“Information for activation cannot be obtained from the iPhone”

Or this: 

“iTunes could not update the carrier settings on your iPhone. An unknown error occurred (OxE80000001).”

If you see the first error message, just disable Airplane mode while on the emergency screen. If you see the second message, click Restore rather than Update in iTunes. 

These are just a few tips for those with odd update issues. Hopefully they work for you. If you know any other install fixes, leave them in the comments. Thanks!

[via iPhone Atlas]

Prepaid GoPhone on the iPhone 3

But now with the iPhone OS 2.0 update, you can use all of those AT&T SIM cards that were previously disallowed. That’s right, folks. You can even use a prepaid GoPhone SIM card. This is a great option for those that can afford the one-time phone purchase price but not the recurring monthly bill. At just $20 a month, you get unlimited data and if you need to chat, just add some dollars to your account. Simple stuff, really. 

But take heed first gen iPhone users! the GoPhone SIM card will not work on the fly for you and requires the recently released PwonageTool. All other SIM cards do work, however, as do all SIM card types (including GoPhone) on the iPhone 3G. 

[via PhoneNews]

The promise came about a month late, but it is finally here now. Not only is it here, but it packs a large number of improvements over the beta that we saw last month. The software is totally free, and allows you to take control of your device. Features that it has allows you to load custom ROMs and change out the boot logo etc.

The new version of the tool is available now. You can get it from WinPwn.com. The software does have the potential to brick your device, so please if you do not know what you are doing, read up on the tool, or just avoid using it.

[Via iPhone Alley]

[Via Gizmodo]

We were so happy, all the software part was done, so we started opening the iphone. The antenna cover was a bit tricky but eventually it came off. Then we started to open the metal cover (after taking out the 3 screws) and PUFF, up it went in smoke, I think my collegue must have touched something. It literally went up in black smoke. I was so hot that when I tried to pick it up I burnt my fingers. So, this is for sure the most difficult part of the whole process. I don’t know what he did, as I had just stepped out of the room to fetch something when I heard a scream…they got such a fright.

[Via Zudfunck]

They are also working towards some sort of a solution for the numerous bricks out there. We have already reported the fact that iPhoneSIMFree already has a solution, and that it already fixes your bricked products, so if you have the dough, I’d still recommend using their product since it seems to offer fewer side effects from future firmware upgrades.

However if you don’t mind waiting, and in return saving some dough, the iPhone Dev Team should have a solution for an unlock soon. Like I said, they are also working on a fix for bricked devices, if they cant find a fix, they are at the very least going to try and offer some sort of baseband downgrader, so that you can at least go back to AT&T I assume.

iPod touch/iPhone ramdisks decrypted [via TUAW]

It involves a lot of iPhone freezes, so if your preciously pricey device freezing up makes you queezy, I wouldn’t attempt it. Basically though, it makes use of the contact list, and a glitch in the emergency number only dialing system.

So if you just bought your iPhone and are in a hurry to use it, but don’t have time to activate it, go for it. If you bricked your iPhone and are still waiting for the iPhone Dev Team to release a fix, but want to get some sort of use out of your iPhone, go for it.

Access Safari on your unactivated 1.1.1 iPhone [via TUAW]

So, even better than iPhoneSIMFree releasing a 1.1.1 unlock, is that the software will also un-brick any iPhone that was unlocked with anySIM or iUnlock when you upgraded to 1.1.1. They also thanked/gave credit to, the iPhone Dev Team for Jailbreaking the new firmware, which is apparently required for the iPhoneSIMFree software to work.

So, a free unlock is nice, but, maybe the $50 to get your iPhone unlocked by iPhoneSIMFree is worth it to not have your phone bricked every time Apple releases and update and to have someone who will support their product with rapid updates. If not though, its only a matter of time now before the iPhone Dev Team releases a free unlock.

iPhoneSIMFree issues commercial iPhone 1.1.1 unlock [via ars technical]

They also got access to the Sprinboar, which means you don’t have to use the command line to launch apps. You can apparently add up to 15 apps to the Springboard.

They also found an International option inside the Springboard app, which they are saying is probably for the French and German iPhones that are coming later. They still don’t have a public version of the Jailbreak and they still recommend those with hacked 1.0.2 iPhones not upgrade quite yet.

Third-party apps appear on iPhone 1.1.1 [via macnn]

The second would be those that hacked their iPhones to use 3rd party apps, I would assume this number is huge (this is class 2). Third is for those that actually unlocked their iPhones, and had their warranties voided regardless of whether they restored the iPhone back to its original state before taking it in or not (this is class 3).

From what I gather all three of those are part of one suit. Another suit is slowly growing though, and has a far higher chance of success, this one is for those who didn’t hack their iPhones at all, as in, did nothing to them, but had their warranties voided and presumably their phones blacklisted because they came in after the release of the new firmware with legitimate problems and the people at the Genius Bar weren’t so genius if you will and assumed the problems were because they hacked their iPhones.

Users planning class action suit against Apple over iPhone warranty [via arstechnica]

“Apple has multiple ways of upgrading the [firmware of the] baseband [radio chip] without committing a 500,000-phone massacre. First, they can issue a secpack [security pack] for everything in the firmware. They could simply issue one of these to restore the value if a regular token is not detected, thus rewriting this part to its original state. This process would most likely defeat any unlock available, Dev Team or iPhone Sim Free, without bricking the iPhone in any way.  New firmware updates could also employ new firmware which closes the loophole that allows the use of a secpack for other operations. They could make this method of updating even resistant to tampering or abuse for a unlock. The possibilities are there”

However frustrating, financially-shortsighted or, as one commenter here on MY iTablet put it, “un-American” the current situation is, though, it looks as if unleashing another class action against Apple would be a waste of time.  Legal beavers have compared firmware consequence to warranty clauses and decided – even though the T&Cs are worded so confusingly that you’d need to be a genius or perhaps a post-modernist poet to understand them – that Apple are well within their rights to ignore the potential risk to modified iPhones since they are different to the original specification.

It gets worse, though; as suspected, unlocking an iPhone that’s using firmware version 1.1.1 looks to be a far tougher prospect than previous, and the DevTeam, while busy working on it, say it may take some time. 

Here is the deal, Apple’s latest firmware somehow changes the IMEI of your phone (I swear that the last time I checked that was illegal) anyways, that’s how the Apple dudes know if you hacked your phone. Apparently though, this is also affecting all of the prepaid wireless iPhones, not just the hacked ones. This bug is unconfirmed as of yet, which is why there is the Rumor tag.

So you go to the Apple store, and you lie, you tell them that your iPhone was on a prepaid plan, and they should give you a new one no questions. However if you forget to put the AT&T SIM back in, or you aren’t convincing enough, you are back to waiting for the iPhone Dev Team to come back out with a solution, and your warranty will be voided and your iPhone will be blacklisted.

You’ve Bricked your Hacked iPhone and Want to Start Over? [via 9to5Mac]