Have you called Apple Accessibility? That would be worth a try. (877) 388-0879
I got some excellent help from them on Friday. Good luck, Richard "The fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd." - Bertrand Russell *Sent from my iPhone 5S > On Oct 5, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Kristeen Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I appreciate all posts. Obviously, my choice would be to take it back to the > Apple store and let them fix it for me. However, transportation is extremely > difficult and this store was quite far away where some friends live whom we > do not see often. There is no sighted help, so the best thing for me wss to > try and resolve this myself. > I have tried several more times through iTunes to restore the phone. It tells > me the phone is in recovery mode and that I have to restore it in order to > use it, but each time it returns an error code of 17. > > I am trying to contact Apple, but thought I'd start here because there are > many incredibly smart folks here and usually there is an idea or two. > > Kristeen > >> On Oct 5, 2014, at 3:16 AM, Christopher Hallsworth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Did you try connecting it back to iTunes and doing a restore again? Doing >> this should also get rid of your passcoe which you can't use anyway. >> >> >> Sent from my laptop >> >>> On 05/10/2014 02:15, Kristeen Hughes wrote: >>> This afternoon I got an iPhone 6. I set it up with fingerprint security and >>> a passcode. When I got home, I connected it to the Mac and iTunes so that >>> it could restore from my backup. It did that without incident. It then >>> asked me if I wanted to update to iOS 8.02 and I said yes. It turned itself >>> off as it should, but will not come back on at all. ITunes still seems to >>> see it and acts as if it is ready to sync it. It says it can not, however >>> because it is locked with a passcode and I can't enter the passcode or my >>> fingerprint, because the phone is actually not even turned on. I have >>> disconnected it from the computer and plugged it into the charger, just to >>> see if that would bring it back. I have tried pressing the power and home >>> buttons as if to reset it, but that does no good either. It's almost as if >>> it is stuck somewhere in the update process. Does anyone know how I can >>> bring it back? >>> >>> Kristeen >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. >> All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any >> questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a >> member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators >> directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list >> can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
