Unlocking! Jailbroken? Bricked/Stuck In Recovery

**FrostedDarkness** · 02-22-2011, 03:51 PM

Ok, so you've got bricked?
1.) Hold down home and power button
2.) At the same time, press restore in iTunes.

You've got stuck in recovery mode?
1.) Google 'RecBoot'
2.) Download the zip that is hosted under a file sharing site.
3.) Download, extract.
4.) Create a shortcut to the recboot executable on your desktop.
5.) CONNECT YOUR iOS DEVICE
6.) Click the Kick out of recovery mode option.
7.) Wait
8.) Done

P.S. I cried the first time my iPod got bricked. Don't, read.

**Handlebars** · 02-23-2011, 11:30 PM

If it got bricked you would have had to new ipod.

**Alli** · 02-24-2011, 05:20 AM

There's a huge difference between getting stuck in recovery mode or DFU and being bricked. The first two can be recovered - the third can't.

**Ipheuria** · 02-24-2011, 06:24 AM

It's too bad too many n00bs use "Bricked" when they don't really understand things. The fact that you're asking for help to get the device working again means it's not Bricked LOL. Since the first gen iPhone it has been virtually impossible to brick the iDevices.

**BLiNK** · 02-24-2011, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Ipheuria

It's too bad too many n00bs use "Bricked" when they don't really understand things. The fact that you're asking for help to get the device working again means it's not Bricked LOL. Since the first gen iPhone it has been virtually impossible to brick the iDevices.

agreed.. i think that term has taken on a new meaning as of late.. meaning; "bricked" nowadays is not what it use to mean.. haha

**Alli** · 02-24-2011, 09:58 AM

No. Bricked has always meant bricked. It's just that a lot of noobs think their phone is bricked, when it's really just "stuck."

**FrostedDarkness** · 02-24-2011, 12:45 PM

Well, create a reply with the definitions if them all.

**wcarlson40#im** · 02-24-2011, 02:55 PM

FrostedDarkness - I actually do think that was a helpful post. To most newbies, "bricked" just means that it doesn't work (they also think DFU mode means "done effed up" mode)

**Ipheuria** · 02-24-2011, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by FrostedDarkness

Well, create a reply with the definitions if them all.

LOL wont work, look at the stickies at the top of every forum and yet you still get the same questions which the sticky answers. If you put up a post with the meaning of things you'll just end up referring to the thread a million times a day. I don't mind helping people out even when I know it was answered in the sticky but after a couple dozen times putting the same answer I just kind of call it a day at that point.

Brick - Big, Heavy and used to break windows.

And that's windows not Windows

**FrostedDarkness** · 02-25-2011, 02:55 PM

LOL. Anyway, thanks.

**FrostedDarkness** · 02-25-2011, 07:06 PM

Yeah, I actually found about 7 other ways to unlock it from a unusable state. Can't remember what problems they are for, or what the solutions are.

**Ipheuria** · 02-25-2011, 07:21 PM

Yo could put the link in this thread and then refer to it in the future.

**rpmstl** · 02-25-2011, 08:10 PM

Here is what always has worked for me over the last couple of generations:

If you are apparently in a locked up state, do nothing. Give it 5 more minutes and most of the time it will boot.

If the 'do nothing' fix does nothing, try this:

1. Plug into USB.
2. Wait 30 seconds or so.
3. Hold down the sleep and home buttons simultaneously for a very long time. Keep holding. When you see the apple, let go of both buttons.

edit: Forgot to reiterate the above sentiment - a brick is a brick. Get the terminology right. In my years as an i-er, I have not heard of a single verified story of a truely bricked phone that did not have hardware issues, eg) My iphone is bricked, oh ya, before I jailbroke, I dropped it from a 5 story building into a swimming pool and dried it in my oven - Geohot ruined my phone!!!!