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Is this iPhone bricked?

  • 07-08-2009 2:25pm
    #1
    ve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭


    Hey, my brother had an unlocked/jailbroken 1st gen 1.1.2 iPhone and after short amount of time he installed one app too many and one day realised his Installer.app launcher was pushed off the desktop screen on to another page. In 1.1.2 (which has no pagination feature) he was now buggered and couldn't install any apps without access to installer.app. So now his iphone was now limited to a fixed set of features which he couldn't change.

    In town one day he passed by a place that offered to unlock/upgrade his firmware to 3.0. He decided to go for it because at this stage his iPhone suffered regular crashes and he just couldn't rely on it. So it was done and he now had 3.0 up and running and the phone seemed to be working fine. Then about 2 days after getting it upgraded, while it was working fine it just froze. He coulnd't do anything, not even power down. So he let the battery die, and when he docked to charge it again, it just showed the apple logo during boot and never gets any further.

    So I revert to my original question, is it bricked?, should he bring it back to the guys in town and demand a re-fix? or can he do it himself without risking a complete brick?


Comments

  • #2
    Evergreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭Evergreen


    I have an 3G model and the problem occurred during the week, everything froze and the on/off button would not work. I held in the home button for about 5 seconds and then, while keeping home button pressed, I pressed in the power button. After about 10 seconds the phone powered down.

    I left the phone for an hour and then powered it up and it worked fine.

    You could always try restoring the software if that does not work


  • #3
    jy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭jy


    he should be ok,

    Try putting it into dfu mode, then perform a hard set. should fix it


  • #4
    ve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭ve


    Right I just got hold of his phone, the poor lad has been without it for ages now. Right so I can appear to put the phone in to DFU in that when I hold power and home putton for 10 seconds, release power and keep home pressed after a few more seconds iTunes detects the iPhone and tells me that it's in restore mode and needs to be restored before iTunes can work with it, etc, etc.

    So with my 2.2.1 firmware at hand (which I'm going to use now, because 3 was sh1t), I do a Shift+Restore and select the 2.2.1 firmware in iTunes. Off it goes doing it's bit and then gives me a 1600 error which I can't seem to get past. Just before it gives me the 1600 error, out of my system tray comes this....things would work faster if you used a USB 2.0 port, which FFS I am, it's a relatively new PC. I even tried hopping between USB ports. Just in case one of the internal hubs was slow.

    Any ideas?


  • #5
    ve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭ve


    Just as a quick update from my work last night. I managed to get the iPhone up and running with 3.0.1 using iTunes 7.7. I could not get a 2.x firmware to restore via iTunes without getting a 1600 error. 3.0.1 went on fine using the Shift+Restore process in DFU mode.

    Then to jailbreak I used redsn0w 0.8

    Then to unlock I downloaded ultrasn0w via Cydia

    Final reboot, device back up and running perfectly.


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