Thank you. This was the solution. Putting it into recovery mode and selecting the "update" option was exactly what I was looking for. The phone is updated to the most current "live" software without doing anything to settings and data.
DFU mode was difficult, if not impossible to enter. I have the iPhone 6s Plus which has a faster startup and processor, making the timing in the instructions useless because even after one second of holding the sleep/wake button caused the phone to begin powering up.
But anyway, this worked!
11-16-2015 10:15 AM