hey everybody, a bit of a problem here

I have an iPhone which happens to have slipped and dropped and as a result the power/sleep button stopped working. Thing is it didn't feel broken. In fact its still pushing in and back up everytime I press it, so I was pretty sure it wasn't broken. So in hope of fixing it I restored the iPhone only to find out that the button is in fact really broken. I found out afterwards that i could have used an app from cydia to replace the sleep button function. Only problem now is that the iPhone is no longer jailbroken and to jailbreak it I need to put in in DFU mode and use the now broken Sleep button to do that.

In short I need a way to put the iPhone in DFU mode without using the Power/Sleep button. That or a way to have it jailbroken without using the DFU mode. It's running on 3.1 atm btw.

All advice will be appreciated and thanks a lot
Alex

Try this
Alternate Method: Going Into DFU Mode Without Button Pushing: (on windows) Easier than timing the buttons just right!


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I've tried that on 2 computers now, on my main one the command goes through but the iPhone doens't do anything. And on my other computer it gives me and error.

P.S. did I mention I'm stuck at the activation screen? maybe it has to be at least activated for that to work!?

I got your same issue, I found the script that they already told you, or you can try with ziphone....

i've tried with iLiberty+ but it puts it in recovery mode, not DFU, is there a way to jailbreak from recovery mode?

I'm not sure, but i'm trying maybe i can restore a custom firmware....i'll let you know...

(I'm in your exactly same situation, let's keep in touch if someone of us can solve,I'll send you a private message with my contacts...)

Are you trying to Jailbreak using Redsn0w on F/W 3.01

well at first it was 3.0 but i was close to bricking it and the only way to save it was to upgrade to 3.1.2 the jailbreaking is the last of my problems atm until i find a way to put it in DFU mode that is. And yea I was planning to use redsn0w.

i was thinking custom firmware too, I've tried to restore with one but it didnt work :/ and yea, keep in touch , I've actually posted the problem all over the internet so ill let u know if I find anything

Thx, I'm gonna try to restore another custom firmware later tonight!
I feel a little better that I am not the only one in this situation...^^

maybe you already know but Monday hopefully will come out the windows version for pwntools ( i don't remember the name ), and maybe we can be able to jailbroke the iphone, but we have to found a way to put it in DFU mode...

Are you sure that rerdsn0w works with 3.1 firmware?