Hey guys, I've been trying to read around the forums as much as I can, rather than ask, about my iPhone and the problem I'm having, but I can't seem to find anything that is my scenario, so I need your help if you don't mind.

I bought my phone off eBay from a guy who said that he had firmware version 1.1.4 on the phone and had used ziPhone to unlock it. I activated and jailbroke the phone using iLiberty+ and everything was running great for a couple of weeks. Last night I was adding themes and the ThemeBuilder app using the Installer app and it told me for a particular one that I downloaded that I needed to restart my iPhone. So I did, and now its been stuck on this Apple loading screen forever since I restarted it.

I've been trying to figure out what steps I need to take but there seems to be a lot of different ways some include re-virginizing and some include a DFU mode. These are all terms that I'm still trying to absorb but am having a little difficulty with. So I decided I wasn't going to do anything until I asked what the proper procedure was.

My serial number starts with 327411Vxxxx. I don't know if that's any help or not, but anything you can help me with would be great.

Thanks

Alright, so I tried to do a restore in iTunes just to get myself back to square one with the phone. I had the phone put into DFU mode using iLiberty+, and then I click on the restore button with iTunes, it says downloading 1.1.4. However, when it has completed the download of 162.1 MB it will sit there for a few seconds and then give me this message:

There was a problem downloading the iPhone software for the iPhone "iPhone". The network connection timed out.
Make sure your network settings are correct and your network connection is active, or try again later.

In the status section of the download it says

zero KB of 162.1 MB - stopped (err = -3259)

Any ideas on what all of this means?

Ok, so I have managed now to manually download the 1.1.4 ispw and input it into the restore on iTunes and my phone has in fact restored and I am now at the "SIM card not supported by iTunes part" which basically means that I just need to use a program to U/A/JB it.

But since my phone was originally unlocked with ZiPhone and I have read alot of conflicting things about how it downgrades your baseband, can I just go ahead and use iLiberty+ or PwnageTool to do the U/A/JB? Or do I need to do the bootneuter process before I can unlock?

Alright, well I think everything is back to normal, I downloaded the updated iLiberty+ and selected all the options (JailBreak/Unlock/Activate/Cydia/Youtube Activator/Downgrade BootLoader) and it worked like a charm. I just finished syncing my phone with iTunes and it seems like it works hopefully.