You see, the way I've been approaching this is to never plug my iPhone into my computer. If the two don't meet, there can't be any problems. Don't solve your problems. Get rid of them!
Unfortunately, I've been losing reception the last two weeks and it's been annoying me to no end. I called my service provider and they determined it's probably because I'm still on 3.1.3. Great. I need to upgrade my iPhone. iPhone, meet Ubuntu. Ubuntu, meet iPhone. Now PLEASE play nice.
Of course, that was too much to ask for. I installed VirtualBox and got Windows XP installed. I then added the iPhone as a USB connection in the settings. I then proceeded to plug in my iPhone. iTunes detects my iPhone. Yay! A small triumph. I decided to restore instead of upgrade. I wanted to start from scratch anyways.
After iTunes wiped out my data, it started to prepare for the restore. At which it hung. After a few minutes, it gave me a 1602 error. I tried everything I could think of: reboot iPhone, reboot VirtualBox, reboot Ubuntu, re-plug in iPhone, etc. The best I got out of all this was a different error: 1604. At this point, my iPhone is permanently in Recovery Mode and now, I couldn't even select the iPhone USB connection in VirtualBox.
I thought to myself, "Screw this. I'm fixing you even if it takes all night!" And so, I did. Thanks to this post.
Follow it. It works.
Here are the keypoints and some added tips from the comments.
- Add yourself to both the vboxusers and audio groups.
- Change the USB filter settings so that only Name and Vendor ID have values. DELETE EVERYTHING ELSE. It's not recommended. It's mandatory!
After all this, I was able to restore my iPhone without problems. Booyah!
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