A warning to anyone reading this - don't ever use Jailbreakme.com to jailbreak your iPhone. It's a rotten method of jailbreaking and if you are dumb enough to attempt to restore the iPhone after jailbreaking it using the Jailbreakme.com method, you will be stuck in a boot loop. This has happened to me with two phones - an iPhone 4 (of which I successfully fixed) and an iPhone 3G, of which I am still having trouble with.
It is not my phone. It is my sister's phone. She is selling it. She needs to ship it tomorrow. She brought it to me 20 minutes ago. She told me that she attempted to restore it using iTunes, but that it is stuck in a reboot loop.
This is what happens. I try to power on the stupid iPhone. Silver apple logo appears (this is the initial boot screen). Then after a couple of minutes the "working" circle starts to spin over the silver apple logo (an animated circle of lines that illuminate, creating the illusion that it's spinning - if you use Apple products you'll know what I'm talking about). At the top of the screen is a line of very tiny text, which is a dead giveaway that the iPhone was jailbroken using Jailbreakme.com.
The iPhone will attempt to do something while that circle of lines "spins" but after a minute or so it will freeze, then if I let it sit long enough it will reboot to the silver apple logo, then the "working" apple logo with the line of text, then the circle of lines will stop spinning (it will freeze) and then it will reboot again.
I've tried everything - I cannot put it into DFU mode no matter how many times I try. I cannot "fix" the boot loop issue using iReb, I cannot use Tiny Umbrella to force it into recovery mode nor can I use RecBoot to force it into recovery mode, and I cannot manually put it in recovery mode. iRecovery does not do anything either. The power button and the home button seem to be working. I can hold onto both buttons at the appropriate moments when attempting to put it into DFU mode or recovery mode (I am experienced in doing both as I've jailbroken quite a few iPhones now) and the phone powers on, but it ignores what I do and goes straight into the boot loop.
I have no idea as to what to do and she may have to just ship it to the seller as a broken iPhone. I can't help that she brought it to me so late.
It is not my phone. It is my sister's phone. She is selling it. She needs to ship it tomorrow. She brought it to me 20 minutes ago. She told me that she attempted to restore it using iTunes, but that it is stuck in a reboot loop.
This is what happens. I try to power on the stupid iPhone. Silver apple logo appears (this is the initial boot screen). Then after a couple of minutes the "working" circle starts to spin over the silver apple logo (an animated circle of lines that illuminate, creating the illusion that it's spinning - if you use Apple products you'll know what I'm talking about). At the top of the screen is a line of very tiny text, which is a dead giveaway that the iPhone was jailbroken using Jailbreakme.com.
The iPhone will attempt to do something while that circle of lines "spins" but after a minute or so it will freeze, then if I let it sit long enough it will reboot to the silver apple logo, then the "working" apple logo with the line of text, then the circle of lines will stop spinning (it will freeze) and then it will reboot again.
I've tried everything - I cannot put it into DFU mode no matter how many times I try. I cannot "fix" the boot loop issue using iReb, I cannot use Tiny Umbrella to force it into recovery mode nor can I use RecBoot to force it into recovery mode, and I cannot manually put it in recovery mode. iRecovery does not do anything either. The power button and the home button seem to be working. I can hold onto both buttons at the appropriate moments when attempting to put it into DFU mode or recovery mode (I am experienced in doing both as I've jailbroken quite a few iPhones now) and the phone powers on, but it ignores what I do and goes straight into the boot loop.
I have no idea as to what to do and she may have to just ship it to the seller as a broken iPhone. I can't help that she brought it to me so late.