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Bricked my 4S by restoring after jailbreak... Has anyone restored after jb'ing 4S???

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ap3604

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It's ok now since I got my phone replaced but dunno if this has happened to anyone else :confused:

I jailbroke my 4S w/ the absinthe app on my computer, was enjoying my jailbreak and everything was fine except for a few random lock ups / reboots.

Eventually I wanted to get my phone back to stock (since I could always jailbreak again at a later time as long as I don't update to 5.1), so I did a DFU restore through itunes and get the following error after it is restored and I go through the setup process:

"Only compatible SIM cards from a supported carrier may be used to activate iPhone. Please insert the SIM card that came with your iPhone or visit a supported carriers store to receive a replacement SIM card"

I went to the AT&T store and they give me a brand new sim card... no luck. It still gives the same error as above.

So I tried doing a few more restores but had absolutely no luck and eventually just made an appointment w/ apple to get a replacement phone.

Hopefully this is just me doing something wrong but has anyone else restored their phone since they jailbroke?
 
You might want to list all steps you took that led you to that error message.

I jailbroke then had to do a restore and then re-jailbroke again all without any issues.
 
Weird. Faced no issues while jailbreaking and restoring the device.
 
I did a restore last night and rejailbroke. Had trouble restoring (error 21). Had to mess around with my hosts files and do a DFU restore. Fixed it, but it was a pain ;)
 
I restored my 4S through itunes no problems. Then i jailbroke again as i found the stock iphone boring :)

Did you buy the 4S direct from apple? As they come unlocked that way, maybe if you bought it from a network provider store, thats why it locked up? ...just a thought anyway.
 
ap3604 said:
It's ok now since I got my phone replaced but dunno if this has happened to anyone else :confused:

I jailbroke my 4S w/ the absinthe app on my computer, was enjoying my jailbreak and everything was fine except for a few random lock ups / reboots.

Eventually I wanted to get my phone back to stock (since I could always jailbreak again at a later time as long as I don't update to 5.1), so I did a DFU restore through itunes and get the following error after it is restored and I go through the setup process:

"Only compatible SIM cards from a supported carrier may be used to activate iPhone. Please insert the SIM card that came with your iPhone or visit a supported carriers store to receive a replacement SIM card"

I went to the AT&T store and they give me a brand new sim card... no luck. It still gives the same error as above.

So I tried doing a few more restores but had absolutely no luck and eventually just made an appointment w/ apple to get a replacement phone.

Hopefully this is just me doing something wrong but has anyone else restored their phone since they jailbroke?
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if you go into DFU mode and restore from there to 5.01, Apple cant tell it was ever jailbroken so you should be fine if its under warranty
 
99.999 it's not bricked just have to undo what you did.. DFU mode works best. if you have issues and get an error once in dfu try another computer.
 
This has nothing to do with jailbreaking. There is a known issue regarding this SIM problem across all carriers. I know this because it happened to me.

Besides the known issue there are two or three other reasons something like this can happen.

I spent two full days (18 hours) at an Apple store while they worked on my issue.

One of the problems Apple is having is that the boxes are being mislabeled as to what carrier the iPhone is meant for.

One of the stores in my area had 7 new iPhones that we're supposed to be Sprint but in fact were Verizon.

Surprisingly the phone can still be activated but when you restore you get the SIM error mentioned above.
 
By the way, you should test your replacement iPhone by doing a restore. If everything is right you should not see that error. If on the other hand you get the same SIM error you have to go back to Apple and they have to investigate your returns/exchanges/purchase history.
 
i had a error code, just clicked on tiny umbrella and turned cydia host files off and problem solved
 
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