I have been jailbreaking since the iphone 3G, and I am stumped... Here's the deal, Its an Iphone 3GS 32GB 3.1.2 tooled by pwnage, SHSH blobs have been saved since forever, Its never touched water, rarely been dropped, It is not a "frozen apple logo", it is not the traditional "stuck at respring", I cannot restore using recovery or DFU.
Here is what happened:
I went to "changes" in Cydia, and updated what was there (nothing too important). At the end of the update, it asks me to "press to respring" (like normal), and then i press to respring.... except that right as i do that, the "Loading Changes" message box pops up. I say "sh**" because there is a possibility that my respring will get stuck, and it does. I sit and wait for about 30 min to see if it will kick itself out of the respring, it doesnt, so it reset (pressing home and sleep/wake).....
Here is where it gets weird.
I starts booting like normal, apple logo and all. But when the screen should leave the apple logo to normally finish booting, it doesnt. Instead it flashes black, and the apple logo reappears except that there are lines of pixelation at the top of the screen, and overlaying the apple logo, is the rotating respring wheel. The wheel rotates for about a minute ( sort of the time for a regular respring) then freezes.....
So now my screen shows the apple logo, pixelation, and frozen respring wheel. It as such for about five min and then reboots, back to apple logo and above cycle starts all over again until it runs out of battery( which i have done), after a recharge it is the same.
I tried recovery mode, but it will only even partially go to the recovery screen is i am in the frozen logo, moving wheel, pixelation state. It then flashes to recovery screen (Itunes logo with cable), but then after about 2.5 seconds, kicks out and reboots, starting the death cycle as described above. Recboot does no different.
When I plug my iphone into the pc, without recovery or DFU it does not register, except for when i am in the frozen logo, moving wheel, pixelation state. It then shows up normally until the death cycle reaches the frozen logo frozen wheel, pixelation state at which time it no long er shows up in tunes, and is no longer visible in device manager (USB Disconnected) though it has not been unplugged. It will do this on and off at the aforemention place during the death cycle.
It will not stay connected long enough to Sync, Update, Restore (to latest firmware, or previous firmwares both custom and official).
DFU mode is the only mode that i can get the phone to stay in, and not kick itself out of. The huge problem is that within DFU, i also cannot get it to update, Restore. Update is greyed, and I have tried to restore to 3.1 custom, 3.1.2 official, 3.1.2 custom pwnage, 3.1.2 custom, 4.0.1 official, 4.0.2 official. Every time i try i get error, 1600,1604,2002,3914, maybe a few others.
I have tried different USB ports and different usb ports on different computers.
This "death cycle" has been endless except twice.
The first time it happened, it was in death cycle, but then magically booted to safemode, I knew i only had two options, initiate fresh respring to exit safemode, or restore from safe mode(it was plugged in at the time)..... I initiated a new respring and f me , the deathcycle started all over again. so i was back to just trying futilely again and again to recreate the safemode thing, except for it couldnt.
The second time it went to safemode was just as unexpected as the first. (it is not an issue of time. after the first time, i left in plugged in cycling through the death cycle overnight). I had tried to initiate new respring to no avail so i thought, better try to restore, so i did the update that seemed to me would most logically be free of any other problems, I just tried to update to the latest firmware.... Everything was going fine, until the phone go to the part where it would normally flash to the apple logo and progress bar.... but instead it flashed and restarted death cycle.
and now i am out of ideas.
I would really love it if some one could help me out. I have tried to be as thorough as possible in my explanation to make it easier for every one.
I have contacted apple and told them that my phone was jsut frozen at apple logo and after a bit, they said that they would replace it (Ive had the phone less than a year), two problems with that: If it is 4.0.2, I cannot downgrade (no SHSH blobs for that new phone) now jailbreak. Or if i get lucky and its 4.0.1 or 4.0, then i can onyl jailbreak, and I am stuck with iOS4 which i had previously downgraded from back to 3.1.2, which is better than nothing, but not nearly as good as if the death cycle problem gets solved.
