iphone stuck in boot logo buzzing - tried everything - help please!!!!!

[schaefer72]

hi - need help with iphone 3g - i read the iphone faqs along with a ton of other posts and web sites - i cant get my phone to restore or boot up - i run vista 32 - new iphone 3g 16 gig - jailbreaked with pwn 2.1 - worked great for 2 days then during reboot went into constant loop with pineapple logo - i have read a ton of posts about this - some people have been able to do a simple dfu and restore thru itunes or pwn but no luck - sits there awhile then gives round moving lines like its loading then starts to vibrate in a pattern - but wont boot up - eventually goes to steve jobs cartoon i have read about on other posts - i have tried almost everything - dfu mode and restore with itunes 7.? something and 8 - ends up starting restore process then deletes files and preps for restore and errors number 13 ( see this web site for list of errors and what they relate to - Podkicks - ituneserrors ) also tried deleting sync hx and iphone user hx in itunes - tried pwn tool to restore to 2.1 - it makes it part way thru - put iphone into dfu mode then starts downloading jailbreak data and uploading ramdisk - gets to white screen then shows hard disk screen as if its working - ends up getting part way thru and tells me " your device has connected in the wrong mode. this can be caused by incorrect following of instructions or a faulty usb connection . please try again. " - i have tried this a number of times same error each time - i am able to connect to my iphone thru winscp on the pineapple screen and see and explore all files on iphone - they appear to all be there along with all the programs i loaded - i also attempted to replace the mobile installation folder - no good and tried to change the code to 0775 from 0755 - no good - can i delete and revirginize from winscp ? - what might be hanging up the boot process that i can fix or replace in the winscp - if all files are there what got screwed up during reboot to hang up boot process - thanks for any and all info !!!!

[sziklassy]

Did you install anything new before rebooting? Something must have changed to be causing this (probably software change)

[schaefer72]

hi - well it took me a week and alot of research - i now have a phd in iphone hacking and restoreing - the solution was to remove i tunes 8 - downloaded older version of winpwn and install - downloaded and installed itunes 7.7 - downloaded older iphone firmware and software - used older winpwn to pwn phone - after it finished itunes gave me error 1013 - told itunes to restore to factory setup - it worked this time and i was able to get the phone restored and working back to as new condition - i will wait for new winpwn version before i jailbreak phone again - last time i used qpwn and it didnt end up well - hope the new winpwn is better and easier - thanks