{"id":100,"date":"2009-04-29T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-04-29T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:28:02","slug":"fun-with-the-iphone-dfu-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/29\/fun-with-the-iphone-dfu-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With The iPhone &#8211; DFU Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently applied a firmware update to my iPhone and it broke.  The phone wasn&#8217;t jailbroken and there was nothing shady about the dealing whatsoever.  However, when I applied the 2.2.1 firmware, iTunes announced failure and my phone went into the revovery mode where it just shows the screen below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/images\/Apr2009\/iPhoneRecoveryMode.jpg\" alt=\"iPhone Recovery Mode\" title=\"iPhone Recovery Mode\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I let iTunes attempt to recover my phone to no avail.  I finally did some frantic Googling and came across a site called TheBigBoss.org, where I found a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/thebigboss.org\/guides\/dfu-mode\/\">DFU Mode<\/a>.  I did what The Big Boss said and used the very strange shift+click* on the restore button in iTunes to allow me to choose what backup file went to my iPhone and finally was able to recover my phone.<\/p>\n<p>* <em>Note: Also from <a href=\"http:\/\/thebigboss.org\/guides\/how-to-restore-iphone-to-factory-state\/\">The Big Boss<\/a>, &#8220;If you need to restore a specific version of firmware onto your device, rather than click restore, hold shift (PC) or option (MAC) and click restore. This will bring up a browse box where you can select the firmware you wish to program.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe that this had to be such a convoluted process, but I&#8217;m thankful to TheBigBoss.org website for all of the wealth of information it contained.  Maybe if this blog can help one person deal with this problem just a little quicker than they would have otherwise, it is all worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently applied a firmware update to my iPhone and it broke. The phone wasn&#8217;t jailbroken and there was nothing shady about the dealing whatsoever. However, when I applied the 2.2.1 firmware, iTunes announced failure &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,42],"tags":[43,106],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors","category-iphone","tag-dfu-mode","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}