I messed up, can anyone help?

[psillypsymun]

I screwed up. My wife got an IPhone 4 from a friend. In my haste to jailbreak it I ran the Jailbreak before backing up. I always back things up first, not sure what happened for sure but the only restore point I have is after i ran the Jailbreak. So, in the end, it got jailbroke, but Cydia didn't get installed correctly. I try to launch it but it crashes the second I open it. And I can't do a factory reset because Itunes recognizes the Jailbreak.

So at this point, I can't rejailbreak. I've tried running RedSn0w again a few times and got nothing. I've only jailbroke Idevices a few times, so I don't have alot of experience. If this were android I could brain my way through it.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any advice. Maybe something I can in TinyUmbrella to get Itunes to let me do a factory reset?

 

[Thomasjtsi]

What iOS version is your iPhone 4 on right now? To restore a Jailbroken iPhone you need to put it in DFU mode... then restore it via iTunes.

 

[psillypsymun]

Tried it. I'm on 5.1.1. It says something like "this device is not eligable for an update." after I put it in DFU mode, connect and try to reset in Itunes.

 

[Thomasjtsi]

Is it a GSM or CDMA iPhone 4? I'll link you the direct iOS 6.1 IPSW file and show you how to manually update to it via iTunes.