The solution is here [Updating problems]

Alright so i promised everyone a solution to the updating problem, so here it is.

A little recap, a friend of mine wanted to sell his iphone 3gs and so tried erasing all the data from it, which froze the phone to the apple logo screen. Upon searching around i found out that there is indeed a problem with the firmware and it freezes when you try to erase all the data from the phone.

So, restoring should be the solution right? in this case it wasn't. I found out that Apple put in another layer of security, which validates any and all restores with a ECID value. What i could deduce was that it checks whether the firmware has been tampered with and in this case, jailbroken. So i couldnt restore it to the firmware 3.0.

i played around and gambled with the phone. i updated the firmware to 3.1.2 and jailbroke it with blackra1n. Miraculously it worked.

So the solution plain and simple, if you are running firmware 3.0 or 3.1 and can't restore the phone then update to the latest and as a safety precaution save the phone's ECID with Saruki's server.

another iPhone issue dealt with

alright so .. a friend came over with his iphone. wanted to sell it off and accidentally hit the clear all data which lead to the bug that leaves it stuck at the apple logo.

It was running OS 3.0 at that time, so i tried doing a restore, harmless right? NO. little did i know that Apple had changed their restoration procedure to include a little signing step. which meant that if you had a jailbroken os and while restoring it checks with the apple servers, so if they detect any anomaly, you're screwed.

hence the only way to get around is to either store you're ECID number with Cydia before hand, but if you were in my position and you actually did restore it without saving the ECID then stick around and i'll post another post shortly.

Until then,

Yalla

How do I check which firmware version my locked iPhone is using?

that's pretty simple .. for unlocked phones you can check the ABOUT section in settings to know which firmware you're phone is running.

A problem arises if you want to check the firmware of a phone which is locked. To do this simply, put you're iphone into DFU mode aka recovery mode and connect it to you're PC. Once connected, itunes would popup a message saying that a iPhone in recovery mode has been detected, what you do now is hit RESTORE and you'll see the downloading, pause the transfer but dont hit cancel. Now navigate to the temporary download for itunes to read the name of the firmware.

For windows based systems the location would be commonly at
[operating system drive]:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates

the version should be something before the file type of the firmware file.

Welcome

Welcome fellow onliners.

I've created this blog in an attempt to help others who often stand baffled with issues arising with their iphones.
A little history about my iphone endeavors, I've been an avid fan of Apple since 2004. Bought my first first iPod, 4g Photo, back in 2005 and then put my family on the Apple band wagon and havent looked back since. I got my iphone back in 2007, used it for a year but then got rid of it when the headphone jack started acting up.

So enough of that, stay tuned for blog posts on rather unusual issues with iphones and their solutions.


-Eddy