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How to Unbrick a Bricked Unlocked iPhone: the JesusPhone Walks Again
gizmodo.com — Here's a very easy method to defeat Apple and bring your bricked unlocked iPhone back from death. If you have an unlocked iPhone and you updated to firmware 1.1.1, you now can revive and bring all your third-party applications back by following these steps to restore firmware 1.0.2. This has been confirmed by the Dev Team, we are testing now live.
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- indiekiduk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Can you downgrade the bb firmware?
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8not yet... but with access to everything else on the phone, it's only a matter of time.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I expect you could with the hardware (original Geomod) hack because that hack doesn't depend on what SW is in the baseband, the probes make the SGold2 lose its mind.
But no hack in SW right now. - Cyber_Akuma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Its Sony vs the PSP Hackers all over again...
I welcome iDark_AleX - r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The phones aren't bricked, otherwise you wouldn't be able to do anything with them.
- gregsmamma, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Does anyone know if they are working on a way to update unlock phones?
- jmkiii, on 10/10/2007, -27/+6In Soviet Russia, phone unlocks you.
- Protoss, on 10/20/2007, -2/+12Epic fail.
- Fracture98, on 10/20/2007, -0/+8Felony Stupid.
- ghettodev, on 10/20/2007, -0/+7Devoid of Win.
- themastersb, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5So can I call an unbricked iPhone a "Zombie iPhone"?
- positron, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Only if you can stare at http://www.zombo.com for 10 minutes straight and prove it by upping the video to youtube.
- jmkiii, on 10/10/2007, -27/+6In Soviet Russia, phone unlocks you.
- jmkiii, on 10/10/2007, -16/+2Yes, but what can you do for my RAZR?
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15I could recycle it for you...
- kingkilr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Bowling ball?(Watch indigital if you don't get it),
- shawnanigans, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Go back 3 years when it was cutting edge.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Might make a decent paperweight or doorstop...
- jonshipman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2it's not even that heavy
- bigfkncee, on 10/10/2007, -16/+4how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
- jmkiii, on 10/10/2007, -9/+21 smoot at a time.
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -2/+43I love how the forum critters jump on the guy...
post #1 "I have been able to downgrade after accidentally upgrading to 1.1.1"
post #3 "*****..... pls delete post"
post #4 "BAN his ass!"
post #5 "no you haven't
go join another forum please....we are trying to keep this one with an educational style spirit.
you are not really welcome here kid." - fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Oh, I see in the forum that only wi-fi works after the downgrade... the baseband is not down-graded, so the phone feature does not work. (yet)
- spargett, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So to be clear, if I downgrade (Using AT&T, haven't unlocked my phone - just 3rd party apps) I won't be able to use the phone portion? No calls, etc?
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't know about for non-unlocked phones... all I've seen has been in the context of reversing the iBrick problem.
You might poke around on the iPhone Dev forums. (linked in the article)
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't know about for non-unlocked phones... all I've seen has been in the context of reversing the iBrick problem.
- spargett, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So to be clear, if I downgrade (Using AT&T, haven't unlocked my phone - just 3rd party apps) I won't be able to use the phone portion? No calls, etc?
- fishbert, on 10/20/2007, -4/+35The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store is going to be a smashing success. I can feel it.
/sarcasm
/orgasm
/legspasm- monospaced, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9It will, especially when AT&T licenses some more of their phones to access it.
- S1ngular1ty1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Actually, it works very well on my iPod touch.
- r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Same here. I've already made about 15 song purchases I wouldn't have necessarily made if I'd had to go to my computer.
Excellent idea on Apple's part.
- r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Same here. I've already made about 15 song purchases I wouldn't have necessarily made if I'd had to go to my computer.
- pirateflash, on 10/10/2007, -8/+0try living without your phone (cell) while you restore it, i.e. a busy day or else. That is no good for me!
- turpenine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1just go to the at&t store and get a free phone because the iphone doesn't count as a free phone.
- PrototypeV, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Very very cool idea. It takes a true programming wizard to come up with this kind of program.
- XMashedPotatoX, on 10/10/2007, -2/+91.1.1 UNLOCKED (downgraded to 1.0.2):
http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9027 - XMashedPotatoX, on 10/10/2007, -11/+31.1.1 UNLOCKED (/w 1.0.2 downgrade):
http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9027 - TheLoneWolf071, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Until they actually get the unlocking and 3rd party to work on 1.1.1 I don't see people too happy. Also, what's to make apple not force people to upgrade to 1.1.1?
- utahgeek, on 10/10/2007, -12/+2This whole article is misleading. A "bricked" iphone is a phone that CANNOT be restored - period. Hence the term brick. It's about as good as a brick when it's bricked. If it can be restored, it is not a brick. Get the terms straight. Durp.
- largobargo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Then by your own admission, there is no such thing as a bricked anything because with enough technical knowledge any device can be restored. You're not as smart as you think you are.
- turpenine, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1umm, not true. Some phones can be bricked by futsing with the firmware to a point a normal person cannot restore it.
- kraftyballs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Who appeared first.. the nerd or the bully?
- largobargo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Then by your own admission, there is no such thing as a bricked anything because with enough technical knowledge any device can be restored. You're not as smart as you think you are.
- jdaniel284, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27This device doesn't seem near the fun it was advertised to be. I'm glad I am too poor to afford one.
- SpacedCowboy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9On the contrary, the device is fantastic. It's only morons who upgraded their phone after Apple told them it would brick it that are having problems. Of the 1% or so of customers who've modded their phones, those of us with more than one brain cell decided we'd be better off with a fully-open and accessible phone, and we could do without the new features until it was safe to upgrade.
