I post on another (iPhone unrelated) board, and one of my buddies has an issue.
A big issue.
Here's his quoted post:
A big issue.
Here's his quoted post:
"I've got a 2nd gen iPhone I bought in China in 2008. Therefore, it was jailbroken and unlocked to run on ChinaMobile. When I moved back to the states 1.5 years ago, I just got a Tmobile phone plan, threw the SIM card into the iPhone...
At any rate , a glass of H2o spilled and soaked my phone. I let it dry out for a few weeks, charged it up, and finally got it to turn on today. It had the 'plug into iTunes' picture message on it, so figuring since it was already a brick, it wouldn't hurt to turn it in to a different type of brick and trying to update it.
Well, guess what .... its now a different type of brick thats once again locked.
So, here are my issues:
1) Last firmware was 2.1.1 (updated 3 years ago w Cydia)
2) I've no idea how to jailbreak and unlock this thing, or even really understand what those terms mean and what they do."
At any rate , a glass of H2o spilled and soaked my phone. I let it dry out for a few weeks, charged it up, and finally got it to turn on today. It had the 'plug into iTunes' picture message on it, so figuring since it was already a brick, it wouldn't hurt to turn it in to a different type of brick and trying to update it.
Well, guess what .... its now a different type of brick thats once again locked.
So, here are my issues:
1) Last firmware was 2.1.1 (updated 3 years ago w Cydia)
2) I've no idea how to jailbreak and unlock this thing, or even really understand what those terms mean and what they do."
His iPhone now has what looks like the recovery screen on it, but also has a dialog box that lists his IMEI and ICCID number, and he can't slide to unlock.
He's on Mac, if that helps.
I'm guessing he updated to 3.1.3, but will Fix Recovery help here? Is he factory unlocked?
