Made an account to confirm the magic. Four hours stuck on "estimating..". Read through this thread, started it over, and it was restored in like 5 minutes!!!! Crazy.
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iPhone 6(S)/Plus iPhone 6S - Restoring from Backup Stuck at Time Reamaining: estimating...
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Didn’t help at all!! My time remaining actually kept going up 
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Still going up... started at 6mins, now up to 44minsDidn’t help at all!! My time remaining actually kept going up
Will posting help? I've tried to restore for the past day now, and every time, it either gets stuck or says it cannot restore. I've been without a phone for 4 days now because mine stopped working ;-;
Also it's 2019 and there are 19 pages now grr
Also it's 2019 and there are 19 pages now grr
Ha! I had the exact same problem, and just after I opened your thread, it finally got unstuck! Thanks for the magic, haha
Unfortunately didn't work for me this way.
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Darnit... even posting to the thread didn't work.
If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all. GRRRRR
Okay I'm writing this in a hope it works!! I had mine stuck at 2hrs for about an hour started reading the thread and no shet it went to 44 minutes at last!! then I carried reading and it didn't move.. I'm hoping that by writing this its gonna jump start it again!!!
Just looked still stuck!! FFFFUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKK OOOOFFFFFF U STUPIDDD IPHONEEEEE!!
Just looked still stuck!! FFFFUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKK OOOOFFFFFF U STUPIDDD IPHONEEEEE!!
[doublepost=1563494779][/doublepost]I know this is an old post...but it must be a magic one! I was stuck on 1 minute remaining for 17 minutes read this thread and it seriously moved on!!!Ha! I had the exact same problem, and just after I opened your thread, it finally got unstuck! Thanks for the magic, haha
Testing...
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[doublepost=1565041029][/doublepost]Not sure yet... goes on really slow.
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[doublepost=1565041029][/doublepost]Not sure yet... goes on really slow.
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My phone updated Christmas Day and crashed itself into a dreaded boot loop. I tried everything over the last week to no avail. On the rare occasion I could even unlock it, it would freeze and go back into the loop all over again. Finally, someone gave me the advice to let it die (again) and leave it be for awhile. When it finally allows you to unlock DO NOT open anything. This will cause the freezing and rebooting again. From there, plug it into iTunes and do a backup. It took all night, but it worked! Phone was still on this morning. I tried to do a restore from the backup but opening the settings to turn off Find My a Phone caused the boot looping again. I didn’t want to wait for it to die and repeat the process til it connected to iTunes, so I just threw it into restore mode.
and here is where it got stuck on Estimating Time Remaining. For. So. Long. I didn’t believe in this thread’s magic. A few pages in, it was still estimating. By about page 3, it changed to a real time! 4 hours. Then 6 Hours. 9 hours. 10 hours. 11 hours. 12 hours. Throughout the course of reading, it has jumped between 10 and 11 hours. I use my cursor to mark where the progress bar has loaded to, and there’s slow progress being made. I wish it was as quick as everyone else in the thread, but it’s something.
EDIT: 4 hours later and it’s still at 9 hours. Slowly but surely loading. I think everyone prior to me used up the magic.
EDIT 2: it actually took 9 hours, so iTunes really wasn't joking with that estimate. maybe the magic will keep working for someone else.
and here is where it got stuck on Estimating Time Remaining. For. So. Long. I didn’t believe in this thread’s magic. A few pages in, it was still estimating. By about page 3, it changed to a real time! 4 hours. Then 6 Hours. 9 hours. 10 hours. 11 hours. 12 hours. Throughout the course of reading, it has jumped between 10 and 11 hours. I use my cursor to mark where the progress bar has loaded to, and there’s slow progress being made. I wish it was as quick as everyone else in the thread, but it’s something.
EDIT: 4 hours later and it’s still at 9 hours. Slowly but surely loading. I think everyone prior to me used up the magic.
EDIT 2: it actually took 9 hours, so iTunes really wasn't joking with that estimate. maybe the magic will keep working for someone else.
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OH MY FKN GOD. THIS SHT WORKS IN 2020 I LITERALLY JUST MADE AN ACCOUNT TO SAY THAT THIS MAGIC WORKS. THANK YOU THREAD GODS. I'M FREAKING TF OUT!!!!!!