Apple’s 1.1.1 iPhone update is out, and while there’s a healthy list of new functionality and tweaks, all eyes are still on the unlock situation. After Apple’s warnings (which some took as threats) that hacked iPhones could potentially turn into expensive, slender bricks after the update process, owners of modded handsets scurried desperately to find ways to restore authenticity to their iPhones. Whether that’s necessary or not seems to vary; there are conflicting reports coming in from around the blogosphere as to if the 152.3mb update kills or not.
Gizmodo are saying that their iPhones have updated okay but that any third-party apps installed have disappeared from the launcher screen (although the programmes themselves are still believed to be in the flash memory); some of their readers, however, are finding their newly-updated (and previously hacked) iPhones are throwing up SIM errors. That’s the result iPhone Central’s Jonathan Seff has had – his hacked, unlocked iPhone is refusing to recognise the AT&T SIM (although the SIM itself will still work in other handsets). Hackint0sh are similarly putting out the warning that unlocked iPhones get relocked following the update, and won’t recognise the original SIM.
Right now we’d have to suggest that anyone with an unlocked iPhone should NOT attempt to update to 1.1.1, at least until a verified way to restore the AT&T lock becomes available. If you’ve used Jailbreak to open your iPhone up to third-party apps and custom ringtones then you’ll need to decide whether the new features in the update are worth losing those add-ons, since Jailbreak and Installer.app won’t work after the firmware change.
Let us know how you get on!
I seem to remember those guys on the Tuesday Night Tech (dot com) show warning everyone that these hacks and unlocks were going to make you all sad when this 1.1.1 came out–why didn’t you listen?! Pouge THIS!
BS.
The installation of 3rd party apps on your iMac Laptop does not void it.
As a matter of fact, storing computer virus software on your iPod doesn’t either.
So now 3rd party apps are banned, and the $600.00 Apple lovers shelled out for an early iPhone, played with it, got so excited to install new things … get a brick? This was intentional, and is ridiculous.
I was once an Apple advocate.
Now? To hell with them. You can really see the corporate wheels spinning here on this one. Blatant, and messed up for the Apple community. I am in awe. For those of you who did not modify your phone, I bet you jumped and were so “Wow! how cool!” to see all the modifications, and fun things you could do with the phone. Now your just spewing BS, and “I told you so garbage” because you didn’t know how to do it yourself.
I feel for the iPhone fans, and actually now for Apple, since no doubt they will soon see a big loss in fan base. First, dropping the phone price to where it no longer became a premium product costing early adopters tons more than needed. Now, destroying the early adopters phones? Man …
There’s much complaining from people with no right to complain.
It was VERY obvious from the beginning that the iPhone was locked down and ANY attempt to unlock or bypass this was a violation of the user agreement and a clear void of your warranty. If you brick your iPhone, it’s your own fault. If you don’t agree with the rules sent down by Appleand AT&T, DO NOT BUY the product! There is no more clear method of communication with a company than by that of voting with your wallet. If you buy the product you agree to play by the rules whether you like them or not.
You made your bed, now you must lie in it. Besides, there aren’t any third party apps that are earth changing enough to justify the risk.
…as an aside, look at it from Apple’s perspective. They are under contract with AT&T. If you unlock your iPhone and move it to T-Mobile (or anyone else), not only are you losing features (visual voicemail) but AT&T (and Apple) is LOSING money! Do you really expect them to just sit by and watch you steal from them? How about you give me your banking numbers and I’ll deduct $1000 every day until YOU decide how much you appreciate it. Why is it alright for you to steal from them and not the other way around? Did you invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the development and launch of the iPhone? Did you build the infrastructure necessary to support the iPhone? Do you employ tens of thousands of people to support the manufacture, retail and support venues of the iPhone? Did anyone besides Apple and AT&T? Then why should anyone else deserve profit from it by means of your unlocking the iPhone? I swear, this society has a real problem with entitlement. It’s like a bunch of spoiled little children out there.
Sometimes life is not fair, GROW UP!
