"error 29" after battery replacement
Hi
I have an iPhone 3gs with original battery number APN 616-0433. I have replaced the battery with APN 616-0435 battery, but when I try to restore it I get "error 29".
Is there any other solution then somehow organising a battery APN 616-0433 or downgrading it to fm 3.1.3.?
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I have a 3GS that had APN 616-0431 for the battery; didn't know the APN when I ordered new battery from Amazon. What I got was APN 616-0435.
When I installed the new battery, I ran into the issues of restarting, and weird charging too. Eventually this settled down, and the iPhone seemed to work okay.
Then, when the update for ios 6.01 came out, I naively went ahead and installed it. That's when the real fun began!
The phone went into recovery mode, and would not come out of it. When I tried to restore with iTunes, I got the dreaded "Error 29" (as well as a few others on different occasions) on my MacBooks, as well as on a windoze laptop.
I tried the various hacks to get out of Recovery Mode, but the phone would always go back into Recovery Mode.
I even went to an Apple store, where the purported 'genius' had the same issue I did, and then tried to sell me a new phone. (He never questioned me about hardware changes to the phone. Nor did he suggest a new battery, even though I saw that come up on his iPad as an option along with the replacement iPhone!)
I finally came to my senses and ordered the proper battery (616-0431) from iFixit. New battery came 2 days later, and bingo, I was able to restore the iPhone without problems, and I'm back in business!
Gotta love iFixit!
door Henry in StL