I have an iphone 3gs that was jailbroken in iOS 5.0.1. I want to go back to the factory settings, so I erased all content and settings, now my iphone is stuck at the screen with only a spining sign. Did I brick my iphone, what should I do, it is been like an hour since the iphone is in that state.
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Need help: jailbroken iPhone brick? after resetting
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Don't ever do that with a jailbroken phone. Your phone is not bricked.
Just put it into DFU mode and restore it with Itunes.
There are many sites that can give you tutorial on how to do this.
Basically, here is what you need to do;
1. make sure your phone hook up to your PC and Itunes is open.
2. Press & hold power button & home button at the same time until the USB cable & Itunes logos your phone disappear. Release power button, keep holding home button until Itunes recognizes it.
3. Itunes will tell you that your phone is in recovery mode, click okay, then click restore.
4. Itunes will do the rest of the restore for you.
Basically, here is what you need to do;
1. make sure your phone hook up to your PC and Itunes is open.
2. Press & hold power button & home button at the same time until the USB cable & Itunes logos your phone disappear. Release power button, keep holding home button until Itunes recognizes it.
3. Itunes will tell you that your phone is in recovery mode, click okay, then click restore.
4. Itunes will do the rest of the restore for you.
Thanks, in the past I always hold down the power button to shut down the phone first before the other process to get into DFU, this time I need to press& hold both power button and home button to get out of the current state.
it is now being restored.
it is now being restored.
That is correct because your phone is now stuck in recovery mode. So, you can't start with the power button.
If you restore it successfully, then your phone screen should have USB cable + Itune & the slide for emergency call at the bottom. This is the activation screen which is normal. Not the recovery screen which has only USB & Itune logo.