IPhone :: 3GS / Jailbroken Phone / Restoration Failed
Jun 23, 2010
I sold my iPhone 3gs as "unlocked" on ebay since my iPhone 4 is coming tomorrow. Tonight I jailbroke it with spirit, then unlocked it with cydia/ultrasn0w. I was about to pack it up when I decided I should "Erase all content and settings" so that the buyer won't have any of my contact's info or anything.I put my phone in DFU mode and it won't restore. "This device isn't eligible for the requested build".I've tried everything. I went into Terminal and edited /etc/hosts to point to cydia instead of pointing to apple, but my gut tells me that its not working because the "Erase all content and settings" removed any traces of cydia.
I've never jailbroken anything before and have limited experience with this kind of stuff. I've downloaded all types of firmware versions (3.0, 3.01, 3.1.3) and nothing will take.The phone is just cycling over and over between the apple logo and a black screen. The phone needs an OS, apple knows I tried to jailbreak I guess and won't let me restore, and since I did an "erase all" I can't utilize any of the hacks to bypass apple's safeguard.I've run blackra1n to no avail as well. Nothing I do seems to reverse this awful mistake I've made.What do I do?
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Feb 27, 2010
I restored my phone and jailbroke it and when I go to Cydia to install my apps cydia says I already have them on but I cant see any of them.Any ideas how to get them back or visible?
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May 20, 2012
go to the Technical Advisor whose technical steps solved my problem. I am happy to let him know that I can now receive and emails.
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Mar 2, 2010
This may be a problem covered in a few places already, but I feel like I'm going crazy trying to find up to date answers to my questions, since it feels like the software is constantly changing. So I jailbroke a 3G 3.0 iphone that belonged to a friend. I had some battery problems so decided to update it to 3.1.2. So I downloaded the ipsw for this and the pwnage tool. I went through the steps and went into DFU mode, was prompted to go to itunes and restore with my costume ipsw. I did this, but can't use the 'shift-restore' trick to select the update. Now I'm stuck in recovery/DFU mode (not sure which) and can't even restore to 3.1.3 because I unlocked the phone and don't have the original sim. All I want is to get my phone back up and running on a 3.1.x OS.
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Mar 20, 2010
Is it safe to sync the contacts/datebook/pics/videos if my 3gs is jailbroken? With iTunes of course.
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Sep 9, 2010
to erase my data and sell the phone. It is 4.0.1 jailbreakme.com and Ultrasn0w 1.1-1. Surely there is something on Cydia that will do this. Have searched and the only thing I see is erase all data and rejailbreak. I am worried I will end up upgrading the phone and not be able to jailbreak. Any help?
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Jun 11, 2010
I've got a jailbroken, unlocked iPhone 3G that I'm selling. how would I go about erasing all the apps, music, data, etc, on it, while still leaving it jailbroken and unlocked?
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Jun 8, 2012
Error 1015 indicates that your phone was/is jailbroken. If it was not, then this indicates a hardware failure.
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Aug 24, 2010
I just got my 32g iPhone 4 about 2 weeks ago. After jailbraking the phone, I noticed a couple of things.1st: when the iPhone reboots I noticed a little thin LCD light showing through. 2nd: I noticed after jailbraking, I could not sign on to Facebook using app sign on. 3rd: when restoring to factory setting prior to visiting genius bar, my phone got stuck and froze up on apple logo indefinitely.Lucky for me, the tec at apple was cool and exchange it for a brand new one. Warranty is void on any jailbroken iPhones. After all that trouble, I dont think I'll jailbrake this one it's not worth it.
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Apr 1, 2010
i jailbroke my iphon 3gs and sedyia did not come with the jailbreak and when i go to the app store to download an app it asks me to create an account so should i create an account on a jailbroken iphone and should i download?
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Jan 14, 2010
I have lost all of my contacts.I was having problems with my iphone and did a restore, not from backup.Now the iphone is working properly but I lost my contacts in the process.I checked my itunes backups but it only says today's date.I did a time machine backup of my whole computer which included iTunes.I am thinking there should be a folder with my contacts in that but I am unable to locate it.All of my contacts where originally added to my iphone manually.Please help,I do not know where to find the contacts and I am very worried about being able to recover them.
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Jun 1, 2012
my wifes apple ID is showing up instead of mine, just got a new iphone and restored it. I am logged in with my user id on iTunes and iphone store. I've logged out and in several times but when I try to update my apps it is looking for here password?
Info:
iPhone 4, Windows XP Pro, Replacement Iphone
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Jun 1, 2012
I had to restore my iPhone 4 from a very old backup (Oct. 2011), and have been having no Gmail ever since. I've enter in all of my gmail account info into the mail settings multiple times, and gone through the set-up instructions on both Google and Apple, and I keep getting an error saying my account name or password is incorrect. I've signed in online to verify my user name and password and they are, indeed, correct. what can be done to fix it?
