I am new to the forums, and I am new to iphones although i have experience playing around with other smartphones. I Got this iPhone which was locked to orange and I am in Malta (we have no orange here) so I tried to upgrade my Iphone from 4.1 to 4.3.3 as I didn't want the 5.01 yet (because of the tethering) with no success for hours with iTunes poking out error codes mostly if i'm not mistaking 3194 error code... After reading some guides and tutorials on this Forum and other webpages regarding the errors and tried to fix it like they recommended without any success i tried to jailbreak my iphone without upgrading first so i tried every jailbreaking i could find which was compatible with 4.1 but nothing succeeded(apparently the iPhone was already jailbreaked by the previous owner but god knows what type of jailbreak he did)and suddenly the phone would not run anymore.. Although I forgot with which jailbreaking method this happened but if i am not mistaking it was after trying sn0wbreeze which failed and then trying to update directly to 5.01 but again I am not completely sure... All i know now is that:
The Apple USB and iTunes icon is all i can see.. I tried to run the itunes restore many times and with many different methods and different ipsws including the latest one which iTunes download with always failing, getting different error codes to no availe. Now i'v ended up with the iTunes getting stuck at preparing iphone for restore... or restoring iphone (at about 30%) stages. I don't know what to do and I am going crazy. I tried restoring from both DFU mode and pwnd DFU mode other then recovery mode but still no luck. Tried a different computer and it went worst... I'm on windows 7 32bit with the latest and fresh install of iTunes(yes i also tried re-installing i tunes and deleting everything that have to do with Apple to no avail ) I Searched and searched and tried everything i met with on my way. So anyhelp how can i get my iphone back and running would be helpfull!
Iphone 3GS which had the 4.1 firmware and 5.14.02 baseband... I used tools like TinyUmbrella and editing the hosts files... those didn't work.
The Apple USB and iTunes icon is all i can see.. I tried to run the itunes restore many times and with many different methods and different ipsws including the latest one which iTunes download with always failing, getting different error codes to no availe. Now i'v ended up with the iTunes getting stuck at preparing iphone for restore... or restoring iphone (at about 30%) stages. I don't know what to do and I am going crazy. I tried restoring from both DFU mode and pwnd DFU mode other then recovery mode but still no luck. Tried a different computer and it went worst... I'm on windows 7 32bit with the latest and fresh install of iTunes(yes i also tried re-installing i tunes and deleting everything that have to do with Apple to no avail ) I Searched and searched and tried everything i met with on my way. So anyhelp how can i get my iphone back and running would be helpfull!
Iphone 3GS which had the 4.1 firmware and 5.14.02 baseband... I used tools like TinyUmbrella and editing the hosts files... those didn't work.