Archive: 25 posts

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Okay, here's the story. I was trying to downgrade to 4.0.1f firmware so I could jailbreak it via jailbreakme.com Note: Only works in iphone browser. (I don't like apple much, but more on that in a bit.) In order to downgrade I had to take all software and things off my phone (although I did make a backup.) So what I needed to do after that was Restore the Iphone with the 4.0.1 software, there was some error message and it wouldn't work. This kinda freaked me out, so I decided to chicken out and restore the to the regular software. Several hours later it's still stuck on "Restoring Iphone Firmware." This really was several hours later, as far as I know, it doesn't take that long to restore to ORIGINAL FACTORY SETTINGS (all caps to capitalize on anger) So I'm forced to unplug and try again, after I unplug it's still stuck on the Restoring screen with the apple icon and the meter about 3/5 done. So I hold down the Home button and the Lock button for about 10 seconds. And I try again. Then on a laptop. Then again on the computer. And then I realize my epic failure. A few days later, I go to the Apple Store near by. I set up an appointment with a "Genius" and talk to the guy, he plugs it into one of the laptops over there and tries to restore it. He Get's some error message, not sure what it was exactly. And he tells me, and I quote "Sorry duuuuude, your phone is dead." Okay maybe that wasn't a complete quote, but you get the picture. Now, I read somewhere that I should get a free replacement because it broke due to there software. And come on guys, TECHNICALLY it was there fault right? I'm standing by this logic by the way, and that's why I'm not very fond of apple at the moment. I tell him about this and he argues that TECHNICALLY it wasn't their fault. After a bit of arguing and a talk with the manager, (yes I'm just that defiant) , the bottom line is, I'm not getting a new one for free. Then a few days later, I meet with a guy at the At&t Store. (my wireless carrier) We talk for a bit until he asks me an honest question. "Were you trying to jailbreak?" Well technically I wasn't jailbreaking, just downgrading, but I decided to answer somewhat honestly, as to avoid whatever probably wouldn't have happened anyway. I give a slight node and he says, "Well, perhaps you should try a jailbreak recovery." This was waaaay more than I had possibly hopped so we talked a bit more. And with a few ideas in mind, I thanked him and left. Back home I try downloading a different firmware, and try that. With MAJOR dissapointment, It's a no go. So to sum it all up, my Iphone is bricked, and I can't get a new one. So what can I do? Thanks for reading my post by the way!

2011-06-27 04:13:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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Honestly, I don't think that there is much you can do. I never downgraded my iPhone when I had it (I did restore it once and that took 8 hours!) so I don't know if 4.0.1 is something that's readily available through apple or a third party (it's bad if it was through a third party). Technically - And I am saying this not knowing the terms of service regarding restoring an iPhone (I never read over those things) - This is your fault if your actions interfered with the device and broke it. I'm sorry to hear that you're in such a tough spot, but there is not that much you can do. However, if you are a REAL smooth talker, you can pretty much get someone to give you whatever you want since you can spin an argument of this sort any which way...

2011-06-27 06:17:00 Author: Unknown User

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Honestly, I don't think that there is much you can do. I never downgraded my iPhone when I had it (I did restore it once and that took 8 hours!) so I don't know if 4.0.1 is something that's readily available through apple or a third party (it's bad if it was through a third party). Technically - And I am saying this not knowing the terms of service regarding restoring an iPhone (I never read over those things) - This is your fault if your actions interfered with the device and broke it. I'm sorry to hear that you're in such a tough spot, but there is not that much you can do. However, if you are a REAL smooth talker, you can pretty much get someone to give you whatever you want since you can spin an argument of this sort any which way... lol Hmmmmm, I was trying to restore to the software from apple, just by downloading from another website. It was there stuff, just from another place technically. That change anything?

2011-06-27 21:07:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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If it wasn't provided directly from apple (or permitted otherwise) than you are accountable for the damage to the phone...sorry

2011-06-28 10:24:00 Author: Unknown User

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You could try and get it fixed/replaced in the place you got it, it SHOULD be covered by the warranty. But I've also heard that if you've tried to replace the software/firmware it makes the warranty void because obviously it's piracy. Is their no way of trying to put the jail break software on it? Or even continue removing the apple software? Their isn't much more the phone is able to do, so it wouldn't hurt it more would it?

2011-06-28 18:51:00 Author: dbibby88 Posts: 378

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That's what I've been trying to do! And in anycase, the warranty's been out 200+ days

2011-06-29 01:05:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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Don't attempt to make illegal modifications to your phone then. It's your own fault, don't expect Apple to pay for your stupidity.

