How To Unbrick an iPhone For Free

Hackers have published a 19-step recovery method for those who applied Apple's 1.1.1 firmware update to their unlocked iPhones.

Free of charge (unlike the recently-issued fix for those who paid $100 for iPhoneSimFree), the plan rolls an iBrick back to the old 1.0.2 firmware in its pristine, unlocked state. There is, however, one problem: as can be seen at the linked instructions below, it's a complicated and technical procedure.

I'd offer the standard "At Your Own Risk" disclaimer, but screw it: you've already wrecked your iPhone ten ways from Sunday fooling around with this stuff, so what more can another run through the wringer do?

UNBRICKING 1.1.1 UPGRADE [iPhone Elite]

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Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking

An anonymous reader writes:

"The week's debate over the iPhone 1.1.1 has finally resulted in legal action. InfoWeek reports that on Friday, California resident Timothy Smith sued Apple in a class-action case in Santa Clara County Superior court. The suit was filed by Damian Fernandez, the lawyer who's been soliciting plaintiffs all week for a case against Apple. The suit doesn't ask for a specific dollar amount, but seeks an injunction against Apple, which prevents it from sell the iPhone with any software lock. It also asks that Apple be enjoined from denying warranty service to users of unlocked iPhone, and from requiring iPhone users to get their phone service through AT&T."

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iPhone Bricks Prove Apple Isn't Ready For The Business Market

InformationWeek has been taking a look at Apple in the business market. While Apple has always been big in certain verticals -- publishing and education, to name two -- it's been weak in corporate IT as a whole. No matter what the Apple fans claim, this week's fiasco with bricked iPhones proves that Apple still isn't ready for the business market.

My colleague Tom Smith took a look at this issue a few weeks ago. Here is his analysis of Apple in the enterprise:

In a survey of 310 business technology professionals, InformationWeek finds 37% of companies currently use Mac computers. Yet Apple can't make a dent in corporate America -- by one estimate it has just a 3% worldwide market share in computers.

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iPhone users now fear security patches, say analysts

Apple Inc.'s decision last week to bundle an iPhone-crippling firmware upgrade with 10 security patches for the device was a mistake, analysts said today.

Thursday's iPhone Update 1.1.1 not only added new features and functionality -- including access to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store -- but also plugged holes in the device's built-in Safari browser, e-mail software and Bluetooth implementation.

But what caught the attention of security analysts was the news that the update "bricked," or disabled, iPhones that had been modified to work with networks other than AT&T's, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security Inc.

"With the iPhone update, Apple is now producing a fear of taking their patches," Storms said. "If they release a functionality update and security fixes at the same time in the future, some users will think twice about applying it. They'll ask themselves, 'What will it break this time?' and, 'Will it backfire on me?'

Read the whole article @ Computer World

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Fix your broken iPhone --> Get Old iPhone Firmware

You can now fix your iPhone by restoring back to the previous firmware!

If you need or want to downgrade your firmware on your iPhone you can get them here:

1.0.0 is available here

1.0.1 is available here

1.0.2 is available here

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Requiem for a third-party iPhone app

When it comes right down to it, what makes me sad is that my iPhone is actually, in many ways, less useful today than it was yesterday. And no, before you ask, that’s not because my iPhone was among the many that have been “bricked” because I unlocked it with third-party software. But what I did have on my iPhone was a handful of third-party applications that are now pining for the fjords after iPhone update 1.1.1.

This is perhaps how the last of the dinosaurs felt. Thursday morning, there were dozens of wild new programs being developed for the iPhone; on Friday, while those programs are not necessarily dead, their future certainly looks as bleak as if the world was blanketed in a thick heaping coat of volcanic ash.

Read the whole article @ Mac World

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iPhone Firmware Update Woes

If you’re a Uk iPhone user thanks to the unock methods that were made available earlier this month, then you might be a little worried about Apples new iPhone update.

Apple are pushing out the Firmware 1.1.1 update this weekend. The update brings the iTunes WiFi store to the phone, just like the iPod Touch.

Depending on how your iPhone was originally unlocked will give you different results. “Jail broken” handsets are going to turn in to expensive AT&T paper weights as the 1.1.1 update security has been tightened up.

Users of the open source SIM unlock software are getting an “Incorrect SIM” error message.

