Hi.

Yesterday, I had some problems with my iPhone, such as:

* Backup failure ("failed to backup because the iPhone disconnected")
* Black screen when finished call (just top bar showing up)
* Return to SMS list by contact button missing sometimes, in SMS app

... So I decided to restore.

Pressed cmd+restore, and selected the custom firmware that was previously installed.

It started extracting it, but when the restore was supposed to start, i received an unknown error (5).

The iPhone is now stuck at the steve jobs screen, aka recovery mode, and I can't take it from there. Neither hard reset nor DFU worked. The restore always fails when the extracting is done.


What I've tried already:

*Recovery Mode, iTunes 8, official firmware 2.1, resulted in error 5
*Recovery Mode, iTunes 8, pwned firmware 2.1 , resulted in error 5
*DFU Mode, iTunes 8, pwned firmware 2.1 , resulted in error 1
*DFU mode, iTunes 7.7, official firmware 2.1, resulted in error 1
*DFU mode, iTunes 7.7, pwned firmware 2.1, resulted in error 1

I've got:
iPhone v1
Mac OS X 10.5

What should I do now? I'm kinda stressed with this.

Thank you all
Razzo, Portugal

Wow, seems like it didn't gave the error if I download the firmware directly from iTunes :O

It is restoring, lets see if it suceeds.

Originally Posted by RaZZo

Wow, seems like it didn't gave the error if I download the firmware directly from iTunes :O

It is restoring, lets see if it suceeds.

Probably because of this: Error updating iPhone (Error 1 or 5)

Ok, it installed correctly the official 2.1 firmware, but now it refuses to install the pwned one : /

Originally Posted by RaZZo

Ok, it installed correctly the official 2.1 firmware, but now it refuses to install the pwned one : /

Did you check post # 3. Anyway, try QuickPwn instead

I did checked it now, sorry.

It is upgrading to the custom now
(created a new one in pwnage tools and it worked)

Quick pwn failed, said that I had an wrong version installed in the phone, but it was the official 2.1

After all, I think the problem is solved It is updating now

Thank you

Good to know that

Hello.
I have the same problem (error number 5) but the solution you've presented didn't work for me....have you any other ideas?
I downloaded these two firmwares: iPhone1,1_2.1_5F136_Restore AND iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore but both did not work. I have a 1.1.2/1.1.4 Iphone 2g.
Thanks for help.

I fortunatly managed to restore the iphone with ziphone...