I am curious where your thoughts on DFU come from. I am very familiar with it as it was the bootrom-level recovery mode my team utilized when we worked on jailb

I am curious where your thoughts on DFU come from. I am very familiar with it as it was the bootrom-level recovery mode my team utilized when we worked on jailbreak tools that exploited SecureROM. DFU has a single purpose: wait for an Apple-signed firmware file to be sent to it over USB for it to execute. You seem to indicate that it's something you would carry your phone around in...in which it would just reboot into iOS after awhile. Asking the obvious: Have you booted an iOS device into DFU mode before? Maybe the iPhone Wiki made it sound like it is a "mode" you can boot iOS into? I am not sure exactly what you think it is, but again, the device screen is completely black and indistinguishable from being off, OS is not booted and nothing is happening at all, besides the fact that (again) it is indeed on and "spinning" as it waits for the USB interrupt.