Haters can suck a dick. Hackers will prevail in the end. Apple will not win this battle.
hey Rhett, blow me
Rhett, You are a nincompoop
Rhett’s right in his 2nd paragraph.
iPhone is sold locked to ATT.
If you unlock or bypass you’re breaking the rules you agreed to when you bought it.
If you don’t agree with the rules, don’t buy it.
By the way, if you bought it for $600 and it’s now $400, or if it ends up as .50¢ next year, you are not entitled to a refund of the price that you paid. If you happen to get a refund, that’s a gift.
It is not stealing from Apple or AT&T when you don’t use the product as they intended. You’re not renting the iPhone, you bought it. You don’t have to give it back, there’s no damage deposit, and there’s no landlord.
‘I bought the iPhone, it’s my phone, not Steve’s phone. I can do what I want.’ That’s true. Hack away. Do what you want. Nobody can stop you.
Before downloading Apple’s x.x.x iPhone update for improvements, look up the word ‘proprietary’. If you end up with an iBrick, you can still get a friendly hacker to restore function to your iPhone.
Installing 3rd party software on the iPhone and using it with a carrier other than AT&T is NOT the same as somebody deducting $$ from my checking account, unless somebody actually stole the phone. If I paid for the phone – it’s mine. It belongs to me. I’m not leasing it from Apple, I’m buying it. I can do with it whatever I want. Period. Apple and AT&T arguing that users should only be allowed to use the phone with AT&T would be like Sony releasing a TV and insisting that people only watch Sony (which owns the studio Columbia) films. Nothing from Warner Bros, Universal, or Disney allowed. And if anyone dares to watch a Pixar cartoon – their TV would be disable by Sony. That’s bullshit and, quite frankly, fascism. Yes, I use the word fascism to describe it. Once I paid for a product what I do with it and how I use it is entirely up to me. The end. The manufacturer is certainly entitled to want to protect and if I install software on the phone that crashes it – it’s my problem. But for Apple to intentionally disable it because I’m using the phone the way I want to – is absurd.
Wah, wah, wah…spending 400-600 on something that rings and you say hello into is stupid enough to prove that even the hackers and the dolts that want the apps installed are like W.C Fields said…there is a sucker born every minute…
While there will always be someone who can get around what apple or another of computer corporation does, most people will never acquire this skill, and will have to content themselves with having a non-functional iphone because they imagined themselves hackers for downloading third party programs.
As far as I am concerned, anyone who gets a brick for an iphone deserves it, regardless of whether or not they downloaded third party programs. Being stupid enough to buy that technological blunder should be enough.
Wow, some really mature little girls on here.
If you bought an iPhone, you knew it was unequivocally LOCKED to AT&T. It says it right there ON THE F’n BOX that it requires a TWO YEAR agreement. If you lie and bypass this agreement then YES you in fact are defrauding a contract and stealing from AT&T and Apple (who were counting on the revenue earned by these contracts). Those are the rules and you knew them when you bought the phone.
If someone “hacks” the iPhone and allows you to do this, then you’re the moron with a bricked phone when Apple issues an update and NO, you do NOT have any right to complain because YOU broke your end of the deal, not them.
Go cry to someone else.
Rhett, you’re telling us shyt we already know… now get over here and start blowing.
Isn’t anybody even gonna mention the fact that this move by apple is incredibly hypocrytical since the 2 Steve’s got there start stealing from AT&T back in the day, pre-1985 breakup?
Rhett, do me a favor and get a life ok, just because you are an Apple AT&T kiss ass sucker doesn’t mean other people have to follow, if anybody is stupid enough to buy an expensive phone and on top of that use it with expensive (and crappy) carrier by signing a 2 year contract that’s their probleme.
Just because you unlock it and use it with another carrier doesn’t mean you are stilling Apple, because you are still paying them a lot of money for that phone, so that says it all it’s yours and you do wathever you want with it, and by the way me and 5 of my friends are using it with Tmobile and it’s great, so i wouls suggest that U GROW UP!!!!!!!!!