iTunes Error Messages – What they mean and how to fix them!

27 June 2009 by Vinay 7 Comments

Error 1013/1014/1015

This error message occurs when you downgrade or upgrade to a different baseband than the firmware your restoring to has. This message does NOT mean the restore failed – it simply means the phone firmware does not match the baseband. Put your phone in recovery mode and then kick the phone into normal mode and out of recovery mode and it will work.

Error 6 and 10

This error message is because of a problem with your firmware – this message will occur most often because of using unsuitable boot/recovery images. Make a new custom firmware to fix this and use suitable boot images or use the standard images that came with the pwnage software.

Error 1603/1604 – 160? something

IF YOU ARE RESTORING TO A STANDARD APPLE FIRMWARE *NOT CUSTOM FIRMWARE”

This error is down to itunes not liking your USB ports on your computer. Use a different USB slot or a different computer if possible. That is the easiest fix!

IF YOU ARE RESTORING TO A CUSTOM FIRMWARE AFTER RESTORING FROM STANDARD APPLE FIRMWARE

IF you have pwned your phone once and then restored back to apple original firmware successfully and THEN tried to restore custom firmware you WILL get an error in iTunes as the apple firmware “unpawned” your phone. You have to repwn it using iPwner and then you can restore using custom firmware.

IF YOU ARE RESTORING TO CUSTOM FIRMWARE AND YOUR PHONE IS STILL PWNED

See “if your restoring to apple firmware” above as it is the same issue.

7 Comments »

LuDaCHRIS said:

how do i “kick” the phone into recovery mode ???

# 2 September 2009 at 2:27 am

LuDaCHRIS said:

normal mode ***

# 2 September 2009 at 2:28 am

Amanda Jones said:

When I sync my ipod it gives me an error message of -48 what does that mean?

# 15 June 2010 at 6:02 am

marsal said:

to make your ipod(touch) go in to recovery mode, turn it off completely. then hold the menu and power button at the same time, once the apple logo comes up, let go of the power button but continue holding the menu button. the “plug into itunes” message should come up and you are now in recovery mode

# 29 August 2010 at 11:25 pm

chris abbott said:

I am getting an error -69 when I try to syunc my ipod, I’ve reinstalled itunes, reset my ipod to favtory setting, and updated itunes… all to no avail as I keep getting this msg (I get it on different tracks too,) oh and I’ve unticked the tracks it’s happened to and told the ipod not to install those tracks… Any suggestions???

# 16 September 2010 at 4:16 pm

sean said:

i have a ipod touch 2g and its suck in recovery mode when i plug it into itunes it almost gets done installing 4.1 firmware the it says the ipod can not be synced error 37
what does the error code mean?

# 17 October 2010 at 4:32 am

Kim said:

I have downloaded the latest version of itunes and updated my computer to the latest updates, Service Pac 3, and still, I get an error message -3221 that says I am not connected to the internet, when clearly I am. Can anyone help? I just want to be able to load songs on my IPod touch and not loose what music already on the IPod touch.

# 19 January 2011 at 11:54 pm