Iphone 3gs Crashed and wont restore :( - 3rd Apr 2012 8:00am
Morning all,
Im hoping someone could help me. My partners iphone 3gs which is around 3/4 years old (ios 5.1 not jailbroken) crashed yesterday afternoon and seems to be stuck in some kind of recovery mode loop.
Ive tried all sorts of things.....
Recovering the phone using Itunes using the normal method of plugging in and clicking restore
Putting the phone into DFU mode and shift clicking a separate IPSW file (I have tried 5.1 and 4.1) both downloaded from apple servers and its saying it couldnt be restored with an error (40)
I have also tried using Tinyumbrella and Redsn0w to kick it out of recovery mode, which still doesnt work.
I have also tried to jailbreak the phone to see if i could get it past the recovery mode screen (showing a picture to plug it into itunes) and as the bar comes on to the iphone as if to install the patched firmware, itunes says waiting for the iphone and then it flags up the (40) error code.
I have read online and some places say that its a hardware error code. Im just curious if anyone can confirm this or has come across this before?
Thanks for reading and take care!
Im hoping someone could help me. My partners iphone 3gs which is around 3/4 years old (ios 5.1 not jailbroken) crashed yesterday afternoon and seems to be stuck in some kind of recovery mode loop.
Ive tried all sorts of things.....
Recovering the phone using Itunes using the normal method of plugging in and clicking restore
Putting the phone into DFU mode and shift clicking a separate IPSW file (I have tried 5.1 and 4.1) both downloaded from apple servers and its saying it couldnt be restored with an error (40)
I have also tried using Tinyumbrella and Redsn0w to kick it out of recovery mode, which still doesnt work.
I have also tried to jailbreak the phone to see if i could get it past the recovery mode screen (showing a picture to plug it into itunes) and as the bar comes on to the iphone as if to install the patched firmware, itunes says waiting for the iphone and then it flags up the (40) error code.
I have read online and some places say that its a hardware error code. Im just curious if anyone can confirm this or has come across this before?
Thanks for reading and take care!