{"id":70,"date":"2008-08-05T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cfchimp.com\/wordpress\/?p=70"},"modified":"2024-12-05T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:11:08","slug":"iphone-cannot-restore-error-6-disaster-averted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/2008\/08\/iphone-cannot-restore-error-6-disaster-averted\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Cannot Restore Error (6) disaster averted"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was excited to download the iPhone 2.0.1 software tonight hoping it would stabilize my recently buggy iPhone 3G.\u00ac\u0086 What I ended up with was this.<\/p>\n

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My iPhone hurled and was plunged into a limbo of cannot restore but cannot function.\u00ac\u0086 I endured 3 failed attempts to restore.\u00ac\u0086 Each ended with the dreaded “iPhone Cannot Restore Error (6)”.\u00ac\u0086 I was using the machine I always sync it with, my iMac (iTunes 7.7.1) but I decided to roll the dice and plug it into my Macbook Air (iTunes 7.7).\u00ac\u0086 I had to re-download the 250 MB update and restore to factory settings from the Air.\u00ac\u0086 After that I plugged into the iMac and loaded my most recent backup.<\/p>\n

Then I did a touchdown dance and spiked my iPhone.\u00ac\u0086 Ok, not really.\u00ac\u0086 Disaster averted.<\/p>\n

To be clear I have a plain ole G3 with no jailbreak tomfoolery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was excited to download the iPhone 2.0.1 software tonight hoping it would stabilize my recently buggy iPhone 3G.\u00ac\u0086 What I ended up with was this. My iPhone hurled and was plunged into a limbo of cannot restore but cannot function.\u00ac\u0086 I endured 3 failed attempts to restore.\u00ac\u0086 Each ended with the dreaded “iPhone Cannot … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbVg43-18","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}