"Need Repair" : "No Wi-Fi" + Modem Firmware blank

[mercury35]

Hello everyone,

I am stuck... and I need your help !
I've upgraded, activated (iNdependence) and used anySIM 1.1 with half a dozen iPhones without a problem but, in this case, I don't know what to do.

Wi-Fi was working until anySIM 1.1. But since I unlocked, I get this "Need Repair : iPhone cannot make or receive calls". The Wi-Fi logo is gone, I get a grey "No Wi-Fi" in "Settings->General". And when I look at "Settings->General->About", I have no Wi-FI address, no IMEI number, no ICCID, "Modem Firmware" shows nothing, and Bluetooth says "00:00:00:00:00:00".

Since then, I've restored several times with iTunes and iNdependence (getting an error 1011, 1012, or 1013 each time). Now, I am back running version 1.0.2 (1C28). My iPhone number is MA712.

Is there anything I can do ?
I wish I could virginize my iPhone but without a Wi-Fi access, is there a way to do it via the USB cable ?

It seems all communications are cut. Could it the CommCenter that would be OFF ? If so, is there a way to turn it ON ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated... and no, I can't turn it back to an Apple Store. I am in Paris, France...

Keep in touch ! A million thanks.

Benjamin

[joedss]

After restore firmware and baseband ... you need to do a virginize your phone. This will repair it and reset the count on baseband. It should solve your problem.

Peace.
joedss

[mercury35]

Hi Joedss,

Can you tell me how to virginize my iPhone without wi-fi ? How can I install, on the iPhone, then launch a script like virginize.sh without Wi-Fi/SSH using an IP address ? My iPhone doesn't show any.

Thanks A LOT for your help ;-)

Benjamin

[wajatimur]

use your cable, the use ibrick to transfer any required program or file, what u need to install is BSD subsystem, mobile terminal and virginize tools.

[aswater]

I got same situation "Need Repair" : "No Wi-Fi" + Modem Firmware blank

and revirginize iphone.

when I ./bbupdater -v

iphone told me:

Error: Failed to initialize comm layer: (is it open by another app?)

what shall I do??

[asa]

I have "No wi-Fi" issue too, but I don't have only the mac address.

may be you can tranfer files to the iPhone via iFuntastic 4.0

I'll try this way for my iPhone.

[aswater]

joedss
Member Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 41



After restore firmware and baseband ... you need to do a virginize your phone. This will repair it and reset the count on baseband. It should solve your problem.

after resotre firmware and baseband... to virginize.. now.. I can't restore baseband,
it told me:
Error: Failed to initialize comm layer: (is it open by another app?)
when I bbupdater...

[slipshift]

You can virginize using mobileterminal, install it with brickr, as well as bsdsubsystem, openssh, and also the virginizer pack.

See the tutorial here, and do the commands via mobile terminal directly on the iphone (I recommend take the time to see what you are typing cause it's hard to type all those numbers and slashes on the iphone keyboard)

hopefully it works, but by the sound of it, don't get your hopes up.

Let me know if it works... I may have another option.

-Slipshift

Hello everyone,

I am stuck... and I need your help !
I've upgraded, activated (iNdependence) and used anySIM 1.1 with half a dozen iPhones without a problem but, in this case, I don't know what to do.

Wi-Fi was working until anySIM 1.1. But since I unlocked, I get this "Need Repair : iPhone cannot make or receive calls". The Wi-Fi logo is gone, I get a grey "No Wi-Fi" in "Settings->General". And when I look at "Settings->General->About", I have no Wi-FI address, no IMEI number, no ICCID, "Modem Firmware" shows nothing, and Bluetooth says "00:00:00:00:00:00".

Since then, I've restored several times with iTunes and iNdependence (getting an error 1011, 1012, or 1013 each time). Now, I am back running version 1.0.2 (1C28). My iPhone number is MA712.

Is there anything I can do ?
I wish I could virginize my iPhone but without a Wi-Fi access, is there a way to do it via the USB cable ?

It seems all communications are cut. Could it the CommCenter that would be OFF ? If so, is there a way to turn it ON ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated... and no, I can't turn it back to an Apple Store. I am in Paris, France...

Keep in touch ! A million thanks.

Benjamin

[slipshift]

Here ya go:

Pakal and I followed this tip but since the phone was not unlocked ever, we ierased the baseband then simply restored and voila...

