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Bricked? Ziphone install hangs? If you can't even get into recovery mode, READ THIS!
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Posted by: wick3d-G

Please read some tips I posted (right below) to help you get into recovery mode if you feel your iPhone is bricked. If you have weird pixelation and your phone will not get past the Apple Logo / Black Screen, try the solutions I wrote out below.

Posted by: wick3d-G

METHODS:

1) Shut the iPhone off if it's turned on. You will most likely have to hold the sleep/wake button and the home button

2) Connect the USB end of your cable to your computer.

3) Hold ONLY the home button on your iPhone and then 2 seconds later connect the other end of the USB cable to your iPhone.

4) Be patient, the image of the iTunes logo and adapter should come up! At this point, you can now do a restore!

2ND OPTION:

This didn't work for me, but try it before you do the above step. Hold ALL buttons of the iPhone (volume rocker, sleep/wake, and home button) simultaneously and IT MIGHT be able to boot right to the recovery mode screen.

Posted by: lunasicc

Thanks alot man you saved my life!!

EDIT: Okay for some reason after entering Recovery Mode the screen went black after a few minutes and I had to press the HOME button to get it back up and the iPhone booted up and now its unlocked. I am currently using a T-Mobile sim but I am not sure if it is jailbroken though.

What the heck is going on?

Posted by: wick3d-G

Quote:

Originally Posted by lunasicc

Thanks alot man you saved my life!!

YOU GOT IT!!!!

Now use the first version of ZiPhone to jailbreak and activate it. It will not hang during install and works beautifully! I'm on 1.1.3 now =)

Posted by: krs71

So is this for DFU recovery or regular recovery mode?

Posted by: bmoney81

"the iphone could not be restored, an unknown error occurred (1603)"

now i am stuck, any ideas on what to do here?

Posted by: wick3d-G

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmoney81

"the iphone could not be restored, an unknown error occurred (1603)"

now i am stuck, any ideas on what to do here?

What firmware are you trying to restore to? Use 1.1.1, and if that doesn't work go back to 1.0.2

Remember to hold the shift key down when you press restore to load another firmware file.

Posted by: bmoney81

i orig had 1.02 fw
i thought it went like this

update to 1.13 through apple
then run ziphone

i couldnt even get apple's update to 1.13 to work though

now i am stuck........

Posted by: bmoney81

ok, just restored to 1.02......

i thought the next step is update to 1.13......am i wrong?

Posted by: kloquewerk

that is correct. once you're there then run ziphone

Posted by: bmoney81

hmmm, after the restore to 1.02 the iphone never showed up in the itunes source list..........so i havent been able to update to 1.13 yet

i am using vista.....should i go to my xp pc?

Posted by: XiPPiE

I experienced this earlier too but was able to get out of it by restoring. Although I am getting an error with ZiPhone which is usbmuxlistenercreate: no error. It gets stuck in there and nothing happens after that. Please help. THANKS!!