So if you’re running an iPhone in the UK - don’t do the update, do you really want iTunes store on your phone that much? Well there are other update features, Engadget has a nice round up of the features and status of the 1.1.1 progress on unlocked phones.

Read the whole article @ Gadget Spy

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Firmware upgrade BRICKED his UNLOCKED iPhone

iPhone Central blogger Jonathan Seff writes a sad tale of what happened when he downloaded and attempted to install today’s 1.11 iPhone firmware update on his “unlocked and hacked” iPhone.

Long and short of it: firmware installation seemed to go OK- that is up until he restarted his iPhone.

Message on screen: incorrect SIM card.

So he takes the SIM card out of his iPhone and puts it in his Treo, and the SIM card comes to life.

But then he went to his local AT&T store and told them essentially what I just wrote.

Salesperson hands him a new SIM.

Popped the SIM back into his bricked iPhone.

Still bricked. Seeing same errors.

Just popping into my head: “Ow, it’s a bricked.. iPhone.” Reference: Brick House by the Commodores.

Not OK.

Hey, have any of you readers download the firmware upgrade on a hacked iPhone and got it to work?

Read the whole article @ ZD Net

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Apple’s growth, an unwinnable iPhone war and a reputation at risk

Apple is clearly in a war with hackers over the iPhone and its most loyal fans could take a few hits. How Apple performs through these battles will determine the company’s overall reputation going forward.

Today’s angst over iPhones becoming iBricks because they were modified is really just the beginning. There are a few reports of non-hacked iPhones going dark following Apple’s latest firmware update. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and others note that Apple has a PR problem on its hands. These issues could affect how Apple is perceived in its core markets.

The iPhone issues are really just a side effect of a much larger issue. As Apple grows it increasingly loses that feel-good underdog image. It starts looking like every other large company. Apple even starts to look like a bully–even to large media players that merely want to try different pricing schemes on iTunes. To make matters worse Apple is alienating its base. Add it up and customer service declines. Customer service declines won’t happen overnight, but Apple will have issues simply based on numbers–the more customers it has the more people it can annoy. Steve Jobs is treated as a messiah able to leap over options scandals and create a never-ending stream of delightful products, but that won’t last forever.

Read the whole article @ ZD Net

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iPhone Bricked Despite Not Being Hacked?

Given Apple's track record of seamless engineering and just-works interfacing, you would think that only the hackers would end up with bricked iPhones. You would be wrong.

If the 1.1.1 update turned your pristine AT&T-locked handset into a roundrect skipping stone, unable to complete a restore operation, make sure you have the dock plugged into a bare-metal USB 2.0 port on your machine. Macjournals anecdotally reports that USB hubs, including Apple keyboards, may cause updating errors that result in the phone being more or less inoperable after completion.

Read the whole article @ Wired

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Hacked 1.0 iPhone Firmware vs. Official 1.1.1

9to5Mac has gone to the trouble of enumerating the myriad differences between using the hacked 1.0.2 iTunes software and the newly-released official 1.1.1 setup. It went into the details of the new updates and offered a nice chart. It's too complicated for me, though, so here's an "at a glace" graphic.

Yes, we're being a bit mean. But we do it only because we know that, in the end, Apple can still make everything alright, even if it comes well-after the iPhone makes its triple salto into mass-market orbit this holiday season. There's a lot a computer can do beyond make phone calls and surf the web, and chaining this little powerhouse down is a damned shame of PSP-like proportions.

In the meantime, the only thing for it is to get a knitted iPhone, which offers something neither of these rivals can boast: cuddliness.

Read the whole article @ Wired

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iPhone update thwarts hacks

Apple has released an update for the iPhone which effectively bricks some of the devices that consumers have unlocked over the past months.

Apple had previously warned that the unapproved update, which is intended to allow the phone to operate on networks other than AT&T's, could interfere with the its operations.

Users on several websites, including Gizmodo and the Unofficial Apple Weblog, are reporting that the update causes unrepairable errors. The iPhone in some cases offers an error message about an invalid SIM card and users are unable to leave the error screen or revert the software. Inserting the original sim card won't solve the problem.

The update also caused headaches for users who had previiously performed a so-called 'jailbreak' procedure to allow the iPhone to run custom applications. While the phones updated, most users reported that the installation locks were put back in place.

Read the whole article @ VNU Net

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