Credit to Citrus for this....

OK, everyone who has done any sort of hacking, flashing, restoring etc. and ended up with an iBrick with the following symptoms:

IMEI: Unknown ICCID: Unknown, Rapair Needed (iPhone cannot make or receive calls), no audio (except headset), no WIFI i.e. corrupt baseband or baseband flash is in a limbo state and cannot communicate with ieraser or bbupdater, then the following solution MAY resolve your issue. I did this on a 1.1.1 iPhone which I had hacked a dozen times and had gone from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 and back and forth etc, because of the above symtoms, until I discovered a very easy way to resolve the problem. After all it's only software, thus I don't believe it's possible to damage your iPhone permanently by just the software and baseband tinkering. I recommend you read this entire procedure to understand what is being done, prior to diving into it. Read each step BEFORE attempting it, so you can follow the procedure exactly as it is written and avoid possible mistakes. We will do everything via Mobile Terminal on the iPhone, since your WIFI does not work due to the corrupt baseband.

I have Macs and an XP machine and yet to my surprise, I found this solution to work extremely quick and easy with Windows. Due to the condition my iPhone was in, iNdependence and various other activation apps could not activate my iPhone because my ICCID was unknown. So, I used a Windows laptop and it worked, with PAYCAY! Please note, I did all this without a SIM card in my iPhone, until I fixed it and then inserted my SIM card . In all the procedures, the various apps will ask you to reboot your iPhone, sometimes several times, it is OK!

You need to download the following tools: AppTappInstaller.exe, PACAY and iBrickr_0.91.

Also download the following files: ieraser, bbupdater, secpack, ICE03.14.08_G.eep and ICE03_14_08.fls

1. Get your iPhone to 1.0.2, if you are already at 1.0.2 with the yellow attention triangle on your iPhone screen, go to step 2. If you have the cable with the iTunes logo on your screen, it means you are at 1.1.1 and perhaps don't know what to do. Connect your powered on iPhone to iTunes, click away any message iTunes displays about your phone and make sure your phone is recognized by iTunes. Now hold both home and power/sleep button for 10 seconds, then release only the power/sleep button. While still holding the home button, you are waiting for iTunes to pop up a window telling you it has found your iPhone to be in recovery/restore mode. As soon as it does, let go the home button. Your iPhone screen should be blank (black). If you are seeing the iTunes logo and the cable connect again, then you will have to repeat the previous instruction.

2. Your phone has the yellow triangle (this means your at 1.0.2). Now connect your phone to your XP machine and run AppTappInstaller.exe. The first time it will fail, close AppTapp then start iTunes until you get an error message from iTunes then close iTunes again, including the iTunes Helper process. Now run AppTappInstaller.exe for a second time and wait until it is finished, it should run to the end with a success message. Go to step 3.

3. If you downloaded PAYCAY and unzipped it, you should have a "MACOSX" folder and a "YouTube (Windows) fix" folder. Open the Windows folder and double click on "(CLICK HERE) activate.bat". Follow the instruction to reboot your phone. You should now have an activated iPhone at version 1.0.2, go to step 4.

4. Start iBrickr and go to Applications, follow the instructions to install applications. After rebooting you phone several times, you should now be able to install apps. Browse for the following apps and install them: "BSD Subsystem", "UIctl" (by Nate True) (or use Launch Gui by Erica Sadun same thing) and "Mobile Terminal VT100". Make sure these are installed, you can verify by refreshing the app list in iBrickr. On your iPhone go to your home screen and see if the 2 apps, UIctl and Terminal are installed. Sometimes I had to install the apps 2 or 3 times, until they actually were installed. Now copy the following files to the /usr/bin/ directory on your iPhone: ieraser, bbupdater, secpack, ICE03.14.08_G.eep and ICE03.14.08.fls. Go to step 5.

5. Tap the Terminal in your home screen. You will see a command line. Type the following commands followed by enter: chmod +x bbupdater
chmod +x ieraser
chmod +x secpack
chmod +x *.fls
chmod +x *.eep

Now press your home button and go back home, tap the UIctl icon. CAUTION, do not play around with the services by stopping or unloading them without knowing the affect. You need to tap on only the following services:

Tap on com.apple.CommCenter - you will be given several choices, just tap "unload -w"
then tap on com.apple.mobile.lockdown - again you will be given several choices, just tap on "stop" and go to step 6.

