iOS of iPhone in Recovery mode

[rach23]

This is probably a stupid question but is there a way to find out what iOS is installed on your iPhone that has gone into recovery mode?

I have an iPhone 3g that I connected to my laptop (vista), the iTunes update prompt came up and updated the version of iTunes and I think it upgraded the phone too because now it will not work

I can't even do a restore on the phone! I get an error message saying 'iPhone cannot be restored (error 23 ) .. now it only indicate an itunes logo and the USB.
I'm guessing the iOS on the phone was upgraded with the iTunes version upgrade?

I bought the phone in the US and was originally AT&T which I had jailbroken so that it would work in Ireland when I moved home. The phone was working fine before whatever happened when I updated my version of iTunes. I have an AT&T simcard to try and do a restore but i'm not having any luck

Any thoughts would be a huge help!! Thanks

 

[PsstGreek]

It's most likely on iOS 4.2.1

 

[TriJetHero]

Use TinyUmbrella

Connect phone to USB, open TU, select device in TU, on the general pages it should give your current iOS

 

[rach23]

What version of Tiny Umbrella?
http://www.iphoneheat.com/2010/06/tinyumbrella-save-shsh-blobs/
im guessing each version is for a different iOS but I dont know what one is running on my phone

 

[TriJetHero]

The latest version of TU, its for all versions

From here:
http://thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com/

 

[swingerofbirch]

Sorry to hear about your difficulties.

Here is info on that error:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694#error23

So, that gives you a little bit of something to go on.