Okay, hopefully, someone on this forum who reads this will be able to come up with some sort of solution to this horrible problem. It's a long story so bare with me (I'll put a tl;dr at the end for some of the lazy people)
Okay, fiancee bought an iPhone 4 from craigslist, no problems, phone worked fine, just no warranty (duh, secondhand.) But, she decided to take the otterbox off for a while, and wouldn't you know it, she drops it and the screen cracks. So we order a replacement screen (LCD and Digitizer) i replace it, and the everything works, except there was no picture on the screen, just could see the backlight. So i google around, saw some people fixed this problem with a restore. So, one attempt later, the restore fails. Great, bricked phone and screen doesn't work. Thinking the screen was bad because it was so cheap, we buy another, and i install this one. Here's where the problem is:
The screen is installed properly, the phone just refuses to restore to ANY form of iOS, no matter what sort of methods I try. I've tried 4.2.1 custom IPSW, 4.3.3, 4.3.5, 5.0.1, and even a clean update restore to 5.1, all also with many different methods (TinyUmbrella TSS server, erased all apple references in the hosts file, used itunes 10.2, 10.3, 10.5, and 10.6) and I've run dry on ideas.
Yes, I've put the phone in Pwned DFU mode (at least i believe, iREB and sn0wbreeze both say it went in successfully) iTunes shows a recovery device, shift+restore, and sometimes it's an error 11, error 2005, 3194 shows up sometimes but that's if i uninstall and reinstall itunes from it putting the apple addresses in the hosts file. It seems as if there's no OS on the device at all, and iTunes just recognizes it as a recovery device. The phone has never been jailbroken or unlocked.
tl;dr: iPhone will not restore, originally had 5.0.1, not sure of the baseband. HELP?!
Okay, fiancee bought an iPhone 4 from craigslist, no problems, phone worked fine, just no warranty (duh, secondhand.) But, she decided to take the otterbox off for a while, and wouldn't you know it, she drops it and the screen cracks. So we order a replacement screen (LCD and Digitizer) i replace it, and the everything works, except there was no picture on the screen, just could see the backlight. So i google around, saw some people fixed this problem with a restore. So, one attempt later, the restore fails. Great, bricked phone and screen doesn't work. Thinking the screen was bad because it was so cheap, we buy another, and i install this one. Here's where the problem is:
The screen is installed properly, the phone just refuses to restore to ANY form of iOS, no matter what sort of methods I try. I've tried 4.2.1 custom IPSW, 4.3.3, 4.3.5, 5.0.1, and even a clean update restore to 5.1, all also with many different methods (TinyUmbrella TSS server, erased all apple references in the hosts file, used itunes 10.2, 10.3, 10.5, and 10.6) and I've run dry on ideas.
Yes, I've put the phone in Pwned DFU mode (at least i believe, iREB and sn0wbreeze both say it went in successfully) iTunes shows a recovery device, shift+restore, and sometimes it's an error 11, error 2005, 3194 shows up sometimes but that's if i uninstall and reinstall itunes from it putting the apple addresses in the hosts file. It seems as if there's no OS on the device at all, and iTunes just recognizes it as a recovery device. The phone has never been jailbroken or unlocked.
tl;dr: iPhone will not restore, originally had 5.0.1, not sure of the baseband. HELP?!