Restoring my iPhone (yes, I've been stupid!)

[Gundog48]

Long story short, jailbroke my 4S using Absinthe on 5.1.1 to install a theme that had unfortunately been taken off Cydia anyway. I was told that there was no SIM too, so I thought I'd just go back to stock.

Because my main PC can't restore iPhones (I get 3194, something to do with TinyUmbrella I think) I just go to the iPhone's settings and install the already downloaded iOS 6 update. Does the usual stuff, then I get the 'plug into iTunes' screen and it needs to be restored. I get my laptop and do so. Go through the whole setup thing, but it won't activate with Apple.

Where do I go from here? I've balls'd up big time by not restoring before updating, but there must be something that can be done surely?

Your help would be most appreciated!

 

[rpg]

First of all, it's always a good idea just to disable anti AV/firewall software temporarily while trying to verify restore with Apple via iTunes.

The 3194 error is quite common, and I suspect it's something to do with your hosts file, which is located in Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc. TinyUmbrella may have set your hosts file to Cydia upon exiting which means it will re-direct gs.apple.com requests to Cydia's server - what you want if you're attempting to sign an older iOS version and Cydia has your SHSH blobs (i.e. downgrading).

Use this to reset your hosts file to default, restart and don't run TinyUmbrella. Try restore via iTunes then.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034

 

[rpg]

Or maybe I've misunderstood, you're running 6.0.1 already now? And you're talking about restoring the phone's backup (apps, settings etc.), not restoring the device's software?

If so, then what do you mean when you say it won't activate with Apple? Do you get an error message?