I hate this phone!

[Caboderoca]

This last week has me thinking I may just go to ANYTHING other than an iPhone. I have been trying to jailbreak a 3g for my sister. (3g, 8gig, 5.9BL, 3.1.3, 5.12.01) I have tried nearly 50 times over the past week to jailbreak this thing and somewhere around 3-5 hours per day. I have tried 3 computers, two versions of iTunes(9.0 and 9.1.1.12) and two different OS's(Windows 7 64 and XP), three different cables, and 7 different USB ports. I got an error (2) twice, error 1600 an handful of times, an error 1602 once or twice and the ^&%$# error 1604 the rest of the time. I have tried blackra1n, sn0wbreeze, redsn0w and spirit. Blackra1n says it is working, but it never reboots. Sn0wbreeze works fine except I get the 1604 with the IPSW it generates. Spirit won't run. I haven't had much luck with Redsn0w either. I can restore using iTunes only from the Apple IPSW, but I can't get anything activated because I don't have an AT&T SIM. I've tried iREB but it does NOTHING. It won't crash and my phone screen doesn't turn white. I've tried a few different things I found on the net such as removing files from itunes and no luck. I think maybe it can't be jailbroken. Oh yeah, I've tried custom IPSW from 3 different sites too and nothing. HELP!!

[Cold85]

To jailbreak a 3.1.3 you can use either Spirit or redsn0w. To jailbreak with redsn0w refer to this guide. Hope I helped.

http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-...redsn0w-0.9.4/

[ddub420]

My Opinion:
If your sisters iphone need to be unlocked(not an official carrier sim) then your SOL 4 now for activating.
Unless the iphone has the old bootloader 5.08(made before sept 2008) then you can downgrade the baseband with fuzzyband. You have 5.09 then your sisters iPhone is an iTouch 4 now.
Now with your jailbreak issues:
If spirit is giving you a problem on 3.1.3, then dont use it.
Get your iphone's 3.1.2 fw and downgrade to it using any version of itunes. 9.03/9.1/9.1.1
You got to be in DFU mode(google search it if you dont know it) when you use the shift restore method<--important.
Any 1600 errors ireb will work for it.
Jailbreak with redsnow 0.9.2 <-- what i use and its never failed.
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