2011-06-29 01:48:00 Author: Unknown User

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Don't attempt to make illegal modifications to your phone then. It's your own fault, don't expect Apple to pay for your stupidity. Hey. It takes a lot of smarts to Jailbreak your phone. And I was just regular restoring my phone when it broke. Using Itunes. It was their software from their outlet (for lack of a better term.) By the way. I hereby anti-thank that post.

2011-06-29 15:36:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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Hey. It takes a lot of smarts to Jailbreak your phone. And I was just regular restoring my phone when it broke. Using Itunes. It was their software from their outlet (for lack of a better term.) By the way. I hereby anti-thank that post. And you think Apple don't realise exactly what your intentions were? They aren't stupid, and they have no reason to help you. And while I doubt it takes a lot of 'smarts' to follow a guide to jailbrek your phone, you obviously don't have those 'smarts' because you failed.

2011-06-30 12:16:00 Author: Unknown User

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Well you managed the break part of jailbreaking so I'd call that a partial success.

2011-06-30 12:35:00 Author: Rabid-Coot Posts: 6728

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Well you managed the break part of jailbreaking so I'd call that a partial success. Well I suppose a partial success is better than no success And you think Apple don't realise exactly what your intentions were? They aren't stupid, and they have no reason to help you. And while I doubt it takes a lot of 'smarts' to follow a guide to jailbrek your phone, you obviously don't have those 'smarts' because you failed. I don't want to argue with you. Really, we've both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But still. Not only is Jailbreaking legal, it's done by anybody who has the 'smarts' to do it. And just to annoy you, it's And you think Apple DIDN'T REALIZE exactly what your intentions were? Can we just end this here though? I don't quite appreciate your Passive Aggression. Or maybe it's just regular Aggression. Either way. Good Bye. (Perhaps this should be locked too. Really don't want to start anything.)

2011-06-30 17:44:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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I don't want to argue with you. Really, we've both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But still. Not only is Jailbreaking legal, it's done by anybody who has the 'smarts' to do it. And just to annoy you, it's Can we just end this here though? I don't quite appreciate your Passive Aggression. Or maybe it's just regular Aggression. Either way. Good Bye. (Perhaps this should be locked too. Really don't want to start anything.) Congratulations, in one of my 3,000+ posts I got one of my tenses wrong. Fantastic, thank you for pointing that out. And why would we both have said things that I will regret? I haven't said anything I'm going to regret... You're an idiot. It's your own fault you broke your **** phone, and it's not Apples job to give you a new one. I'm more than smart enough to jailbreak an iPhone, doesn't mean I want to or need to therefore disproving your theory that it's done by 'anybody who has the 'smarts' to do it', although apparently you don't have the 'smarts' to do it.

2011-06-30 23:47:00 Author: Unknown User

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I'm going to have to side with Alex here, YOU broke the phone dude, it worked fine until YOU attempted to modify it, maybe if it was something you were forced to download and get, but you modifying it is not their fault, but yours for attempting to modify it. Its not something that's necessary, made by them, OR that was asked to be downloaded by them, so they've no reason to pay for a malfunction in someone else's part. As for what you can do? Accept your mistake and move on? Its broken, non functional, already confirmed (according to you.) by different people and yourself, not much you can do.

2011-07-01 00:09:00 Author: Silverleon Posts: 6707

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Congratulations, in one of my 3,000+ posts I got one of my tenses wrong. Fantastic, thank you for pointing that out. And why would we both have said things that I will regret? I haven't said anything I'm going to regret... You're an idiot. It's your own fault you broke your **** phone, and it's not Apples job to give you a new one. I'm more than smart enough to jailbreak an iPhone, doesn't mean I want to or need to therefore disproving your theory that it's done by 'anybody who has the 'smarts' to do it', although apparently you don't have the 'smarts' to do it. Someone hasn't played portal 2.........I came here asking for help, Geezum Pete if you don't like what I have to say then just go ahead and ignore it.

2011-07-01 04:21:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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Someone hasn't played portal 2.........I came here asking for help, Geezum Pete if you don't like what I have to say then just go ahead and ignore it. En Taro Tassadar No, I haven't. I've been playing other things. I could also make references to in-game things that you wouldn't undersand, doesn't mean I should does it? You came asking for help, while at the same time complaining that Apple wouldn't help you despite it clearly being your own fault. Taro ruul asz See what I did there? Or has someone not played every game in the world and learnt every reference from it?

2011-07-01 12:28:00 Author: Unknown User

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What does StarCraft Got to do with this? http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i321/Phazerz123/YUNOAlex.jpg That's right, I personally made a Y U NO Meme.

