3gs stuck in recovery mode

[ramblerjw]

Really new to iPhone's, jailbreaking, or any of this. I bought a 3gs from craigslist to replace my iPhone I broke not long ago. I saw it working, tested it etc. The guy then went into settings to restore to clear his contacts/photos etc. I got home, popped in an at&t (from my old one) hooked it up to iTunes and began to set it back up. I restored from one of my old saves, and it seemed to work loading my contacts/photos etc, but then it said something about updating so I clicked it. Once I did that, it went into recovery mode and will not come out. Again, no experience dealing with JB programs and all, but I tried using tinyumbrella, irecovery, redsnow but I cannot get it to work. After my last few attempts at using redsnow, it seems to be stuck in DFU (black screen...won't do anything but itunes/other programs detect it). Thanks in advance for any help. Oh, and my old iPhone...the lcd is hosed, case cracked etc but I was thinking of trying to sell it to some of these folks that repair and sell them, but I want to make sure there are no pictures etc on it. Right after I smashed it, iTunes would detect it, but now I can't even get it to detect. Any ideas? Hopefully some one can help. Thanks again.

Can't edit for some reason, but wanted to add this,

Oh, I am using Windows XP and depending on which way I was trying to restore the iPhone I have gotten different errors from iTunes. 20, 1015, 3194 and others

[iYeow]

Is your iphone unlocked ?
Put iphone into dfu mode and restore to stock 4.1.
Run exit recovery from within tiny umbrella to kick out error 1015.
Pretty sure you have the iPad bb.

[ramblerjw]

Thanks, will try this. Not sure it will work though since everytime I try and restore to any firmware it gives me an error, no matter which way I try it.
I have no idea what the previous owner did to it (looked it over very briefly, then he restored it) but I know when I got it home I used my AT&T sim card and preceeded to set it up with my old stuff on it. My AT&T sim allowed me to go through iTunes setting it up without any 3rd party software or anything. As far as the ipad bb, I have no idea. Why would someone put in an ipad baseband on an iphone?

[iYeow]

Most people want to unlock it.
Put your iphone into dfu , run itunes : shift + restore to 4.1

[ramblerjw]

Also, if I restore the fw to 4.1 with this reset the ipad bb? Guess I need to read up and see if there is any real benefit for me to use that bb. Thanks again

[iYeow]

No , it will not reset, did you not ask the seller ? Using iPad bb breaks your gps .

If you get error 3194, let me know.

[ramblerjw]

Didn't think to ask him about unlocking or anything. Figured once I used my sim and restored everything it would all just work fine...emailed him back asking about it. Just waiting for reply now.

[iYeow]

Just downgrade to 4.1, there is no point asking now unless you want to return it.

[ramblerjw]

Just keep getting 1015 error when using 4.1 to restore. Tried tinyumbrella each time, but nothing. I only ever have the exit recovery option though, not fix recovery. Not 100% sure if I am doing something wrong or if the fix just requires a previous save of shsh.

[iYeow]

Use exit recovery to kick it. Are you using the latest version of TU

[ramblerjw]

I kept trying that, and yeah I have the latest tu. It took me several times of restoring 4.1 and then ateempting to kick it out using tu but it finally worked. Thank you very much.

[iYeow]

Go to settings > general > about and check your modem firmware, it should be 6.15.xx

[ramblerjw]

It is, and seems to be working fine now. At least as long as I don't try and update the fw in itunes to anything newer. Thanks again

[iYeow]

Is your iphone jailbroken now ? I think you don't need Ultrasnow since you are with atnt.
You can now run TU , plug iphone in and adv tab request shsh blob from cydia and click save shsh, look under general tab to see your shsh blob.