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unlocked & jailbroken phone not recognized by iTunes

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jillpro

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Mar 3, 2010
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I had a 2G iPhone that was unlocked & jailbroken. It worked very well & synced with iTunes. Unfortunately, my 6 year old talked me into going on the log ride. Phone was inside my purse, but still got damp enough to stop working. So, I bought a 3G iPhone that was already unlocked & jailbroken. The phone & internet work fine, but when I plugged it into my computer to do an iTunes sync the computer will not recognize the phone. The only option I am getting is to restore the phone to original settings, which would automatically include an upgrade to 3.1.3.
Anyone else deal with this issue before? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
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witness

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It should be possible to do the restore with your own jailbroken firmware, just checkout the iphone dev team blog.
 
thelatinist

thelatinist

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Aug 15, 2009
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jillpro said:
The only option I am getting is to restore the phone to original settings, which would automatically include an upgrade to 3.1.3.
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Since you have a 3G, you can just click hold down shift (Win) or option (Mac) and click restore. This will give you the option to choose a specific .ipsw file to restore to. Download the 3.1.2 firmware from http://www.poorlad.com/iCommunity/ (it should be called iPhone1,2_3.1.2_7D11_Restore.ipsw) and restore to that firmware. Then jailbreak with redsn0w and unlock with blacksn0w. Follow the tutorials at iClarified.
 
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jillpro

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Yipeeeee!

It worked!
A big thank you to The Latinist - you are an iPhone god!:)
 
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