How to recover from iPhone Remote Wipe
Having used the MobileMe Remote Wipe feature on my original iPhone, I was left with a phone that would only show the apple logo for a few seconds at power on and then do nothing. Resetting did not work and trying to recover from iTunes as I had expected seemed impossible as the iPhone was not even showing up in iTunes. With a fair amount of Googling I found the answer thanks to a thread on the Apple Discussion Forums.
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- Wake your iphone up so you see the apple logo.
- Hold down the power button (the one on top) and the home button until the screen goes black.
- This turns the phone off, don’t keep holding the button or the phone will restart.
- Now that the phone is off, press and hold the home button.
- While holding the home button connect your phone back to your computer, continue to hold the home button until itunes says it has found a phone that needs to be restored.
- restore phone.”
