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My iPhone is bricked? Help please!

Rigenkr

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Sep 22, 2015
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Hi everyone
I have a jailbroken iPhone 5, and I was having crashes with a game of mine. Someone suggested I should remove my jailbreak, so I went to back up my iPhone and restore it. However I could only restore and update to iOS 9.2
I thought ok, went ahead and did it and now my phone is stuck in the thing with the ITunes logo...
I tried restoring, updating, hard reset, ReiBoot, I don't know what else to do 🙁

Any help is immensely appreciated. Is there any software I can use to save my phone? Do I need to do something else?

PS The country I live in has no Apple Stores, so I can't even hope of taking this there for support.
 
That one is also out of the question...
Also tried software like ReiBoot, TinyUmbrella...
All they do is restart the device, and then it goes to the iTunes logo again. 🙁
 
Have you tried DFU mode? Google DFU mode and try that. Also, could you give more detail? I understand that the phone has the iTunes logo on it, what happens when the phone is connected to itunes?