Unable to exit recovery mode, previously jailbroken
I recently picked up a used iPhone 3G from a friend who upgraded, as a xmas gift for my mother, who's been needing an upgrade badly. The phone came already jailbroken, but the my friend didn't bother removing anything except the SIM card. Upon seeing this, I went to settings>general>reset> and picked erase all settings and data (2nd option form top). I got home, and it was still on the silver Apple logo for more then 2 hours. I plugged it in to the PC, and opened iTunes, which told me it had to be restored. I proceeded to restore it, thinking it would kill the jailbreak and I'd be able to jailbreak it again afterwards. I got error 1015. I read around a bit online, and tried it with the phone in restore mode, but got the same error. It seemed to lock the phone into a restore loop. I've tried almost everything from trying an older 3.1.2 IPSW to using iReb/sn0wbreeze, all of them failing.
What should I do? Any ideas? I'm very handy with technology, but iphones are a new realm for me.
Restoring to iOS 3.1.2 on an iPhone 3G ends with an error 1015 that cannot be kicked out of with the Exit Recovery button on TinyUmbrella?
:/ Never heard of a device on that old a firmware not being able to bypass that error (usually very easy to duck on all but the very latest firmwares).
i tried tiny umbrella, but it just rebooted the phone to recovery. i'm trying redsn0w now using the latest IPSW from itunes, seems to be working, but we'll see. It at least got me to the running pineapple
still booting to recovery :-/ tried iReb again to fix loop, no luck. Any help?
Last edited by whiterabbit7500; 12-23-2010 at 04:49 PM.
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The devce itself is a 3G, that I'm sure because I looked up the SN with Apple. I honestly have no idea what baseband version it has, or bootloader. I BELIEVE, but might be mistaken, that it was running jailbroken 4.x when I got it.
Well, as long as you're not restoring to iOS 4.2.1. That version of iOS has a baseband version check somewhere (probably restore ramdisk) that causes iPhones with basebands other than 05.15.04 to enter an unbootable recovery mode...
But even iOS 3.1.2 is giving you this unbootable Recovery?
And you're sure it's the recovery mode screen, not the Connect to iTunes with Emergency Call across the bottom in several languages? (Forgive me if that's a dumb question).
As I said, I've never seen an unbootable Recovery screen on anything lower than iOS 4.2.1 without serious hardware issues on the phone.
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