6. Now go back into Terminal and type "ieraser" in the command line and watch the magic happen.
Now type bbupdater -f *.fls -e *.eep and watch how the firmware will be loaded into the flash.

7. You should now be able to have all your hardware working again, just need to unlock using your choice of app.

joedss
Member Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 41



After restore firmware and baseband ... you need to do a virginize your phone. This will repair it and reset the count on baseband. It should solve your problem.

after resotre firmware and baseband... to virginize.. now.. I can't restore baseband,
it told me:
Error: Failed to initialize comm layer: (is it open by another app?)
when I bbupdater...

[mjapple]

At the end Could you solve the problem or no because i also have the same problem but when i saw "need Repair" & "no wifi" i unfortunately restore it and now it's dead and show connect to iTunes and when I restore it iTunes show me Error # 1011 or # 6 and won't restore.
So what should i do put it in Trash?????

[slipshift]

It'll fix that wobbly table in the living room... j/k.

I don't think it's junk just yet...

I've seen many people get out of the need repair screen, by following the directions above.

Sometimes the tutorials is for a perticular situation, and knowing what portions of a tutorial to do can save the day. sometimes not doing all the tutorial, or jumbling the order will goof you up, but many have recovered from this.

If you've restored and can't get out of the restore screen, that's normal, run apptappinstaller and choose your firmware (with itunes and itunes helper closed), it will error out (again normal), and it will dig your phone out of restore(achem... YAY!). Then open itunes once, and it will go to activation screen. Close itunes. Activate, jailbreak (I use winstallerGUI as it's faster than Brickr), and install open SSH and BSD subsystem(using Brickr, some say use old brickr .80, but I use .91 with no problems), and if you still have no wifi, install mobile terminal. Then follow the directions for baseband removal (ieraser), if you ping the baseband and get no response, and have never unlocked the phone, you could just restore again, it should come back (did for me), if you have unlocked then you will have to go through the whole process of revirginizing.

But the first portion of that should get you out of the need repair and restore points.

message me on MSM and I'll see if I can walk ya through it. slippy_ilias (art) hotmail.com

I have had a situation that the wifi never did come back, I'm sure we'll be tinkering with that one more in the future... I was just sick of working on the thing and getting no where, especially when the guy who's going to use it has unlimited edge internet anyways). But we got the phone unlocked and working.

-cheers.

At the end Could you solve the problem or no because i also have the same problem but when i saw "need Repair" & "no wifi" i unfortunately restore it and now it's dead and show connect to iTunes and when I restore it iTunes show me Error # 1011 or # 6 and won't restore.
So what should i do put it in Trash?????

[*jose david]

At the end Could you solve the problem or no because i also have the same problem but when i saw "need Repair" & "no wifi" i unfortunately restore it and now it's dead and show connect to iTunes and when I restore it iTunes show me Error # 1011 or # 6 and won't restore.
So what should i do put it in Trash?????

( a noche me paso lo mismo y la solucion aunque no lo crean fue actualizarlo a la 1.1.2 y despues bajarlo a la 1.0.2 y empezar de nuevo .... espero les sirva . sorry for spanish ...

[pakal]

Hmmm. Jose, which firmware version did you start with ? Was it 1.1.1 or 1.0.2 . And was the phone already unlocked ?
Pakal

[joedss]

what i did was downgrade baseband then revirginized using mobileterminal.
by still did not work when i try another with version 1.1.2 upgrade phone using secpack 1.1.2..

Hope someone else can help....

[mjapple]

Now i ran iBrickr before read yours and know mine show me the activate iphone And Show me an error that Repair Needed iPhone can not make or receive calls and apple support ....
Now what should i Do ?
And it's good to know when i dial Sth Somtimes show me screen board with iTunes icon( for just 0.5 second)and sometimes just for 0.5 second show me the contact list(empty) and then goes to activate screen and when iwant to restart it ,, it take a lot of time
maybe 1 min for each turn on and off .
So i'm waiting for golden Suggestions
Thanks
and for my friend *jose david" if you want منم مي تونم واست با .زبون ديگه صحبت کنم ممنون

It'll fix that wobbly table in the living room... j/k.

I don't think it's junk just yet...

I've seen many people get out of the need repair screen, by following the directions above.

