I did something stupid...

[Apple2]

I was trying to wipe the HDD on my iPhone (NOT ACTIVATED) and used iPhone explorer to delete every file on it, one by one. Unfortunately, half way through the deletion, the phone crashed and powered off, stopping my efforts. When I tried to restart it, it goes to apple logo, blinks white, turns off, and goes back to apple logo. All this happens in about 5 seconds. Yes, the things I deleted were in the root folder. Any ideas on how to wipe the drive, or at least get it running again?

Thanks,

 

[eastercat]

Try DFU.
It would've been simpler to restore your phone with itunes--and less problematic.

 

[Apple2]

Never mind...

Ended up getting it into DFU.

 

[dhlizard]

I was trying to wipe the HDD on my iPhone (NOT ACTIVATED) and used iPhone explorer to delete every file on it, one by one. Unfortunately, half way through the deletion, the phone crashed and powered off, stopping my efforts. When I tried to restart it, it goes to apple logo, blinks white, turns off, and goes back to apple logo. All this happens in about 5 seconds. Yes, the things I deleted were in the root folder. Any ideas on how to wipe the drive, or at least get it running again?

Thanks,

Well I must say, never have I read about anyone else doing this to try and wipe their iPhone. Now deleting a necessary file with iPhone Explorer, yea that's very common...but actually trying to delete every file on the phone 😱

Obviously you didn't give this any thought prior to doing it.

 

[ct2k7]

iPhone has a HDD?

 

[Cha]

Well I must say, never have I read about anyone else doing this to try and wipe their iPhone. Now deleting a necessary file with iPhone Explorer, yea that's very common...but actually trying to delete every file on the phone 😱

Obviously you didn't give this any thought prior to doing it.

I am still trying to figure out what the OP was trying to accomplish... by deleting files one by one... odd...

 

[ulbador]

This makes me laugh

 

[Gavernty]

hahahahah, this is funny

 

[DRWAMBO]

I was trying to wipe the HDD on my iPhone (NOT ACTIVATED) and used iPhone explorer to delete every file on it, one by one. Unfortunately, half way through the deletion, the phone crashed and powered off, stopping my efforts. When I tried to restart it, it goes to apple logo, blinks white, turns off, and goes back to apple logo. All this happens in about 5 seconds. Yes, the things I deleted were in the root folder. Any ideas on how to wipe the drive, or at least get it running again?

Thanks,

If you can get iTunes to recognize it, do a "restore". If not, take it to an Apple store and deny that you messed with it. I don't think that copying files from another phone and trying to replace the OS will work.

 

[BeatleJohn]

wow lol

 

[torbjoern]

Impressive. What on earth got you into it in the first place?

 

[kalirob99]

 

[QuarterSwede]

LOL, that's the first time I've seen that!

 

[sidewinder]

They should criticize Billiards before attacking RE5. The white ball hits a bunch of colored balls and saves the black ball for last.

That is not "Billiards". If you are going to try to be funny, at least get the name of the game right. It's called "Eight-ball".

S-

 

[kalirob99]

That is not "Billiards". If you are going to try to be funny, at least get the name of the game right. It's called "Eight-ball".

S-

Its a slang term to generalize the games together.

 

[sidewinder]

Its a slang term to generalize the games together.

But only one of the multitude of Billiard games, Eight-ball, has the characteristic you describe. "Billiards" does not equal "Eight-ball".

Try again....

S-

 

[kalirob99]

But only one of the multitude of Billiard games, Eight-ball, has the characteristic you describe. "Billiards" does not equal "Eight-ball".

Try again....

S-

Alright, ill change it if it really bothers you that much.

 

[labman]

Well at least the TS titled his thread well. I now think I heard it all. Lets see I saw 1 terabyte drive on sale for $60 or 32 GB thumb drives for $40 -$50. So this is crazy.