This morning I updated to 2.0.2 of the iPhone firmware (I have an original iPhone). My phone is unlocked to Vodafone using Pwnage – I won’t provide links to all that stuff here. Problem was, I put the phone into recovery mode, restored my new custom 2.0.2 firmware and iTunes went "Do you want to restore xyz backup?" Yes! This is what I usually do and it works every time.

Anyhow, it restored as normal and rebooted the phone. Only iTunes still saw it as a new phone! That’s not right at all! Anyway a quick Google dug up this thread with details on how to fix it. Appears it’s a common 2.0.2 problem then.

  1. Click set up as new iPhone and hit Continue
  2. As soon as it starts – CANCEL IT on the iPhone. Then cancel it on iTunes as well
  3. Unplug phone
  4. Turn off by holding the top button down then ‘Slide to turn off’
  5. Turn on the phone by pressing the top button again
  6. Once fully booted, plug in phone

And then it all shall work well again.