But this is Apple, so you only hear the waaah waaaaah waaaaaaaah from Gizmodo. Seriously, if Apple told those guys not to put their hand in a fire, they'd burn themselves, and then blame Apple... - fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Yeah, I've been pretty happy with mine. And it only got better a week or two ago when I plunged in to the 3rd party apps.
People are upset over this recent update because they care about the stuff they were using with the phone. If people weren't enamored with the device, there wouldn't be so much unrest.
- SpacedCowboy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9On the contrary, the device is fantastic. It's only morons who upgraded their phone after Apple told them it would brick it that are having problems. Of the 1% or so of customers who've modded their phones, those of us with more than one brain cell decided we'd be better off with a fully-open and accessible phone, and we could do without the new features until it was safe to upgrade.
- dupswapdrop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3another fine product?
- kylejn, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3It looks like you still get the SIM errors, even after going through the process to restore the 1.0.2 firmware. If you can't use the phone portion of a phone, that's still pretty bricked in my book.
- TejInLA, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, sounds like it's an iTouch instead. But I guess it's still better than an iBrick.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Its all iCrap to me.
- r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's not a brick, the definition of a brick (electrically) is a device that does absolutely nothing, and is unresponsive (bit like Windows Mobile).
Unlike the iPhone, which can be re-activated with an AT&T sim, and all the non-phone functionality still works perfectly.
- kris33, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6This is really cool! The technique actually makes it possible for the iPod touch to run third party applications.
http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_1_1_1_update_backfire ... - cmer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2That's it. Hackers won me. I'm getting an iPhone!
- dafragsta, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2That makes no sense. If anything, hackers have been the source of more iPhone grief than success. Granted, they are being cockblocked in a very dubious nature.
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't understand what you mean. A lot of people have been quite pleased with the quality 3rd party apps that have been released, and more than a few are quite pleased with being able to use the phone on the network of their choice (especially those not in the U.S.)
- dafragsta, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2That makes no sense. If anything, hackers have been the source of more iPhone grief than success. Granted, they are being cockblocked in a very dubious nature.
- skoles, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3In for the flood of cheap Apple PDA's soon to hit eBay.
- shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -8/+5For a product that was touted as so user-friendly and easy to use, this sure does look like a bitch to get working.
- r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The device is user-friendly and easy to use. The hacking is the difficult stuff, and as far as user-experience goes for hacking, Apple couldn't give a ***** how easy it is to do that.
- 1ofMany, on 11/03/2007, -4/+23Isn't it ironic that Steve Jobs was once a big time phone hacker (back in his college days) and is now out to punish the people that have hacked his phone...
- zybch, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Jobs wasn't a hacker by any means. He was (and still is) a slimy no-talent salesman who has to rely on the technical expertise of others just like he relied on the BlueBox made by Woz.
- pu-z, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I wouldn't exactly say that he is a "no-talent" sales guy... Otherwise, you're probably correct.
- zybch, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Jobs wasn't a hacker by any means. He was (and still is) a slimy no-talent salesman who has to rely on the technical expertise of others just like he relied on the BlueBox made by Woz.
- deVida, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5And in three days, the Jesus Phone rose again!
- zybch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2You mean the Zombie Jesus Phone!
- nave7693, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Is this just me or does it really sound exactly like the whole affair with the PSP?
- dagamer34, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2In the end, Sony got owned too. In fact, it only took a day for the slim PSP to be hacked. You'd think it would take longer than that for a hardware redesign.
- casual7y, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I am so glad i'm too poor to have bought an iphone now haha
- toetagger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I wish you were poorer so you couldn't afford a PC and nag us with silly comments. ; )
- toetagger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Too soon to celebrate...
- jnadke, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Hackers 1, Apple/AT&T 0
Come'on, you know Apple probably could've implemented the patch without messing with the EFI... they did it intentionally...- DigitAl56K, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I believe that would now be Hackers 2, Apple 0, AT&T -92837496124
- r3zonance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Come'on, you know Apple probably could've implemented the patch without messing with the EFI"
Yes, if the iPhone was a Mac, but it's a phone (essentially PDA hardware) which doesn't have an EFI. Plus a ton of cellphone hacking requires the modem firmware to be modified.
Stop looking for something that isn't there.
- toetagger, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2I'm sorry... I'm really trying to give a ***** about this but I just don't.
- oosnoopy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The phone doesn't work.
Yay for an overpriced function lacking PDA? - thequixotic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I know hacking the iPhone is jolly exciting, but it is called the i PHONE for a reason...
It's like collecting your car from the garage and the guy saying "well, we still can't get the engine working, but the radio and air-con are perfect!"- thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It really is that funny....upgrades lead to downgrades lead to no phone in the iPhone. It just works, remember?
- genexyzration, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0Don't downgrade. Upgrade is the way to go. Upgrade to your attorney telling that the recent update rendered your iphone useless when you needed it most. When it failed it resulted to: death, injury, pain, divorce, loss of money, repossessed house/car/truck, loss your girlfriend,accident on the road, unable to call police in an emergency. You pay for the service and you expect their service.
- insomniac8400, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1At least all of this proves apple purposely screwed the phones in software and that the locks weren't accidental. I find it interesting that they are inviting a class action against them that if they lose affirms consumer rights, and if they win screws consumers over big time. No verdict will be good for apple.
- Blade2000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Suckers! Now you have to "downgrade" and lose some new features and patches/bug fixes. Why bother if you will not have the newest release?
- bluenash, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1maybe apple should take a page from google's playbook: "Do no evil"
- returnofthemac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0it's good to see the same comments here as on every other post about 1.1.1 in the past 2+ weeks. What a bunch of pretentious asshats.
- rambodonkeykong, on 11/19/2007, -0/+0Jesus, YOU are THE *****!!!
I joined digg just to tell you so...
You SAVED my phone...
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