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10-03-2009, 11:41 PM
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#1 | | YOU CANT CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS
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| iPhone 2G screwed over.
Here's the thing...
I bought an iPhone 2G off of Craigslist, it was listed as a non-working iPhone, so I paid very little for it. Originally I was just going to open it up to study, since the girl said it wouldn't even turn on. But when I got home, I got curious and plugged it into my laptop and BOOM it turned on - albeit stuck in the recovery loop.
I am running windows 7, but also have access to Mac OSX (hackintosh dual boot)
Problem:
-Stuck in recovery loop
-iTunes recognizes it as an iPhone in recovery mode, can restore successfully (but after restore it is STILL in recovery mode)
-ziphone, and iLiberty will not recognize the phone (searches with no result)
-quickpwn crashes once I do that "hold buttons for 15 seconds" thing
(tried on my brother's computer as well, running XP SP2, same problem)
-iRecovery connects and reads it as an iPhone, but gives me a bunch of NAND errors.
Anyone of you hax0rs got ideas?
thanks in advance!
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10-04-2009, 12:17 AM
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Tired RedSn0w yet? Download the latest 3.0.1 IPSW, then if you're on a mac I think you hit CTRL and then Restore, that will give you the option to select your own update IPSW file.
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10-04-2009, 01:56 AM
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#3 | | YOU CANT CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS
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thanks for the suggestion... I gave it a try and at first it seemed to do something, but then during the jailbreaking process it got stuck at "installing activation bundles"... which was kind of expected since I stupidly let it upgrade to 3.1
Otherwise, I tried to reset the phone - no luck, ended back up in restore mode. I think the phone is bricked for good
I'm going to let the phone sit overnight at the installing activation bundles - maybe something interesting will turn up
Thanks again!
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10-04-2009, 02:44 AM
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#4 | | Work hard, Play Hard - Wiz
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Make sure you downloaded the correct firmware for the iphone 2g. I downloaded the wrong one one time. Then finally got it to work.
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10-04-2009, 10:13 AM
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#5 | | YOU CANT CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS
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i made sure I got the right FW - I am now in the process of downloading the 3.1 hacked version for the 2G. Hopefully this works...
In other words, i tried to mount the filesystem inside iRecovery so I could restart it manuaully. iRecovery comes back to me saying that "root file system mount failed"
does anybody know how to fix this issue?
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10-05-2009, 06:48 PM
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#6 | | YOU CANT CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS
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problem resolved!
sold on craigslist lol
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10-05-2009, 10:55 PM
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#7 | | easy e
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aww man.. was hoping you would find a cure.. I think I have the same problem!
How much did it sell for?
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10-05-2009, 10:57 PM
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#8 | | YOU CANT CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS
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i sold it for 120 dollars
i bought it broken for 70 dollars though =D
sorry man, but here is a site I came across that explained the NAND errors http://blog.alltechrelated.com/2009/...as-cracked-it/
read through the article, it's quite good and explains some key things in the apple firmware
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10-06-2009, 03:10 PM
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#9 | | easy e
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lol! Nice on you.
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10-06-2009, 05:02 PM
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Your time fixing it was worth $50, woooo
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10-06-2009, 11:13 PM
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10-07-2009, 07:52 AM
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#12 | | YOU CANT CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS
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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG Your time fixing it was worth $50, woooo | yafoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I only looked at it for 2 hours, so $25/hr, not bad at all 
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