Sometimes the tutorials is for a perticular situation, and knowing what portions of a tutorial to do can save the day. sometimes not doing all the tutorial, or jumbling the order will goof you up, but many have recovered from this.

If you've restored and can't get out of the restore screen, that's normal, run apptappinstaller and choose your firmware (with itunes and itunes helper closed), it will error out (again normal), and it will dig your phone out of restore(achem... YAY!). Then open itunes once, and it will go to activation screen. Close itunes. Activate, jailbreak (I use winstallerGUI as it's faster than Brickr), and install open SSH and BSD subsystem(using Brickr, some say use old brickr .80, but I use .91 with no problems), and if you still have no wifi, install mobile terminal. Then follow the directions for baseband removal (ieraser), if you ping the baseband and get no response, and have never unlocked the phone, you could just restore again, it should come back (did for me), if you have unlocked then you will have to go through the whole process of revirginizing.

But the first portion of that should get you out of the need repair and restore points.

message me on MSM and I'll see if I can walk ya through it. slippy_ilias (art) hotmail.com

I have had a situation that the wifi never did come back, I'm sure we'll be tinkering with that one more in the future... I was just sick of working on the thing and getting no where, especially when the guy who's going to use it has unlimited edge internet anyways). But we got the phone unlocked and working.

-cheers.

[johnboul]

Hi, I followed all your steps but when I get to terminal to tyoe in chmod +x bbupdater ect, I keep getting no such file or directory. I checked in iBricker and the files are in usr/bin/ Is that the correct folder?

Here ya go:

Pakal and I followed this tip but since the phone was not unlocked ever, we ierased the baseband then simply restored and voila...

Credit to Citrus for this....

OK, everyone who has done any sort of hacking, flashing, restoring etc. and ended up with an iBrick with the following symptoms:

IMEI: Unknown ICCID: Unknown, Rapair Needed (iPhone cannot make or receive calls), no audio (except headset), no WIFI i.e. corrupt baseband or baseband flash is in a limbo state and cannot communicate with ieraser or bbupdater, then the following solution MAY resolve your issue. I did this on a 1.1.1 iPhone which I had hacked a dozen times and had gone from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 and back and forth etc, because of the above symtoms, until I discovered a very easy way to resolve the problem. After all it's only software, thus I don't believe it's possible to damage your iPhone permanently by just the software and baseband tinkering. I recommend you read this entire procedure to understand what is being done, prior to diving into it. Read each step BEFORE attempting it, so you can follow the procedure exactly as it is written and avoid possible mistakes. We will do everything via Mobile Terminal on the iPhone, since your WIFI does not work due to the corrupt baseband.

I have Macs and an XP machine and yet to my surprise, I found this solution to work extremely quick and easy with Windows. Due to the condition my iPhone was in, iNdependence and various other activation apps could not activate my iPhone because my ICCID was unknown. So, I used a Windows laptop and it worked, with PAYCAY! Please note, I did all this without a SIM card in my iPhone, until I fixed it and then inserted my SIM card . In all the procedures, the various apps will ask you to reboot your iPhone, sometimes several times, it is OK!

You need to download the following tools: AppTappInstaller.exe, PACAY and iBrickr_0.91.

Also download the following files: ieraser, bbupdater, secpack, ICE03.14.08_G.eep and ICE03_14_08.fls

1. Get your iPhone to 1.0.2, if you are already at 1.0.2 with the yellow attention triangle on your iPhone screen, go to step 2. If you have the cable with the iTunes logo on your screen, it means you are at 1.1.1 and perhaps don't know what to do. Connect your powered on iPhone to iTunes, click away any message iTunes displays about your phone and make sure your phone is recognized by iTunes. Now hold both home and power/sleep button for 10 seconds, then release only the power/sleep button. While still holding the home button, you are waiting for iTunes to pop up a window telling you it has found your iPhone to be in recovery/restore mode. As soon as it does, let go the home button. Your iPhone screen should be blank (black). If you are seeing the iTunes logo and the cable connect again, then you will have to repeat the previous instruction.

2. Your phone has the yellow triangle (this means your at 1.0.2). Now connect your phone to your XP machine and run AppTappInstaller.exe. The first time it will fail, close AppTapp then start iTunes until you get an error message from iTunes then close iTunes again, including the iTunes Helper process. Now run AppTappInstaller.exe for a second time and wait until it is finished, it should run to the end with a success message. Go to step 3.

