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iPhone won't restore
Szechuanosaurus
Registered User, ClubPA
Registered User, ClubPA
So, my iPhone was working perfectly.
Then I upgraded to iTunes 9 on my PC and then attempted to upgrade the iPhone to OS 3.1
Spent about 4 hours 'updating' the software, but basically iTunes had hung and wasn't doing anything. Rebooted and put the iPhone into recovery mode and now it won't restore either.
Give me a miracle solution plzkthnks.
Ideally I'd obviously prefer to restore the iPhone on the PC and then load my most recent backup onto it, however I do have a (pretty old) mac laptop for work. Could I perform the from the PC to the Mac via an external HDD and then load uprestore on the Mac and then load a backup from the PC? Could I even perform the restore on the Mac and transfer the backup to the iPhone from the Mac that way?
Edit: I guess the other possibility is the iPhone software took a couple of hours to download (which seemed pretty ridiculous for a 250Mb file - do Apple's servers suck?). Is it possible the download was corrupted which is affecting the restore and update? If so how can I kill that copy so I can download it again?
Then I upgraded to iTunes 9 on my PC and then attempted to upgrade the iPhone to OS 3.1
Spent about 4 hours 'updating' the software, but basically iTunes had hung and wasn't doing anything. Rebooted and put the iPhone into recovery mode and now it won't restore either.
Give me a miracle solution plzkthnks.
Ideally I'd obviously prefer to restore the iPhone on the PC and then load my most recent backup onto it, however I do have a (pretty old) mac laptop for work. Could I perform the from the PC to the Mac via an external HDD and then load uprestore on the Mac and then load a backup from the PC? Could I even perform the restore on the Mac and transfer the backup to the iPhone from the Mac that way?
Edit: I guess the other possibility is the iPhone software took a couple of hours to download (which seemed pretty ridiculous for a 250Mb file - do Apple's servers suck?). Is it possible the download was corrupted which is affecting the restore and update? If so how can I kill that copy so I can download it again?
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Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
If you look around here in the Jailbreaking section you'll find a direct link to the 3.1 firmware file. Enter your phone into DFU mode (google it) and then hold down shift and click restore.
This will let you manually select a local file for your firmware.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-6600.20090909.AwndZ/iPhone1,2_3.1_7C144_Restore.ipsw
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
I tried a recovery on my Mac and it appeared to complete the process properly although when I tried to reconnect it to iTunes on the Mac it gave an unknown error.
However, it now works after plugging it back into the PC and I am in the process - hopefully - of restoring yesterday's backup.
Fingers crossed that this does not fuck up although at least I now know that at a bare minimum I can go back to factory defaults and start from scratch.
I am also going to clone this backup onto my old 2G handset in case of future shenanigans.
Now I just need to sit and wait for 6gigs of audio and apps to copy back over. Doot doot doot.