Iphone 3GS 4.3.5 No Wi-Fi,Imei,Searching Problem after 4.3.5 Jb

[Swoodc2]

I have 3 iphone 3gs's brand new out the box so they have the new bootrom, but they were on 4.3.5, i tried jailbreaking with red sn0w 0.9.9b4 aand also tried 0.9.8b7 and went through but now they have no wifi nor bluetooth, and the baseband and imei info is gone, also it keeps saying "searching" at the top left where the service providers name goes but nothing happens. and now it keeps showing me a message on the phone saying "iphone restore needed, please restore using itunes, ...blah blah..., check apple.com for more info" so basically i screwed the phone up.

so i read online that you can downgrade to 4.1 version and i did that, changed my hosts, used 4.1 custom firmware i made myself and even upgraded the baseband to 6.15, i used the 0.9.6rc9 and still no wifi... upgraded to 4.2.1, no wifi. tried upgrading back to 4.3.5 and gave me 3914 error along with 4.3.3 custom firmware. so it seems even worse.

today i find out that the real ios 5 wqas released 2 days ago so i go ahead and upgrade my itunes and upgrade the phone with a beta version of snowbreeze custom firmwared with 5.0... setup my phone ( they tried copying Android) and i finally got to the home screen and phone still has "searching" above it, no baseband, nothing. its just stuck without wifi and the phone turns off after a couple minutes of use and reboots itself. the wifi cant be a hardware problem because my three iphone 3gs had wifi before i jailbroke them on 4.3.5 and they were all brand new for a customer, one of them i tried updating to 5.0... what should i do guys?

looked this up for about 30 hours in the past couple days, and there was nothing but freezer and hotgun fixes, but the thing is how can it be a hardware problem if i messed up the software with the jailbreak. hope someone could shed more light.. thanks

[iYeow]

Looks like you have really messed it up. If you are not getting wifi, baseband and IMei , then it is a hardware problem of baseband chip gets corrupted. This iphone is tossed, use it as parts .

[zoolman88]

I would put it in dfu mode and take it to apple they will replace it there is no fixing the basband imei and wifi Bluetooth problem after the iPad baseband flash had it happen and had to take it to apple and they replaced it just told them it would not restore

[Swoodc2]

Looks like you have really messed it up. If you are not getting wifi, baseband and IMei , then it is a hardware problem of baseband chip gets corrupted. This iphone is tossed, use it as parts .

I would put it in dfu mode and take it to apple they will replace it there is no fixing the basband imei and wifi Bluetooth problem after the iPad baseband flash had it happen and had to take it to apple and they replaced it just told them it would not restore

Ahh i see, i just didnt realize that a piece of software could just corrupt it. Not sure if its true, but a friend told me that of course the 4.3.5 is a security firmware, and sometimes (for me happened 3 times in a row) the jailbreak for it would lock the phones wifi and baseband for security measures, forcing you to take it to apple, lol.. thing is i wasnt sure if they would replace it since the baseband is updated, did you need a receipt to replace it? mine looks brandnew witht he box and the accessories wrapped up. but ill just leave it in dfu and try to do what i can lol, thanks guys/girls.

[zoolman88]

It's not that I have downgraded from 4.3.5 to 4.1 and installed the iPad baseband before it's just sometimes I think when Installing the iPad baseband redsnow does not fetch the right files and it fries the baseband chip I would take it to apple and get a new one and try the new redsnow or a custom ipsw with a ipad baseband update in it

[iYeow]

Flashing baseband is like flashing the BIOS on a pc when there is an update and can damage the bb chip if not completed properly.

[Swoodc2]

ahh damn that sucks, bought these from someone, guess i wasted $1,500 they dont have warrenty or anything =\