How to Enter DFU Mode With a Broken Home or Power Button (Windows)
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Posted July 6, 2012 at 6:22am by iClarified
These are instructions on how to put your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch into DFU mode with a broken home or power button.
Step One Create a new folder on your desktop called Pwnage.
In the folder place the most recent firmware (which can be downloaded from here: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and the latest version of RedSn0w (from here).
Extract the RedSn0w zip file to the Pwnage folder.
Step Two Launch the redsn0w application from the redsn0w folder we extracted earlier. You can do this by right clicking the executable and selecting Run as Administrator contextual menu.
Step Three Once RedSn0w opens click the Extras button.
Step Four Choose Even More from the Extras menu.
Step Five Select DFU IPSW from the Even More menu.
Step Six You will be instructed to select an IPSW that you can currently restore to without any hacks or pwnage steps. Click OK.
Step Seven Select the ipsw firmware file you downloaded in Step One and click Open.
Step Eight RedSn0w will now proceed to create a DFU Mode IPSW.
Step Nine You will be notified once the IPSW has been created successfully. Click the OK button.
Step Ten Launch iTunes.
Step Ten Connect your device to the computer and select it from list of devices on the left. If you haven't performed a backup recently, perform one now. Next, make sure you are on the Summary then hold down the Shift key and click Restore.
Step Eleven Select the ENTER_DFU ipsw from the Pwnage folder on your desktop and click the Open button.
Step Twelve After your device has been restored it will be dumped into DFU mode. The screen will remain black and you may be able to jailbreak depending on the firmware you've restored to.
In step 10 when you connect the device to the ps having launched iTunes you cannot select it as it needs you to respond on the ipod to allow access and you cannot as the ipod touch is disabled so you have no access to the screen prompt so how do I get around this.
HELP Me:
I have iphone 4s 7.1.2 Jailbreak (Power button broken)
Now I want to update it to 8.0 or 8.1 but not 9.X.X (phone will be too slow)
So as My power button is broken I can't enter DFU mode. I have following quesitons:
1. Which firmware i should download to make dfu ipsw? Is it 7.1.2 or 8.0/(8.1)
2. I tried the normal regular method of updating through itunes and getting error 3194! So if I use this dfu method will be able to bypass?
3. Lets assume my iphone is updated to 8.1 will be jailbroken or i have to jailbreak it later ?
1. You can not update to iOS 8 from general>software update if iOS 9 has already available. So it's better to use ipsw from firmware ios 8.x.x
2. DFU mode is the deepest type of restore you can do on an iphone. So if the regular recovery mode doesn't solve the problem, DFU mode may do the trick
3. When you restore iphone using DFU mode, you will lose the jailbreak. So, you need to rejailbreak it
Hi.
I found out from the lot of articles that to restore to old version compare to current so in this case iOS 8.x.x is not possible anymore ! Because Apple has to sign the ipsw then only itune can restore to that iOS. And apple stop signing the oldest version. So I can't update or downgrade to 8.x.x iOS anymore. Or update from 7.1.2 to 8.x.x ! Only I can update to direct latest available is 9.3.5 iOS.
I have tried basically everything to try to fix this and I cant do it my iphone 4s has connect to ITunes on the lock screen forgot password locked it up cant get redsnow to just accept the firmware however it refuses if I leave it zipped it doesn't show up if I extract it it shows up but makes me navigate through the folder and ends up blank
My name is Thomas Mullett I can't enter DFU mode like that or the other way. I have a broken middle button and I downloaded that peace of sofewere but it's not picking it up can you piz tell me why email me
i did every step of it and i did the jailbreak again using redsn0w and the firmware iOS 6.0.1 and well my ipod wont turn on its stuck on dfu mode what do i do help me lol
so I replaced the screen on my daughters, friend's ipod touch 4g that has a broken power button, and I ma getting the all white screen. (white screen of death) so I cant do a reset or put in dfu mode for recovery. whenever I connect it to itunes it asks me for the passcode, but I cant enter it because it's nothing but a white screen. any suggestions on how to get this ipod to reboot without using the power button or the slider on the screen? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm at my wits end as to what to do. I can't even troubleshoot whats going on because I cant get this ipod to power off.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
If you can still connect the ipod touch to the computer and it recognises it, download tinyumbrella. Run it, and there should be an option to enter recovery mode. Once you're in recovery mode itunes will let you restore the ipod and you should be out of the white screen. :)
source: it happened to me and this is how i fixed it.