I’ve been sort of busy doing some Python stuffs so this blog has not been updated for days, besides I’m lazy sometimes :) Okay, this is a story about what has happened to my 1st-gen iPhone, the story may prevent you from doing stupid things like me :)
Last week, I was trying the firmware 2.0 on my 1st-gen iPhone (bootloader 3.9, firmware 1.1.4), after some successful “normal” operations, I decided to try some “abnormal” situations, so I messed my iPhone in the following manner:
Restore to 2.0
Restore to 1.1.4
Downgrade baseband
Erase baseband
Activate
Unlock the AnySim way
Unlock the IPSF way
The above operations were taken multiple times and might not be in the displayed order (I couldn’t recall the exact steps I took), I used the following tools during the above operations:
iLiberty+
PwnageTool
BootNeuter
KiPhone (I know what it is :)
iTunes 7.5
iTunes 7.7
iUnlock
norz
bbupdater
etc.
After several erasures, restores, upgrades, downgrades, pownages, as well as other mindless operations, my phone finally got to such a condition:
The seczone was filled with 0xFF
So the seczone was erased, I tried to restore it using my backup (yes, I have my original seczone backup), but I wasn’t lucky this time, after several attempts using iUnlock, the seczone was still filled with 0xFF, I’ve dumped it several times using norz, all the same results. To test if it’s still a “phone”, I unlocked it using BootNeuter and made some calls, it worked like a charm :)
Now I have a nice iPhone with no bluetooth, no wifi. The annoying thing is I have no idea how to fix it even though I have my original seczone in hand.
19 Comments
Nice to see an update, sorry about the phone situation.
try to winpwn your iphone with 2.0 FW
Sorry for your iPhone, Great news is that you are writing something on your blog.
I’ve been visiting your blog every day, people expect alot from you George Zhu. Please post at a regular intervals.
Expecting iLiberty 2.0 soon !
All the best and I hope you’ll find a solution for iPhone problem soom.
Vikram
India
Have you tried to use PC/Win to restore to 1.1.4 using iTunes 7.5 in DFU mode?
@TheCommander, @sh4508, that will not work for sure :)
老兄果然出手不凡亚, 搞出了一块能打电话的砖头阿.
上次那台1011砖头, 我前些天刚让人去文三路上换了块通讯板.
hoho 700大洋
George share your seczone on the iPhone Wiki
http://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Seczone
Also please try to make this wiki good.
Good to see you are posting again. Sorry about the iphone problem.
Is your problem the same as the 1011 error that results from a screwed-up baseband? No wifi, no bluetooth, no imei, no ccid, no sound, ‘repair needed’ message. I mean really screwed-up, such that nothing works or seems to be able to reach that far down to fix. All attempts at erasing/fixing it end in frozen screens. The tell-tale sign seems to be ‘invalid calibration data in device tree’. This is the state of my iPhone. You wrote that you could make calls though. How is that possible? Do you know of any way to fix the invalid calibration issue? Thanks very much!
Last nite, i was end up with 1012, unable to push baseband in itunes 7.5 and 7.7, with bbupdater also could not. Use the bootneuter, it just hang on “detemining current setings”. Thought i messed with the baseband processor. Around midnite, i played back with kiphone and downgrade a baseband … somehow … simsalabim it can pushback in a baseband, whilst i do not understand why ??!??
I have the same problem as you George but I had this when I first upgraded to 2.0 from 1.1.4. I downgraded (and then upgraded) in the hopes of fixing this but this did not help. I have been reading up on this in the hope of finding something but to no avail. It seems that there are many who after upgrading to 2.0 and/or 2.0.1 have the same issue. Just type in Google “no wifi iphone 2.0″ and you will see. The end result is them getting a replacement phone.
Hi i have a 1.1.4 iphone with the infamous 1011 error i have tryed every solution out there. so i decided to open the iphone i have made a small trace on test point A so i am ready for the re-flash but i all ways get stuck on spamming at waiting for responce. i am so near to getiing my iphone back if i can pass this stage…
i have tryed the virginisher.sh i allways get an error is there any way to fix the corrupt nvram… i look forward to your reply
many thanks
Ian!
Hi George
What is the present condition of your iPhone.
Have you solved No Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Problem ?
Vikram
India
backup table? swifi?
no way?
Please keep us updated!!
been having the same problem for more than 5 months, no solution so far!!!
makes calls and SMS but with wifi always on and can’t be used. which results in battery life of 8 hours or less!!!
thanks
help for downgrade iphone 2g to 1.1.4
i have upgarded my cell to 2.0.2 with quickpwn but after unlocking by bootneuter i gokt problems such as no sound ,no wifi,modem firmware is blank ,…
so i dokwngrade to 1.1.4 but stil there is problems .
i erased baseband with kiphone kbut not answer
so what am i supossed to do
I restore my 8GB Iphone using Itune latest upgrade and version 2.0 or 2.1.ipsw. Then try using iliberty, ziphone, and quickpwn but can’t unlock my iphone. I try to use itune to recover to version 1.0.2 or 1.1.4 but can’t recovery with itune has errro 1408 or 1408 code. Can anyone help me on how to fix my iphone. I can only recovery using itune version 1.2.0 or 1.2.1 but I can’t unlock without using ATT sim card . I try to fix it all night last night until 6am withou sleeping. Can some help me email information to khlimj@hotmail.com or call 626 258 9855
Jimmy
hi…i am using iphone version 2.1…after i installed a pysl software,my iphone dont have sms notice sound when i recieve a new sms…i had checked my sms setting and pysl setting already,they are correct…but why dont had any sms sound…please kindly help me to solve this problem…it bothering me very long time…please email me…very appreciate it…
any solution with 1011 error? Maybe it’s possible to return iphone back to normal state with wifi imei bt