Restoring iOS 6.1.3 (Error -1)
Hello All.
I have an iPhone 3GS Factory Unlocked and I was using it for around two years. Lately, I had problems with my signal, and I thought it could be a hardware issue (like antenna problems), cause it showed No Service very often, and then it started even restarting itself sometimes. I did all I could do... I did a reset and a fresh restore from iTunes, but the problem was persisting, so I sent it to a mobile shop. When I got it from there, he said he couldn't fix it, and when I got home I tried to power it on (cause when I got it from there it had no battery left), I saw it was on a recovery mode (the "connect to iTunes" picture), and I tried to get out of it but I couldn't. So I tried to restore and update from iTunes fresh again, but now its showing me that iPhone could not be restored (error -1), which leads me to think that the son of a ***** tried to jailbreak it or something like that, even though I told him that it was factory unlocked and it was a hardware issue for sure.
When I'm trying to restore, the process almost completes, its like a 100% complete (at Restoring iPhone firmware), and just in the end it shows the error -1.
Please anyone if you have a solution about this reply to me cause I'm stuck and I hate it. I don't have the money to buy a new iPhone, so tell me is it worth trying to restore the iOS or should I just throw it on the garbage.
Thank you for your patience.
You cannot update your iphone to 6.1.3 because apple does not sign that version anymore,and that is the reason why you cant update and why you get that error . If you are using iPhone 4, you can only update to the newest iOS which is 7.0.6 . You can update to 7.0.6 by connecting your iphone to itunes, and itunes will inform you of the newest update ( 7.0.6 ), and all you have to do is press update/restore, and wait until the update is done.
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