PLEASE HELP iPhone 4s wont restore despite every fix error 29/21
Hi all,
I thought I was being clever telling a mate at work Id be able to fix his 4s after he tried to upgrade to ios7 and it basically bricked. when on it shows the cable and world symbol and nothing else.
what ive done so far:
entered dfu and tried to restore numerous different firmwares including the latest but no luck. I will say that restoring on itunes to latest firmware gets 99% there before failing error 29 (sometimes 21).
edited hosts file in terminal to remove the gs.apple file. does nothing
downloaded tiny umbrella to remove cydia thingy but its not highlighted anyway
exited itunes before doing any host file edits and rebooted.
if i don't edit hosts file i dont get an error code i get 'requested build cannot be done' message
phone is currently useless but i cant understand why i cant boot an earlier firmware to get it out of this loop of failure??
any help in non tech terms would be gratefully received other than 'chuck it away and buy another' - this MUST BE FIXABLE
Kris
No jailbreak. all of the online 'fixes' related to installing tiny umbrella to exit the restore mode and unchecking a Cydia (whatever that is) is one of the main points. I was just suggesting it doesn't work.
I Assume u work for apple based on the fact you would care about a jailbroken phone (I can't imagine it bothers anyone else) so perhaps you could look into this fault? I have read about a battery fault issue but I can't see how one day on iOS 6 it works and then on attempting to install 7 it's now a battery fault? Makes no sense. Thanks
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