Thank you so much for reading, I'd appreciate your help.
Best,
Endor43
Here is what happened:
I went to "changes" in Cydia, and updated what was there (nothing too important). At the end of the update, it asks me to "press to respring" (like normal), and then i press to respring.... except that right as i do that, the "Loading Changes" message box pops up. I say "sh**" because there is a possibility that my respring will get stuck, and it does. I sit and wait for about 30 min to see if it will kick itself out of the respring, it doesnt, so it reset (pressing home and sleep/wake).....
Here is where it gets weird.
I starts booting like normal, apple logo and all. But when the screen should leave the apple logo to normally finish booting, it doesnt. Instead it flashes black, and the apple logo reappears except that there are lines of pixelation at the top of the screen, and overlaying the apple logo, is the rotating respring wheel. The wheel rotates for about a minute ( sort of the time for a regular respring) then freezes.....
So now my screen shows the apple logo, pixelation, and frozen respring wheel. It as such for about five min and then reboots, back to apple logo and above cycle starts all over again until it runs out of battery( which i have done), after a recharge it is the same.
I tried recovery mode, but it will only even partially go to the recovery screen is i am in the frozen logo, moving wheel, pixelation state. It then flashes to recovery screen (Itunes logo with cable), but then after about 2.5 seconds, kicks out and reboots, starting the death cycle as described above. Recboot does no different.
When I plug my iphone into the pc, without recovery or DFU it does not register, except for when i am in the frozen logo, moving wheel, pixelation state. It then shows up normally until the death cycle reaches the frozen logo frozen wheel, pixelation state at which time it no long er shows up in tunes, and is no longer visible in device manager (USB Disconnected) though it has not been unplugged. It will do this on and off at the aforemention place during the death cycle.
It will not stay connected long enough to Sync, Update, Restore (to latest firmware, or previous firmwares both custom and official).
DFU mode is the only mode that i can get the phone to stay in, and not kick itself out of. The huge problem is that within DFU, i also cannot get it to update, Restore. Update is greyed, and I have tried to restore to 3.1 custom, 3.1.2 official, 3.1.2 custom pwnage, 3.1.2 custom, 4.0.1 official, 4.0.2 official. Every time i try i get error, 1600,1604,2002,3914, maybe a few others.
I have tried different USB ports and different usb ports on different computers.
This "death cycle" has been endless except twice.
The first time it happened, it was in death cycle, but then magically booted to safemode, I knew i only had two options, initiate fresh respring to exit safemode, or restore from safe mode(it was plugged in at the time)..... I initiated a new respring and f me , the deathcycle started all over again. so i was back to just trying futilely again and again to recreate the safemode thing, except for it couldnt.
The second time it went to safemode was just as unexpected as the first. (it is not an issue of time. after the first time, i left in plugged in cycling through the death cycle overnight). I had tried to initiate new respring to no avail so i thought, better try to restore, so i did the update that seemed to me would most logically be free of any other problems, I just tried to update to the latest firmware.... Everything was going fine, until the phone go to the part where it would normally flash to the apple logo and progress bar.... but instead it flashed and restarted death cycle.
and now i am out of ideas.
I would really love it if some one could help me out. I have tried to be as thorough as possible in my explanation to make it easier for every one.
I have contacted apple and told them that my phone was jsut frozen at apple logo and after a bit, they said that they would replace it (Ive had the phone less than a year), two problems with that: If it is 4.0.2, I cannot downgrade (no SHSH blobs for that new phone) now jailbreak. Or if i get lucky and its 4.0.1 or 4.0, then i can onyl jailbreak, and I am stuck with iOS4 which i had previously downgraded from back to 3.1.2, which is better than nothing, but not nearly as good as if the death cycle problem gets solved.
Thank you so much for reading, I'd appreciate your help.
Best,
Endor43
