Very early Iphone 4, multiple error codes, primarily -1

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Hi All!

Im wondering if you might be able to help me as i think ive got to the end of my iphone repair knowledge! Firstly i'l fill you in on the history of the fault.......

One weekend about 3 months ago my iphone4 started to display that a restore was needed. A hard reset tended to clear the message but then it became more permanaet so i connected to itunes, carried out a restore which failed with an error of -1. Since then its been stuck in recovery mode, with the connect to itunes logo ( black back ground with a usb cable etc. ).

1. Ive already tried a dfu restore ( same -1 error )
2. Kicking it out of recovery mode with TU ( no effect )
3. Adding 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com to the itunes host folder, shift clicking restore and loading a manually downloaded copy of 4.3.3 ipsw ( new failure code of 3194 )
4. Unistalling and reinstalling the latest copy of itunes with all security disabled ( still an error of -1 )

If anyone has any tips then it would be awesome, im beginning to think that its terminal! I should also point out that the phone has never been jailbroke, and nohing un toward has ever been done to it. I have a new handset now and the same usb lead, port and copy of itunes was used to update to io6 which was fine.

Oddly ( and im not into conspiracy theories normally! ) i know of three other handsets, all 3gs's that did the same thing on the same weekend? I can olny assume its coincidence?! I should also point out that im 'reasonably savvy' with computing so feel free to complicate things,one of two things will happen - ill understand or i wont

Thanks in advance for your help,

Joe

 

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I'm using a jailbroken iPhone4...in my experience when I get error -1 it's usually fixed with "Recovery Fix" using redsn0w.... essentially the Restore is complete but stuck in "Recovery Mode".... Not sure if this will apply to yourself as a non-jailbroken iPhone....

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Hi,

Thank you for your swift response, as far as i know the recovery fix on redsnow is the same as the one on TU? Netherless i have just tried the redsnow recover and i got an erro rstating the reuired ipsw's could not be downloaded and to check the internet connection. The connection however is fine?

Regards

Joe

 

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Have you considered jailbreaking the iPhone on ios6... I say this because there seems to be more tools/options to fix errors...

Use YouTube (ref: iDowloadBlog) look for the IOS6 Jailbreak video... hopefully you can get your iPhone running again...