I have a 3g and its stuck on recovery mode i have tried.

Windows Xp Itunes 8.0.2
Recovery mode= waiting for iphone (sometime on the blue moon error 9) fw 2.0 ,2.1 ,2.2 ,2.2.1
Dfu Mode = Waiting for iphone(sometime error 9) fw all

Windows Vista itunes 7.7 , 8.0.2 , 8.1
Recovery Mode = waiting for iphone(sometime error 9) fw all
Dfu Mode = waiting for iphone(sometime error 9) fw all

Mac OSX 10.5.5 Itunes 8.0.1
Dfu Mode= waiting for iphone (sometime error 9) fw all

I cant send it back as i do not have att.
what the hell is error 9 does anyone knows.

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP

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Iphone 3gs 16gb(Black) Fw 3.1.2
Unlocked/Jailbroken with Blacksn0w

Call In/Out - Yes/Yes
SMS In/Out - Yes/Yes
EDGE/WIFI - Yes/Yes
YouTube - Yes
Jailbreak-Yes

i guess no one know about this ishue.
anyways i called apple and they replace it for me.
and guess what the new phone had fw 2.2 bb 02.28.0--- Lucky he

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Iphone 3gs 16gb(Black) Fw 3.1.2
Unlocked/Jailbroken with Blacksn0w

Call In/Out - Yes/Yes
SMS In/Out - Yes/Yes
EDGE/WIFI - Yes/Yes
YouTube - Yes
Jailbreak-Yes

already fixet the problem by goin to apple store they gave me a new iphone.

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Iphone 3gs 16gb(Black) Fw 3.1.2
Unlocked/Jailbroken with Blacksn0w

Call In/Out - Yes/Yes
SMS In/Out - Yes/Yes
EDGE/WIFI - Yes/Yes
YouTube - Yes
Jailbreak-Yes

Hi ggonxhi,

I'm having the same error after I jailbreaked my 3GS with blackra1n.

I can't get rid of this error so I'm thinking about sending it back but I'm pretty worried about the fact that they could find out that my iPhone has been jailbreaked.

Was your iPhone jailbreaked as well ?

Hello, I jailed break my 3gs using pwngtool for mac, right now its giving me error 9, & i cant restore to factory settings.
i used all kinds of applications, like blackra1, redsnow etc... nothing is working..

regards,
i did also restored my phone using the custom IPSW.. nothing good!

Hi samshack,

I had the same problem than you except that I did it with Blackra1n.
I tried maybe 200 times to restore it without success ...

I finally gave up and sent it to Apple. I don't know if I've been lucky that they didn't see it was jailbreaked or if it was really broken but they sent me back a new one.

So try and try again and if it doesn't work, well you can try to send it, you'll have nothing to loose...

let me introduce myself to the Error 9 Club....SOOOO Annoying. I was just making some new icons for a theme and uploaded a picture...hit a button and my phone shut off and rebooted and just got stuck on the pineapple.

Tried EVERYTHING...different USB plugs, rebooting PC, latest iTunes...nothing...last resort is trying my Mac at work but I trashed my Pwnage custom firmware...was hoping that would work.

I'm thinking I may just sent to apple and take a chance...once they see that stupid pineapple, they're gonna know I jb'd it..lol.

Ok,

Here we go .... At least it worked in my case ( 3GS 16Gb, OOTB 3.0, then upgraded to 3.0.1 )....

iTunes error 9 seems to be a tricky one, and wery hard to resolve, seems to me it has to to something with bad (or lack ) of communications between iTunes and iPhone (check your restore logs) due to corrupted drivers/USB protocols/Firmware mainly on Windows machines (in search for solutions I found two or three cases where this issue was resolved ONLY by restoring on Mac ).

So what to do ?

I did it this way.... after two days full of Restores (30+)

1) Patched host file ( CWindows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ) by adding
74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com as Apple Update Server in order to achive verifications of older IPSWs (3.0, 3.1,

you can read more on that here:

Caching Apple's Signature Server - Jay Freeman (saurik)

2) Downloaded UNTOUCHED ORIGINAL 3.0 Firmware ( Google for it ). If you have baseband 05.11.07,you will need ORIGINAL UTOUCHED 3.1

3) Put iPhone in DFU Mode (maybe works also with Restore mode)

4) Restored with iTunes,

5) now I have 3.0/3.1 unactivated firmware, and WORKING iPhone

6) if you want use RedSnow to jailbreak

7) Upgrade / Restore to whatever you want

That's it.... Hope it was helpfull, and above all usefull

this is a new suggestion that I haven't heard...but the only thing is I'm at 3.1.2...i think I tried to go down but it wouldn't let me. Will try the other stuff though when I get home.

Error 9 is a betch.

ootb 3.1.2 ?