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Help...bricked it or did I?
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Posted by: jediistar

I've been trying this all of last night and this morning.

I jailbreaked 1.1.1, restored back to 1.1.1 clean.
Tried to upgrade to 1.1.2 and now my phone is a brick.
I've tried to restore 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 and my phone is now paperweight?!

What can I do?! I hate to know now that by restoring my phone after jailbreaking I am now left with an expensive brick.

What can an Apple store tell about a customer jailbreaking an iphone? I just got this one because of a reset loop on my last one which was caused by who knows what. I decided to take the hacking leap but reversed course when someone said they wanted to pick it up from me for more than I paid. I was thinking about taking it into Apple and telling them this is what happened when I took my 5 day old refurbed iphone and tried to update it. Can they call my bluff and figure out I jailbreaked?

I've searched here, macrumors and most of google trying to find solutions but they all seem to say just restore back to 1.0.2 and that didn't work for me.

Any help would be much obliged?!

Posted by: MacGeek15

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Originally Posted by jediistar

I jailbreaked 1.1.1, restored back to 1.1.1 clean.
Tried to upgrade to 1.1.2 and now my phone is a brick.
I've tried to restore 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 and my phone is now paperweight?!

What exactly happened once you tried to downgrade? did it give you the error 1015? If so and you're using a Mac, just Use Independence to kick it out of recovery mode and you should be fine.

Posted by: MacGeek15

Quote:

Originally Posted by jediistar

I've been trying this all of last night and this morning.

I jailbreaked 1.1.1, restored back to 1.1.1 clean.
Tried to upgrade to 1.1.2 and now my phone is a brick.
I've tried to restore 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 and my phone is now paperweight?!

What can I do?! I hate to know now that by restoring my phone after jailbreaking I am now left with an expensive brick.

What can an Apple store tell about a customer jailbreaking an iphone? I just got this one because of a reset loop on my last one which was caused by who knows what. I decided to take the hacking leap but reversed course when someone said they wanted to pick it up from me for more than I paid. I was thinking about taking it into Apple and telling them this is what happened when I took my 5 day old refurbed iphone and tried to update it. Can they call my bluff and figure out I jailbreaked?

I've searched here, macrumors and most of google trying to find solutions but they all seem to say just restore back to 1.0.2 and that didn't work for me.

Any help would be much obliged?!

ANY UPDATE?????

Posted by: jediistar

Hey man sorry I haven't gotten back to you...

Yes I braved it and took it back to the apple store and they did what they said was just a restore and it worked...voila!

That's odd because I tried to restore it at least twice and came up with what I thought was a bricked iphone.

I really want to know just what exactly can Apple stores and genius bars specifically tell about a jailbreaked phone...

To recap, I jailbroke 1.1.1 and restored. having restored I attempted to update to 1.1.2 and all hell broke loose...

I don't know what they did in the store that I was either doing wrong or not doing but it worked after she hooked it up to one of the macbooks behind the genius bar and it seems to be working fine right now...

I fully understand the warranty semantics here and I'll be ok if the phone was lost forever because I understand what I was getting into. I hate the paranoia the stores try and instill in you with their little signs that they can tell everything you've possibly done the iphone and its like they will announce it in front of the whole store what you've done and why you are leaving tail between your legs with a broken phone. Its really quite mind boggling.

Macgeek...I know you are quite the encyclopedia around here and I really appreciate your follow up, it means alot to have a thread with actual concern rather than back and forth about why the iphone can't do my laundry.

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