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#1 2011-03-15 11:11:36
My iPod is Bricked!
Just this morning, I was playing around with a boot screen changer called LogoMii. I had used it thousands of times to change my boot screen from usual Apple to outlandishly awesome and new bootscreens such as the great Apple Eclipse bootscreen. They were normally 1-45 frames long, nothing too big.
So anyway, today I was changing it again and selected a very large, 94-frame bootscreen I never tried before. It was called Apple Progress Green - HD and a preview of it showed its brilliant awesomeness. So I applied it but during the process of applying, I received a number of errors and the Settings app even crashed once or twice. After finally applying without errors or crashes, I shut down my iPod and turned it back on.
Big Mistake. I saw the Apple logo for a long while and eventually got to the point where it loads the animated boot screen. The video test passed and my iPod made a charging chime. Instantly after that, a shutdown spin showed up over the Apple logo. This indicates either a respring or a SpringBoard crash. In this case, SpringBoard had crashed...horribly. So I was waiting for Safe Mode to appear, but the shutdown spin still spun over the Apple logo, freezing for a second every 4 seconds. That was bad news. It kept on do this, spinning and spinning and spinning right over the Apple logo.
Eventually, SpringBoard just gave up and gave me the White Screen of Death before suddenly shutting down abruptly. It then restarted itself without warning and the same process started again. After awhile, the WSODs and Boot Loops scared me to the point of DFUing my iPod. I had to find out how to do this through Fakera1n, which mimicked the DFU mode process. It stayed at the Connect to iTunes screen for a great deal of time before rebooting again back to the loops and crashes. I called Apple and made it clear that the iTouch was jailbroken. He said to restore and reinstall my firmware but that can't happen as I have dial-up. 
Right now I face the DFU mode's infamous Connect to iTunes screen and every now and then the Apple Logo of Death. I hope I can fully shut this thing down because the resets are going to kill my iPod. After I restore, I will never use bootscreens over 45 frames again. *sigh*
WindozeNT
EDIT: I like to call Recovery Mode DFU Mode for some reason. I have an IPSW file but during the verification process I get a bunch of errors hurled at me. Most notably, error 3194. However, after adding the hosts mod, going to gs.apple.com takes me to Cydia's home page! (The page you get after launching the Cydia app) Also, for those who think I'm back, I'm not. Not until next month.
Fire219: Just before my iTouch got bricked, I had finished drawing a rough sketch of how PodTricks' logo was supposed to look like. That's all gone now. BTW, you didn't shut down PodTricks while I was gone like I asked you to. Why?
EDIT 2: I think that bootscreen I applied was for iPad, hence the tailing name "HD", where HD usually indicates it's for iPad.
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)#3 2011-03-15 17:05:01
Re: My iPod is Bricked!
Your best option would be to DFU and restore. Of course, like you said, it takes forever to download with dial-up. Chances are, though, that you already have the IPSW saved in your iTunes folders. Check around in there, (or just do a search for *.ipsw) and if you find one, you can try running redsn0w, pointing it at that file.
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#6 2011-03-15 18:44:06
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Nice job... I tryed a simial thing and crashed my ipod... well apple wont fix it. I recomend getting a new firmwire and intall bonjor as your os
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#7 2011-03-15 19:20:57
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Well, you have to enter DFU and restore. If you can restore to 4.2.1 (I ask this because apple released 4.3), jailbreak with greenpois0n then install Animate through Cydia to change the boot logo. Works perfectly as long as you have 4.2.1 jailbroken with greenpois0n. You should have SHSH blobs saved by Cydia.
And a big notice.
When a device is in Device Firmware Update mode, nothing shows on the screen AT ALL and the device does not boot up. It skips the bootloader (aka iBoot). If you see ANYTHING on your screen, you are not in DFU mode. The connect to iTunes logo is Recovery Mode. iTunes does say "Recovery Mode" for DFU, but know the difference. You can still restore fine with Recovery Mode.
