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ceruleus

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Aug 5, 2013
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Hi there - I rely on my iPhone for all my internet access (writing this in a cafe) so I'd be extremely grateful to anyone who can help with this problem in any way.

A couple of days ago I tried to install some tweaks to my iPhone 4 via Cydia. This caused my phone to crash and I eventually decided to do a full restore. I put the phone in Pwned DFU mode via Redsn0w and then tried to restore. Unfortunately the restore didn't complete in iTunes, so I once again put the phone in DFU mode to try again. At this point I broke off, and on returning to the phone found that neither Redsn0w or iTunes was recognising it at all anymore. :(

So far I've tried reinstalling iTunes, reinstalling my USB hardware and forcing the phone back into DFU mode with Tinyumbrella. Nothing seems to work and the phone screen remains blank. I can't understand what could be wrong as seemingly nothing happened between the phone successfully entering DFU mode the first couple of times and now nothing registering at all. Is there anything I can do that I haven't already tried? Many thanks.
 
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'm going to try to see if a friend's laptop recognises it this weekend. I've contacted one repair place but they were going to charge £40 to look at it and I'm skeptical.
 
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