iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occured (6)

K-Nadian wrote:
Looking back... i think my 1601 error was the caused by an issue where my computer was recognizing the iphone as a camera device, not as the iphone. After i got back on my feet by restoring on a mac, I realized my computer didnt recognize the iphone in itunes, and it WAS recognized in "My Computer" as a camera device.

This is NOT the reason for your problem. The iPhone SHOULD be recognized as a camera device, because it is. Any time there are photos in the Camera Roll it will be recognized as a camera so you can get the photos off it (you cannot with iTunes). It should ALSO be recognized by iTunes, but the fact that it is recognized as a camera is expected behavior.

Ic. But itunes wouldnt recognize my phone until i performed that driver switch, it solved that issue AND i can still get pics off my camera roll in "My Computer". It sounds to me that 1601 errors are communication errors... thought that might have been a symptom.

You are correct; 160x errors are USB communications errors, and your solution is a good one. All I was saying is that the fact that the iPhone is recognized as a camera is not related to the 160x errors. The camera detector is a separate driver from the iPhone driver.

Hi,

I ran into this issue when trying to restore my phone and fought with Unknown Error 6 for nearly a day, until I tried the following:

Used canned air to blow out the iPod connector, dampened a small piece of paper towel with a very small amount of Windex and then used an extremely small flathead screwdriver to very gently clean the connector's metal surfaces. Let it dry for a few seconds. Plugged it in, put it in DFU restore mode and Voilà... Restored perfectly.

This was literally after at least 25 tries including new firmware downloads, downloading and installing iTunes again, trying to restore on two different computers, using two different iPhone USB cables... and on and on to no avail.

Apparently a couple years of living in my pocket had gummed up the connector a bit.

While you need to make your own decision and proceed AT YOUR OWN RISK, this worked for me.

R

How do you reset the whole phone, I don't know how to do that. I cannot seem to get it back to working order at all. This is such a disaster.

i'm trying to restore my iphone and the error message 1604 keeps coming up....i've tried to switch usb ports....and i uninstalled and installed the itunes app and still nothing....at this point i don't know what else to do....advice??