iPhone 4 Stuck on DFU mode

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iPhone 4 Stuck on DFU mode

Here's what happened. I was charging my phone via USB through my laptop and it suddenly went into white/grey screen with weird screen and so I pressed the HOME + POWER and went into recovery mode (iTUnes + USB logo). I tried to restore it and I keep on getting Error 1600. After a few hours, the screen just went black and whenever I press HOME + POWER button, nothing happens. I went to a repair shop and a guy "shocked" the battery and there it went back to recovery mode. I tried to restore it again on DFU mode and still getting error 1600. If I try it on restore mode, I will get error 21. What I did is I plug in the device, put it on recovery mode and then put it in DFU then restore and still error 1600 ---- googleed and youtubed so,me videos until I saw a video to change the host file and downloaded it and then BOOM --- It was fixed!

While I was fixing my newly repaired iPhone 4 version 5.1 -- all of a sudden it went to restarted then went into recovery mode. After a few hours again, it went to DFU mode and I went to the repair shop to shock the battery but that didn't work until now. I can't get my phone to restore mode even if I press the HOME + POWER button. STUCK on DFU mode.

I have a saved SHSH for 5.0.1 and 5.1 -- so i built a custom firmware with Snowbreeze and iFaith but I keep on getting error 3014, 1600, 1601, 1608 on restoring it. I really don't know what to do from here. Can you please help me?

iPhone 4, iOS 5.1

Posted on Apr 5, 2012 8:33 PM

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razmee209

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Apr 6, 2012 1:33 PM in response to migsilicious

You can throw your phone away, sounds like you have a jailbroken phone.

If you do it you voided your warranty with Apple.

JB is prohibited by the Term of use on this forum.

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John Galt

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Apr 6, 2012 1:37 PM in response to migsilicious

"Shocked" the battery? What the heck is that?

CLEAR!!!! Bzzt.

Flat line.

Call the time of death, Doctor. You jailbroke it and it's junk.

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KC7GNM

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Apr 6, 2012 1:38 PM in response to migsilicious

The problem is you jailbroke your phone and there is nothing you can do except restore it from an original 5.1 version. No one here can help you otherwise.

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migsilicious Author

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Apr 6, 2012 1:43 PM in response to migsilicious

My iPhone is on original firmware 5.1. It is not jailbroken. You can get SHSH blobs eventhough you're not jailbroken. I don't think you have the knowledge to fix even a simple iPhone issue. Do you guys know what a DFU and restore mode or you'll search Google for that?

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razmee209

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Apr 6, 2012 1:44 PM in response to migsilicious

snowbreeze and ifaith = j/b

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KC7GNM

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Apr 6, 2012 1:45 PM in response to migsilicious

You obviously think we are dumb. Anything other than the original iphone software from apple is jailbroke. Your phone was jailbroke and you are out of luck here.

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migsilicious Author

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Apr 6, 2012 1:46 PM in response to razmee209

I understand it's jailbreak. I am telling you that my iPhone is not jailbroken. I am just exhausting all the possible ways to restore it whether on Apple way or Jailbreak way.

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MarkH356

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Jul 2, 2012 6:15 AM in response to migsilicious

I have the same problem. An iPhone 4S, 6 months old, stuck in DFU mode, black screen and iTunes can't restore (error 1600). Tried reloading iTunes, tried 3 different computers (Win 7, Vista, OSX) all report the same problem.

This phone has never been jailbroken (don't need that in Oz because my carrier doesn't lock their phones). It still had the original iOS that it came with from Apple.

Like migsiliciousI read lots of post about using jailbreak software to kick the phone out of restore mode without installing a custom OS, but I'm not going to try that as the phone is still under warranty. If there is no simple solution to the 1600 error, then I'm going to have to travel 40km to the nearest Apple Store and see what they can do.

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MarkH356

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Jul 19, 2012 3:03 AM in response to MarkH356

Apple looked at it told me it was a hardware problem that can't be fixed so they swapped it for a brand new 4S. New iPhone makes daughter happy which means Dad gets a break. Thanks Apple.

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