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Jun 4, 2014
I went from an iphone 4s to 5s; backed up from icloud, but after a full 24 hours, it's not complete- is it stuck? Is there something I can do? Should I just wait?
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iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1, iCloud
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Jun 8, 2012
During the restoration process an error no. 1015 occured and it stopped, how do I overcome this error?
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iPhone 3G, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 2, 2014
My IPHONE 5 was freezing and then rebooting itself. Did a restoration this morning and since 15h00, it was rebooting itself repeatedly.Â
I just force a Restoration of it with ITUNES (all the latest versions) and the IPHONE got stuck in the middle of the first restoration phase - where you see a white screen with the apple logo and a status bar. ITUNE stopped the restoration and indicates: UNKNOWN ERROR (14)Â
What is happening? And, yes my IPHONE is not under warranty, it is 21 months old.Â
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iPhone 5, Latest IOS on the IPHONE
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Aug 20, 2010
I've been jailbroken for ab 2 wks now with no users at all. I just now purchased BITEsms license. After installing and restarting my phone, all of my apps except pre-installed and jb apps are gone. I've tried rebooting several times, wut in tarnations has happened!Is this what I get for doing the right thing and buying the bite license!
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Feb 27, 2012
Can I somehow restore mistakenly deleted pictures from the folder "Camera Pictures "?
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Jan 13, 2012
I formatted the SD of X8 by error ..I recently have recovered each file but without the destination (file and folder names).. the contet of the SD ( folders and its contents).
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Jan 28, 2010
after removing my tmobile sim and placing it in again my 3GS wont recognize my sim. it says NO Sim card. whats the deal with this? what do I do to fix the situation? I jailbroke with blackra1n
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May 12, 2010
I have the most current iPhone OS and I want to jailbreak it to be able to tether to my iPad for 3G service since my iPad is only wifi. I have looked on internet amd most sites claim current iPhone OS cannot be jailbroken. Is this true and if not, how do I jailbreak mine.
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Jul 5, 2012
How can I tell if my phone has been jailbroken without my knowledge?
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iPhone 4, Jailbroken
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May 3, 2010
I was doing a sync after the last BB OS update and when i was done - it had copied every contact twice so i had double the amount of contacts on my BB than on my computer, so i delete one of every pair and the next time i did a backup and a sync, it erased all my contacts on my computer.
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Jan 21, 2012
I am using blackberry protect to backup data. The backup went well as usual, though I cannot restore my Phone Number/contacts as it says: "This data is wirelessly synchronized with a remote service and cannot be restored by blackberry protect". This has resulted me not having any phone numbers. How do I restore my phone numbers? I have BB a curve 9300(3g)
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Jul 16, 2011
Thinking of rooting my Galaxy S2 and in preparation I backed up the phone contents (I only have 200 odd photos and my contacts so far) via KIES. I then deleted that stuff from the phone and attempted to restore via KIES just to prove that it would be OK but NO - I got the above message when trying to restore. I don't want to go any further
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Feb 25, 2010
A co worker of mine racked up 2 gigs of data 2 months ago and burned through a blistering 8.6 gigs of data this past month. All of this on his 3Gs and none of it done by tethering with a jailbroken iPhone. He "claims" that he has no clue how it happened but I'm guessing he knows. How many video clips of wholesome family entertainment would he have to download to hit that impossible number. I nearly myself when I saw the bill.
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Mar 14, 2012
how do i get my iphone 4 jailbroken by apple? I'm moving and i want to be able to use the same phone with another service provider.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
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Mar 24, 2012
My idiot ex (a supervisor on the apple care line!) jaibroke my phone and I hate it. It won't even turn on, now, it's stuck in recovery mode. How do I fix this? I'm trying to make it work through iTunes but I get error 1601. He used something called Red Snow, if that helps. I'm absolutely sick right now. I never once wanted this thing jailbroken, nevermind absolutely broken. Especially by an Apple employee.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5
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Jun 10, 2012
is there any other means on how to restore my iphone 3g even if not jailbroken?
Info:iPhone 3G, iOS 4.2
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Jun 26, 2012
A friend of mine jailbroke my phone, and I absolutely hate it. I've tried multipe time to reset all and restore it from the phone. Every time I do so, my phone stays on this black screen with a spinning wheel. It never goes away. I can't restore my phone from iTunes, because I use an Internet card and the download to update my phone before restoring, is too big. What can I do?!?!!
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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Jul 6, 2012
my i phone has been jail broken ive tried to reset to factory settings but now its just saying error and wont restore or anything
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iPhone 3G
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