USED Purplera1n...now stuck in DFU cant Restore

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acm29

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 3, 2009

• #1

Ran the PurpleRa1n.exe
everything went smoothy til it was time for reboot.

Now I can't restore it through iTunes.

Error 13...

What todo?

 

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bbplayer5

macrumors 68040

• Jul 3, 2009

• #2

Same thing here... Had to boot in OSX to get it to restore. Windows wouldnt restore it.

 

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acm29

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 3, 2009

• #3

damn i don't have a mac.

 

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hchavarria

macrumors 6502

• Jul 3, 2009

• #4

were you on 3.1 or 3.0? I am on 3.0 and my jailbreak went smooth.

 

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acm29

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 3, 2009

• #5

3.0 im so pissed.

 

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acm29

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 3, 2009

• #6

well now at least this time trying to get it to restore i got it to verifying with apple.

 

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acm29

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jul 3, 2009

• #7

ok now it looks like it is restoring again. and it seems to be going just fine.


i am still hesistant on trying purplera1n again.

did i do it right?

open itunes
open purple rain
run purple rain'

the end? lol

 

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dlamin517

macrumors 6502

• Jul 3, 2009

• #8

ugh same mine went into dfu mode. but im able to restore. hmmm ill wait till the osx one comes out

 

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kravena

macrumors newbie

• Jul 3, 2009

• #9

Had exactly the same problem, had to use this method, but it relies on you having speakers for your PC and hearing the USB connect and disconnect sounds :

Step 1. Connect iphone to USB then listen to the sound when it connect and disconnect.

Step 2. Hold the home and power buttons until hear the disconnect sound then release power button.

Step 3. Wait until you hear another sound then release home button.

Once you done all this, the iphone screen will be blank, but it is in DFU mode.

K.

 

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crunkcrumpet

macrumors member

• Jul 3, 2009

• #10

acm29 said:

ok now it looks like it is restoring again. and it seems to be going just fine.


i am still hesistant on trying purplera1n again.

did i do it right?

open itunes
open purple rain
run purple rain'

the end? lol

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Yeah that's right. Some people are having major problems with it not working correctly (including myself). Apparently some people have had luck with this method:

open purple rain
make it rain
*phone gets stuck in restore mode*..wait about 5 minutes
close purple rain *do not do anything with the phone*
open purple rain again
make it rain again

As I said, some people have had luck with the above method. Good luck if you try it again! I've given up myself 😛

 

macjram

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 3, 2009

• #11

crunkcrumpet said:

Yeah that's right. Some people are having major problems with it not working correctly (including myself). Apparently some people have had luck with this method:

open purple rain
make it rain
*phone gets stuck in restore mode*..wait about 5 minutes
close purple rain *do not do anything with the phone*
open purple rain again
make it rain again

As I said, some people have had luck with the above method. Good luck if you try it again! I've given up myself 😛

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I used this method with success (WINDOWS XP)
- plug in iphone
- open itunes
- open purple rain
- make sure itunes recognizes iphone
- make it rain
- see purple rain logo
- when itunes makes a prompt, press ok
- should reboot
- yay.

 

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crunkcrumpet

macrumors member

• Jul 3, 2009

• #12

macjram said:

I used this method with success (WINDOWS XP)
- plug in iphone
- open itunes
- open purple rain
- make sure itunes recognizes iphone
- make it rain
- see purple rain logo
- when itunes makes a prompt, press ok
- should reboot
- yay.

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Happy to see that you got it working 😛, I gave up after restoring a few times, then getting restore errors. It was really frustrating, might try it again tomorrow or wait until an OSX version comes out..