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Help Iphone 3GS (5.11.07 BB) constant loop after redsnow will not let me Restore.


My phone restarts every 2 minutes and when I go into the ios and am doing something continues to do it. I cannot restore from my old backups get error "iphone cannot restore backup backup session failed", My phone was working before this on 3.1.2 blackr1n, Have tried IPSW files from 3.1.2, 4.2.1, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.5 (currently have 4.3.2) they all seem to have the same behavior or give me error messages not letting me do anything wish I could just go back to 3.1.2 wich worked perfectly but did not allow me to use many aps.

My phone is a:
3GS Basband 5.11.07
Previous IOS was 3.1.2
Old version of itunes (9) I was required to upgrade to latest itunes
I tinyumbrellaed the phones blobs
Backed up the phone through itunes before restoring jailbreak
Followed steps on youtube and got the files there from How to Update iPhone 3g/3gS & iPhone 4 to Custom iOS 4.2.1 Preserving your Baseband - YouTube "How to Update iPhone 3g/3gS & iPhone 4 to Custom iOS 4.2.1 Preserving your Baseband "
Snowbreeze to keep the baseband
Redsnow to help get into redsn0w_win_0.9.9b7 / redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc16 /redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc17 or (just to put into mode to accept ipsw file
UltraSnow through Cydia when it started up

Thanks,
Dan