My IPhone 4s is stuck in recovery mode

I already tried restoring and restarting several times, so please don't suggest that. It is stuck on the icon that says to plug it into itunes. It did this when I was trying to do an update. When I plugged it in the first time, it did the restore but then in just stuck in that mode. Now when I plug it in, it says "your iphone is in recovery mode you need to restore" (or something like that) and then I try to restore and it says "Iphone can't restore error" Please help!

Ok. Not sure if this is what you want - You want your phone upgraded to a version of iOS, but don't wish to loose you data as right now its stuck in DFU or recovery mode. Is that right?

A simple work around would be to set it up as a new iPhone - clean everything up and upgrade the iOS. Push the data back. Now to push the data back, you can't do a restore as the backup would be of an older version of the phone.

So, get a backup recovery software like Total Saver from MyPhoneData and get everything that's in the backup extracted to a folder on your computer. Now you can push photos and videos back to your phone and can sync contacts as well.

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