Killed while attempting jailbreak?

January 19, 2011 8:30 PM

I let Redsn0w jailbreak my iphone, and now it's dead. As in, completely unresponsive, and won't turn on. What happened? What can I do?

After weeks and weeks of trying, I finally got my phone to go into DFU mode, and ran Redsn0w 0.9.6.b5 to jailbreak it. It went through until the part where it said "waiting for reboot."

Then nothing happened. I was waiting for a while (five or ten minutes), and i figured maybe it meant waiting for me to manually reboot the thing. But I pressed the power button (still connected to the computer) and nothing happened. I tried holding down the power button, holding down both the power and home buttons, disconnecting, reconnecting, but the unit is completely unresponsive.

Can it be saved? Has this ever happened to anybody? Halp?

posted by Jon_Evil to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Have you put it back into DFU mode? To my understanding, iPhones aren't capable of being really bricked. Try this guide?
posted by suedehead at 8:37 PM on January 19, 2011

Try putting the phone into recovery mode: iPhone and iPod touch: Unable to update or restore.
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 8:56 PM on January 19, 2011

That DFU thing is a pain in the arse, ain't it? Try letting the battery drain by either leaving it alone for a week, or keep pressing buttons like a wild man. Draining a lithium ion battery is not my favorite thing to do, but it's worked for me in the past. Then, before you plug it into any power source, download recboot (read over the documentation to make sure it's right for you) and make sure it's running.

Good luck. I hope some combination of the above advice is helpful.
posted by malaprohibita at 1:00 PM on January 20, 2011

DFU is really easy. Just get the timing right.
posted by filmgeek at 2:38 PM on January 25, 2011

Response by poster: So it turns out there's a bug in Redsn0w, where sometimes it just freezes up at the "waiting for reboot" stage. The two ways that have been found to help with this are 1. copying the redsnow files and the ispw file to your root directory, and 2. sometimes you need to unplug the cable from the phone and then plug it back in.

When I did this, it worked great.
posted by Jon_Evil at 3:15 PM on March 22, 2011