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- andrewcsayer, on 01/18/2008, -3/+156iPhones rising from the grave?? /grabs shotgun
- timeshifter, on 01/18/2008, -20/+69I'll read about it when I can find the story on another site. Gizmodo with it's childish prank at CES has lost my pageviews.
- iDiggIt42, on 01/18/2008, -0/+41It's not safe to go alone. Take this with you.
*hands andrewcsayer a tiny kitty* - CollinTiegs, on 01/18/2008, -2/+40Thank the sweet lord. My iphone hath risen again!
- DogGunn, on 01/18/2008, -1/+37Good news for hackers as they may be able to revert back to a working baseband to complete more testing.
- FoxFaction, on 01/18/2008, -5/+40Jesus turned water in to wine, Apple turned bricks in to iPhones. You do the math.
- NaziHatinChimp, on 01/18/2008, -2/+28Yes but of course! The Baseband will be replaced and so the they can maybe get the bios back again!
I have no clue what I am talking about. - JlmAWP, on 01/18/2008, -15/+34Uh, they're called iGraves, duh. The thinnest graves in the world! But the carcass isn't user-removable, bummer.
- teh_techie, on 01/18/2008, -0/+19SCRIMBLE PACE MONDAY HAMPER! JETLAG HAMMER RUMBLE GAG!
... no - piratebr0adcast, on 01/18/2008, -4/+19This thread seems to have an unusual number of really lame jokes.
- FoxFaction, on 01/18/2008, -4/+17But I was going to buy up all the bricked iPhones and make a brick iHouse. :(
- ryodoan, on 01/18/2008, -2/+14The fact is they shouldn't have needed the ***** masking tape because Gizmodo shouldn't have been acting like a 15 year old. It was a stupid prank and the Gizmodo editor deserves his lifetime ban.
- meatmcguffin, on 01/18/2008, -2/+13Essentially, you lose the ability to jailbreak and another exploit has to be found but there is some good news; If the new firmware rewrites the baseband, then the hackers only have to figure out how this happens and they can write an unlock procedure.
...in theory - Mast3rDigg3r, on 01/18/2008, -0/+10dude..4 jokes in 1 article? you're on fire
- NaziHatinChimp, on 01/18/2008, -2/+12Uh oh. You just said something that undermined our lord Steve Jobs brilliance. Those kind of independent thoughts aren't allowed here on digg.
*Presses Indepenent Thought Alarm* - darkNiGHTS, on 01/18/2008, -0/+9What? It was completely unintentional on Apple's part.
- Raian, on 01/18/2008, -0/+9Gizmodo is annoying as ***** that's what's up.
- Raian, on 01/18/2008, -2/+11Canada is still free from the iPhone scourge-- come live a full life with us.
- oenoneablaze, on 01/18/2008, -0/+8As a user who had his iPhone warranty voided as well, I gotta say that if you modified the firmware on the phone, performed an update that everyone told you would cause your 'hack' to malfunction, and then whined about it when Apple wouldn't take care of you, your sense of entitlement is a bit overgrown. You bought the phone, you knew it was locked, and you knew there were risks to messing with it. If you don't like it, you should have researched it better and bought another phone.
Also, if you were irresponsible enough to break your phone, you probably should have put in the research to notice that there was a (free) way for you to 're-virginize' your phone months ago. - inactive, on 01/18/2008, -3/+11If it bricked, resetting and reupdating it wouldn't fix it. A bricked device is one you cannot restore using normal measures.
- LiquidFusion, on 01/18/2008, -0/+7Is it mighty mighty?
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+7now its a zombie phone
- proghead, on 01/18/2008, -1/+8will there be kitties?
- andrewcsayer, on 01/18/2008, -0/+7You have red on you
- darkNiGHTS, on 01/18/2008, -0/+6Because that would make both actions completely pointless..
- Tyr7BE, on 01/18/2008, -4/+10Kitties, yes. And best of all, no pretentious pricks wearing black turtlenecks and blue jeans, making a big deal out of waving their iphone around whenever they're standing outside and need to check the weather.
- Tyr7BE, on 01/18/2008, -0/+6That's ok, neither does the OP :)
OP, I think you mean to say "working base" or "working snapshot". Baseband is commonly referenced in signal processing terms. - FoxFaction, on 01/18/2008, -2/+8Oh is it iEaster already?
- diggdowner, on 01/18/2008, -1/+6So is this, like, the "Pandora's Battery" for iPhones?
- monkeyrun, on 01/18/2008, -1/+6Updates bricking and unbricking iPhones are really not intentional all along.
- trouble916, on 01/18/2008, -0/+5No "thank you, Apple" now after all the bitching they got for bricking your modified phones in the first place?
If the bricking was a "deliberate attack" surely this is as much a "deliberate fix"?
p.s. Still running 1.1.1 jailbroken. Would like 1.1.3 please :) - Deluzn, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4Short answer, yes with an 'if'; long answer, no -- with a 'but'.
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4Yeah, except Apple did it, not hackers.
- FoxFaction, on 01/18/2008, -2/+6I'm surprised anyone noticed. :P
Too bad half of them suck. - ThisThing, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4The definition of "bricked" seems to have changed, esp. when referring to the IPhone. If something is bricked, that means it will not work again, update or no update. If it can be fixed, it ain't bricked.
- virtualball, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4Ok well that's like saying "you should always wear heavy mylar vests because, at any time, you can get stabbed." Why should CES anticipate a childish prank?
- cgruber, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4sooo that means the mullet is coming back in style? ***** APPLE!
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3This comment, unlike the iPhones, won't be coming back from the grave.
- suo97119, on 01/18/2008, -1/+4Apple /= Cloverfield Monster
- Rustymetal, on 01/18/2008, -4/+7amen
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3at least the people who bought them will not have to worry about their hunger for brains.
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -3/+6The updates weren't bricking the iPhones, the unlocking of the iPhones bricked them.
- JeremyTTU, on 01/18/2008, -1/+4Bricked, in the iPhone sense, doesn't mean the phone is "one you cannot restore using normal measures". The reason these phones were considered bricked was because the IMEI number was rewritten and did not allow the device to become reactivated once it was restored/upgraded.
Since this new firmware supposedly rewrites over the areas that the open source unlocking programs wrote to, it supposedly fixes these bricked phones. - Hutson, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3Wow! They really are "Jesus Phones"!
- teh_techie, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3DAMMIT... I check the weather with my iPod touch wearing that VERY costume you speak of...
- Uclabruin4lyf8, on 01/18/2008, -1/+3The Gizmodo is a lie!
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2Is it lettin' it all hang out?
- SouthsideIrish, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2Maybe not. They came out and told you twice that this might happen. You had to be a moron to update the firmware after Apple told you this might happen.
- 4getaboutit, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2I updated the second it came out on my bricked iPhone and saw it was alive again. Hopefully a jailbreak could come out even sooner so I can risk bricking it again.
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2Exactly, like Apple will say "shame on you for hacking our phone. Now we'll brick it. Now we'll un-brick it. Where is your god now?"
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