iPhone 3GS Bricked. "device not eligible"

[noturtypicalone]

ok, couldnt find anything relevant so here goes

-started with a fresh 4.2.1
-used redsn0w b5 to jailbreak it, and install ipad baseband
-no sim in it, so conected to wi-fi, opened cydia
-as cydia is initialing file system phone freezes
-hard reset phone after a few min

now it stays stuck on the boot screen.

i downloaded 4.2.1 and am trying to restore to that and it says couldnt restore, device not eligible for requested build.

anyone have any ideas?

no one?

[reddawg]

i downloaded 4.2.1 and am trying to restore to that and it says couldnt restore, device not eligible for requested build.

anyone have any ideas?

In order to restore firmware 4.2.1, you need to have previously saved your SHSH blobs for 4.2.1 in Cydia or by using TinyUmbrella. Why were you able to restore 4.2.1 earlier? My educated guess is that Apple was still signing iOS 4.2.1. Just recently, Apple stopped signing 4.2.1, which is why you can not restore it now and why you receive "device not eligible for requested build".

If you did save your SHSH blob for 4.2.1, then first run TinyUmbrella and click the "Save SHSH" button. This will retrieve all your saved SHSH blobs from Cydia to your computer. Once this is done, click "Start TTS Server" and then restore your iOS 4.2.1 firmware in iTunes.

Note: You will receive a 1015 error because your baseband doesn't match your firmware. Put your iPhone into DFU mode and use TinyUmbrella and click "Fix Recovery".

[noturtypicalone]

Finally got 4.2.1 on there, iTunes error 1015. Used tiny umbrella to fix recovery. And then the phone attempts to run greenpois0n ?!? It doesn't find the loader files so it doesn't move from the greenpois0n initialized screen. So I started greenpois0n on the comp so it would dl the loader files. And fixed the recovery again through tiny umbrella and it initialized greenpois0n again and ran it. It got stuck along the way and stayed in verbose.

Finally tried a 4.3 restore and got the same 1015 error.. I thought 4.3 would flash over the iPad baseband?

[babyblue_pimp]

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Finally tried a 4.3 restore and got the same 1015 error.. I thought 4.3 would flash over the iPad baseband?

apparently u never read the dev team blog... You should start there, everything like this has been covered in the posts, if not in the comments

[noturtypicalone]

Yea I had. It was my understanding that 4.3 would flash a newer baseband.

Guess not.

So is there a fix I missed?

[jdm.accord]

Yea I had. It was my understanding that 4.3 would flash a newer baseband.

Guess not.

So is there a fix I missed?

Not yet unless you saved your SHSH files. I'm not sure how you missed doing that. But since you can't use pwnage to restore to 4.2.1 without the baseband, you're stuck till pwnage is released for 4.3.

[noturtypicalone]

Thanks for the help. Should have read more into it but my
new bootrom 3GS went so flawlessly with everything that I failed to realize it was an old bootrom 3GS I was using now

[jdm.accord]

Apple specifically didn't update the baseband to 6.XX (which would have been the normal progression) and instead went with 5.16 so as to screw over the people who used it to unlock. No surprise there.

Had you saved your files though, you could use pwnage to restore to 4.2.1. One click in Cydia woulda saved you some serious hassles right now. So always make sure you save your files from now on

[noturtypicalone]

Well see that's part of the problem. The phone froze on me before Cydia even finished initializing file system. When I reset the phone it was stuck on the boot screen in loop. And I forgot to save my shsh in tiny. It's definitely been a learning experience though.

Does tiny umbrella hold a cache or something of shsh files? I had my files on there but forgot to save. That's how I got 4.2.1 back on there the first time

Or... Can I save my shsh blobs, from my personal phone running 4.2.1 and use them for this other one?

[jdm.accord]

Well see that's part of the problem. The phone froze on me before Cydia even finished initializing file system. When I reset the phone it was stuck on the boot screen in loop. And I forgot to save my shsh in tiny. It's definitely been a learning experience though.

Does tiny umbrella hold a cache or something of shsh files? I had my files on there but forgot to save. That's how I got 4.2.1 back on there the first time

Or... Can I save my shsh blobs, from my personal phone running 4.2.1 and use them for this other one?

Blobs are specific to the phone and are NOT interchangeable. If you saved them thru TU, they should be on Saurik's server I believe. Did you try setting your hosts to Cydia when restoring to 4.2.1?

[noturtypicalone]

I never saved them. Phone crashed before Cydia even initialized. And I didn't save them in TU

[crystus]

Apple specifically didn't update the baseband to 6.XX (which would have been the normal progression) and instead went with 5.16 so as to screw over the people who used it to unlock. No surprise there.

Had you saved your files though, you could use pwnage to restore to 4.2.1. One click in Cydia woulda saved you some serious hassles right now. So always make sure you save your files from now on

I am with you and I believe that they will abandon the 6.xx, they may never go over 5.xx. With the way that the system will not change the baseband unless it is a higher version now I am glad that I didn't flash that baseband.

To the OP the easiest thing for you would be to get a pwned ipsw to keep on your PC of 4.3 and make sure to back up your shsh's. This way you always have a way to revert.

[noturtypicalone]

Yea definitely doing that whenever I can. Admitting defeat lol. Hey if you don't make mistakes you never learn anything haha.

Thanks for the help guys

[noturtypicalone]

just a quick update. tiny umbrella was able to save three shsh files for it. one being 4.2.1

i was able to do a pwnage tool 4.2.1 restore to it. everything is good now.

thanks guys