Comments on: You CAN Upgrade and Restore Apple iPhone firmware in a VirtualBox machine!

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:44:02 +0000

Trying to upgrade from V3 to the latest V3.x. The above instructions allow phone to reconnect ok but still fails with either error 13 or 1611. Phone is now a paper weight:( Does anyone have any ideas how to progress this?

I’m using Ubuntu 9.04 with VirtualBox V3.08 and a WinXP guest with iTunes on it.

Cheers,

Craig

By: Ryn

Ryn — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:44:12 +0000

OH MY GOD. You are my favourite person in the world right now. The hovering my mouse over the usb thing is what worked. Thank you!!

By: Planchet

Planchet — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:22:38 +0000

It worked!!! Many thanks!
Have been strugling with the firmware update for hours.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:29:26 +0000

It works great – thanks!!!. Being a long way from home and AT&T, you just saved me being phoneless for another 4 weeks (which is how long its been so far).
I think axkiller really got it with the USB filter so that the device reconnects automatically without having to watch it. Fatrix and jimmy also helped by suggesting trying one more time. It seems that the first one or two times you might get an error 1601 or 1611. Then just enough of the initial restore seems to ‘take’ to let the real restore to kick in.
BTW I’m using Ubuntu 9.04, VirtualBox 2.2.4 and guest Windows 2003 OS (with a hack of the iTunes install to let it install on that OS).
THANKS!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:00:06 +0000

WORKED!

FUCKING WORKED!

just made sure it kept connected and that the usb icon on VB dindt stop flashing and finally 3.0′ed!!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:42:30 +0000

didnt work

got error (1601, or 1611)

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:37:47 +0000

excellent work, right now my ipod its showing the progress bar of a restore, getting ready for OS 3.0

hope it doesnt fail (its been like that for about 1 minute)

thx!

By: Fatrix

Fatrix — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:08:44 +0000

Worked. Thank you for the hints.
My first try ended in an error while I went out with my dog.
Then the iphone was in recovery mode and I am now restoring it, must already reconnect it to the virtualbox three times!
CU

By: HowlinPreacherMan

HowlinPreacherMan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:20:56 +0000

@axkiller–
Worked great. Had to uncheck/check the box a couple of times, but that’s it.

Upgrading to OS3 on my iPhone in a Vista guest system on LinuxMint (Ubuntu derivative) host.

By: axkiller

axkiller — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:48:46 +0000

Then either click “Add filter from device” or press Alt + Insert. Now clear all fields except “Name” and “Vendor ID” then click OK. The reason for this is that the iPod will go through 3 different “Product IDs” during the restore/jailbreak routine and we need this filter to be a catch-all.

Tutorial:
http://www.squidoo.com/iPod-Jailbreak-via-VirtualBox