Weird connect to itunes screen?

[william22]

Hi guys. I was using my ipod and it ran out of battery. My ipod was jailbroken untethered with limera1n and 4.1. Then I connected it to computer and turned it on, and the connect to itunes screen came up. I tried running limera1n, updated itunes, redsn0w latest version with 4.1 firmware, everything.. still connect to itunes screen. Weird thing is my sbsettings - brightness, wifi, bluetooth, process, etc. - all works, even taking screenshot.. What's wrong with my ipod?!1

anyone...? T T

[Simon]

Do you have the latest version of iTunes? Have you tried restoring it?

[william22]

Yes, my itunes is latest version.. It'd probably work if I restore it, but I wanna avoid restoring because there are too much data that I didn't backup from it.. Does anyone know how to fix it??!

[Simon]

Does iTunes detect it at all?

[william22]

yea.. it says it found an ipod to restore.. I dont know why this happened? it was untethered jailbreak and everytime it ran out of battery i just needed to recharge it.. D:

[Simon]

You are in recovery then. Try using tiny umbrella to see if it can exit recovery for you.

[william22]

hm. I tried using it, so I downloaded and turned on tiny umbrella. I guess I have to choose exit recovery but it's grayed out and my only option is enter recovery and save shsh.. I saves shsh, but.. I don't know what to do..!?

[Simon]

So tiny umbrella doesnt see that it is in recovery?

[william22]

I don't think so..
Is the connect to itunes screen supposed to have the status bar at the top? Right now there is, but if I turn it off and use limera1n it goes to connect to itunes screen without statusbar.. this is weird..

[Simon]

Recovery mode is not supposed to have the status bar. If you are seeing that then you sound like you need to activate. Try plugging it into iTunes now.

[william22]

Activate? You mean like the first time I buy ipod? I connected to it, it just says itunes needs to restore this ipod..

[Simon]

Well, I am out of ideas. I would just restore but you can wait to see if anyone else has had this issue too.

[william22]

Okay. Thank you for your help though!

[Simon]

no prob

[teej1410]

I had this problem on my old 2G iPod. It was on 2.x firmware and it wasn't jailbroken but I think I fixed it by rebooting it and then just syncing it with iTunes. No restore involved.