Howto DFU mode/Recover your iPhone/iPod

This is a question i hear a lot.
First of all, why do you need the DFU mode?
Dfu stands for Download Firmware Update and you need this to recover your iPhone or iPod touch.

Her’s a quick guide.

1) Start your iTunes and connect your iPhone or iPod touch to your mac/pc.

2) Keep holding the sleep/wake and home button for about 10 seconds. Release the sleep/wake button, but keep holding the home button. you will hear some sounds.

3) If you did it correctly iTunes will tell you that it has detected an iPhone or iPod touch in recovery mode.

4) If you see the iTunes icon and cable on your iPhone, your device is not in DFU mode, but in recovery mode. Your device’s screen will be black when you are in DFU mode. I always have to try this several times so succeed.

5) Connect your device back to your Pc/Mac and press SHIFT+CLICK (pc) or COMMAND+ CLICK on the restore button.

6) Select the firmware version you’d like to install 1.1.4 (you can find it on our firmware page).

7) Wait for a couple of minutes and your iPhone/iPod will be as new.

enjoy ….

21 Comments

  • At 2008.05.28 05:52, Fernando said:

    Buenas noches, necesito ayuda con mi iphone…compre mi iphone con la version 1.1.4 y como no tenía el icono “installer” me recomendaron hacer un downgrade para luego instalarlo….al querer hacerlo bloqueo el iphone y ahora al encenderlo solo veo la imagen de iTunes como el conector. Trate de entrar al modo DFU pero no tengo suerte. Creen poder ayudarme por favor?
    Gracias,
    Fernando.

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    • At 2008.06.11 18:59, Annie said:

      Hi, does this work on unlocked iphones to update the firmware without locking them? Thanks,
      annie

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      • At 2008.07.17 01:27, ur gay said:

        :oops: :razz: :roll: :wink: :cry: :eek: :lol: :mad: :sad: :!: :?: :mrgreen: :neutral: :twisted: :arrow: :smile: :???: :cool: :evil: :grin: :idea:

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        • At 2008.08.23 09:37, uhhhh said:

          I’m using window vista. How or where can I find the “COMMAND” key at? Sorry I’m not a computer geek. Please help!

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          • At 2009.07.14 16:42, answer said:

            Its not command on your pc its CNTRL on your keyboard

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          • At 2008.08.23 09:50, uhhhh said:

            hahaha…never mind I figured out what you saying. Thanks a lot!

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            • At 2008.08.23 10:14, uhhhh said:

              I did everything that you instructed, but at the end it gave me this message: The iphone could not be restored. An unknown errors occurred (20). What is this mean? Or what should I do from here? Keeps try it again and again until it works?

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              • At 2008.09.14 03:21, nooolsda]sd said:

                :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

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                • At 2008.10.04 20:00, zuniee said:

                  Can some body help me with my iPhone problems…
                  1) Sound is missing after I applied ibrickr fix.
                  2) PC suite is crashing immediatly after connecting iPhone..

                  Kindly requesting all to help me ..

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                  • At 2008.10.14 08:45, jay said:

                    What button do you mean when you say “click”. There is no such button on a pc.

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                    • At 2008.12.16 10:18, Homer said:

                      @jay: Right next to the ANY key! :mrgreen:

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                      • At 2009.04.17 02:38, Nancy said:

                        My friend wants me to put songs onto his iPod Touch and he somehow locked it, but he doesn’t know the code for it. so we can’t unlock it and i’ve tried to restore it, but every time i plug it into my computer, this message comes up:
                        iTunes could not connect to the iPod “Kay” because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the iPod before it can be used with iTunes.
                        But he doesn’t know the passcode and i can’t restore it! Help me please! what do i do?!?!?!?!
                        -Nancy

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                        • At 2009.04.18 18:57, Anonymous said:

                          OMG thanks! I’ve been trying and trying to restore my iPod but it didn’t work, but now it does, thanks to you! You rock! :D

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                          • At 2009.05.15 20:42, d,desean said:

                            did you ever get it fixed ?

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                            • At 2009.06.13 22:56, siggy said:

                              I need some help. I have a 2G iphone and I had it unlocked to take back to iraq with me (i am in the army) and I had it jailbroken…I shut it down and when it try to reboot it kept cycling and never booted up. Then I did a restore, now when I try to restore it I get an unknow error (6)…HELP please!!! I am using 8.0 itunes and tried several different firmware. I have had other people try and it still didn’t work. HELP PLEASE

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                              • At 2009.10.07 01:10, daniell said:

                                thanks so much m8, finally customed my firmware

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                                • At 2009.10.13 09:38, Dane said:

                                  DFU Mode Animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES6bEY18F4

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                                  • At 2009.10.29 02:30, josh said:

                                    its cinda late but i need help it loads the firmware but when it finishes it says slide for emergency and i tunes say lets get started but its already set up with att

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                                    • At 2009.10.30 23:20, kristina said:

                                      i am holding the sleep/wake button and the home button, but nothing is coming up on my itunes or iphone. could it be because i am using a pc?

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                                      • At 2009.10.30 23:44, kristina said:

                                        ok i got to the stage of the itunes icon thinggy to come up on my iphone but i dont know what you mean by
                                        “Connect your device back to your Pc/Mac and press SHIFT+CLICK (pc) or COMMAND+ CLICK on the restore button. “

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                                        • At 2009.10.31 07:42, kristina said:

                                          OMG AWESOME
                                          THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

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