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iPhone/iPod touch debrickification clinic
Got troubles? Feeling the mobile device blues? Is your iPhone or iPod touch seemingly bricked without a recovery solution after the 3.1 update? Join us for an informal, interactive debricking-clinic this evening (14 September, 9:30pm ET) for hands-on therapy. We'll look into a variety of fix-it lore that may (or, sadly, may not) help you get your device back to working order. Check in with the discussion to see whether there's a tip that might help.Click this link or "Read More" below to see & participate in the CoverItLive event.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
campbell said 12:30AM on 9-15-2009
Idk if it's just me but I just discovered that on my iPhone OS 3.1 3GS i can no longer take screenshots. The buttons just result in my phone locking and then returning to the lock screen instantly. Has anyone else heard about this bug?
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Zoran said 8:42AM on 9-15-2009
try this, you should be able to restore to any firmware:
http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2009/09/14/saurik-duplicates-apples-firmware-signing-server/
Saggis said 1:03AM on 9-15-2009
Sorry I missed it, I'm in NZ, so was at Uni.
Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone has any suggestions. My iPhone 3G bricked with 3.1. We're talking NOTHING working, no ipsw restore will get further than error 23. No previous version of iTunes/Xcode will restore, DFU mode or not. Nothing hacky/jailbreaky works.
Bricked two weeks after warranty and Apple will not make an exception!
Any suggestions please?
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peteywheatstrawjr said 1:11AM on 9-15-2009
George, the home button taking pictures thing happend to me too, within a couple of hours of upgrading to 3.1. Since then I've not had THAT problem, more just screen goes black maybe restarts on it's own at some point... just random shutdowns. So far it was 4 times w/in the first 24 hrs, 2 times in the next 24 hours. I really didn't know I was taking pictures until I looked in my Camera app.
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Tom Lee said 5:13AM on 9-15-2009
This happened to me. After going through Google to find a solution, I plugged my iPhone into my Mac whilst holding the power and home buttons and then tried to restore it and it came back to life. I hope this works for you. I rang Apple and they just said its out of warranty and they can only supply guidance or suggest visiting an Apple Store.
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Brian said 3:55AM on 9-16-2009
Can we quit misusing this term? If you can 'debrick' something through software procedures and normal interfaces, it's not bricked.
Bricked used to mean that 1. a device would no longer function and 2. could not be made to function again without either using JTAG or other interfaces meant for hardware engineers and not end-users, or replacing electrical components. These days, it seems like the second part of that definition is completely ignored.
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shenelleno5 said 1:57PM on 9-16-2009
I have a 2g iphone...which just recently turned into a brick...I had issues with it syncing with itunes immediately after updating to 3.0. My phone was unlocked. The phone went into recovery mode without even being connected to itunes...the genius' at apple were unable to restore kept getting error messages. We put it into dfu mode and tried to restore also came up with many different errors. I cant afford to buy a new phone...and am very sad without my iphone. Please anyone help!!
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