2011-07-02 19:30:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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Lol. It's true that he jailbroke the phone. But that's not were the problem lies. He didn't break his phone when he jailbroke it. It was when he was using APPLE'S SERVICES/PROGRAMS that his phone broke. So in a way it is Apple's fault. But if they say they can't do anything then they can't do anything. They probably know you jailbroke it which is why they say they can't. =/

2011-07-02 20:23:00 Author: Whalio Cappuccino Posts: 5250

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lol. It's true that he jailbroke the phone. But that's not were the problem lies. He didn't break his phone when he jailbroke it. It was when he was using apple's services/programs that his phone broke. So in a way it is apple's fault. But if they say they can't do anything then they can't do anything. They probably know you jailbroke it which is why they say they can't. =/ thank you.

2011-07-02 21:15:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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Hey. It takes a lot of smarts to Jailbreak your phone. Seriously, if you think it takes smarts, no wonder you broke your phone, you can't even properly restore an iPhone. I jailbroke my OLD iPod, all i had to do was slide a bar and wait roughly, erm, 2minutes. There's not even any need to, jailbreaking doesn't get you anything special, the only half decent thing are the themes you can get, but if i go to the extent of jailbreaking my ipod to mean i can no longer update it, just to get a few themes, it's virtually impossible. (Oh, and there's insidious, which is illegal, unlike jailbreak I only kept it for like a week, before it got tiresome. Now i have an iPhone 4 and have no plans to even attempt to jailbreak it, as it's as good as it can be, why risk it...

2011-07-08 16:42:00 Author: Bang126 Posts: 157

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I'm going to have to agree in that it's your fault, there isn't really any logical version to expect a downgrade unless it's for jailbreaking, why would you want to make a product worse? Even if you were using Apple's services, your intentions were to jailbreak, and they'll easily find that out. Still, sorry about your loss, it must be pretty bad.

2011-07-08 16:53:00 Author: kirbyman62 Posts: 1893

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Seriously, if you think it takes smarts, no wonder you broke your phone, you can't even properly restore an iPhone. I jailbroke my OLD iPod, all i had to do was slide a bar and wait roughly, erm, 2minutes. There's not even any need to, jailbreaking doesn't get you anything special, the only half decent thing are the themes you can get, but if i go to the extent of jailbreaking my ipod to mean i can no longer update it, just to get a few themes, it's virtually impossible. (Oh, and there's insidious, which is illegal, unlike jailbreak I only kept it for like a week, before it got tiresome. Now i have an iPhone 4 and have no plans to even attempt to jailbreak it, as it's as good as it can be, why risk it... You're talking about Jailbreakme.com I couldn't use the site because I was using the newest software. Which is why I tried to downgrade. Also, for me the software was pretty slow. I have the right to downgrade or make any modifications to my phone that I want. In any case, it broke when I tried to restore it to normal. That bit wasn't my fault. It really depends on what you want from your product I suppose. If you want something shiny, that works. Stick with what ya got. If you want to do awesome stuff, almost always for free, then jailbreak. And regarding apple acknowledging I was trying to jailbreak, all they can really do is void my warranty. Which wasn't active anyway. I think they're purposely not letting me restore, so I might be Blacklisted. Getting to another point, on the off chance I can change this from a hate thread to actual help. Anyone know a way to put a Jailbroken Firmware on my phone? I've tried a few times, I keep getting an error message saying It's not compatible or something.

2011-07-08 19:05:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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First, what firmware are you? second, if it is 4.2, use greenp0ison third, if its 4.3... use redsn0w Google is your friend.

2011-07-08 21:20:00 Author: theswweet Posts: 2468

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Aye, well Jailbreakme v3 is out, it jailbreaks iOS 4.3.3. So, look up on how to do a dfu mode restore, and your problem is solved. It is hard to brick an iPhone, unless you screw the baseband. Oh, and DFU means Device Firmware Upgrade. This is a little part of the bootloader that can not be flashed; therefore making it so you can ALWAYS restore. Also, just upgrade to the latest FW (4.3.3) then you dont need to worry about SHSH blobs. I jailbroke my iPad and iPod touch 4g with Jailbreakme.com It is so simple. Just press the install button, that is all!

2011-07-09 04:03:00 Author: StaticLinuxpro Posts: 482

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Good idea, I'll see if I can get that to work. I'm not in the position where i can try that right now though. So I'll post back with results. Thanks

2011-07-10 01:03:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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New "Plan" my dad went and got an Iphone 4 and I'm gonna get one in February. My brothers roomate is pretty good with technology and whatnot, so I might mail it to him and he'll try to fix it. Or I could pay 25 bucks for a "rebuff" from AT&T. Which might help, if it doesn't work I get a refund anyway. Anyway........yea.

2011-07-20 19:06:00 Author: Phazerz123 Posts: 440

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