Technique Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I have an iPhone 3GS which i've sold & was supposed to hand over tomorrow. It's running iOS 5.0.1 & the buyer didn't really want iOS6 on it. The phone is jailbroken (although Cydia for some reason wont load up). I've gone into Settings>General etc to erase all content & nothing happens - i just get a continuous rotating circle for as long as i care to leave it (hours even). I try & update & restore+update through iTunes, both in normal & DFU mode & all i get is an error 3194 message. I edit the hosts file as many guides tell you to - this doesn't work either. So i can't erase the phone & i can't restore the phone. Why? & how do i get around this? Is there's a 3rd party program that will erase the content? EDIT: The Cydia app "noupdate" was installed i found. I've removed that to see if it'll make a difference. Any ideas in the meantime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technique Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 Just to update - i got it sorted in the end. Started around 6:30pm, finished at 12:15am. In the end, i couldn't erase, i couldn't update & i've no idea why. What did finally work was restoring through redsn0w. The phone was running iOS5.0.1 so i restored it using the exact same iOS5.0.1 & this was the only way i could reset the phone. Worked fine afterwards, so problem solved, eventually. So i didn't have to update :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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