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Help fixing a friends' 3G
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Applejuiced
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Applejuiced
macrumors Westmere
Lol 😀
Yep, that wouldnt fix without a microsim adapter.
Find any old AT&T sim if you have or another AT&T person that uses a regural size sim.
Okay. So far Limera1n and Greenpoison wouldn't j/b it... 😕 I j/b my iPhone 4 in about 5 seconds using Limera1n but no go on the 3G so far. I am trying pwnagetool now but I think I messed up. It said to restore using the custom ipsw file it created for me. Do you double click this file to restore it?
Applejuiced
macrumors Westmere
Applejuiced
macrumors Westmere
True, Jailbreakme.com will work all the way up to firmware 4.0.1 but not for 4.0.2 or 4.1
Spirit for anything 3.1.3 or below.
chargit
macrumors 6502a
Well, now I'm back in the same boat I was before. As soon as I was done with pwnagetool, iTunes started back up and before I could quit, it started restoring. So now I have an iPhone 3G that's stuck at the "no sim card" screen! Dammit all to hades, man! I was almost there fixing this bloody thing and now I am stuck again.
Maybe ATT can put that sim in there again for me. Anyway, I bought a new sim card on ebay for a whole whopping three US dollars, so I'm gonna see how that pans out.
Maybe ATT can put that sim in there again for me. Anyway, I bought a new sim card on ebay for a whole whopping three US dollars, so I'm gonna see how that pans out.
Applejuiced
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Yep, if you updated to official 4.1 you're sol.
Ask questions and verify things first before you do anything.
You didnt even say above you were trying to unlock it.
Ask questions and verify things first before you do anything.
You didnt even say above you were trying to unlock it.
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Applejuiced
macrumors Westmere
You might have some slim chances to be able to downgrade the baseband and unlock it again.
Run forecast and tell us the bootloader and baseband version of the iphone 3G in question.
http://ih8sn0w.com/index.php/products/view/f0recast.snow
chargit
macrumors 6502a
changed her mind?? did you know see that coming?? lol
anyway is she using AT&T? if so dont worry about unlocking. now if she wants to go to T~Mobile then you might be in trouble for a few weeks til the 4.2 comes out and hopefully an unlock option.
chargit
macrumors 6502a
so she was obviously jailbroke before. do you know if her shsh files were saved in cydia? you need to download tinyumbrella and see if they were saved. if so you should be able to downgrade and then start all over. but that link to f0recast that applejuiced provided worked cause I checked it.
I'm not sure if she jailbroke before, most likely yes but that was when she was on ATT. I think she said she bricked it when she tried to jailbreak but I am not sure. Whatever she did, the phone wouldn't even turn on.
I assumed she was still on ATT now, otherwise I would have asked more questions. I managed to get it into DFU mode and itunes updated it.
I assumed she was still on ATT now, otherwise I would have asked more questions. I managed to get it into DFU mode and itunes updated it.
chargit
macrumors 6502a
if your shsh files were saved then yes you could get an unlockable baseband. I have been successful backing down some 3g iPhones to an unlockable baseband but have had no success in the last week or two unless the shsh files were saved.