Jedi Mind Trick upon iPhone Restore

I had some trouble to put the iPhone OS 3.0 beta5 on my first generation iPhone. Without going to much into details, I thought that I had bricked my phone.

Fortunatly, there are some usefull hints in the Apple iPhone Developer Forum. One recommendation was using iTunes’ restore function instead of the Xcode organizer. I guessed the difference lies in using a simple update (Xcode) or a full restore (iTunes) which possibly includes some DFU-Mode access.

So, I wanted to know, what exactly is happening and took a look at the Console log. Look what I found:

iTunes uses Jedi mind tricks to … to trick my MobileDevice. Amazing. Someone at the iPhone/iTunes team at Apple seems to be a huge star wars fan.