iTunes recognizes iPhone as 2 phones after problematic jailbreak

[esherman]

I tried to jailbreak my 3GS running 4.2.1 (using redsn0w 0.9.6b4) and it initially worked great. Then I installed some apps from cydia and tried to reboot with redsn0w (I have the new bootrom, so it's tethered) but it had an unexpected error and crashed. Through several restores via iTunes, I was able to get a functional phone again, however there is a problem.

1) it's unjailbreakable - redsn0w just says "unknown error" and the phone's screen goes blank when I try to install cydia or "just boot tethered right now." The only way to get a usable phone again is to restore through iTunes

2) i seem to have managed to install two, yes two copies of iPhone firmware on my phone. When I plug it in to iTunes, it shows up as two phones - one that is working fine (I can sync, play music off of it, etc.) and one that's in recovery mode. The working copy has 1GB of space occupied by "Other" which I presume is the defunct install of firmware? When I try to restore the recovery mode one it gives error 1601. Interestingly, when I restore one of the phones, both phone icons in iTunes indicate that their respective phones are being restored, when in reality, I only hit restore for one of them.

I assume my two problems are linked and that if the defunct install is removed, then redsn0w will be able to grab on the the correct install and jailbreak/boot tethered. How can I get rid of this other install? I know the 3GS has hardware encryption, so a remote wipe just trashes the encryption key - is this enough to destroy the phone (both installs included) and start from scratch, or does each install of iOS have it's own key so that a remote wipe would just kill the functioning copy and leave the defunct copy alone?

Thanks (and sorry for any ignorance - I'm kind of a n00b)

[Orby]

I tried to jailbreak my 3GS running 4.2.1 (using redsn0w 0.9.6b4) and it initially worked great. Then I installed some apps from cydia and tried to reboot with redsn0w (I have the new bootrom, so it's tethered) but it had an unexpected error and crashed. Through several restores via iTunes, I was able to get a functional phone again, however there is a problem.

1) it's unjailbreakable - redsn0w just says "unknown error" and the phone's screen goes blank when I try to install cydia or "just boot tethered right now." The only way to get a usable phone again is to restore through iTunes

2) i seem to have managed to install two, yes two copies of iPhone firmware on my phone. When I plug it in to iTunes, it shows up as two phones - one that is working fine (I can sync, play music off of it, etc.) and one that's in recovery mode. The working copy has 1GB of space occupied by "Other" which I presume is the defunct install of firmware? When I try to restore the recovery mode one it gives error 1601. Interestingly, when I restore one of the phones, both phone icons in iTunes indicate that their respective phones are being restored, when in reality, I only hit restore for one of them.

I assume my two problems are linked and that if the defunct install is removed, then redsn0w will be able to grab on the the correct install and jailbreak/boot tethered. How can I get rid of this other install? I know the 3GS has hardware encryption, so a remote wipe just trashes the encryption key - is this enough to destroy the phone (both installs included) and start from scratch, or does each install of iOS have it's own key so that a remote wipe would just kill the functioning copy and leave the defunct copy alone?

Thanks (and sorry for any ignorance - I'm kind of a n00b)

I've got the same problem currently, but I've got two phantom iPads showing up instead of one.

XCode shows those iPads as having the same ECID (and having the same ECID as mine), and I had a most hellishly difficult time jailbreaking that iPad...

Might be AUMobileDevice, might be iTunes/Xcode... I can tell you that doing a restore to the phantom iPad only gets rid of the entry until iTunes reopens. Let me play around with it and see what happens.

EDIT: I was able to resolve this with the following commands (OS X 10.6.5, iTunes 10.1 (54)):

killall iTunes
sudo killall usbmuxd
sudo reboot

For Windows, I don't know what would immediately fix the issue, but rebooting the system is probably a good place to start.

[esherman]

Thankfully I have a Mac running 10.6.5 and iTunes 10.1 - those steps worked great! Thanks so much!