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johndoe2

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Apr 2, 2012
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Hello everyone, I am indeed a new member here and I hope someone out there will be able to help me.

Briefly here is my situation:

I have an Iphone 4 that was on IOS 4.0.1 and it's jailed broken and unlocked on T-mobile. I decided to do all of the update on Cydia and was successful. Then I happened to scroll around the other mods in Cydia such as the tweaks and stuff. I downloaded a bunch and downloaded one in particular that said that Winterboard needed to be restarted, I pressed okay then bam. I knew it was bricked right when the phone took forever to restart. Sooo now my phone is stuck on the apple logo and I do not want to lose everything on my phone including all of my notes/music/contacts/videos/calendar/photos and other valuable memories and apps that I have. My question is, can someone help me or shoot me ideas on how to unbrick my phone without restoring it? I've had this phone for more then a year now and it contains a lot of things I do not want to lose. If anyone can help please and thanks!

P.S. I'm also a Mac user if that helps in any way..
 
If you have installed something and need to uninstall it without losing your jailbreak/can't get into your phone to do a traditional uninstall, you can always do the following:

Download/Install iFunbox http://ifunboxmac.com/

Plug in your phone via USB and open up the SSH Terminal Window

You need to know the package name that you installed "com.XXX.xXX" and run the following command:

apt-get --purge remove (source name)
(If that does not work you can try "dpkg -r nameofpkg")

Then type in "reboot" in the command line and hit ENTER to reboot the phone
 
I tried to reinstall redsn0w and this message came up:

Missing Keys.plist data for this build:

Device: iPhone4
ECID: 43823111*****
Build: iPhone3,1_4.0.1_8A306
 
Some times it hangs and goes into safe mode.

Press the powerbutton and then the home button till it resets.
 
I tried to reinstall redsn0w and this message came up:

Missing Keys.plist data for this build:

Device: iPhone4
ECID: 43823111*****
Build: iPhone3,1_4.0.1_8A306

ive got this same issue with same error same firmware only diff is obviously the ecid

did you manage to fix your phone without loosing everything

ive been at this for the past 24 hour now and its realy getting to me now

any help would be much appreciated johndoe
 
Hello everyone, I am indeed a new member here and I hope someone out there will be able to help me.

Briefly here is my situation:

I have an Iphone 4 that was on IOS 4.0.1 and it's jailed broken and unlocked on T-mobile. I decided to do all of the update on Cydia and was successful. Then I happened to scroll around the other mods in Cydia such as the tweaks and stuff. I downloaded a bunch and downloaded one in particular that said that Winterboard needed to be restarted, I pressed okay then bam. I knew it was bricked right when the phone took forever to restart. Sooo now my phone is stuck on the apple logo and I do not want to lose everything on my phone including all of my notes/music/contacts/videos/calendar/photos and other valuable memories and apps that I have. My question is, can someone help me or shoot me ideas on how to unbrick my phone without restoring it? I've had this phone for more then a year now and it contains a lot of things I do not want to lose. If anyone can help please and thanks!

P.S. I'm also a Mac user if that helps in any way..


if it is not in warranty and if u have small skill for opening screws then just open two screws and open the back cover and then remove the battery screw there and then remove battery cable gently and then plug it back it will boot up in few seconds
DO IT SlOWLY AND SMOOTHLY OR ELSI IT CAN SHORT YOU IPHONE'S MB
 
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