iPhone 1.1.3 stuck in a loop

[feffe]

I have a big problem. Used iphone for a couple of days. Dont know really what caused this. Installed a couple of programs. A theme that didnt show?! a terminal, openssh etc. But after a reboot this happen.

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Really cant do anything with the phone. But... I can login via ssh over wifi.
I´ve noticed "crashdump" runs everytime it reloads the home screen. I´m trying to locate a logfile or something to see what ever it is thats causing this.
Sure a recovery will do it. The phone came with 1.1.3. If I do a recovery iTunes will download 1.1.4. To unlock 1.1.4 I need to change bootloader. How can I do that when I only can access the phone via ssh? Dont really know what to do here
Best thing would be if I can repair it in the terminal. Without a recovery.


Any suggestions???




EDIT

Copied over all log files then cleared /var/logs/crashreaporter. Then 3 new files showed up. Must be something in there.
Seems theese two programs crash. Can i remove them from iphone via ssh?
Is it launchd that runs program on startup? Then it should be possible to comment out some programs that u don whant to start. Help here would be very much appriciated!!!

Process: SpringBoard [170]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/SpringBoard

Process: ptpd [167]
Path: /usr/libexec/ptpd

http://feffe.ath.cx/ptpd-2008-03-15-123113.plist
http://feffe.ath.cx/SpringBoard-2008-03-15-123114.plist

[amnesic]

Do you try to use the std "passwd" unix command ? If yes you need to reinstall the master password file I guess ... search in forum, there is some solution about this classic problem.

Hope this helps.

[feffe]

Do you try to use the std "passwd" unix command ? If yes you need to reinstall the master password file I guess ... search in forum, there is some solution about this classic problem.

Hope this helps.

Yes a mather of fact I did change the passwd. It crossed my mind so I change back to default passwd witch was "alpine". Didn´t help. U think the file is corrupt or what?

[amnesic]

yes the /etc/master.passwd is corrupt. you need to reinstall a the original one.

[feffe]

Anyone with 1.1.3 who could send me passwd files? PM me please!

[feffe]

Solved the problem by recover and ziPhone. But I did find out what caused it since same thing happende after the restore. I changed passwd and rebooted imiadiatley. As told by amnesic. If you change passwd on the system by using "passwd" command this happens. Dont know if theres a fix for this?

[GlennMiller]

I'v got the same problem.
First I changed the password.
Then I tryed to syncronize outlook.
At the end of syncronize I got the error message something like "IPhone closed the connection"
Then I changed the password back to alpine, didn't help with syncronize
Then I rebootet the device.
After the reebot the Iphone got caught in the loop.

Now I would like to restore the factory settings but Itunes is not seeing the device ( Also Windows is not seeing it)
The device is connectetd over USB to the computer but the operating system is not seeing it.
Im a newbie in Iphone issues (I have it just few days)
Could somebody help me ?