Is it toast?

[lil red wagon]

Ok, so, I got asked if I could repair someone's phone. It is a 3GS he bought off craigslist. Now, when he got it, it was jb/unlocked, then, i guess he tried to upgrade to the 4.3. Now, all that is showing up is the restore screen. I have tried restoring a few times, keep getting error 26. Tried restoring to an older firmware, nothing. Tried restoring to 4.3 after making sure tinyumbrella didn't point back to cydia... nothing. Even tried kicking, and repairing the recovery, still nothing. Now, from all this, it kinda sounds like whoever unlocked it, installed the ipad baseband. Since he has ATT, is there anyway to just get this thing working so he can use it?

[i.Annie]

It might be like you said the iPad bb causing a problem. But I can't be sure. It sucks bc it probably doesn't have SHSHs. Might just have to wait for a tool for custom fw to be released for 4.3 to bypass that 6.15.00 problem since that's the solution for 4.2.1.

Oh I forgot, I don't know if 4.2.1 is still being signed so SHSHs aren't needed. Try a custom fw for 4.2.1 that doesn't have the iPad bb packaged.

[lil red wagon]

i'm on a pc, so can't use pwnage tools to make my own firmware. Tried running redsn0w, with no luck.

[i.Annie]

Use sn0wbreeze on PC for custom fw

[lil red wagon]

trying sn0wbreeze again, got them switched in my head. Tried it earlier, with no luck, but, what the H... give it another go

[i.Annie]

Yeah I'm curious. Let me know.

Oh don't forget to put it into pwned DFU mode with redsn0w first before restoring to custom fw.

[lil red wagon]

Ok, so, tried the new redsn0w a couple of times, but each time, i get errors. Says "cannot create active x file" or something similar... any other suggestions?

[HappyTroller]

Make sure you give redsn0w a Stock 4.2.1 not the custom. when in pwned dfu, shift+restore in iTunes to the custom.

[i.Annie]

I've never seen that error before. Try this:

1) open redsn0w
2) open task manager
3) right click redsn0w
4) select set affinity
5) uncheck CPU0

Try redsn0w then.

If that doesn't work you might be missing a file on your comp. You then might wanna try another computer.

[lil red wagon]

ok, Annie, will try that

was that for sn0wbreeze, or for redsn0w?

screwed up earlier, am trying to make the custom ipsw with sn0wbreeze, that is where I am getting the errors....

[i.Annie]

Redsn0w

Just for pwned DFU mode though

[lil red wagon]

yeah, can get it in pwnd dfu... no prob, just creating the custom ipsw, sn0wbreeze is where i'm having the glitch...

[i.Annie]

Oh, you said redsn0w.

Ok so what exactly goes wrong when you are creating the custom fw in sn0wbreeze?

Like does it error out after you click "build firmware"

[lil red wagon]

goes most of the way through, then get the error i listed earlier. Says "Cannot create ActiveX component".... just got it as i was typing this.

[i.Annie]

Ok, I am gathering that you must be missing that ActiveX from your comp. I don't know what it is but you can either find out and install it, or try another comp. Because I've used sn0wbreeze and never ran into an error like that, so I think it might be specific to that you don't have the necessary component.

[A3gOwner]

Error 26? Disable zone alarm or any software firewalls running on your computer. ZoneAlarm used to cause this on my 3G. Just a thought.