Failed IOS 7 upgrade

[rsutoratosu]

So friend has a failed deviced, so ask me to see if there's any recovery for the data.

As I understand it, she did it OTA and ota would fail if there isn't enough room. Right now the phone boots up with USB plug and connect to itunes. When I do that, itunes prompts me for restore of the phone.

So since she did it OTA, no backups. I can get into DFU but i think its already too late. I think the upgrade ran and fail. Needs restore to bring it back.

Is there a dfu restore data tool ? I saw tenor something but it keeps turning off when I connect via DFU.. any other suggestions ?

 

[ViRGE]

You can try Tiny Umbrella. It has an option to try to kick the phone out of recovery mode. But of course there's no guarantee this will work.

 

[rsutoratosu]

tried.. I think its erase and wanted iTunes to restore the data... gone

 

[smackababy]

Sounds like, if you didn't have a back up, you are going to lose everything.

Always back up before doing any kind of update!

 

[Koing]

Sounds like, if you didn't have a back up, you are going to lose everything.

Always back up before doing any kind of update!

I'm backing up now before I upgrade. I wonder how my 4 will handle in iOS7?

Koing

 

[rsutoratosu]

Yeah my friend went to apple store, it was gone. I google some failed upgrades, if there isn't enough room on the device, it will fail. I have no idea how much room was on the device but it was 16gb.

 

[TheStu]

Yeah my friend went to apple store, it was gone. I google some failed upgrades, if there isn't enough room on the device, it will fail. I have no idea how much room was on the device but it was 16gb.

More than a little lame that is set as the default behavior. That it wouldn't warn you before (you don't have enough space, can't upgrade OTA), is just bad on Apple's part.

 

[Koing]

More than a little lame that is set as the default behavior. That it wouldn't warn you before (you don't have enough space, can't upgrade OTA), is just bad on Apple's part.

Hmmm...I'm fairly sure when I tried to update OTA the first time it bitched that I didn't have enough space. I removed some films and it was okay.

Koing

 

[TheStu]

Hmmm...I'm fairly sure when I tried to update OTA the first time it bitched that I didn't have enough space. I removed some films and it was okay.

Koing

Ok, so probably weird crazy bug thing that still totally sucks, but at least it isn't sucky default behavior that screws people.