iphone does not connect to iMac anymore

[kalunde]

hello,
I think I have a really serious problem... I unshackled my phone with iFuntastatic and then wanted to enable YouTube... so I removed the files and replaced it with the activated ones like described im many forums... afterall I unplugged the phone and started YouTube but the connection failed..I guess it is because I have firmware 1.02 in my iphone... well I actually don´t care about YouTube...but now my phone cannot connect to my iMac anymore...it is not seen by itunes, iphoto or ifuntastic...I already restarted the computer and iphone several times...no chance...then I tried the recovery mode as described in http://www.iphonealley.com/tips-and-tricks/save-your-iphone-with-recovery-mode ... but no yellow triangle or something else popped up... just the black screen... the iphone itself is still running but a little bit slower, for example when I unlock it takes 10sec to see the home screen...
is there another chance for the phone ??? my problem is that I am sitting in Berlin, so I can´t bring it back to a reseller ;-) ... well its hacked anyway...

[Unregistered]

You MUST re-chackel the phone or you can consider it bricked! iFuntastic is becoming famous for this!

[Spoon]

There's nothing that iFuntastic does which could screw your iPhone up that badly. I think you should still be able to recover your iPhone. Try shutting it down, plug in the dock to your Mac. Don't plug in your iPhone yet.

Press and hold the "Home" button and while you continue holding that button, place the iPhone in its dock. Keep holding the button until the yellow exclamation comes up.

You should be able to restore now.

[Unregistered]

Spoon. Myself and a few others have had this happen. You can try it yourself if you wish - maybe it is only 1.0.2 related, that is what we had. But if you use iFuntastic and do not re-shackle (lock) the iPhone you can NOT do a restore.

If you hold the home and screen lock buttons all it will do is re-boot again and again. The "connect to iTunes..." will not come up. If somehow the phone got toasted to the point where even iFuntastic will not recognize it there is great potential for an iBrick although via SFTP there may be ways to get inside and fix things.

I too thought that the 25 second holding of the buttons would get the iPhone out of ANY problem but it seems iFuntastic does something that will prevent this.

[kalunde]

thanks for your replies...the phone cannot be re-shaggled via ifuntatstic because it is not recognized...how would an access via sftp work?? could you write me some ideas ??? thank you very much for the help, because I don`t wanna have an iBrick ;-)

[unity]

Even if you can SFTP into the phone, I would have no clue on what would need to be changed. I would think the developers of iFuntastic *may* be able to help you out.

But to install SFTP you need to get installer.app

http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/

Then open installer.app and install the BSD layer and SSH from the iPhone.

If installer.app wont recognize the phone either, then we got a mess. If it does you may not even have to anything other than install it. Its possible that the installer method used by Nullriver may somehow "re-shackle" the phone. So once installed you may once again want to hold the home and screen lock button for no less than 25 seconds and see if the "connect to iTunes" pops up.

[Spoon]

I have an unshackled iPhone and just tried it. It worked perfectly. I don't use the "Sleep/Wake and Home" button combo. All I do is shut the iPhone down with it off the cradle. I hold the Home button only and then put it in the cradle. I keep the home button held until the "connect to iTunes" comes up.

If that still doesn't work, try going into Settings>General>Reset>Erase All Content and Settings. That might help

[unity]

Well I just read the thread kalunde posted in his original post. He tried that method it looks but I wonder if he tried mine?

In more detail, with it unplugged (no dock needed) press and hold the home and screen lock buttons at the same time. No matter what comes up, keep the held for no less than 25 seconds. It should prompt you to connect, do so and you are home free.

At least that is how it is suppose to work. For whatever reason, like I said before, some have not been able to invoke a restore until iFuntastic was used to re-shackel the phone - and in the case here iFuntastic is not seeing the phone.

Anyway, I am off to bed!

[Spoon]

The key here is that when you have the iPhone plugged in ready for recovery, it MUST be plugged in. If you do the "hold down home and unlock for 25sec" thing, it still needs to be plugged in.

[unity]

It may not really matter if its plugged in or not but trying it both ways may be worth it.

I have done more than a few restores and have always had it unplugged until it told be to connect it. I have also always done the dual button method as the dock never worked on my Mac right so its been made into a car dock instead :)

[Spoon]

I guess it doesn't matter if you use the dock or the cable. It just needs the dock cable plugged in.

[kalunde]

ok guys, thanks very much I will try to install installer app, but I guess it will not work... the recovery mode I tried in all possible ways...no success... I`ll let you know if anything helped by tomorrow morning...
thanks in advance

[kalunde]

I don´t know why and how, but the iphone IS BACK ON TRACK...I tried one very last time to start it in recovery mode...plugged the cable out, shut the phone down- obviously it was powered off the whole night,maybe that helped- pushed the home bitton for at least one minute, still a dark screen, then plugged it in and the yellow traingle saying to connect to itunes appeared !!! than I did a full restore and activated it with independence again...works like a charm...but I guess ifuntastic I won't use again....
So thanks so much for your help guys and a big greet from Berlin to whatever where you are ... keep posting ;-)

[Spoon]

Great to hear the problem has been resolved. I would be curious to see if iFuntastic would cause the same problem again because I don't think it would.

If you get brave (read:stupid), try iFuntastic again and report back.