My old 3G does not boot up with an apple or anything, just a white screen. I get either an error 23 or 1600. I've tried using iReb, but it doesn't turn my screen white, so it doesn't seem to work. I was on a custom 3.1.2 .ipsw.
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White Screen and Errors 1600 and 23
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I think it's a hardware failure also.
I had a 3GS when they first came out and had this problem. I had just restored the phone using a backup that was jailbroken. I woke up a few hours later with a warning on the screen saying that iPhone could not take or make calls and that a restore was needed. IMEI and the ICCID #s were listed as unknown.
When I restored, it failed with an error 23 and told me that if the sim was locked with a sim pin to unlock it. There never was a sim pin on the sim.
Apple replaced my phone back then because it was barely two months old.
I had a 3GS when they first came out and had this problem. I had just restored the phone using a backup that was jailbroken. I woke up a few hours later with a warning on the screen saying that iPhone could not take or make calls and that a restore was needed. IMEI and the ICCID #s were listed as unknown.
When I restored, it failed with an error 23 and told me that if the sim was locked with a sim pin to unlock it. There never was a sim pin on the sim.
Apple replaced my phone back then because it was barely two months old.
Yes, I realize that in some cases this is a hardware failure, but I also get the 1600 error and I've read about people getting past this error. I just can't seem to get it to work.
Yeah, my 3GS got error 23 when the radio in the phone went bad, I actually got a pop up saying please take you iPhone into a Apple store....
I would think since your getting both it may be a hardware softwear combo error perhaps?
I only get 23 in recovery mode. I get 1600 in DFU mode.
I'm glad the 4 seems to be a much better product than the the 3G.
I'm glad the 4 seems to be a much better product than the the 3G.
I'll try it, but he was at least getting the Apple logo before the white screen. This is what I get for trying to fix wifi on it, but otherwise it was pretty useless without it.
No, basicly i picked up my phone and turned it on, only fir the white screen to appear, I've had it happen to all my phones at some point in time. As a matter of fact my iphone 4 did it yesterday, a hard reset got it back to normal. Ive had times where I had to try a couple of times for the hard reset to work. I read on here recently that it's a software issue, that's what apple told the person.