I am going to cry, please can one of you lovely people help with my 3gs!!!!!

[scs3emr]

Hi there

I have my housemates old 3gs 16gb (locked to o2) iphone and I am really stuck.

I was using it as an ipod touch as I was able to jailbreak it using redsnow. However I learnt I could unlock it upgrading to ipad baseband.

I manually restored again to factory settings but it froze at the apple logo. I then managed to restore it to factory settings using itunes 10.2.1.1 but unfortunetely it upgraded it to the latest firmware.

I tried restoring it again and now I think it's in a recovery loop as it's showing the lead, arrow and itunes symbol only.

I bought this Jailbreak and Unlock your iphone within 5 minutes | iphone 4 ,3gs ,3g, 2g ipod touch and after following the instructions I still can't get it to work. When I try and restore to the Ios 4.3 firmware. I get always get unknown error (3194). I have altered the hosts file to this:


# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com
127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com

Could someone please help me, what would you do, I have had a brick for a week now and feel a bit like crying!!! I am not very technically adept so as step by step as possible would be really cool. Thanks so much for trying to help.

Best Wishes. Eddie

[bondkt]

All jailbreaks are free from iphone dev team

[MoDaLoT]

All jailbreaks are free from iphone dev team

Right they are free don't buy anything like that it's a rip off

[i.Annie]

Error 3194 is when you dont use SHSHs to restore with or you don't have any SHSHs saved. If you didnt have SHSHs saved before you can't get them now.

Check first for SHSHs with TinyUmbrella. Get it at thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com

[Stray]

Do you have any shsh's saved and if so are you clicking start TSS server?

[scs3emr]

I don't know what SHSH's are. Basically, I managed to do a system restore on another computer. I then used redsnow and managed to re jail break it. This is what I am now on:

Modem firmware – 06.15.00
Model - MC131B
Version - 4.3.1 (8G4)

What is the best way that I can get the phone unlocked from here?

I have downloaded tiny unbrella but am not sure what it does or how to use it.

Many thanks for your responses.

[Stray]

Are you jailbroken yet? If you are go to settings generl and then network and disable 3g then go to Cydia and install ultrasn0w

[scs3emr]

I am indeed jailbroken, in cydia, the green writing at the top says:
"This device is in the pending TSS queue"

I have installed ultrasn0w.

I have inserted my virgin mobile sim card and it showing 1 bar of reception. However, it doesen't let me make or receive calls. Any ideas?

[Stray]

virgin mobile? Try disabling 3g and see if that works

[scs3emr]

Ok i've just restarted the phone after turning enable 3g to OFF.

I jailbroke my iphone using redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc9 and also updated to the 06.15.00 baseband. I am in 4.3.1 firmware unfortunetely.

After restarting, it shows one bar of reception and won't let me make any calls, do I have to turn ultrasn)w on or anything?

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[Stray]

O wait i'm sorry ultrasn0w doesn't work with 4.3.1 as of right now. There should be an update fixing this issue soon tho

[scs3emr]

ahh ok, sweet, guess i'll use it as a touch until that happens then, any idea of a release date?

[Stray]

it should be soon not entirely sure tho sorry

[i.Annie]

Well like I said it never hurts to check for SHSHs to downgrade to a functional firmware that supports ultrasn0w. You could sit and wait if you'd like though. It'd still be a good idea to go and not only check for SHSHs but also save current SHSHs so you actually have options if you run into any problems again.

[scs3emr]

Ok, to check for SHSH's, how do I do this exactly, I got Tiny umbrella, could you tell me step by step wwhat I do?

Many thanks

Eddie

[z3r01]

its ur iphone and you cry if u want too.....but seriously , ok tiny umbrella, enter ur udid and it will check...the program is self explanitory.

and stop blocking adobe servers lol smells like a photoshop pirate

[scs3emr]

The adobe thing was already saved on the comp (it's second hand). We don't even have it installed to be honest, I've altered the hosts now.

Right, on tiny unbrella, I think it auto read my udid and on the main page of tiny umbrella i have selected A and E's iphone (which is mine). It says saved SHSH for 3gs are:

iPhone 3GS 4.1 (8B117)
iPhone 3GS 4.3.1 (8G4)

Not sure what this means now.

[Neil001]

With device connected click save my SHSH, it will list any SHSH you may have

[scs3emr]

iPhone 3GS 4.1 (8B117)
iPhone 3GS 4.3.1 (8G4)

Thats what it lists for the device after i clicked save SHSH

[Neil001]

The above two iOS fw are your SHSH. You can restore to either via tinyumbrella