iPhone 3GS Jailbreaking gone insanely wrong! Need help. :/

[HackerGod19]

I was using my 3GS on 4.2.1 and when redsnow released the jailbreak for the iOS5, I wanted to upgrade but couldn't as I was using windows. So I thought of jailbreaking via snowbreeze. My 3GS had the old bootrom so I would be getting an untethered jailbreak for iOS5. My baseband was 6.15. I downloaded the iOS5 firmware, used snowbreeze to create a custom firmware, and then entered the dfu mode and snowbreeze ran the iReb onto it and showed it was successful. The tutorial said, after running the iReb, I had to open up iTunes and jus shift-restore the firmware. But when I opened iTunes, it told that it had to contact the server and verify or something like that, and then when I gave restore, it would show the progress bar till then end and I would get a "1600" error from iTunes. It would just show the device name as iPhone and if i right click, the only two options were eject and restore. I unplugged and re-plugged many times and every time i tried restoring i would get the same error. I got frustrated and googled for help. I found some utility called "iPhoneRecoveryFix" and when I ran that, my iPhone came out of the dfu mode and it was exactly how it was before(when it had the 4.2.1). It had all messages, apps, etc...(EVERYTHING!) and then when i connected iTunes, it recognized my iPhone. And now, again I tried restore, and this time, it worked! My phone got switched and now it showed the snowbreeze logo and a progress bar, and even iTunes was showing it was installing the firmware. After 3 or 4 minutes, my phone booted up. And it now had iOS5 on it. But it showed the "set up iPhone" screen. I cannot setup the iPhone as I do not have any apple-approved SIM card. I am now stuck in the iPhone setup screen. And also, one of my friend used the emergency calling technique and I found out something weird. I called 911 and when it shows the calling screen, I kept pressing the home button and hence it by-passed the phone app to the homescreen. I could see the homescreen. I opened up the settings app and saw the firmware version. It clearly shows it's ios5. And baseband still 6.15 and has not been changed. But multi tasking does not work. And notification center is also not there. I think I shouldn't have restored the firmware when it was in the actual working state. But now I am stuck in the setup screen. I tried to create the custom firmware again but snowbreeze gives me an error now. I need help, if anyone can help me out with this, please reply ASAP.

[kylekillzone]

All you have to do is download the latest version of tinyumbrella then connect your device and in tinyumbrella press the fix recovery button while your device is connected and it will boot up jailbroken

[HackerGod19]

But what about the notification center and the multi-tasking functions? Will they be available? Will download and let you know right away.

[kylekillzone]

yes the 1000 errors mean that the device finished updating and is just stuck in dfu mode and tinyumbrella boots it out of dfu and that button was made for these 1000 errors

[HackerGod19]

Not able to use Tinyumbrella.. It shows iPhone under devices connected. Only "Enter Recovery" is highlighted. If I click on it, nothing happens.

Now when I gave enter recovery, it worked. It shows "1114129" as the device name under Recovery Devices. But fix recovery option is not highlighted. Only exit recovery can be used.

[HackerGod19]

It is NOT stuck in DFU mode, it is stuck in the "slide to setup" screen.. Where you get the language, region and other settings... And then after all that it says unsupported SIM.. -_-

[i.Annie]

It might be easiest to borrow someone's AT&T SIM card and activate your phone. The new iOS 5 setup welcome screen can be a handful. I haven't figured out that far yet, just haven't run into this issue yet I suppose.

Do you want to be on iOS 5? Bc you could just downgrade to 4.1 (or any iOS 4 SHSHs you may have saved before) and jb and unlock there.

Edit: are you on 5.0 or 5.0.1?

[HackerGod19]

Problem resolved. I created another custom firmware and this time, I gave the hacktivate option in snowbreeze while creating the custom firmware. I am now on iOS5 with all features working perfectly. Thanks anyway.