iPhone 2G screwed over.
 

Here's the thing...
I bought an iPhone 2G off of Craigslist, it was listed as a non-working iPhone, so I paid very little for it. Originally I was just going to open it up to study, since the girl said it wouldn't even turn on. But when I got home, I got curious and plugged it into my laptop and BOOM it turned on - albeit stuck in the recovery loop.

I am running windows 7, but also have access to Mac OSX (hackintosh dual boot)

Problem:
-Stuck in recovery loop

-iTunes recognizes it as an iPhone in recovery mode, can restore successfully (but after restore it is STILL in recovery mode)

-ziphone, and iLiberty will not recognize the phone (searches with no result)

-quickpwn crashes once I do that "hold buttons for 15 seconds" thing
(tried on my brother's computer as well, running XP SP2, same problem)

-iRecovery connects and reads it as an iPhone, but gives me a bunch of NAND errors.

Anyone of you hax0rs got ideas?
thanks in advance!

Tired RedSn0w yet?


Download the latest 3.0.1 IPSW, then if you're on a mac I think you hit CTRL and then Restore, that will give you the option to select your own update IPSW file.

If on PC then you Redsn0w with the IPSW

Tutorial Here

thanks for the suggestion... I gave it a try and at first it seemed to do something, but then during the jailbreaking process it got stuck at "installing activation bundles"... which was kind of expected since I stupidly let it upgrade to 3.1

Otherwise, I tried to reset the phone - no luck, ended back up in restore mode. I think the phone is bricked for good

I'm going to let the phone sit overnight at the installing activation bundles - maybe something interesting will turn up

Thanks again!

Make sure you downloaded the correct firmware for the iphone 2g. I downloaded the wrong one one time. Then finally got it to work.

i made sure I got the right FW - I am now in the process of downloading the 3.1 hacked version for the 2G. Hopefully this works...

In other words, i tried to mount the filesystem inside iRecovery so I could restart it manuaully. iRecovery comes back to me saying that "root file system mount failed"

does anybody know how to fix this issue?

problem resolved!

sold on craigslist lol

aww man.. was hoping you would find a cure.. I think I have the same problem!

How much did it sell for?

i sold it for 120 dollars
i bought it broken for 70 dollars though =D

sorry man, but here is a site I came across that explained the NAND errors
http://blog.alltechrelated.com/2009/...as-cracked-it/
read through the article, it's quite good and explains some key things in the apple firmware

lol! Nice on you.

Your time fixing it was worth $50, woooo

My phone........is worth $120..........

:cry:

yafoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I only looked at it for 2 hours, so $25/hr, not bad at all :haha: