Help Please? iPhone 4, replaced digitizer and LCD, phone will not restore, big mess.

okay, hopefully, on forum reads able come sort of solution horrible problem. it's long story bare me (i'll put tl;dr @ end of lazy people)

okay, fiancee bought iphone 4 craigslist, no problems, phone worked fine, no warranty (duh, secondhand.) but, decided take otterbox off while, , wouldn't know it, drops , screen cracks. order replacement screen (lcd , digitizer) replace it, , works, except there no picture on screen, see backlight. google around, saw people fixed problem restore. so, 1 attempt later, restore fails. great, bricked phone , screen doesn't work. thinking screen bad because cheap, buy another, , install one. here's problem is:

screen installed properly, phone refuses restore form of ios, no matter sort of methods try. i've tried 4.2.1 custom ipsw, 4.3.3, 4.3.5, 5.0.1, , clean update restore 5.1, many different methods (tinyumbrella tss server, erased apple references in hosts file, used itunes 10.2, 10.3, 10.5, , 10.6) , i've run dry on ideas.

yes, i've put phone in pwned dfu mode (at least believe, ireb , sn0wbreeze both went in successfully) itunes shows recovery device, shift+restore, , it's error 11, error 2005, 3194 shows that's if uninstall , reinstall itunes putting apple addresses in hosts file. seems if there's no os on device @ all, , itunes recognizes recovery device. phone has never been jailbroken or unlocked.

tl;dr: iphone not restore, had 5.0.1, not sure of baseband. help?!

 

if phone has never been jailbroken, how expecting restore less 5.0.1. also, don't have blobs. anyway, put phone in dfu mode , restore.

 

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