Ok, what would you recommend in order for me to fix it then, short of going to 
a store to fix it?  I've been researching it for hours, and am not getting very 
far.
On Dec 11, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote:

> But making calls from your computer in Yosemite, if I understand correctly, 
> actually uses your phone. You aren't independently making calls from your Mac 
> if I understand correctly. So I don't think it will help you to make calls if 
> you upgrade to Yosemite but your phone is broken. And I could be wrong but if 
> the phone is giving you an error message and a connect to iTunes message, 
> whatever is wrong, it is not truly bricked though I know that's small comfort 
> since you can't use it.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
> 
> Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
> meet Immanuel (God with us),
> Jesus, the crucified Savior,
> Christ, the risen LORD!!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Dec 11, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Jessica Moss <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, the reason I posted it there, was because I know you can make calls with 
>> it, and considering the fact my phone only gives me the message to connect 
>> to itunes, which I was lucky enough to have someone here to read to me 
>> because it's completely silent.  I know you can make calls using the mac 
>> once you upgrade, which I need to do sense I don't have a backup phone, but 
>> obviously have to have my phone when I'm out and about, and it won't restore 
>> even in recovery mode, just gives me an error1 message, and in the meantime 
>> I'm having to use Mom's phone, which I can't continuously rely on sense 
>> she's not always going to be here.
>> On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Note that i have started a new thread for this question.
>>> 
>>> You posted this to a  Yosemite thread where people were talking about their 
>>> experiences with the upgrade and you are talking about your 5C. So are you 
>>> talking about upgrading to Yosemite? If your phone really is bricked, I 
>>> don't see that upgradeing to Yosemite is going to help you any; iTunes gets 
>>> updates still in Mavericks as far as I know or at least it did get updates. 
>>> What hapens when you try to enter recovery mode? Are you absolutely sure 
>>> your phone is bricked and it isn't just that voiceover isn't talking or the 
>>> volume is down? I know these may sound like insulting questions but your 
>>> post contains very little information and I'm just covering the bases. 
>>> Maybe there was a previous post about this that i missed. If it is truly 
>>> bricked and restore with iTunes or recovery mode with iTunes won't work, I 
>>> suspect you will have to take it to Apple or at least call them. Are you 
>>> talking about the latest iOS update when you speak of updating your 
>>> firmware or is this something else? Now that you have a new thread and 
>>> subject line, probably somebody who knows a lot more than I do will come to 
>>> your rescue soon. I know it's really scary when something like this 
>>> happens. I have never had a phone bricked but I have had one that was 
>>> unresponsive for other reasons and it was a frightening few minutes!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Cheryl
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
>>> meet Immanuel (God with us),
>>> Jesus, the crucified Savior,
>>> Christ, the risen LORD!!!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 11, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Jessica Moss <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Ok, unfortunately haven't been keeping up with everybody's posts, but how 
>>>> highly would you all reccomend I upgrade at this point?  I unfortunately 
>>>> think I may be forced to at this point, considering the fact that I 
>>>> updated, or I probably should say, tried, to update the firmware on my 
>>>> IPhone 5C this morning, and it's now bricked itself and itunes won't even 
>>>> restore it even in recovery mode and I can't take it to an Apple store 
>>>> right now to have it looked at.
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 11, 2014, at 8:33 AM, jeffrey greene <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Sean, Yes, its an app but not from the app store. I first learned 
>>>>> about it from anandtech.com.
>>>>> Regards, Jeff
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 10, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Shawn Krasniuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Jeff. Is this Trim an app? If so, and if it's an app from the app 
>>>>>> store, maybe they haven't released an update that's Yosemite compatible. 
>>>>>> This is just a guess.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Shawn
>>>>>> Sent From My White MacBook
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Dec 10, 2014, at 2:13 PM, jeffrey greene <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi, I’ll probably give yosemite another try when we get to a more 
>>>>>>> stable version. My biggest problem was in turning on trim for my ssd at 
>>>>>>> which point voiceover just quit. I mean, no speech at all! Trim 
>>>>>>> enhances performance quite a bit, and I’m surprised yosemite didn’t 
>>>>>>> recognize I was using an ssd and just implement it automatically.
>>>>>>> Jeff
>>>>>>>         
>>>>>>> On Dec 10, 2014, at 3:07 PM, Faisal ali <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> The only issue with Yosemite I have is the keyboard. I’ve had moments 
>>>>>>>> where the keyboard would stop working. I was unable to enter any 
>>>>>>>> texts, close any apps or even click on files to open or anything. None 
>>>>>>>> of the keystrokes worked as well and it was just a very miserable 
>>>>>>>> experience overall. interestingly, the only thing I was able to do 
>>>>>>>> while my keyboard was unresponsive is toggle Quicknav. This was my 
>>>>>>>> only deal breaker and I downgraded back to mavericks. However, when 
>>>>>>>> 10.10.1 came out, I once again installed Yosemite to find my problem 
>>>>>>>> was still there, but weren’t as frequent. Another lister suggested 
>>>>>>>> turning off my trackpad commander which seems to fix it. This was very 
>>>>>>>> difficult for me as I replied on the trackpad commander quite a bit 
>>>>>>>> but adjusting to using the keyboard more exclusively.
>>>>>>>> I guess what I’m saying is, there are always work arounds as much of 
>>>>>>>> an inconvenience they are. In my case, it was turning off the track 
>>>>>>>> commander. I’m sincerely hoping this problem is resolved as using the 
>>>>>>>> trackpad is a big deal to me, and one of the selling points when 
>>>>>>>> converting to the mac.
>>>>>>>>> On Dec 10, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera 
>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> i do only have problems on viewing videos on youtube, it cuts on the 
>>>>>>>>> 2 seconds then continue. it only annoys me because i have to play 
>>>>>>>>> backward again
>>>>>>>>> Il giorno 10/dic/2014, alle ore 05:09 PM, Cheryl Homiak 
>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I can understand your frustration. I am using yosemite and love it! 
>>>>>>>>>> I really do suggest, without criticizing anybody else's decision, 
>>>>>>>>>> that people look for answers to any problems they encounter if they 
>>>>>>>>>> choose to upgrade and maybe give it a week instead of one day. But I 
>>>>>>>>>> totally can understand a decision to quickly go back to what was 
>>>>>>>>>> working for you.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Cheryl
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
>>>>>>>>>> meet Immanuel (God with us),
>>>>>>>>>> Jesus, the crucified Savior,
>>>>>>>>>> Christ, the risen LORD!!!
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Dec 10, 2014, at 9:22 AM, jeffrey greene <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi listers,
>>>>>>>>>>> Well the other day I was bored and decided to upgrade to yosemite. 
>>>>>>>>>>> What a mistake! I got yosemite downloaded and installed, then I 
>>>>>>>>>>> enabled trim on my ssd with trim enabler, and immediately lost 
>>>>>>>>>>> voiceover. Even when voiceover was working I really didn’t like 
>>>>>>>>>>> yosemite. Even on a simple thing like adding files to iTunes or 
>>>>>>>>>>> navigating emails in mail the cursor kept jumping around! So, I 
>>>>>>>>>>> booted into recovery mode and erased my hard drive and went back to 
>>>>>>>>>>> mavericks. I believe I’ll stick with mavericks for the foreseeable 
>>>>>>>>>>> future!
>>>>>>>>>>> Jeff
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