Hi,

I have an iPhone 3G with 3.0 on it. It was working fine, but now it's stuck in a constant reboot cycle. I know I can probably reflash the firmware to restore it to stock and it'll be fine, but I have some videos on it recorded using cycorder and they haven't been copied off yet.

I want to try running redsn0w again to see if re-jailbreaking the phone will help it out of the infinite reboot. From what I gather, it analyzes the firmware you select (which should match your phones), then creates a package that is sent to the phone, and certain parts of the OS are overwritten to jailbreak the features we need. As far as I know, it doesn't actually delete anything from the phone (music, photos, etc).

Can anyone confirm that? Don't want to find out partitions get remade or files destoryed during the redsn0w process.

Thanks!

no idea ... on how to get the vids

but the next time u restore to a fresh fw.....remember not to restore to a previous backup ....that causes a lot of problems.....so what i mean is after a fresh restore always setup ur iphone as a new iphone in itunes...

sorry couldnt help u with the vids ..

good luck

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I am not sure about this. You should have make a back up if you can. As it rebooting more and more I know this is so tough to do so. Anyway try using jailbreaking. Hope for the best.

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Have you tried iPhone backup extractor or for windows iPhone backup extractor - windows

Many of the files you have on your iPhone are copied to the backup that iTunes makes everytime you sync your phone. The backup extractor tools can unpack this and you can dig around for the files.

Redsn0w does not modify the media partition, however I don't know if it will help to run it a second time. It may make it worse.

There are definitely powerful forensic options available that could give you a copy of your entire iPhone, but this is not simple for an end user to do.

What you could try is to "update" to 3.0.1 or if that does not work 3.1 via an official iTunes, then run redsn0w again.

The update does not wipe anything, unlike restore. It just replaces files that have changed. You are running a 2G iPhone so you have no need to worry about unlock. Then once the update is finished, if the phone can now boot successfully, you can try running redsn0w again to get jailbreak back.