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Need help restoring after Jailbreak

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edmund1

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Mar 14, 2011
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Hi Everyone -

I jailbroke my phone prior to a trip --- but now would like to restore it to original factory condition since it is running a little slow.

iTunes wont let me restore the phone (not update, but restore). It says verifying with Apple, and then gives me an error.

I used:
redsn0w_mac_0.9.6b4
iPhone3,1_4.2.1_8C148_Restore.ipsw

How should I restore it?

Thank you!
 
That is exactly what I am doing...

I select restore.... then no back up and restore.

Then it connects to albert.apple.com

Then after extracting something the software iTunes says it is verifying restore with Apple... then I get the error "the iPhone could not be restored. This device isnt eligible for the requested build."

Ideas?
 
Weird.
Its trying to communicate with Apples servers to verify the restore but something is blocking it.
You got a firewall or any kind of IP blocking, security suite program running?
Try restoring it on another computer if you can if this one is still giving you problems.
 
i do have little snitch running ---- but i have allowed the connections to go through...
 
Nope.. never..

Will try another computer.. but any other ideas?

Thank you!
 
same error on different computer.

Isnt there a way to delete everything by just push the buttons on the phone?

Any other ideas? Im pretty bummed ... I thought you could easily restore after a jailbreak..
 
edmund1 said:
same error on different computer.

Isnt there a way to delete everything by just push the buttons on the phone?

Any other ideas? Im pretty bummed ... I thought you could easily restore after a jailbreak..
Click to expand...

settings>general>reset. then plug into itunes.
 
think this will work on a jailbroken phone?

at least the phone is working now... I dont want it to turn into a brick! :)
 
edmund1 said:
That is exactly what I am doing...

I select restore.... then no back up and restore.

Then it connects to albert.apple.com

Then after extracting something the software iTunes says it is verifying restore with Apple... then I get the error "the iPhone could not be restored. This device isnt eligible for the requested build."

Ideas?
Click to expand...

Im getting this message ---
 
Download the Firmware (IPSW) from here for 4.3. Then open iTunes and Shift+Click restore and select the IPSW you downloaded. See if that works.

If that doesn't work download Tinyumbrella from here. Open TU and click Advanced and make sure "Set Hosts to Cydia on Exit" is unchecked and hit apply and close TU. Try doing the Restore again and see if that works.

ETA: If neither of those work open TU again and click save SHSH with your iPhone connected after if finishes and it shows 4.3 in the list Click "Start TSS server" and try doing the restore again. If it starts the restore it may just be that the apple servers are down or something.

Post screen shots of it failing..
 
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What do you all think about this advice I found on another forum:

I ended up fixing by going to

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\

*Replace YOURUSERNAME with the name of the user account your using on your machine
*the path above is for windows 7, It will be different for XP and vista but will be under the same nomenclature.

And deleting the contents of the temp folder-- That fixed error 3194 for me.

Then I went into my hosts file and removed the gs.apple.com redirect to sauriks server.

issued ipconfig /flushdns in cmd prompt

and veryfied I was using apple's server and not sauriks then everything worked.
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Didnt try it.

Dont want to do anything without more details -- plus that was on a PC and Ive got a Mac... so would need specifics on how to do it on a mac.

Worried, if I do something it might be permanent... (is that possible? )
 
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Have you tried to update then restore? I had similar issues and upgraded first. I then downloaded the latest iTunes and restored. I'm thinking downloading the latest iTunes would have let me restore first but I'll never know. If you're already running 10.2 then try the upgrade then restore.
 
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