Today I sold my iPhone 3G on Ebay. Before I went to send it off I wanted to erase all my settings and content. I used the feature called “reset all content and settings” which is found in the settings. It notified me that it may take up to two hours to do this so I left if for awhile. After 4 hours of constant restarting I started to think something wasn’t right.
After searching for a problem I came across a way to fix this problem and restore the iPhone. The following fix is thanks to Vitaliy Isikov.
1. Plug your phone into your computer and have iTunes running.
2. Hold down both the home and power buttons until the phone reboots and the screen is completely blank.
3. Let go of the power button and keep holding the home button until you see iTunes has recognized your phone in restore mode.
4. Restore your iPhone
Let me know if it worked for you in the comments!
Hi,
Thanks for your suggestions. it worked great.
Great to hear Ali!
word dude you are a lifesaver it totally worked thank you haha i am sooo happy i thought mine was ruined
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And Thanks again from the bottom of my heart.
Great!
Thanks, you have just saved me!
No problem guys, my pleasure 🙂
Hey sir, for me didnt work, keeps giving error and i dont know what to do, he stucks at erasing all data/settings…and restarts every 2 mins please HELP. im half dead didnt sleep whole night cause of it
Hi Radu,
What I wrote was for an iPhone 3G. Not sure what phone you have but since I did it 3 years ago there is a good chance somethings have changed. Give this article a read and try doing what it says.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Regards,
Tim
Hey, I got the same problem and was about to restore. But then I realized that my phone is not yet factory unlocked. It is okay if I choose one of my .pswf files and restore it?