How the !@ do you restore your iphone when restore freezes

[dfwh]

Hey guys,

stats:
jailbroken iphone 3G at 3.1.2 or 3.1.3 (cant remember).

my iBroken went into a vicious reboot cycle recently, constantly showing the white apple logo, until the battery was drained completely.

I finally got it into restore mode (display: cable& itunes) connected it to itunes and tried to restore it. The process froze somewhere 3/4 to finish.

Then ya know I googled around, downloaded pwnage tool, created a custom ipsw out of the iphone 3.0 ios 4 ipsw, selected it in itunes and tried to restore with that. Again it froze and the bar stopped just before completion.

Does anyone know how to treat this one?

update: I have also tried reinstalling itunes, etc, etc.

Update-2: sorry typo. I meant that i have an iphone 3G not iphone 4

Update-3: FIXED. Booted Windows xp via bootcamp, installed itunes, restored using custom ipsw.

 

[alecgold]

tried restoring from DFU?

What where you thinking when using 3.1.2 or 3.1.3 on an iphone 4? there is no fitting software for the IP4 in iOS3...

 

[dfwh]

Update-2. I meant iphone 3g, of course.

This guy also seems to face the same issue..
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/963616/

So should I use an ios4 to create a custom ipsw or an ios 3.1.3?

 

[dfwh]

ok finally manages to get into dfu, trying custom restore with itunes now

 

[dfwh]

no help. Stuck at the same part..