My iphone 4 isn not responding the screen is just showing a usb lead and the itunes symbol. When i plug it into my desktop mac and link it to itunes ,itunes is telling me the phone is in a restore mode .can i get it to respond without restoring ?
my iphone 4 is not responding the screen is just showing a usb lead and the itunes symbol. when i plug it into my desktop mac and try to sync it to itunes ,itunes is telling me the phone is in a restore mode. How do i get it to respond without restoring the phone to new ? there is no option to restore with backup as i have not backed up any of the data on the phone any help would be greatly appreciated thanks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
You can't not restore if you have reached this point
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