Fernando Meyer

Restoring IPhone with error 1604

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 | Programming | Comments Off

When trying to restore my iPhone with iTunes and firmware 2.0, iTunes continuously shows a message that stops the restore process, it was probably related to basehand update, but I ain’t sure about this. After some headaches here is the solution.

Downgrade to 1.1.4

• Step 1) The first problem in your downgrade is that you probably are getting error 20 in restore mode and error 160x in DFU mode. This is due to iTunes 7.7.  So, you now you need to uninstall iTunes 7.7 and install iTunes 7.5.
  Load up Terminal and type the following:
  

• Step 2) Now that you have  iTunes 7.5, you will still have the DFU driver for 7.7. This is good and will allow the process to work. Put your phone into DFU mode using the DFU steps. You will not have any display on your device in DFU mode. If you see the cable and connect to iTunes, you did not get into DFU mode.

• Step 3) Restore using iTunes 7.5. and 1.1.4 firmware, it will work after all.

Now you have an unlocked 1.1.4 iphone, you can choose between upgrade to 2.0 with pwnage or unlock it with ziphone, again … up to you.

Tags: 1604, apple, error, iphone, itunes, Mac

Help Andrii Nikitin (MySQL Engineer) get his son a bone marrow transplant operation

Friday, July 18th, 2008 | Programming | Comments Off

Andrii Nikitin, one of the MySQL support engineers located in Ukraine, has asked for help from MySQLers and so I’m sharing this information to the community at large. Andrii’s son Ivan, who is 2 1/2, is in need of a bone marrow transplant operation. This will require going to a clinic in Europe that will not be covered by regular insurance. So Andrii has asked to see if we could help raise funds. The cost is expected to be €150,000 - €250,000. A huge amount for an engineer from Ukraine to cover. But a small amount by many people could make a big difference.

Many have kicked in to help out thought twitter, blogs and forums, but more is needed. Ivan’s health has taken a turn for the worse recently and the issue is now quite pressing. Even a small donation could mean the difference between life and death for Ivan.

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Me @ Fisl

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 | Programming | Comments Off

Speaking about JBoss Drools 
When: 17 April, 1pm~2pm Room 41B 
http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/papers/pub/programacao/274 

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No JavaOne for me

Friday, February 1st, 2008 | Programming | 1 Comment

This morning I got a sweet email from JavaOne CCT,

Dear Fernando ,
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the JavaOne(sm) Conference Content Team are grateful for your proposal to present at the 2008 JavaOne conference. The high quality of submissions made the selection process extremely difficult. We regret to inform you that we will be unable to accept your proposal.

Just today I spoke with three friends and a team mate from RedHat, none of these were accepted, I still don’t understand why Sun keeps supporting non-sense people as speakers on his conferences.

For those who will attend JavaOne I desire you a good time watching the JSF, NetBeans advanced topics and that guy dressing the brazilian flag

Tags: javaone 2008 sun