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3GS Restore 3194

skskalyan

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My friend did 'Erase All Contents and Settings' in his 3GS (16GB) running on 3.1.2. (JBen and ULed).

Now the iPhone is dead.

No shsh saved in Cydia.

We are not able to restore it to 3.1.2 or 4.0.1 or 4.0.2 - 3194 error. How to restore it now?

Any help would be highly appreciated.
 

vietalogy

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Since apple is not signing those firmwares anymore you can not restore. Since you don't have the blobs saved your pretty much SOL. You will have to upgrade to the latest firmware which is 4.2 as I recall.
 

vietalogy

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Thank you. But, If I upgrade to 4.2, can we JB and UL it? (it is 3GS-16GB)

I know that you can only tether jailbreak with 4.2 as of now. I don't unlock so you will have to do the searching for that. Most likely no because you will be updating the baseband.
 

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Perhaps you should beat your friend for messing with the phone and making it hard to get it back to working order in your manner.
 

vietalogy

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That is the problem with jailbreaking, always a major risk for such little benefits. Of course if were talking Android then it's a completely different story :)

The only problem was his friend shouldn't have messed with his phone. Has nothing to do with risk with jailbreaking.
 

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