iTunes not seeing jailbroken iPhone
This happened to me after I trashed my iPhone as a result of a corrupted SpringBoard.app property list file. (I think this was Installer.app’s fault, but I can’t say for certain).
Anyway, to restore the iPhone that iTunes doesn’t see follow these steps:
- Connect iPhone to computer
- Power up iPhone if it’s off
- Press and hold down both the power and home buttons at the same time
- The “drag to turnoff” slider will come up, but keep holding down the buttons
- The screen will go black, then the apple logo will appear
- let go of the power button, but keep holding the home button
- iTunes should open and say your iPhone is in recovery mode and offer to restore.
This worked for me, YMMV.
