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Repair information and guides for the Apple iPhone 5s that was announced on September 10, 2013. Model: A1533, A1453, A1457, A1528, A1530, A1518

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Cannot restore iPhone 5s due to iTunes error 9

I had a friends iPhone 5s 16gb (C-Spire) on iOS 10.2.1 for a while. I swapped out the logic board temporarily with another friends 5s to see if it still worked. When putting the original logic board in a day later, the phone was stuck in a bootloop. It shows the apple logo for about a minute & restarts again.

Even worse, whenever i try to restore/update the device via iTunes, i always get error 9. I've tried multiple computers/cables, i tried dfu & pwned dfu mode, i even went to the apple store where they said they couldnt help me after they got error 9 a few more times.

I read some really old threads on how to fix iPads by using i4 tools, but that didn't seem to do anything for me. Any 3rd party program i try to restore with usually gets stuck at about 20%

Dont really care about whats on the phone at this point, is there a way i can make it function again?

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Going to assume long screw damage, it's going to be hard to tell if the screw holes haven't ripped off the board but it can be identified under a microscope looking at the screw holes on the board near the screen connectors.

https://hackaday.com/2014/10/19/using-th...

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i suspect thats it. i guess ill add this to my pile of defective logic boards

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