How to enter iPhone in DFU Mode | iPhone DFU Mode

Sometimes, in order to restore your iPhone firmware using iTunes, you need to put iPhone into Recovery Mode. But if recovery mode doesn’t work for you and you could not restore you iPhone, then you need to Put your iPhone in DFU Mode. Lets learn how to enter iPhone in DFU Mode in order to restore its firmware.

Step 1
Open iTunes and connect the iPhone via USB.

Step 2
Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button at the same time.

Step 3
Continue holding the both buttons for exact 10 seconds. Then release the Sleep/Wake. Keep holding the Home button until iTunes pops up that it has found an iPhone in Recovery Mode.

Your iPhone screen will look like this:

***NOTE***

It may take a few attempts to get your iPhone into DFU mode. Generally, I hold down both buttons then release the Wake/Sleep button just before I think the Apple logo would appear. If you are still holding both buttons down and you see the Apple logo you are holding them down for too long!

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Posted in: iPhone, iPhone Guides, Tutorials on April 28, 2009

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Comments:

tom 19 August 2009 at 5:15 am #

nice post my friend, as you said after the step3 i got message on my itunes that its in recovery mode. So i restored, but still it s in recovery mode, because when i tried to jailbreak its stopping in between. So please tell me after the step 3 seeing the message on the itunes what do i need to do to get DFU mode?? Thanks in advance

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lee 19 August 2009 at 6:04 pm #

Just switch the iphone off and use redsn0w to jailbreak, redsn0w will guide you through the DFU mode as you go.

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Dane 13 October 2009 at 1:39 pm #

iPhone DFU Mode Animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES6bEY18F4

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uttegrakest 23 October 2009 at 11:51 am #

Thanks for guiding me through how to put iPhone in DFU MOde

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anon 30 October 2009 at 11:27 pm #

The redsn0w DFU instrctions are different, and do not always worked. That’s what happened to me, and these instructions got it working for me. Thank you

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andre 8 January 2010 at 10:45 am #

my iphone refuses to go on dfu..i know how to put it on dfu coz i already did those steps when i was upgrading my 1.1.4 to 2.0 2.2 and 3.0 i have 2g iphone…but now it doesnt seem to work i was trying to jailbreak and unlock on OS 3.0 using redsnow but it cant i mean it wont go into dfu even when im in itunes its not reading… any thoughts about this or help is highly appreciated…thank you…

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Bryan 17 July 2010 at 5:29 am #

Pretty good instructions. I also found this how-to video helpful to walk me through the steps: http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-put-unresponsive-iphone-into-dfu-mode-259739/

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jimberieJ 20 July 2010 at 12:51 am #

thanks u saved me alot of money I thought the iphone was fuked

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Sithron 24 July 2010 at 9:42 pm #

I just tried this and im getting error 3194, i have a 3gs version 4.0 and i only have to the shsh for 3.1.2. i tried to downgrade but im getting an error

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- iPhoneHeat 25 July 2010 at 1:31 am #
  
  http://www.iphoneheat.com/2010/07/downgrade-ios-4-to-os-3-1-3-3-1-2-iphone-ipod-touch/
  
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BABIGIRL 14 August 2010 at 2:13 am #

OMG!! Thank u soooo much, u saved me big time! I thought was phone was going to have to be repaired! TY!!!!

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JasonLim 1 September 2010 at 10:33 pm #

Thanks!! It worked! I’m trying hard to downgrade from 4.0.2. Need a jailbroken iPhone

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