First Time Jailbreaker NEEDS YOU!

[mysterion1]

Hey all,

Now that the shininess of my iPhone has gone I decided to jailbreak and have ran into major trouble, any help will be greatly appreciated!

The info:

iPhone 4 - 4.2.1. iTunes(latest version)

When I went in jailbreakme3.0, no option was available to download so I turned to greenpoison;

I used greenpoison, when installing cydia the app crashed and I lost most of my default icons (phone, iPod, mail, camera, contacts etc) upon reboot. Safari, settings and all of my downloaded apps remained. I ran greenpoison again an this time cydia installed perfectly. However, I do not have my default icons back. I cannot make phone calls, I can receive but then have no in-call options and must wait on the caller ending the call.

Attempts:

I downloaded 4.2.1 IPSW file and tried to restore in both normal mode and what I believe was DFU mode (screen was blank but iTunes said recovery mode). Didn't work. I tried editing the windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file (suggested in another tutorial) but to no avail as anything I try results in error 3914.

I downloaded tinyumbrella and saved my SHSH AFTER I ran into these problems (foolish?) but it says 4.3.4 on the logs but iTunes still says 4.2.1!

I believe simply restoring and updating would work HOWEVER this will update me to 4.3.4 and now I have experienced JB I dont ever want to go back lol but I am slowly resigning to this horrible fact!

Thanks in advance y'all

[Mes]

First thing, is the phone somewhat working? Maybe ....
If so, since you're currently on 4.2.1 and TU did not find SHSH blobs for 4.2.1, try iFaith (iH8sn0w.com | Jailbreak your iPod touches and iPhones). It may work to get current 4.2.1 SHSH blobs. See what happens.

[xtacy]

Use ifaith as mes said .
Extract blobs using it.
And then make a signed ipsw using those blobs from the same software .
Put in pwned dfu mode and shift + restore from iTunes. :-)

[mysterion1]

Did as you said, seemed to be going well as in I got a signed IPSW file. BUT now I'm stuck in DFU mode!

Please help!!!!!

[xtacy]

Did u shift restore?

[mysterion1]

Yeah, when in pwn DUF mode (a couple of times). Tried fix recovery in tiny umbrella as well!

[xtacy]

Does screen show anything ?

[mysterion1]

When I did shift restore it showed a white screen with a bar as if it was working, now in DFU mode it just shows a black screen.

[Mes]

Any iTunes errors?

[xtacy]

Edit :double post :/

[mysterion1]

No iTunes errors when I shift restored using DFU pwn. Still says 'iPhone is in recovery mode' when I load iTunes. When I coonnect/disconnect the phone TU shows DFU device connect/disconnect.

[ihappy]

Try kicking it out of recovery instead of fix recovery since they are two different things. See if that helps. Use RecBoot or TU

[mysterion1]

If you mean exit recovery in TU, that option is blanked out :/

07/19/2011 19:49:12.273 Attempting to fix recovery...
07/19/2011 19:49:18.704 Starting fix recovery sequence...
07/19/2011 19:49:18.717 DFU Device disconnected
07/19/2011 19:49:18.722 DFU Device connected
07/19/2011 19:49:18.731 Fix Recovery has finished. Allow device to reboot!
07/19/2011 19:49:19.588 DFU Device disconnected
07/19/2011 19:49:23.631 Recovery Device connected: 012539003972398


******Now showing white screen

Nothing...

[ihappy]

I would use RecBoot to exit recovery. Just my opinion since nothing else seems to work. RecBoot has always worked for me when others have failed.

RecBoot: Easy Way to Put iPhone into Recovery Mode | Jaxov

[xtacy]

Use Ifaith again to make new ipsw and restore. But 1 ques how did it go into dfu after you restoring it? Did u put it in dfu?

[mysterion1]

I put it in DFU pwn, then shift restored, iTunes said it had restored but the device didn't exit DFU mode. TY for the suggestion, I shall try and report.

Same problem. Doesn't exit DFU mode following restore. I really don't want to give up just yet but I'm running out of hope.