Step By Step Guide to Upgrade Jailbroken iPhone 3GS to iPhone OS 3.1 Using PwnageTool 3.1.3
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ive never had a problem in the last 2 years jailbreaking, but this time, when it came back up, i have no carrier logo and cant use my phone, it appears to be jailbroken, but cant use phone, any ideas?
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In case anyone else gets stuck like I did, here's how I got out: press and hold both buttons until the screen goes blank, then comes back to the Apple logo. Connect it to the computer (I had iTunes running, but I don't think that matters). Press and hold the Home button for a LONG time... eventually, the phone vibrates, and at that point I let go of the Home button. A moment later, it woke up to the normal unlock screen.
As far as I can tell, nothing had written anything to the phone, so that "escape" got me back to the phone the way it was before.
Once bitten, I think I might leave this "upgrade" unless/until I know how to make it really work.
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never mind i forgot to uncheck the activate button...i got it
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Luck must have a lot to do with it. I've tried about a dozen times. Nothing worked.
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what if say you wanted to jailbreak the 3gs and also upgrade the baseband since im using a offical iphone carrier? is there some checkbox i can tick?
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If I jailbroke my phone at OS3.0 with purplerain and then upgraded to 3.1 can I use this to jailbreak or does the phone have to be currently jailbroken at 3.0.
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well i had my iphone jailbroken through pc using redsnow but accidently updated through i tunes and lost my jailbrake. i don't think i ever hit the button in cydia "make my life easy" so i am asking for you all to help me out. i have a pc and really don't have access to a mac. is there any way i can re jailbreak my phone
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oh yea i have a 3gs
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well one more question. is it possible for someone on a mac to create a file for me to use on a pc to jailbreak my phone?
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That's suck.Not any more for Windows version ?
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thanx Robin!!! to everyone here who efffed up their iphone, just listen to what Robin did. It worked for me and i'm back to my jailbroken 3.0 iphone. this was life-saving advice. and i'm gonna do the same and wait for a better way to jailbrake to 3.1
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Again, if you effed up your iphone like i did and got some "1600" error or something, just look up at a couple posts earlier and listen to how Robin fixed this problem...it worked for me. unfortunately it doesnt jailbrake your iphone...but the good news is that it brings your iphone back to it's previous jailbroken 3.0 self again...thanx again, Robin
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tried on two friends phones iphone 3gs and 3g same exact deal had two upgrade them to 3.1 to make phone work agree with u followed to letter mac had to have changed something sux
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so Windows users who want to unlock their iPhone 3GS should either get the custom firmware created by the PwnageTool on a Mac from someone they trust or borrow their friend's Mac and follow this guide
about this
why don't you post for us a custom firmware pleasssssseeeeeeYours
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it is so disappointed Dev Team forget all the Windows uses. but there is way to over come this issue. Use the VMware to install a MAC virtual computer on windows.
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Hello, I dont have a mac but my friend does and he has a custom firmware that he created for his 3G, would that still work with my 3gs? or does he have to re create a custom firmware for 3gs? also what are the steps for a windows user that has gotten his hands on a trusty persons custom firmware?
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From here you can download directly the already customized firmwares (jailbroken and without baseband upgrade) for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.
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for some reason I cant seem to jailbreak my 3GS with 3.1
My custom firmware doesnt seem to work. Everything goes fine till I need to restore with custom firmware.. its preparing iphone for restore and my iphone shows itunes + usb connect logo..after 5 minutes i get error code 1604(Iphone could not be restored. Unknown error occured )
Dev team please advise!
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followed exact and get error 1600 3 times in a row
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well, what i did is this:
From the off position, i pressed both the home button and the wake/sleep button until the apple logo came on and then i released both....and then i connected the iphone to the computer with itunes open...and then i held on to the home button for maybe 2 minutes or so..and my iphone booted up like normal. there you go...hope it works out for you!!! -
You can checkout this post for more details:http://www.iphonehacks.com/2009/09/dev-team-re-jailbreak-iphone-3gs-after-accidentally-upgrading-to-iphone-os-31.html
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Yeah it didn't work. It kept going straight to the itunes with the usb logo on the phone as soon as I let go of the buttons. I kept holding it for another almost 5 min and nothing. Ended up having to restore and use my latest backup.
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Everyone is getting this error. It looks like if you have 3GS with 3.1 it won't work AT ALL even if you already JB your phone earlier on a different FW.
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Jus tried everything in that blog and in the comments... Nothing worked..... I DID however get a different error message.... error 21. When I tried to do it in windows it made it a little farther on the "Preparing iPhone For Restore" then it failed with the error 21... what is that error mean?
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Those instructions are certainly different!
Thanks - I'll give it a go, although probably not for a day or two: I want plenty of time available for reinstalling all the existing customisations.
Incidentally, even when it *doesn't* work for me, I really do appreciate the hard work done by both iPhoneHacks & the Dev Team - just the brief threat of losing my jailbreak made me realise just how much I appreciate it!
While I never expect them to offer unlocked phones for contract prices, I do hope Apple will drop the restrictions of the App Store some day: an un-jailbroken iPhone is a very good device, but a jailbroken iPhone is everything the iPhone should be.
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Success! Thank You.
It seems everything alright, but except I find no carrier logo in the upper left corner of the iPhone. I had "Activate the phone" option unchecked because my Iphone need not to be unlocked. Should I have the "Activate the phone" option checked to get back the carrier logo?
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Some of u people need to quit crying about the dev team not releasing a windows version. They always release the mac version 1st so if ur to impatient to wait then kick rocks.
I was wonderin have the issues in 3.1 been resolved like battery life ect. -
Correct, since you had already upgraded to 3.1 the jailbreak won't work for now. You had to be on 3.0 or 3.01 jailbreak before applying the custom IPSW.
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When is available for Windows users ?
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There's no carrier logo, I still can use the phone.
