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iphone steve jobs virus

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uneducated dave

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Sep 19, 2006
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i unlocked and jailbroke my 2G iphone in september to allow me to use a french sim card in it on my year abroad. i haven't had any problems, and have only installed a handful of apps, mainly to stop it from automatically accessing the internet.

however, today my iphone was playing up a little so i attempted to switch it off. it took far longer than usual to shut down so i reset it. when it came on, the apple screen cut straight to this large cartoon image of steve jobs, with a speech bubble containing what appears to be russian text. after this it restarts over and over. i had to force quit the phone to get it to turn off.

i searched and can't find anything about this. has anyone had a similar problem? i'm a little concerned!
 
thanks for the speedy reply. i'm sorry if my terminology is incorrect!

it's a shame i have to restore, i'm going to lose a lot of things (text messages mainly). i'm still running 2.0, and hadn't synched to my computer since september til about a week ago. i've tried to back up the phone on a number of occassions since then but it's always failed after about ten hours or so. :(

i appreciate the help, though.
 
Tallest Skil said:
You should really update to 2.2. It fixes all the crashing that you're apparently having with 2.0, seeing as a couple of people were screaming about 2.0 crashing a lot. I never had any problems with it, but updating wouldn't hurt.
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yeah i definitely will. the only reason i didn't before i left in september was because i saw that people were still having problems with 2.01 and 2.02 which i think were out at that point, so i thought i'd wait. my iphone is synched to my imac which unfortunately i couldn't take abroad. i suppose it will teach me to update at the first available opportunity!

thanks for your help :)
 
The cartoon Steve Jobs isn't a virus... FWIW, it's a boot logo that was customized by whatever tool you used to unlock your iPhone.

I'll give a +1 that 2.2 is a very big advancement over 2.0.x... Use the Dev Team's software (Pwnage) to do the unlock this time, and put 2.2 on your phone, and you should be fine. Sorry you might lose some things in restore, but unfortunately that is the small risk associated with unlocking tools.
 
whazzup!

I encountered the same screen today after using quickpwn. That is the replacement screen for the FORCE RESTORE screen, and the cartoon of Steve speaking russian is translated as "whazzup!". Good times! woot!
 
my phone is stuck in the "recovery mode" with Steve Job's on the screen. I have tried to connect it to itunes and restore the phone 4 times. Every time it runs for while like its actually restoring then eventually I get "error 9". Whe I disconnect the phone from my computer it goes back to steve job's with his russian statement. How to get i get my phone to actually fix?

I can't get passed Steve Job's and I can't seem to get the system to "reset". I have itunes 8 and I'm not sure which operating system was on the iphone. I have an imac so pc patches won't help me.
 
snowdums said:
my phone is stuck in the "recovery mode" with Steve Job's on the screen. I have tried to connect it to itunes and restore the phone 4 times. Every time it runs for while like its actually restoring then eventually I get "error 9". Whe I disconnect the phone from my computer it goes back to steve job's with his russian statement. How to get i get my phone to actually fix?

I can't get passed Steve Job's and I can't seem to get the system to "reset". I have itunes 8 and I'm not sure which operating system was on the iphone. I have an imac so pc patches won't help me.
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If you are getting error 9, you are not going into DFU mode correctly.. If you are on 10.5.6 on your iMac, you need to run through a USB hub in order to bypass the updated USB drivers with 10.5.6..
 
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