DFU mode can help you recover your iPhone or iPad using a computer.

DFU, short for Device Firmware Update, is a special mode that enables a computer to update its firmware. In DFU mode an iPhone can still communicate with iTunes but without iTunes automatically ...

Is your iPad not responding, not powering on, or just generally being a nuisance? Sometimes a hard reset is necessary, and it's very easy to perform.

squiggy [/url]":3f377g41]If it's that old you might want to scare up a copy of TinyUmbrella which can dump you out of it. But... it'd be weird if it was actual DFU mode where it has a black screen and ...

In the past couple of days, we've seen reports here and there of iPhones getting stuck in a restart loop. The black screen with the Apple logo shows up, holds for a while, and then disappears again; ...