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Help - Bricked iPhone

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Celery11

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Nov 8, 2012
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Hi All,

A guy from work lent me his iphone to borrow for a few weeks whilst my phone is being repaired. I am guessing his phone was jailbroken but I went to settings and reset all data so I could use from scratch. This caused the phone to freeze on the black screen with the white apple logo. I have since tried all methods on the internet I can possibly find which just results in all different types of errors on itunes - which include 16OO, 16O1, 13O5 etc etc. I have tried the restore, DFU mode and everything

Please could someone help? Should I just take the old phone into an apple shop and ask for help?

I can't face telling my friend that I have broke his phone he kindly lent me.

Thanks.
 
aDRock1154

aDRock1154

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Celery11 said:
Hi All,

A guy from work lent me his iphone to borrow for a few weeks whilst my phone is being repaired. I am guessing his phone was jailbroken but I went to settings and reset all data so I could use from scratch. This caused the phone to freeze on the black screen with the white apple logo. I have since tried all methods on the internet I can possibly find which just results in all different types of errors on itunes - which include 16OO, 16O1, 13O5 etc etc. I have tried the restore, DFU mode and everything

Please could someone help? Should I just take the old phone into an apple shop and ask for help?

I can't face telling my friend that I have broke his phone he kindly lent me.

Thanks.
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I'm sure it's nothing a DFU Restore can't fix.

Unfortunately he might lose his jailbreak out of all of this lol
 
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Celery11

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Nov 8, 2012
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Yeah I don't mind as long as I can get the actual phone working.

So how do you go about a full DFU restore?
 
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Celery11

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BFizzzle said:
is it a 3g/3gs? what carrier was it on prior?did it happen to be unlocked?
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I'm pretty sure it is a 3g (but cannot be certain). My sim card is on o2. Not sure if it was unlocked.

Sorry can't be much help.
 
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Celery11

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Nov 8, 2012
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Yeah I've tried that. Then I click on restore and it restores but return with an error. I think its error 1015.
 
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BFizzzle

BFizzzle

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Celery11 said:
Yeah I've tried that. Then I click on restore and it restores but return with an error. I think its error 1015.
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usually 1015 is from them downgrading the baseband.. or using it with an ipad baseband.

Make a custom IPSW (using pwnagetool or sn0wbreeze) with baseband update disabled - restore with this. This may fix the 1015 error.
If you are restoring to iOS 4.2.1 - try using FixRecovery (downloadable from thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com)
Restore to an older iOS version and use recboot to exit past the 1015 error

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aDRock1154 said:
This. An actual DFU Restore should get you going in the right direction...
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well the 1015 error he just mentioned... dfu prolly wont fix it. means he has a downgraded baseband/ipad baseband and is trying to restore it.. he needs to restore with a custome fw and skip updating the baseband
 
aDRock1154

aDRock1154

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BFizzzle said:
well the 1015 error he just mentioned... dfu prolly wont fix it. means he has a downgraded baseband/ipad baseband and is trying to restore it.. he needs to restore with a custome fw and skip updating the baseband
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Oh alright, a little more complex than I originally thought.

I don't envy him lol
 
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Celery11

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Nov 8, 2012
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Great so sounds like I'm screwed.
:(
I have tried the DFU mode restore and just get error 1015 again. I have tried Snowbreeze to make a custom restore file but this didn't work. I also tried fiddling around with TinyUmbrella and this didn't work.

Anything else?
 
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Celery11

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Just want to say a massive thanks to BFizzzle!

I restored my (friends) phone using sn0wbreeze with baseband update disabled and it worked straight away.

The advice in this thread was a massive life saver so huge thanks to all.
 
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