MAC Firmware Update Breaks Unlocked iPhones!!

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  • DateDoc
    Outside looking in.
    • Feb 2005
    • 14243
    #1

    MAC Firmware Update Breaks Unlocked iPhones!!

    http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/20...-latest-f.html

    After warning customers that the next firmware update for its iPhone may render unlocked versions of the device unusable, Apple pushed out a new firmware version which does exactly that.

    A report from Macworld confirms that running a firmware update on an iPhone unlocked with anySIM will result in the creation of an iBrick. The phone spits out a "SIM card not valid" error when it's rebooted, and you can't gain access to any of the menus or base functions of the phone -- even when the original AT&T SIM card is inserted. The update also undoes the jailbreak procedure required to gain access to the iPhone's file system.
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    • DateDoc
      Outside looking in.
      • Feb 2005
      • 14243
      #2
      Also in the update - iTunes store for the iPhone!

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        • After Shock Media
          It's coming look busy
          • Mar 2001
          • 35299
          #3
          Wait so if you do the update and still put your old sim back in you are still screwed and have a useless several hundred buck paper weight?

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            • DateDoc
              Outside looking in.
              • Feb 2005
              • 14243
              #4
              Originally posted by After Shock Media
              Wait so if you do the update and still put your old sim back in you are still screwed and have a useless several hundred buck paper weight?
              I am sure if you register it with AT&T it will work again.

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                • kektex
                  Confirmed User
                  • Mar 2005
                  • 1813
                  #5
                  Originally posted by BusterPorn
                  I am sure if you register it with AT&T it will work again.
                  From what I read some apple stores will fix it.Other will tell you you are screwed.
                  I give it 3 weeks before the hackers unlock the new firmware. Then I'll buy one for me.
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                    • tony299
                      lurker
                      • Aug 2002
                      • 57021
                      #6
                      Apple are really pricks and Steve Jobs who people think is this spiritual guy and he gives zero to charity.

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                        • DateDoc
                          Outside looking in.
                          • Feb 2005
                          • 14243
                          #7
                          Originally posted by tony404
                          Apple are really pricks and Steve Jobs who people think is this spiritual guy and he gives zero to charity.
                          Because he does not give using his name does not mean he does not give to charity. Sure he is not on any high power lists because that would require he give under his name. He gives and requests to be anonymous.

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                            • KrisKross
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jan 2006
                              • 5025
                              #8
                              Originally posted by tony404
                              Apple are really pricks and Steve Jobs who people think is this spiritual guy and he gives zero to charity.
                              If I hacked into Mandy's site, would you consider yourself a prick for disabling my access?

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                                • Bird
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Jan 2005
                                  • 4365
                                  #9
                                  The iphone sucks
                                  ICQ:268731675

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                                    • RevSand
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Oct 2003
                                      • 8151
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by BusterPorn
                                      Because he does not give using his name does not mean he does not give to charity. Sure he is not on any high power lists because that would require he give under his name. He gives and requests to be anonymous.
                                      Yea so do I.. daily!! What?? You do not believe me?!?! Just because its the easiest way to claim to be doing something that I am really not?!?!


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                                        • DWB
                                          Registered User
                                          • Jul 2003
                                          • 31779
                                          #11
                                          iPhones.... LOL

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                                            • DateDoc
                                              Outside looking in.
                                              • Feb 2005
                                              • 14243
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by RevSand
                                              Yea so do I.. daily!! What?? You do not believe me?!?! Just because its the easiest way to claim to be doing something that I am really not?!?!
                                              The irony is you used the same reasoning to assume he does not give at all.

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                                                • Jace
                                                  FBOP Class Of 2013
                                                  • Jan 2004
                                                  • 35562
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by KrisKross
                                                  If I hacked into Mandy's site, would you consider yourself a prick for disabling my access?
                                                  exactly, the iphone comes with a "contract" of sorts, and part of that contract is to NOT alter the system of the phone

                                                  so, if you get an iphone and hack it, you are voiding any and all warranty

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