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Apple iPhone relocked and frozen

Reuben Lee | Oct 01, 2007

The iPhone unlocking saga continues with Apple, as promised earlier, delivering its first blow to iPhone hackers by releasing its latest software update. When installed, this will freeze the iPhone completely. Yes, you read it right. The iPhone will become a brick (read permanently inoperable) if you update your unlocked phone with the latest software from the Cupertino company.

Many of those who did not heed the warning sure learned painfully last Friday when their iPhones were disabled after the software update. When Apple first issued the warning early last week, iPhone hackers advised users with unlocked iPhones to wait before installing the new software updates, promising a fix by this week. So far, we've come across one iPhone fix which will unlock all of a bricked iPhone's functionalities, save for the cellular service.

The good news is, with the recent price cuts, the iPhone is a lot cheaper to replace. So do you think Apple has gone too far this time by rendering the iPhone completely useless, instead of just relocking it and removing the illegal apps? Share your thoughts here with other readers if you've found ways to get around this issue.

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Ten steps (actually 11) to unlock your "bricked" iPhone

Russell Shaw, ZDNet.com | Oct 01, 2007

If you've downloaded the latest iPhone firmware on to your previously unlocked iPhone, you have a course of action available to you that will unlock all your iPhone’s functionality except for your phone service.

The ticket is iNDependence, a Cocoa-based app for Mac OS X. This provides a UI for modifying your iPhone.

You can download it here. I guess that would be the first step.

Once you do just that, hackintOsh Member sparx writes that you should:

1. Make sure you have a copy of the 1.0.2 firmware handy in ipsw and decrypted form.
2. Reboot iPhone holding top (power) and home buttons *BUT* release the top button 10 seconds into it (right after the screen goes dark).
3. The iPhone screen will appear to be off, but start iTunes (latest version worked for me on the Mac).
4. Option+Click restore and select the 1.0.2 firmware ips.
5. The phone will restart and error out at the end with an unknown error 1013, this is expected.
6. Restart iTunes and let it get to the screen that says you have an invalid SIM
7. Launch the latest iNDpendence
8. Jailbreak the phone using a decrypted 1.0.2 (it will flash all sorts of error, but stick with it)
9. Activate the phone
10. It will show the SIM error but you should be able to get back in.

Additional stuff for code jocks here.

Via ZDNet blogs

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