New vWallpaper update bricked my iPhone 4

[JPitt09]

The update provided new sources and new wallpapers, but when you tried to apply a new wallpaper, it froze for a little bit. When my phone did the respring, the home screen came up, and was froze. I couldn't lock it, or click on any app. Then, the screen went blank.

It literally won't do anything. When I connect it to itunes, my phone will make a sound as if it just plugged in (I have different sounds on my UI). I let it sync, but it still does nothing.

Any help here? I'm desperate at this point, and almost hoping that it will let me restore, even if that does make it 4.0.2.

Pleeeaaaassseee tell me there is something I can do.

 

[ulbador]

You can try rebooting it. Just press and hold both buttons until the apple pops up. If that doesn't work you better hope you have ssh installed.

 

[JPitt09]

You can try rebooting it. Just press and hold both buttons until the apple pops up. If that doesn't work you better hope you have ssh installed.

Okay, it will reboot when I do that, but when I unlock, the springboard freezes, then goes blank again. I have been using iFile for my jailbreaking needs. Am I screwed here?

 

[JPitt09]

SBSettings FTW! I was able to pull down sbsettings on the lockscreen and put it in safemode, and from there I went in to vwallpaper and turned it off. Thanks for your advice on holding the two buttons down to reboot it, before that it would do anything!

make sure you have sbsettings if you fool around with vwallpaper!

 

[Myzhi]

And, here I was thinking about installing the updates since i just read developer posted about it on his website.

OP, please go here: http://i.danstaface.net/site/ and report your problem asap.

 

[JPitt09]

And, here I was thinking about installing the updates since i just read developer posted about it on his website.

OP, please go here: http://i.danstaface.net/site/ and report your problem asap.

will do, be super careful if you do the update

 

[goneeuro]

was it a certain wallpaper that you chose? I tried to install a mario one the other day thru disk aid and when i went to select it my phone died. I had to do a restore and then downgrade. Just curious which wall paper you chose when it locked up.

 

[JPitt09]

was it a certain wallpaper that you chose? I tried to install a mario one the other day thru disk aid and when i went to select it my phone died. I had to do a restore and then downgrade. Just curious which wall paper you chose when it locked up.

It was Apple Caustic HD from the iG33kstas iOS4x repository. I don't think it's exclusive to that wallpaper though, all of the ones I downloaded from the new sources act weird when you download them. I haven't tried to set any others obviously, it scared me enough that I'm done with vWallpaper.

 

[goneeuro]

i did the newest update but didnt see any new wallpapers that i liked. I guess it was lucky for me. I will just use disk aid for now to install my own wallpapers. That way i know the file is good. Thanks for the warning though.

 

[Carlanga]

Yeah you have to be careful of the vwallpapers that are around especially older ones I found to be more problematic...
It didn't really bricked your phone, you could have call it a semi-brick as per proper definitions are concerned or simply put the word 'probably' before the word bricked in the title. Bricked means unusable w/ no way to fix the damage no matter what one tries so if you had tried to restore and DFU and it didn't work then the title would have been more appropriate.

 

[Myzhi]

This thread made me scared so I waited for more reports. Didn't find any so I just updated. To be safe before hand, I disable video in vWallpaper. Upgrade, re-enable and everything seem fine. I am using Bluestripes from developer repo.

 

[labman]

So if I reading right the phone didn't get bricked. I wish we could just strike that word out of use unless somebody is laying or buying bricks.

 

[TMar]

Obviously many people don't understand the term actually means. It should never be used in the same sentence as iphone since it's not possible.

 

[hace]

I have the same problem with my iPhone 4, but I didn't install sbsettings. Does somebody know a solution for my problem?

I can't restore, because I don't have the original sim card.

thx

 

[strodda]

The best and safest thing to do, is to make your own video wallpapers. It's very simple. Just find any video you want to use, resize/crop it down to 320x480 and encode it to a mpeg-4 file. Then copy into your phone. That's it.

I've done a bunch, I'll upload and share if any of you are interested.

After hearing about your upgrading experience, I will never. Unless they update to allow 640x960 videos, then I would have to consider.

 

[UCLAKoolman]

SBSettings FTW! I was able to pull down sbsettings on the lockscreen and put it in safemode, and from there I went in to vwallpaper and turned it off. Thanks for your advice on holding the two buttons down to reboot it, before that it would do anything!

make sure you have sbsettings if you fool around with vwallpaper!

How do you use sbsettings to boot into safe mode?

 

[Myzhi]

How do you use sbsettings to boot into safe mode?

Swipe status bar (can be done on lockscreen), tap power, and then, safe mode.

 

[hace]

Is there a way to go into safe mode without sbsettings?

Or whatelse can I do?

 

[hace]

solution without sbsettings

connect iphone via diskaid to your computer. delete folders vwallpapers.app and root/user/Media/Skrew/

restart iphone without freezing

good luck!

 

[UCLAKoolman]

Swipe status bar (can be done on lockscreen), tap power, and then, safe mode.

Lol thanks. Never used sbsettings to turn off my phone. Actually I never really turn off my phone period! Looks like that's a good way to restart the phone too.

 

[iamthekiller]

Your phone clearly was not bricked. Stop using thay term so loosely.