my phone died

Same thing happened to me. I went to update to 4.3 and it went into recovery mode and now when I try and restore it say unknown error (1656).

Anyone have any idea what the problem is?

I have the same issue.... It was updating and after updating the firmware it goes error 1656... please advice anyone...

thanks,

ok I got it working now... tried this method that i saw in other threads:

Same problem but solved doing this :

On Mac:
* Open Finder
* Hold down COMMAND + SHIFT keys and press 'G'
* Enter "/private/etc/" in the field and press "Go"
* Find "hosts" file in the directory
* Drag the file to your desktop
* Open it in text editor
* Remove the line that has gs.apple.com entirely or put a # at the beginning of it to comment it out
* Save the file
* Drag it back to the /private/etc/ folder.
* You'd need to enter your username and password to authenticate the move

On Windows:

* Locate the hosts file in one of the following directories:

Windows 95/98/Me c:\windows\hosts
Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Windows XP, Vista, 7 c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

* Right click and click on "Open With..." and then click on "Notepad" on the list.

* Remove the line that has gs.apple.com completely and save the file.


thanks to tonyaos...

its back n running:)