3. If you downloaded PAYCAY and unzipped it, you should have a "MACOSX" folder and a "YouTube (Windows) fix" folder. Open the Windows folder and double click on "(CLICK HERE) activate.bat". Follow the instruction to reboot your phone. You should now have an activated iPhone at version 1.0.2, go to step 4.

4. Start iBrickr and go to Applications, follow the instructions to install applications. After rebooting you phone several times, you should now be able to install apps. Browse for the following apps and install them: "BSD Subsystem", "UIctl" (by Nate True) (or use Launch Gui by Erica Sadun same thing) and "Mobile Terminal VT100". Make sure these are installed, you can verify by refreshing the app list in iBrickr. On your iPhone go to your home screen and see if the 2 apps, UIctl and Terminal are installed. Sometimes I had to install the apps 2 or 3 times, until they actually were installed. Now copy the following files to the /usr/bin/ directory on your iPhone: ieraser, bbupdater, secpack, ICE03.14.08_G.eep and ICE03.14.08.fls. Go to step 5.

5. Tap the Terminal in your home screen. You will see a command line. Type the following commands followed by enter: chmod +x bbupdater
chmod +x ieraser
chmod +x secpack
chmod +x *.fls
chmod +x *.eep

Now press your home button and go back home, tap the UIctl icon. CAUTION, do not play around with the services by stopping or unloading them without knowing the affect. You need to tap on only the following services:

Tap on com.apple.CommCenter - you will be given several choices, just tap "unload -w"
then tap on com.apple.mobile.lockdown - again you will be given several choices, just tap on "stop" and go to step 6.

6. Now go back into Terminal and type "ieraser" in the command line and watch the magic happen.
Now type bbupdater -f *.fls -e *.eep and watch how the firmware will be loaded into the flash.

7. You should now be able to have all your hardware working again, just need to unlock using your choice of app.

[mjapple]

How we can reset all of iPhone ?
Is there any hacker that make a program or code for terminal (MAC) that reset base band hard and all of iPhone in DFU or recovery mode ???? to Solve this problem .... I think because of NCK or sth like this that put some proof on iPhone that does not remove even with restore by iTunes.
WE'RE WAITING FOR U Mr. X....

[vfotor]

Here ya go:

Pakal and I followed this tip but since the phone was not unlocked ever, we ierased the baseband then simply restored and voila...

Credit to Citrus for this....

OK, everyone who has done any sort of hacking, flashing, restoring etc. and ended up with an iBrick with the following symptoms:

IMEI: Unknown ICCID: Unknown, Rapair Needed (iPhone cannot make or receive calls), no audio (except headset), no WIFI i.e. corrupt baseband or baseband flash is in a limbo state and cannot communicate with ieraser or bbupdater, then the following solution MAY resolve your issue. I did this on a 1.1.1 iPhone which I had hacked a dozen times and had gone from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 and back and forth etc, because of the above symtoms, until I discovered a very easy way to resolve the problem. After all it's only software, thus I don't believe it's possible to damage your iPhone permanently by just the software and baseband tinkering. I recommend you read this entire procedure to understand what is being done, prior to diving into it. Read each step BEFORE attempting it, so you can follow the procedure exactly as it is written and avoid possible mistakes. We will do everything via Mobile Terminal on the iPhone, since your WIFI does not work due to the corrupt baseband.

I have Macs and an XP machine and yet to my surprise, I found this solution to work extremely quick and easy with Windows. Due to the condition my iPhone was in, iNdependence and various other activation apps could not activate my iPhone because my ICCID was unknown. So, I used a Windows laptop and it worked, with PAYCAY! Please note, I did all this without a SIM card in my iPhone, until I fixed it and then inserted my SIM card . In all the procedures, the various apps will ask you to reboot your iPhone, sometimes several times, it is OK!

You need to download the following tools: AppTappInstaller.exe, PACAY and iBrickr_0.91.

