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cawthorne
October 31st, 2009, 05:57 AM
HI THERE. I RECENTLY NOTICED THAT IF YOU RESET (ERASE ALL CONTENT AND SETTINGS) TO A JAILBROKEN IPHONE WITH ICY OR CYDIA INSTALLED, ON REBOOT IT WILL FAILS AT THE APPLE BOOT LOGO AND GOES NO FURTHER WITH A CRASHED LOADING CIRCLE. THIS HAPPENED TO ME AND SO I RESTORED IT WITH A HACKED .IPSW FILE WITH PWNAGE 3.1.4 AND ITUNES AND IT WORKED FINE, I WENT TO OPEN ICY AND IT STARTED SAYING MOVING FILE DIRECTORY /APPLICATIONS. WHEN IT HAD FINISHED I RESET IT AGAIN AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED, SO I OPENED ICY AGAIN AND QUIT IT BEFORE IT HAD A CHANCE TO MOVE THE DIRECTORY AND THEN WENT BACK INTO IT AND IT WORKED, APART FROM THAT IT HADN'T INSTALLED DPKG SO WAS USELESS. I DID A RESET AGAIN AND IT WORKED FINE AND ICY WAS STILL THERE!(BUT STILL HASN'T GOT ANY OF THE ESSENTIAL FILES DPKG ETC.)
SO THE PROBLEM MUST BE THAT IT MOVES A DIRECTORY TO A DIFFERENT PARTITION OR SOMETHING.
OKAY HERE IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO, I WANT A UNLOCKED IPHONE ONLY NOT JAILBROKEN JUST UNLOCKED SO I CAN SELL IT TO A SHOP AND GET £80 MORE PLLUS I THINK IF WE CAN DO THIS IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY. HOWEVER IF I WANT IT UNLOCKED I MUST JAILBREAK, SO MY GOAL IS TO INSTALL ICY/CYDIA UNLOCK IT WITH ULTRASN0W (I HAVE ALREADY DOWNGRADED BASEBAND) THEN COMPLETELY REMOVE CYDIA/ICY WITHOUT THEM MOVING ANY DIRECTORIES ON FIRST BOOT, BECAUSE THE SHOP I'M SELLING IT TO WILL DO A RESET AND THAT WILL OBVIOUSLY STOP THEM BUYING IT FROM ME, THANKS AND ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED. oh yeah i'm on firmware 3.1.2

kellygeorge
October 31st, 2009, 09:13 AM
just unlock it, then hide Cydia and Icy with Poof. Or SSH in and throw away the Cydia and Icy icons.

cawthorne
October 31st, 2009, 10:42 AM
Yes thanks for the reply, but my problem is that when go reset it (erase all content and settings) it crashes the iPhone and it won't boot up. If I do remove the icons, yes it would hide the fact that I have cydia installed (I could just uninstall cydia instead and it still would be unlocked btw) but it still crashes after a reset, do one yourself if you don't believe me.

iphoners.org
November 10th, 2009, 02:50 AM
so, if i'm not wrong, you're trying to sell su iPhone as a fu iPhone, right?
may i say it's similar to scamming?

cawthorne
November 10th, 2009, 04:43 AM
Lol i guess so, but I already did it a few weeks ago. They didn't notice it was jaibroken anyway :)

iphoners.org
November 10th, 2009, 12:13 PM
lol.
congrats then :D