My iPhone 3GS was working just fine, then it suddenly stopped booting. Now I get a message on the screen saying: “iTunes could not connect to the iPhone “ryphone3gs” because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the iPhone before it can be used with iTunes”. [Cancel] [Try Again]
Of course, while displaying this message, my iPhone simply displays a “swipe for emergency call” message and provides no way to actually unlock the phone.
When going into Hardware restore mode, I simply see “Error 23″ in iTunes, which according to some online information may mean my hardware is toasted.
I tried using “irecovery” to get at the source of the issue, but each time I boot up, I get:
Boot Failure Count: 0 Panic Fail Count: 0
Radio failed to respond.
Radio failed to respond.
Pinging Radio Failed, 4
Entering recovery mode, starting command prompt
Apparently I’m not the only one having this “pinging radio failed” problem.
The last ditch effort may be to prepare a custom Apple iPhone RAM disk apparently called “Bypass_Passcode.bin” (created with iLiberty+) and use irecovery to load that RAM disk onto the iPhone, and then use the disk to disable the password. Seems like a lot of work considering that my iPhone is new, that it’s never been hacked, jailbroken, sim-unlocked or anything else.
There’s also some information about downgrading the 3GS from 3.1 to 3.0, but that seems specific to the sim-unlockers and jailbreakers of the world. Sad that even playing by Apple’s rules, the iPhone still isn’t very reliable.
Following the directions of the Apple support website, I entered in my serial number and other iPhone information and submitted my case, only to get an error from the Apple support website saying: “We’re sorry, but we’re unable to complete your request at this time. Please try again in a few minutes or start over now”. Of course after a few minutes I started over and did the process again, and got the same error. Forgive me for being a skeptic about AAPL at $300/share.
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:28 pm
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November 22nd, 2010 at 3:14 pm
At long last The Beatles and Itunes have fixed their differences and soon Itunes will be selling Beatles tracks. Perhaps the first one on sale should be ‘We can work it out’? Altogether now; ‘Life is very short, and there’s no ti-yi-yi-yi-yime, for fussing and fighting my friends…’
True though, innit!
December 31st, 2010 at 1:41 am
Why peeps do not get their iphone unlocked is truly beyond me.
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