Also download the following files: ieraser, bbupdater, secpack, ICE03.14.08_G.eep and ICE03_14_08.fls

1. Get your iPhone to 1.0.2, if you are already at 1.0.2 with the yellow attention triangle on your iPhone screen, go to step 2. If you have the cable with the iTunes logo on your screen, it means you are at 1.1.1 and perhaps don't know what to do. Connect your powered on iPhone to iTunes, click away any message iTunes displays about your phone and make sure your phone is recognized by iTunes. Now hold both home and power/sleep button for 10 seconds, then release only the power/sleep button. While still holding the home button, you are waiting for iTunes to pop up a window telling you it has found your iPhone to be in recovery/restore mode. As soon as it does, let go the home button. Your iPhone screen should be blank (black). If you are seeing the iTunes logo and the cable connect again, then you will have to repeat the previous instruction.

2. Your phone has the yellow triangle (this means your at 1.0.2). Now connect your phone to your XP machine and run AppTappInstaller.exe. The first time it will fail, close AppTapp then start iTunes until you get an error message from iTunes then close iTunes again, including the iTunes Helper process. Now run AppTappInstaller.exe for a second time and wait until it is finished, it should run to the end with a success message. Go to step 3.

3. If you downloaded PAYCAY and unzipped it, you should have a "MACOSX" folder and a "YouTube (Windows) fix" folder. Open the Windows folder and double click on "(CLICK HERE) activate.bat". Follow the instruction to reboot your phone. You should now have an activated iPhone at version 1.0.2, go to step 4.

4. Start iBrickr and go to Applications, follow the instructions to install applications. After rebooting you phone several times, you should now be able to install apps. Browse for the following apps and install them: "BSD Subsystem", "UIctl" (by Nate True) (or use Launch Gui by Erica Sadun same thing) and "Mobile Terminal VT100". Make sure these are installed, you can verify by refreshing the app list in iBrickr. On your iPhone go to your home screen and see if the 2 apps, UIctl and Terminal are installed. Sometimes I had to install the apps 2 or 3 times, until they actually were installed. Now copy the following files to the /usr/bin/ directory on your iPhone: ieraser, bbupdater, secpack, ICE03.14.08_G.eep and ICE03.14.08.fls. Go to step 5.

5. Tap the Terminal in your home screen. You will see a command line. Type the following commands followed by enter: chmod +x bbupdater
chmod +x ieraser
chmod +x secpack
chmod +x *.fls
chmod +x *.eep

Now press your home button and go back home, tap the UIctl icon. CAUTION, do not play around with the services by stopping or unloading them without knowing the affect. You need to tap on only the following services:

Tap on com.apple.CommCenter - you will be given several choices, just tap "unload -w"
then tap on com.apple.mobile.lockdown - again you will be given several choices, just tap on "stop" and go to step 6.

6. Now go back into Terminal and type "ieraser" in the command line and watch the magic happen.
Now type bbupdater -f *.fls -e *.eep and watch how the firmware will be loaded into the flash.

7. You should now be able to have all your hardware working again, just need to unlock using your choice of app.

To point 5 I don´t understand. Could somebody help me? When I tap commands in terminal window, how can I enter it? With return button? I dont have there enter button. Could somebody write it simplier? I tried it and nothing happend, only I have new big E /EDGE/ up on the display.

[nickthegreek]

Here ya go:

Pakal and I followed this tip but since the phone was not unlocked ever, we ierased the baseband then simply restored and voila...

Credit to Citrus for this....

OK, everyone who has done any sort of hacking, flashing, restoring etc. and ended up with an iBrick with the following symptoms:

IMEI: Unknown ICCID: Unknown, Rapair Needed (iPhone cannot make or receive calls), no audio (except headset), no WIFI i.e. corrupt baseband or baseband flash is in a limbo state and cannot communicate with ieraser or bbupdater, then the following solution MAY resolve your issue. I did this on a 1.1.1 iPhone which I had hacked a dozen times and had gone from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 and back and forth etc, because of the above symtoms, until I discovered a very easy way to resolve the problem. After all it's only software, thus I don't believe it's possible to damage your iPhone permanently by just the software and baseband tinkering. I recommend you read this entire procedure to understand what is being done, prior to diving into it. Read each step BEFORE attempting it, so you can follow the procedure exactly as it is written and avoid possible mistakes. We will do everything via Mobile Terminal on the iPhone, since your WIFI does not work due to the corrupt baseband.

