 1611, 1612, 2003, 2004, -9808
Problem:
I would try and run the 2.2 update but it never successfully finished because my iphone would reconnect and then disconnect shortly thereafter. It would stay connected from anywhere between 10 seconds and 5 minutes. Naturally, 5 minutes was just enough time to give me hope, only to have my iphone bricked and forced me to do a restore.
Problem was, I could not do a restore because since the phone was disconnecting every so often, nothing would work.
I uninstalled and reinstalled my USB drivers according to http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538 but with no dice. It did not work.
I also uninstalled iTunes and all associated applications according to this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925
My system is a P4 2.4 GHz with Windows XP SP2 and 2GB RAM. Motherboard is an Asus P4PE.
Solution:
What finally fixed my issue was disabling the USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller in the device manager. To do this:
# On the Start menu, click Control Panel.
# In Control Panel, open Administrative Tools. Note: If you don't see Administrative Tools, look at the left column in Control Panel for a link that says, "Switch to Classic View," and click it.
# Double click the Computer Management shortcut.
# In the left column, click on Device Manager.
# In the right column, click the plus icon next to Universal Serial Bus controllers to expand this selection.
# Right click on "USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller" and choose Disable.
Unplug iphone from system. Reboot your system.
Now launch iTunes, wait a minute or so, and plug in your iphone.
Voila!
No more reconnecting and disconnecting. I was able to restore and copy my data from my last backup. Unfortunately I did lose several pictures I had taken on my camera as I did not manually back those up like I usually do. Since I had so many problems updating my iphone you would think I would have remembered to back up all my photos BEFORE I did the update...
Anyway, I hope this helps someone out there that may have a similar setup to mine.
BTW, the actual chipset USB drivers I have are Intel 82801DB/DBM USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller - 24CD on my P4PE motherboard.

Hi! Wow am I glad I found your post. I had the issue with the iPhone disconnecting/reconnecting. It is infuriating. I couldn't figure out what to do, but when I disabled the same USB 2.0-enhanced host controller that you disabled, my syncs seem to work fine.
The problem is that this also disables USB 2.0. I don't really want to do that. Can anyone comment on why this works and if there is alternative? Are there alternative drivers for USB 2.0 that might work?
Thanks!

IPhone 3G turns into iBrick after 2.2.1 firmware upgrade.

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Do a restore in iTunes but don't install your backup. If the restore works by itself without the backup, it's something corrupt in the backup. If it still doesn't work, I'd suggest a visit to ATT for a new SIM. If your account is setup properly and a new SIM doesn't correct the issue, the next step is a trip to the Genius Bar - http://apple.com/retail/geniusbar

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