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After the release of ios11 I backed up my iPad on my MacBook Pro and downloaded the update. The update process started, and then the iPad restarted and I got an error in iTunes. The iPad stayed at the Apple logo and wouldn’t change. No big deal, I thought. I just backed up. Just restore and go from there. I did a hard restart, and the iPad loaded to recovery mode with the plug into iTunes information. I plugged it in and iTunes prompted me to restore or update. I tried updating again, which returned with an error 9, and the iPad just restarted to recovery. I tried restoring from a Windows computer with the newest version of iTunes with the same error. Created a new user on my laptop and tried… same error. Then came DFU mode. iTunes recognizes the iPad, restore starts. The iPad restarts and gives the Apple log and an empty progress bar. iTunes says verifying update, then the iPad restarts, and I get error 9 in iTunes. At this point I’ve gone through everything I can find in forums for suggestions, and have even tried some of the apps that claim they can fix these issues. All with no success. The iPad is cared for pristinely, and has been working flawlessly until this update. Is it bricked for good at this point? Hoping not… can’t really afford to replace a perfectly good device.
I would try to manually download the IPSW for iOS 11 separately. You can download from here. Once you have downloaded this file, launch iTunes and put the iPad in DFU mode again. When you plug your iPad in as DFU, it will ask you to restore. Select “no”. You will then be shown a screen with a “Restore” button • on a Mac, hold “Option” key down + Click the “Restore” button. Then select the manually downloaded file from above. • on a Windows machien, hold “Shift” key down + Click the “Restore” button. Then select the manually downloaded file from above. As a last resort, use 3uTools to flash the firmware.
My iPad 3, with error code 9, just came out of a 30min freezer vacation……and with the help of 3uTools, restored straight away!
A little late to the party but I’m seriously SHOOK.
My iPhone 6s got stuck in a recovery mode loop after the battery draining, my home button is also broken so I had pretty much no hope for a successful hard reset. I wanted to avoid restoring and losing data so I tried updating my iPhone through iTunes five times with no success. I came across people having success with booting with inserted lightning headphones and since I don’t have any, I decided to try booting with my regular jack earphones in.
it. worked. No data lost.
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thank you so much for mentioning it, I’m off to have some wine because duh.
I know this is old but I had similar problems this week. I tried everything I could find online to fix it, I’ll list my journey so you can rule out anything you’ve tried. I know I was grateful for every option I found online I hadn’t tried!! 3rd gen ipad died whilst in use with Bluetooth turned on. Got stuck in reboot loop and wouldn’t turn off properly to charge (I.e. kept booting as soon as got any charge so never got enough charge to boot). Tried the spamming home button to stay on battery screen so it’d charge but not boot, didn’t work for me either. Tried charging on iTunes cable screen (whilst charging on wall, not connected to PC), still no luck. Finally tried to connect to iTunes, downloaded 1.5gb update to PC but kept saying waiting for ipad on iTunes, with ipad showing apple logo and progress bar which never moved. Was then stuck in recovery mode! Itunes eventually gave error message saying either 9 or 2009 suggesting connection cable error. The cable I was using was brand new as I read a lot of people suggested their problems were fixed with new cable, so figured, why not? I knew this wasn’t the issue now so kept trying. After in excess of 20 tries to update software and restore it still wouldn’t work, varying error messages. Then using same process (connect to itunes and update ipad software if required or restore if that’s not an option), same progress bar appears on ipad but never moves, and then 2.5hours later laptop pinged to say ipad restored! And sure enough it’s working again. Don’t lose hope people, keep clicking update and/or restore and it eventually will work. I should add, I also contacted apple support and the only further suggestion they gave me re: waiting for ipad message in itunes was to take it to apple store to see if they could do anything else. They suggested my laptop was the issue but all same equipment and cabling used and it’s now working. I was on verge of jailbreak options if this hadn’t worked soon. I only posted in the hope it might help someone else as I know how frustrated I was trying to this this issue. Good luck!
I was having exactly the same error, Apple boot logo with loading bar underneath. I did try several times to restore it with the original firmware unsuccessfully. Until I came a cross the idea of connecting the headphones on the 3mm port and it works the 3rd time I did it. If someone is having the same issue kept trying until you recover it.
When stuck in recovery mode and can’t restore even connecting iPad to iTunes, force factory reset it by holding on power+volume up+home buttons at the same time for a few seconds, when iPad restart, you have fixed it successfully, but if all free tips can’t fix iPad stuck in recovery mode, turn to EelPhone iOS System Repair to fix iPad stuck in recovery withut losing data in lcicks.
My ipad is stuck in recovery mode tried volume up then down the power button but still no success. What am i missing
