Error 29 Solution

Hi everyone!

After a 24 hours fight with my 3GS here is the solution for problem 29.

In my case, problem 29 came from the fact that my battery wasn't a "Apple" battery. So no way to upgrade and your Iphone will become bricked if you try to upgrade. Worst thing is that it never happened with the other updates.

All you need to do is to remplace your battery with your original one (In my case the battery was faulty during a travel so I had to go for a generic one that worked better than the original one - So I had to take my other Iphone battery to make it work).

Make sure to have the latest ITunes software (9.2) and that's all!

Don't bother to try on another computer or restore older version as it didn't work for me.

All the best!

IPhone, iOS 4, Windows 7

Posted on Jun 23, 2010 9:04 AM

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Jun 24, 2010 5:41 PM in response to pyrophoenix

Also have a non apple battery because old one no longer held a charge and now after upgrading to iOS4 - phone wont work unless plugged in to external power. So I have a useless hunk of junk. This is what it took to make me leave the iPhone and iPod touch for android for sure as it does seem from what everyone here is saying that upgrading to ios4 kills the phone if it's not an apple battery and that is Very Wrong on Apples part!

Jul 6, 2010 11:32 AM in response to pyrophoenix

I have been havin problems with my iphone 3gs now for 3 days, i have the same problem as every one else, error 29, it gets 2/3rds of the way loadiing and stops, i have had my phone for a yr now and its been great, i changed my contract on sat an got the new iphone 4 so decided to empty my 3gs and restore norml settings so i could sellit, i now have a phone which does not work, it has the original battery in, an i have tried it on 4 differant pc's, i have irecovery but cannot get that to work, my pc is running windows XP, any ideas people????

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