iPhone 3G stuck at the Apple logo screen; will not boot!, continued

Thanks for posting this - it worked for me.

Re: Ignoring the ACTUAL WAY TO FIX THIS UNTIL APPLE FIXES IT

Is everyone ignoring my posts that show exactly how to make this all work for a reason?

Don't you need to do "something" to the phone in order to SSH into it?

I have gone through about 13 restores in a couple of weeks. If the iphone was a car, apple would already have one of those "class action suits" in their hands... or a massive recall.

The 1st time my iphone crashed, i took it back to where i bought it from. They gave it back to Apple to see if they can repair it. 1 Week later i got a new phone. Ive had the new one for 5 days and it crashed again (silver apple hang).
I think its an application. This really *****!! I have reformatted my iPhone 2x today!! Its really frustrating!!

i'm waiting for that "massive recall"...this is getting out of hand to say the least. Apple needs to quickly resolve this problem!!

Is this the fix we've been waiting for?!?! I found this screenshot on the web:

http://patrickmccarron.com/iTouch21Changes.png

I don't know if it is a fake or not, but I sure hope it isn't.

unfortunately this doesn't seem to work for me anymore now that i upgraded to itunes 8??

anybody else have the same issue?

If you upgraded to iTunes 8 you can download 7.7 here
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/itunes77.html

Hope this issue resolves tomorrow.

So can I do anything besides restore? I can't run ssh because I haven't jailbroken my phone and I have itunes 8 so restarting it several times while connected to itunes seems to now work. I would think that has to be some way to get out of this besides a full restore.

Yup, that looks about right. After installing 2.1 on my iPod touch, I can confirm the following:

*NO MORE ALoD!!!*

1. Apps install MUCH faster now (less than a minute, even with 70+ apps installed)
2. Apps can be deleted from the device in about 10-20 seconds
3. Natives apps open much faster, as do most third party apps
4. Most apps close more smoothly as well
5. Upgrading the iPod touch took only five minutes, and didn't delete any apps/media
6. No more keyboard lag; Japanese language conversions occur almost in real-time.

Overall, I'm REALLY impressed by 2.1 - it's what 2.0 should've been to begin with.

This problem must be addressed promptly. I can no longer tolerate it. I have to restore my iphone at lease once every two days. and being a student this is very troublesome. i use the iProcrastinate app for my homework and other school-related tasks, and when i have to restore all of that data is gone because it says all of my back-up files are corrupt. I have had to restore my iPhone twice today. this is my only complaint about iPhone, but its a huge problem. my iphone crashed and i had to restore and because of that i had no way to be reached by my place of employment and may not have a job much longer (granted i was quitting soon anyway so it doesnt matter in this instance, but i could see that being a much biger problem elsewhere!) Please Solve this problem asap apple, it is making many lives incredibly stressful and difficult.

Well, it's with pride that I'd like to report that, as of now, 2.1 has finally fixed the issue.

2.1 definitely does NOT fix this issue. Just had to do the mobilewatchdog fix right now. sighs

Odd, it has fixed both my iPod touch and my iPhone 3G. Even with 80+ apps installed, new ones install/upgrade in less than a minute (by wifi, 3G, and iTunes) and the activity indicator only spins for 5-10 seconds after the install completes. Rebooting is much faster, and both devices have survived NUMEROUS app installs, deletes and upgrades.

I'd suggest restoring if you're still having problems. In fact, I didn't actually upgrade my iPhone to 2.1 - I restored to 2.1, and then set it up as a new phone. YMMV of course, but better safe than sorry, IMO. 😉