Upgraded to 3.1.2, totally disabled iphone, looked for a solution everywhere Plz help

[tracykristin]

Hello everyone!

If someone could please help me out today it would be greatly appreciated - i am so stuck and cant find a clear, uncomplicated answer anywhere. I see that this is a common problem but there are SO many answers and variations of each problem that i cant find my exact specifications or details anywhere.

Here is my story:

Bought an unlocked, jailbroken iphone last week:
- 3G
- 16gb
- 3.0.1
- Used with T-mobile
- Was using Cydia & Winterboard to modify design
- Was working perfectly, only thing that didnt work was wifi

Last night i download some games (jeopardy, snood, etc.) through the app store in itunes on my macbook osx (tiger). For some reason once I bought them and synced the iphone and itunes, only the jeopardy transferred to my iphone. I was fooling around and trying to sync and re-sync, and then....

Then i made the dumbest mistake ever!

itunes prompted me to upgrade to 3.1.2.

I went ahead and upgraded (STUPID), and then itunes gave me the error that "The sim card used with this iphone does not appear to be supported." GREAT!

I started googling and read that I should try to do a Restore by holding down the HOME button and the On/off/sleep button while plugged into my laptop.

HOWEVER, before I did this, I did check the Settings in my iphone and it said that i WAS operating with 3.1.2

After I attempted a Restore, my iphone then got locked in the USB/tunes/Emergency calls only screen that everyone loves so much.

So now I cant get onto my iphone, and I cant access it through itunes either. AWESOME!

This is my only phone and i use it for work so if i dont have this fixed by this afternoon i will probably be sent to the guillotine.

- I am reading that I need to install Pwnage and attempt to jailbreak the 3.1.2 now. HOWEVER, on one forum (dev-team blog) it says:

"If you’re already jailbroken (by whatever means), you don’t need to mess around with DFU mode at all. Just create (or get from a friend) your custom IPSW and Option-Restore (Shift-Restore on Windows) to it via iTunes. Don’t enter DFU mode at all."

Is this something that applies to me because i was already jailbroken on 3.0.1??

I am totally confused.

If someone can be kind enough to give me step-by-step instructions for dummies on how to remedy this i would be sooo appreciated. Im screwed right now!

Thanks so much for your help...


Tracy

[IUiPodRepair]

Tracy,

Once you updated the firmware to 3.1.2 you phone has now become "un-jailbroken". In order to get your phone functioning again with T-Mobile, you will first need to re-jailbreak your iPhone (blackra1n recommended) and install a software unlock (blacksn0w).

There is an easy guide on how to do this here: iClarified - iPhone - How to Unlock the iPhone 3G, 3GS Using BlackSn0w

Hope this helps.

[tracykristin]

Thanks so much for writing to me!

Things were looking up after I read your post, but then I followed the link you sent me and unfortunately, all of those instructions listed there would only work if I was able to get IN to the iphone and open up cydia.

The first direction is to "Press to launch Cydia from your iPhone Springboard"

Im stuck on the recovery screen mode - with the emergency calls only/usb/itunes logo.



Is there some way to get out of this that I dont know about?

Thanks again!!!

[Poseidon79]

1. go to blackweather and download the program.
2. Jailbreak with blackra1n to gain access to the phone.
3. Use blackra1n to install Cydia and blacksn0w (unlock).

[davidarbel]

hi i have the same problem however i cannot download CYDIA from blackweather - any suggestions?