Some of the most common errors that you may experience while restoring your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch using a custom IPSW are the ever annoying iTunes 16xx errors. This is because your device's iBoot is capable of differentiating a stock IPSW from a custom one. If the iBoot is...
May 31, 2012 by Patrick Gumban
While there is no arguing when it comes to the benefits of jailbreaking your iPhone, iPad & iPod touch, you have to admit that the process itself can be quite technical at times. It usually gets to a point that you are presented with a plethora of error screens and...
January 14, 2012 by Ben Johnson
iREB is a tool for Windows that can put your device into pwned state so that you will able to install a custom firmware to it. If you try to restore to a custom iOS 5 beta firmware on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, then iTunes will return an...
July 9, 2011 by Jaxov Team
If you will try to restore iOS 4.3.3 custom IPSW on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad without using iREB, iTunes will throw 16xx error. This is because iBoot (Bootloader) of your iDevice is smart enough to differentiate between a stock IPSW and a custom IPSW. When your iBoot sees...
May 5, 2011 by Ben Johnson
Here is a quick tip for those who want to restore iOS 4.3.2 custom IPSW on Mac OS X without any restore error. To restore iOS 4.3.2 custom IPSW, you need to put your iDevice into Pwned DFU Mode by using iREB. Unfortunately iREB for Mac OS X is not...
April 28, 2011 by Ben Johnson
Restoring iOS 4.3 or iOS 4.3.1 custom IPSW without pwning your iBoot will always result in 1600, 1601 or 1604 error. To restore custom IPSW made with PwnageTool or Sn0wbreeze, you must use iH8sn0w's iREB tool to patch the iBoot of your iDevice with Limera1n exploit. Once your iBoot has...
March 27, 2011 by Ben Johnson
Restoring custom IPSW made with PwnageTool or Sn0wbreeze without pwning the iBoot in your iDevice results in Error 1600. If you will try to restore using recovery mode, iTunes will throw Error 21 and if you will try to restore custom IPSW using normal DFU mode, you will get Error...
March 22, 2011 by Ben Johnson
To jailbreak your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad using custom IPSW, you must use iREB to pwn your iBoot so that it may accept the custom IPSWs without throwing any restore error. Restoring custom IPSW without iREB usually results in 1600, 1601, 1602, 1603 or 1604 error. To bypass these...
March 16, 2011 by Ben Johnson
Soon after releasing Sn0wbreeze 2.2.1, iH8sn0w has just pushed an update of his iREB tool which is now compatible with Verizon iPhone 4 and fixes the 'Waiting for iBSS' issue on iPhone 3G. You can use this build of iREB to avoid iTunes 1015 and 16xx errors during the restore...
February 21, 2011 by Ben Johnson
iH8sn0w has released an updated version of iREB v4.0.x/4.1. The RC2 version of iREB v4.0.x/4.1 now can fix 1015 & 16xx (1600, 1601, 1602, 1603, 1604) errors on all versions of iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and even Apple TV 2G. The RC1 build of iREB v4.0.x/4.1 could only fix 1015/16xx...
November 15, 2010 by Ben Johnson