restore iphone 4 error 1013 and 1611

I'm having a problem saving the 'Host' file even though it's on my desktop. I have Read and Write permissions on it, but it still won't allow me to save the modified file. It just keeps telling me to change the permissions even though they appear correct. Any ideas?

So yesterday i was trying to upgrade to 4.3 and recieved a loop (and 1611). I haven't used umbrella. I haven't got gs.apple in the host file. But my phone is now alive. So what i did (maybe there are odd steps):
1) i added 17.112.176.11 gs.apple.com line to the host file (win xp);
2) restarted my computer;
3) manually downloaded firmware 4.2.1 which was my before yesterday;
4) shift+restore 4.2.1;
5) then you will receive error 3xxx but you phone will restart and be alive;

I think this will work only if you or itunes didn't corrupt your firmware and the problem is just a loop.

Message was edited by: coldOK

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Those who are having error 1013, try to restore using a PC or notebook with windows OS. I tried it after I became frustrated restoring from my Macbook Pro. Hope this helps.

Tony,
You are an iPhone god! Thank you thank you thank you.
Philip

Thanks man, you have drink for me.. Or you wont a money. Please send me how to send you. You save me with this post.
Thanks alot

On your MAC.
I had the issue now with my iPhone 4 and iPad to upgrade to 4.3.1 and this worked like a charm:

Quit iTunes
Open a terminal window
Type: sudo nano /etc/hosts and hit enter (make sure to respect the spaces and slashes)
You will be asked for the password, the administrator password... the one you use to log in as administrator.
You will get to a weird editor
Find the line that contains gs.apple.com. it will have a number (IP address) in front of it.
Add a # at the beginning of that line (comment out) and then press Ctrl and O to save.
Start again iTunes
Start again the update process.
Worked.

The fix here totally saved me a 90 minute trip to and from the Apple Store! I was updating from 4.3 to 4.3.1 and had to comment out (add the # in front of the appropriate line) one of the line and bingo!

NOTE: I thought this wasn't going to work because one of the lines was already #'ed out, but there are 2 lines with the same extension so put a # in front of the one that doesn't have it.

Godspeed to the person who figured out this buried fix!

Hi Tonyacos,

Thanks again ! This procedure solved again all the trouble to either call or go to Apple while updating to OS 4.3.1.

Why does n't Apple include it in it's own update ?
Where does that «gs.apple.com» line come from and why do we have to remove it ?

Regards.

Thanks saved my skin on the "hosts" one of my hashes was missing- added it then restored fine

Many thanks

Lee GOdfrey

Why are all my apps mixed up (moved to another page or missing) when I do a restore from a previous backup after the restore of the OS of my phone ?

Thanks speakerfritz for helping us better understand what is going wrong .... oups I think your thread has been censured by the great Almighty !

appreciate it man. Tried everyone else's solution and got nothing, yours worked 100%.

Well nice for those having gs.apple.com in their hosts file.

For those of us that don't... no solution yet

Manually updating to 4.3. I get 3194 error
Manually updating to 4.3.1 and get 1013 error (although it seems it is installing and checking, but when iTunes indicates it is checking firmware updates, the 1013 error appears.

Hi I tried this with my iphone and it didn't worked. Do you have any other solution?? The restore is for the update of IOS 4.3

This is what worked for me:

1/ Restarted my Mac (10.6.7) running iTunes (10.2.1) without iPhone connected

2/ Once OS has booted up connect iPhone and run in DFU mode

3/ Restore device

Hope this has helped