I have Macs and an XP machine and yet to my surprise, I found this solution to work extremely quick and easy with Windows. Due to the condition my iPhone was in, iNdependence and various other activation apps could not activate my iPhone because my ICCID was unknown. So, I used a Windows laptop and it worked, with PAYCAY! Please note, I did all this without a SIM card in my iPhone, until I fixed it and then inserted my SIM card . In all the procedures, the various apps will ask you to reboot your iPhone, sometimes several times, it is OK!

You need to download the following tools: AppTappInstaller.exe, PACAY and iBrickr_0.91.

Also download the following files: ieraser, bbupdater, secpack, ICE03.14.08_G.eep and ICE03_14_08.fls

1. Get your iPhone to 1.0.2, if you are already at 1.0.2 with the yellow attention triangle on your iPhone screen, go to step 2. If you have the cable with the iTunes logo on your screen, it means you are at 1.1.1 and perhaps don't know what to do. Connect your powered on iPhone to iTunes, click away any message iTunes displays about your phone and make sure your phone is recognized by iTunes. Now hold both home and power/sleep button for 10 seconds, then release only the power/sleep button. While still holding the home button, you are waiting for iTunes to pop up a window telling you it has found your iPhone to be in recovery/restore mode. As soon as it does, let go the home button. Your iPhone screen should be blank (black). If you are seeing the iTunes logo and the cable connect again, then you will have to repeat the previous instruction.

2. Your phone has the yellow triangle (this means your at 1.0.2). Now connect your phone to your XP machine and run AppTappInstaller.exe. The first time it will fail, close AppTapp then start iTunes until you get an error message from iTunes then close iTunes again, including the iTunes Helper process. Now run AppTappInstaller.exe for a second time and wait until it is finished, it should run to the end with a success message. Go to step 3.

3. If you downloaded PAYCAY and unzipped it, you should have a "MACOSX" folder and a "YouTube (Windows) fix" folder. Open the Windows folder and double click on "(CLICK HERE) activate.bat". Follow the instruction to reboot your phone. You should now have an activated iPhone at version 1.0.2, go to step 4.

4. Start iBrickr and go to Applications, follow the instructions to install applications. After rebooting you phone several times, you should now be able to install apps. Browse for the following apps and install them: "BSD Subsystem", "UIctl" (by Nate True) (or use Launch Gui by Erica Sadun same thing) and "Mobile Terminal VT100". Make sure these are installed, you can verify by refreshing the app list in iBrickr. On your iPhone go to your home screen and see if the 2 apps, UIctl and Terminal are installed. Sometimes I had to install the apps 2 or 3 times, until they actually were installed. Now copy the following files to the /usr/bin/ directory on your iPhone: ieraser, bbupdater, secpack, ICE03.14.08_G.eep and ICE03.14.08.fls. Go to step 5.

5. Tap the Terminal in your home screen. You will see a command line. Type the following commands followed by enter: chmod +x bbupdater
chmod +x ieraser
chmod +x secpack
chmod +x *.fls
chmod +x *.eep

Now press your home button and go back home, tap the UIctl icon. CAUTION, do not play around with the services by stopping or unloading them without knowing the affect. You need to tap on only the following services:

Tap on com.apple.CommCenter - you will be given several choices, just tap "unload -w"
then tap on com.apple.mobile.lockdown - again you will be given several choices, just tap on "stop" and go to step 6.

6. Now go back into Terminal and type "ieraser" in the command line and watch the magic happen.
Now type bbupdater -f *.fls -e *.eep and watch how the firmware will be loaded into the flash.

7. You should now be able to have all your hardware working again, just need to unlock using your choice of app.

Hello slipshift!

This is great stuff! Very valuable. My iPhone got its WiFi bricked somehow but having followed your very meticulous instructions I reached considerable success. The phone now has its Wi-Fi access settings enabled again. I can go and select the name of the wireless domain I want to join and the phone appears to be indeed joining that domain. However, for some reason it cannot acquire an IP address from DHCP. I even tried to attach a static IP address to no avail. I rebooted my router and the phone a few times as well. Again, no joy... Am I forgetting anything? Do I need to reload or restart any of the services you directed us to unload/stop? Something else?

Your help would be very much appreciated!

[nickthegreek]

you need to make sure that you are in the same directory as the files you are changing their mode on. Before you execute the chmod commands, tap the following at the command line prompt:

cd /usr/bin

Then tap the chmod commands as per slipshift's post. Hope this helps.