iphone 4 stuck in recovery mode and will not restore in itunes. HELP!

Hey Guys


I tried to jailbreak my iphone (bad idea obviously) and ever since, its been screwing up.

At first, it was stuck on the apple logo- Then I followed some videos on Youtube and it was stuck on the Pineapple from Redsnow..


NOW its stuck in restore mode (the screen with the USB and the Itunes symbol) I have tried to restore it 3 times and it gives me an error message (1604) or it doesn't even restore.


HELPP! It's been like this all day. What could I do?

iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.3

Posted on Jul 24, 2011 4:53 PM

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Jul 24, 2011 4:59 PM in response to TBellezza

FIRST, edit your hosts file (which was corrupted by the jailbreak process) and remove any references to gs.apple.com; delete the whole lines and save the file. If you don't know how to do this you will have to get help, and it shows that jailbreaking was a bigger mistake than you thought.


Next, connect to a USB port directly on the computer, not a hub and disconnect all USB devices that consume power or bandwidth (like USB drives).


Put it into DFU mode to restore. With the phone disconnected hold HOME and SLEEP until a black screen appears. Immediately release SLEEP and continue holding HOME. While holding connect to iTunes and continue holding. After a while (perhaps several minutes) iTunes should recognize the phone. When it does release the HOME button and hope for the best.

Aug 28, 2011 12:13 AM in response to TBellezza

I`m facing the same problem as i also tried to jailbreak it which is really not good. I`m using Iphone 4 n i tried to downgrade to 4.3.3 from 4.3.5, its stuck at itunes screen and in dfu mode. cant restore it and its factory unlocked as well. its just I`m facing error 3194 the most common one and unable to fix it. no body is able to contact me.

plz help

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