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Caused infinite loop of ipod reset #83

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
caution: steps may cause ipod touch / iphone to be unusable:

installed mobilefinder before vt100 terminal was installed
set up 'sync' settings for SSH sync (which did nothing because terminal wasn't 
installed)
uninstalled mobilefinder

installed vt100 terminal
re-installed mobilefinder

2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

expected ipod to boot up and work normally. instead, it boots to the startup 
screen with 
message "Edit Home screen" and the note about re-arranging icons and a dismiss 
button. About 
5 seconds later, the ipod "resets" and goes back to the home screen with icon 
message .... this 
repeats in an infinite loop every 5 seconds.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

8gb ipod touch with latest firmware 1.1.4

Please provide any additional information below.

I have tried to get into the settings dialog to reset all data+settings but the 
ipod resets before i 
can do so!

luckily i do have sshd running, so i can login on the command line, but certain 
commands won't 
work (such as 'ls').  But i can kill processes and move/remove files and 
directories.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bar...@gmail.com on 14 May 2008 at 11:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
i tried changing the nvram boot-args to "-v -x" which I read should put it in 
verbose safe mode -- but after 
that sshd would no longer start, so all command line diagnostics were halted 
there.

Ultimately I was able to put it in restore mode by holding "home + hold" key 
for 10 seconds and then once it 
powered off continued to hold just the home key for an additional 15 seconds 
(while plugged in to the USB 
port) -- at that point, iTunes popped up a message indicating it detected an 
ipod in recovery mode, and 
allowed me to perform a restore ... phew :)

Not sure if there's enough info to go on at all in my report to determine where 
the problem lay ...

Original comment by bar...@gmail.com on 15 May 2008 at 12:05