Bricked

[Jamie]

Okay firstly I'll apologise in advance for this essay.

I thought I'd bung this up on here before I hit yahoo answers lol.

Scenario...

Sister had an Iphone 3GS with old bootrom,serial - XXX334XXXXX.

Phone was unlocked by your average phoneshop and also jailbroken. It ran sweet as a nut for quite a while, however she was a dipshit clumsy fucker and dropped it a few times. I'm unsure whether related or not but basically the phone pretty much shit itself and locked itself out and required a restore. It was impossible to do anything with it and it also had a popup come up here and there saying the phone couldn't make or receive calls and would need to be restored via itunes and displayed a link to apple/support.

I'd like to point out that at this point there was no way I could find out what the SN was as it was dead, but had a passcode according to itunes. Anyway...I decided to try to restore it via itunes as you do. To no avail. GRR error code (1) on 3 different computers.

I then decided to go down the root of redsn0w and opt to re-jailbreak it as it now was wiped by my failed restore on itunes for 5.1.1.

I didn't de-select the ipad baseband, and although it jailbroke and I got in to the phone... you guessed it it's bricked.

No wifi, bluetooth address or IMEI displayed.

I have since then tried the following;

Restoring it via itunes expecting it to fail error (1) to which it does, and then re-attempting to jailbreak but de-selecting the ipad baseband hoping it would revert nada. After attempting this a few times I got pissed and thought I'd try restoring it to an earlier IOS 4.1, hoping that I could use sn0wbreeze to mod it hoping it would install it with an earlier baseband... you guessed it Neeeeeeeerp.

After this, I used sn0wbreeze to mod 5.1.1 and use itunes to install... it installed but still bricked.

Why couldn't itunes have just fucking installed 5.1.1 in the first place.!? I was able to install it after sn0wbreeze via fucking itunes! GRRR - I wouldn't have bricked it.


Anyway! Is there anything worth trying or is it doomed forever? or at least til the dev team sort a fix, which I doubt they will as it's an old model!

Any help much appreciated :)

[Brettles1986]

Im not really much help here but once the Ipad baseband is installed you cannot revert back.

[Jamie]

Im not really much help here but once the Ipad baseband is installed you cannot revert back.

Yeah I read that but as there are no mods for this 3GS chip I was kinda hoping to stumble accross something.

There's lots of people claiming they can un-brick but I have yet to see evidence!

It's irritating you can't revert it to it's original baseband via firmware flashing.

[Saxo_Mick666]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=unbricking+iphone+3gs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

Choose the first video, its a dude with a cap on and try that. Basically plug your iphone in, hold the off switch and home button for 10 seconds then release the off/lock button but keep holding the home button for a further 10 seconds then itunes should discover an idevice in recovery mode. Try and restore it now. Hope this helps

[Saxo_Mick666]

I have read about how to revert basebands but apparently it can only be done if you've jailbroke the phone and backed up YOUR original baseband before you updated.

[Jamie]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=unbricking+iphone+3gs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

Choose the first video, its a dude with a cap on and try that. Basically plug your iphone in, hold the off switch and home button for 10 seconds then release the off/lock button but keep holding the home button for a further 10 seconds then itunes should discover an idevice in recovery mode. Try and restore it now. Hope this helps

That's the first point of call in my post, I'm farrrr beyond that lol

I have read about how to revert basebands but apparently it can only be done if you've jailbroke the phone and backed up YOUR original baseband before you updated.

That's true.

[Saxo_Mick666]

Im sorry then, I have no idea what to do :( theres a few other links on that google page to try but I'm guessing they'll just tell you what you've already tried

[Jamie]

Unfounded results but worth a try, 2 people said it worked for them. lol.

Been on http://www.iphoneforums.net & someone told me about a way to possibly fix it.

See link;

http://www.beijingiphonerepair.com/fix/diy-how-to-fix-iphone-wifi-by-reflowing-the-logic-board-pcb-using-oven/

She's currently around 3 minutes in to baking!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8426/7805190584_d313a6c2c4_z.jpg

Fingers crossed, I shall report back tomorrow, unless I put it back together tonight!

[DreamEater]

Unfounded results but worth a try, 2 people said it worked for them. lol.

Been on http://www.iphoneforums.net & someone told me about a way to possibly fix it.

See link;

http://www.beijingiphonerepair.com/fix/diy-how-to-fix-iphone-wifi-by-reflowing-the-logic-board-pcb-using-oven/

She's currently around 3 minutes in to baking!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8426/7805190584_d313a6c2c4_z.jpg

Fingers crossed, I shall report back tomorrow, unless I put it back together tonight!

Take it to an apple store. They will fix it.

They obviously have better tools, my friends iPhone was in the same situation and they put it back to the latest iOS and all was good.

[mlawlan69]

so, you have a software problem, yet you decide to BAKE it, which invariably fixes hardware problems.

wrong route me thinks pal.

[DAMSK11]

Surely baking it won't help with a software problem?

[SaxoWM]

Lol baking it wtf?

[Saxo_Mick666]

Sh!t dude, I read that article a bit but isn't that just for if your wifi etc is working but isn't actually working if you get me. Like not bricked but fucked :S best of luck tho let us know how it goes!

[Yasuraka]

Have you tried finding an earlier firmware and updating it manually? (Hold shift and then choose update--> then select your firmware)

[Jamie]

Lol it's dead.

Someone on the Iphone forum mentioned it and said someone with the same problem with me had there phone working.

As I have been told, and seem to have come to find, once it's on the Ipad baseband you're fucked. No fixes out there for it. I looked at it the way I was told, I have nothing to loose, I have an iPod, & 4 and the sister has a new BB bold now so I set about roasting it.

It would cost more to have fixed by apple than it was worth.

+ no fixes on the net = mr cornershop phone man also won't be able to do it.

It's fried.

Now has no serial ect on itunes, lol although it's still picked up by USB though lol!

[Jamie]

Have you tried finding an earlier firmware and updating it manually? (Hold shift and then choose update--> then select your firmware)

Yes that's what I did with sn0wbreeze

[Jamie]

so, you have a software problem, yet you decide to BAKE it, which invariably fixes hardware problems.

wrong route me thinks pal.

Apparently once it's bricked it's no longer a software problem mate, it's to do with the chips ect but as unbelievable as it sounds, because believe me I thought it sounded odd...

I sat thinking can the baseband for the ipad make the iphone over perform for it's hardware causing it to damage itself?

Anyway, no fixes and no promise of a fix. Techy's on the forum I talked to in pms even said basically it's a condemned phone.

[b0t13]

lol just thought id add to this,

the ipad BB can be reverted now easily

then just a straight upgrade/some messing would probs have fixed it.

meh oh well :P