This phone is bricked....
I know you are saying it cannot be done, but this seems to be just what I did.
iPhone 3g 8Gb - Model MB702LL - Win7 Newest iTunes.
I was running a 3.1.2 (7D11) firmware. (It was just much faster responding than the 4.0.1 firmware.)
So..I upgraded to iTunes 10, the very newest one. I plug my phone and find that my computer and iTunes does not recognize it at all. I attempt to get this working over the course of a couple of hours with no luck. I then attempt to put the iPhone into DFU, and it stops being functional at all.
It boots to the logo and then stays there until I physically shut it down. When I try to set it into recovery mode, it will go from the logo to a picture of the iPhone with a BSOD on it.
I have tried various software programs to try and kick into and out of recovery/DFU modes, but I still cannot get windows to recognize the device. I have also removed and re-installed iTunes many times. I have followed the advice to the letter from various resources around the net, to include the official one here on the Apple site... there has been zero progress.
I know the cables are good, because when I try the recovery method, the phone comes to life, but stops short of being recognized my Windows 7 or iTunes.
I have tried this on 3 different computers to no avail. My wife's iPhone is recognized by all three computers no problem.
So what can I do software wise to kick it out of this loop? Will an Apple Store take this back and give me a refurb or new phone?
Things were fine prior to this new iTunes upgrade and then everything started going south and I feel that if I can get windows to recognize the iPhone, I will have a chance at getting this fixed....
Does anyone have an idea?
The problem, as I can guess lies in windows not recognizing the iphone attached via usb and loading the proper drivers. I am sure there was a Windows update that killed this function somehow...But it has been about a month since I lost the ability to connect via computer usb, and I am no longer able to roll back my computer to that state.
It does not show up in the device manager at all, and all the proper services are running as they should. There are no errors and there are none when I observe it while attaching the phone. I have moved, and replaced various .dll files and reloaded drivers, as well as uninstalled/re-installed every Apple software on my machine many times to no avail.
When I try to put the phone in DFU mode, it will do the following: I turn the device off ensuring I have a blank screen. I press the off button for 3 seconds, and the Apple logo will come back on during that 3 seconds. I then press and hold the home button along with the off button for 10 seconds. At about the 6 second mark, the phone will power down, and at the conclusion of the 10 seconds, I release the off button. This causes the device to come back on to the Apple logo at about the 12 second mark.
From here is will stay on and about every 3 minutes or so, it will go blank for a second, and then come right back to the Apple logo.
When I try to put it into recovery mode, I press and hold the home button and connect my USB cable that is connected to my computer running iTunes. The apple logo will come on, and then after about 10 seconds into holding that home button a picture of an iPhone with the Blue Screen of Death comes on. After about 5 minutes the device shuts off.
I am going to let this loop like this all night to see if it will unglitch itself. I am going to see if any of my friends have a Mac to see if I can breach it somehow that way.
I see that several others are having similar problems....I like a mystery just like the next person, but this is proving to be a very hard one to figure out.
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