{"id":234,"date":"2014-09-21T21:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2014-09-21T21:01:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T21:01:53","slug":"iphone-connection-problems-and-how-to-reset-it-so-it-still-wont-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/21\/iphone-connection-problems-and-how-to-reset-it-so-it-still-wont-work\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone connection problems, and how to reset it, so it still won't work"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have two phones, currently a Samsung Galaxy S5 for domestic use, and an iPhone 4S for work. I used to have an iPhone 4 for work but its radio functionality started sporadically not working. Actually it would be better to say it didn't work and would sporadically work.<\/p>\n

About a week ago, my 4S started the same behaviour, I thought an upgrade to iOS 8 might fix it, but of course it couldn't download the update. So I used iTunes (which I really can't stand) to do the upgrade.<\/p>\n

It didn't make any difference, in a few moments when radio functionality was working I was able to download some app updates, but generally nothing works reliably, or for more than a few seconds at a time.<\/p>\n

(Of course iOS 8 does add some stuff - and it can't be ignored it's stuff that has been in Android for some time, the battery also started to drain at an unprecedented rate).<\/p>\n

So I decided there was no choice but to do a reinstall of the phone. Grappling with iTunes again (grr) I get asked (again) if the computer is trusted, it is, it was, it still will be. I do a backup. I try to do a restore. But I can't because it requires me to turn off \"find my iPhone\" in the iCloud settings. To do that, I need a working network connection through which to put my password (even though this is a trusted computer that has seen the phone before).<\/p>\n

Nothing works, including trying to share my network connection through the iPhone USB.<\/p>\n

So I consult the Oracale of Google, and find this is now an unknown problem, and that there is a procedure for putting the phone in a recovery mode<\/a> (so what's the point in the previous paranoia).<\/p>\n

I do that, I reinstall the default firmware, and now can't get a connection to verify the phone.<\/p>\n

So, this is the second iPhone 4* I seem to have turned into a brick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have two phones, currently a Samsung Galaxy S5 for domestic use, and an iPhone 4S for work. I used to have an iPhone 4 for work but its radio functionality started sporadically not working. Actually it would be better to say it didn't work and would sporadically work. About a week ago, my 4S […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[87,85,84,117,89,88,83,86],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-hardware","tag-apple","tag-dfu-mode","tag-factory-reset","tag-6-hardware","tag-icloud","tag-ios8","tag-iphone","tag-recovery-mode"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52I4w-3M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglets.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}