I know it was a very dumb thing to do, but when I was trying to move files around to get my Summerboard themes to show up, I accidentally deleted the var folder (which I thought was a duplicate empty one, but I think it was linked somehow to the /private/var folder).

Needless to say, my iphone now does not work or sync. Itunes is saying that it cannot communicate with it because the pairing record is missing. The phone turns on and I can access some of the buttons (although it's slow) but the phone doesn't work and I cannot restore because it cannot sync to itunes.

I tried restarting the computer as I read somewhere, but of course it didn't work.

Please, please, please can someone help! i don't care if i lose all of my stuff...I just want it to work again!

And, yes, I have learned my lesson about not fussing with things if I don't know what I'm doing!

Dfu mode - restore in iTunes
pwn the phone
setup as a new phone in iTunes
reinstall apps

Be careful in the future

Originally Posted by NSLog

Dfu mode - restore in iTunes
pwn the phone
setup as a new phone in iTunes
reinstall apps

Be careful in the future

Thank you so much for the reply! Unfortunately, I don't understand what you want me to do. How do you get to dfu mode? how do you pwn the phone?

And, yes, I will be more careful...in fact, I think I'll stick w/ my "out of the box" phone for a while until I actually understand more.

Thanks again. Waiting to hear more!

something nice and easy for ya, turn the phone all the way off, hold the home button then plug it in while still holding home till the cd and cable screen shows up on the phone and then restore as far as pwned read the faq in the pawnage section

The guy has told you exactly what you need to know. How to do the things he has suggested can be found by searching around. IE by typing DFU mode iphone in google.

A little self help my friend, trust me, you'll learn more by finding the answers yourself. I play around with things I shouldn't and am always having to learn how to fix them.

Google is your friend

Peace

I figured it out. What you said to do worked perfectly! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

me????

Thanks Davy,
That is actually what I ended up doing (although I was a little scared since that's part of why I got into this mess int he first place - searching and following instructions that I really didn't understand, then messing it up!)

Maybe I should give myself a little credit at least since I did manage to get my phone unlocked by myself even if I didn't really understand what I was doing. I just need to be a whole lot more careful w/ the ftp thing!

You all are THE BEST! Thank you so much! I was gray last night by the time I went to sleep and tossed and turned all night at the thought that I ruined my iphone!

I know exactly how you feel. I find myself reading guides I only partly understand and worrying like mad that i'm gonna screw things up.
I think I was one of the first people to end up with a 3.8 bootloader on my phone, that was so nasty. I felt sick to my stomache, couldn't sleep.....i could have cried. I finally plucked up the courage to testpoint it back to 3.9. What I can say is that Google helped me get through it all.
Well done for getting things sorted, dont it feel great when you realise that you screwed it up but managed to fix it with little or no help.

Peace