Error 1600 and Error 21 Fix on iPhone Unlock
December 30th, 2008, Hedi Regaya | View Comments

Well known and annoying error messages that appears on iTunes when you try to unlock/jailbreak an iPhone.
Here are the steps I followed to unlock an iPhone (factory settings), two friends helped me for this: Kofster and Houssem).
What you need to make it (Google is your friend):
- Pwnage Tool (latest release)
- QuickPwn (latest version)
- Boot Loader (3.9 and 4.6)
- the latest version of iPhone OS (2.2) downloaded
Make the jump for the complete tutorial.
- Create a custom firmware version with Pwnage Tool + Boot Loader and the iPhone OS 2.2 (just follow the steps in Pwnage);
Don’t connect your iPhone to your Mac; and don’t restore your iPhone with that custom firmware for the moment.
Houssem
- Restore/Upgrade your iPhone with the official released of iPhone OS (no need to plug the iPhone for now);
Make sure the phone is off, disconnected from the computer and that it has a charge. Plug in the USB part of the cable in the mac. Press and hold the home button on the iPhone and with it pressed, plug in the 30 pin connector to the bottom of the iPhone. This will force the iPhone into a restore mode. Keep holding the home button until iTunes picks up the phone in a restore mode. Restore the iPhone with an original Apple IPSW.
Kofster
- Launch QuickPwn and  follow the steps carefully;
Don’t mind about iTunes error message(s), or they will mislead you.
Houssem
By using the quickpwn, the device will be pwned to be able to take the custom restore without having to go in to dfu mode.
Kofster.
- Restore in iTunes with your custom firware (created in step 1), no need to enter .
Thanks to Houssem and Kofster for their help.
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Hi, I need some help. I got error 21 every time when I try to perform the custom restore, so I followed your instructions but in step 3, doing the quickpwn it stays in Sending WTF.s5l8900xall.RELEASE.dfu… forever, it won’t move from there, so I can’t apply the custom restore later. What can I do?
Thanks in advance
Nice picture! It is not an error i got an iphone and never happen.
hi
today I tried ipwned on my iPhone 1.1.4 jailbroken 2g with 2.0.1 version on windows.
I was able to create custom file, but when I entered into DFU mode and tried to restored it, it showed a message of unknown error occurred 1304.
Please help and let me know how to save the contacts as I don’t want to lose them.