Urgent: Need Help iOS 6 iTunes Restore Failed, iPhone stuck in iTunes mode

[aasimenator]

Ok its past 2 am & i am going crazy trying to get my iphone 4 back up.

It is Jailbroken, was on iOS 5.1.1 9206 I was trying to update to iOS 6 but the downloading via iTunes was taking too long.. so i used a download manager & downloaded the ipsw from a link
the file name was iPhone3,1_6.0_10A403_Restore and it verifies and all fine.

I connected my iphone and backed it up, held on shift key and pressed restore in itunes selected the ipsw file & it started restoring, seemed normal & i have done it a few times before.

almost the end of it i get an error The iPhone could not be restored. An Unknown error occurred (14) and the iphone was showing the connect to iTunes logo. I tried a restart of my computer & the iphone & tried again.. still same error

So i thought i'd go back to the firmware i was on & then try to restore to iOS 6. So i did the same step as above & selected the 5.1.1 ipsw, it started doing its thing but in a few minutes i got another error. The iPhone could not be restored. An Unknown error occured (3194)

I've tried from DFU mode as well & it didin't work from there. so do you guys have any idea on how to fix this or should i throw it out?

 

[paarkhi]

Don't throw it out, give it to me...lol, search Google for the error code, I'm sure something would turn up

 

[raksrules]

I suggest you also post on macrumors and modmyi forums to get faster replies.

 

[Rahul]

Just install itunes in any other computer and try restoring. Sometime this error comes up.

 

[aasimenator]

Thank you guys but i think it was the firmware that i downloaded that was the issue. I let iTunes download the firmware and restore it & it worked. restoring my apps right now. It sucks that there is no Cydia yet.

 

[raksrules]

Thank you guys but i think it was the firmware that i downloaded that was the issue. I let iTunes download the firmware and restore it & it worked. restoring my apps right now. It sucks that there is no Cydia yet.

With iPhone 4 and iOS 6, jailbreak should be out pretty soon. It is the A5X and A6 devices which might take longer.

 

[digitalD]

you can jailbreak using redsn0w 13.0dev version.. google out the step by step tutorials.. its been working for me since the day ios 6 was out without any fuss..

 

[aasimenator]

#digitalD can you provide me a link to the tutorial & Download link. as the one i tried didn't work. It would give me Exploit failed error.

 

[digitalD]

here... -> Jailbreak iOS 6 - iPhone And iPod touch (A4-Based Only) Using Redsn0w [Tutorial] | Redmond Pie

 

[aasimenator]

^ thanks but i found a youtube video that helped me jailbreak it.

 

[digitalD]

Cool.. I hope you got cydia and Installous appsync working too..