Another thing, DFU mode allows you to downgrade, just make sure Cydia has your SHSH blobs saved and you fool iTunes to talk with Cydia and not Apple. Tutorial
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#8 2011-03-17 16:06:51
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Bump...No progress yet. I have iFunBox, which was supposed to give me access to my file system but it crashed shortly after gaining access because of SpringBoard's random boot-up crashes.
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#9 2011-03-17 16:45:20
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ihaveamac wrote:
Well, you have to enter DFU and restore. If you can restore to 4.2.1 (I ask this because apple released 4.3), jailbreak with greenpois0n then install Animate through Cydia to change the boot logo. Works perfectly as long as you have 4.2.1 jailbroken with greenpois0n. You should have SHSH blobs saved by Cydia.
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#10 2011-03-17 18:40:13
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HD usually means the retina display (iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4G) or sometimes the iPad.
I made a huge mistake of renaming /var on the filesystem to /and var and that totally screwed up my iPod. I had to keep trying to enter DFU mode because iTunes wouldn't even detect it with recovery mode (Connect to iTunes screen)! I did finally. There are videos on how to get to DFU from a reboot loop I think (mine wasn't a reboot loop but i got in anyway).
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#11 2011-03-17 18:55:26
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ihaveamac wrote:
HD usually means the retina display (iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4G) or sometimes the iPad.
I made a huge mistake of renaming /var on the filesystem to /and var and that totally screwed up my iPod. I had to keep trying to enter DFU mode because iTunes wouldn't even detect it with recovery mode (Connect to iTunes screen)! I did finally. There are videos on how to get to DFU from a reboot loop I think (mine wasn't a reboot loop but i got in anyway).
I don't know exactly what went wrong, so I can't exactly kill the file via iFunBox. But iFB crashes after connecting to the iPod. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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#12 2011-03-17 19:41:52
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Do you want to restore or try and get out of the reboot loop?
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#14 2011-03-18 08:01:27
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Re: My iPod is Bricked!
WindozeNT wrote:
^ Of course I do!
he's asking which one.
ihaveamac wrote:
Do you want to restore or try and get out of the reboot loop?
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#15 2011-03-18 19:24:04
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16Skittles wrote:
WindozeNT wrote:
^ Of course I do!
he's asking which one.
ihaveamac wrote:
Do you want to restore or try and get out of the reboot loop?
Basically which ever one will fix my iPod. The former, however, didn't work for me because of those iTunes "errors".
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#16 2011-03-18 19:40:17
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#17 2011-03-18 20:15:14
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ihaveamac wrote:
Would you rather restore?
I'd rather just fix my iPod, restore isn't working whatsoever.
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#18 2011-03-18 21:43:21
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Re: My iPod is Bricked!
WindozeNT wrote:
ihaveamac wrote:
Would you rather restore?
I'd rather just fix my iPod, restore isn't working whatsoever.
Wait... You restore, the errors are fine. Download Tiny umbrella from google and click "exit out of restore".
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#19 2011-03-18 21:46:00
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thebuilderdd wrote:
WindozeNT wrote:
ihaveamac wrote:
Would you rather restore?
I'd rather just fix my iPod, restore isn't working whatsoever.
Wait... You restore, the errors are fine. Download Tiny umbrella from google and click "exit out of restore".
That's not working because MY iPOD WILL NOT RESTORE AT ALL AND TINYUMBRELLA IS NOT BEING HELPFUL!!!! I cannot stress this enough.
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#20 2011-03-19 15:03:20
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Don't you mean logome?
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#21 2011-03-19 17:46:49
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Bring it to an apple store. They can re-install the firmware there, and they don't charge you for little things like that.
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#23 2011-03-19 19:50:33
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rocket101 wrote:
Bring it to an apple store. They can re-install the firmware there, and they don't charge you for little things like that.
There's not one in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles of this place.
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#24 2011-03-19 19:55:21
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Re: My iPod is Bricked!
WindozeNT wrote:
thebuilderdd wrote:
Don't you mean logome?
No, it was LogoMii.
What is the source on Cydia? I only saw LogoMe.
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