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Those of you that own an iPhone have no doubt noticed that there is an update for your firmware. For those that have hacked your iPhone and decided to risk upgrading, Apple kept true to their word. You’ve now likely got yourself a sexy looking brick. Don’t worry, all is not lost.
The new 1.1.1 upgrade did exactly what Apple promised it would do, it bricked your hacked phones. However, the hacking community has been hard at work and fixes have already been developed. Granted, they don’t completely fix things, but at least you get most of the functionality back.
The instructions below will take almost everything back to the 1.0.2 firmware. Unfortunately, it’s still not perfect, but I’m sure in the next couple of days we’ll be seeing a better solution.
**Make sure you have a copy of the 1.0.2 firmware stored in: youruser/library/iTunes/iPhone SoftwareUpdates
**Reboot iPhone holding the top button (power) and the home buttons.
**Release the top button 10 seconds after that, right after the screen goes dark.
**The iPhone screen will appear to be off. Now start iTunes manually anyway.
**iTunes will tell you it has found an iPhone in “restore mode.”
**Press option key and then click the restore button.
**Select the 1.0.2 firmware .ipsw file from here: youruser/library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates
**The phone will restart and there will be an error out at the end. Don’t worry. It was bound to happen.
**Shutdown iTunes.
**Launch the latest iNDpendence (Mac-only for now.)
**Jailbreak the phone using a expanded 1.0.2 file (to do that, make a copy of the 1.0.2 ipsw file, then select “Open with…” from the Finder’s action menu and use BOMArchiveHelper.app (it will appear in the menu.) The ipsw are really .zip files.
**It will flash all sorts of errors, but don’t worry.
**Activate the phone.
**It will show the SIM error but now the iPhone will work again with your Wi-Fi and your apps.
Downgrade 1.1.1 iPhone firmware instructions [via MyiTablet]
9 Responses to “Unbrick your bricked iPhone”
Shane November 4, 2007
****Bricked iPhone Users*****
!!! there is a way around a bricked iphone !!!
I unlocked my iphone and i decided that i wanted to restore it to the 1.1.1 firmware. I was running the 1.0.2 version, i connected my iphone and deleted all of the third-party apps i could using iBrick and Installer-(on iphone).
*1. Open iTunes. Select the 1.0.2 firmware file. (you may have to download it)
*2. It may come up with an error (mine did), Ignore it! Restart the iphone and repeat Step one.
3. The error may appear again or iPhone may try to activate through itunes. if the activation doesnt work, Turn off iPhone…keep it connected to the computer.
4. Restart iphone pressing the lock button, and the home key.
5. When the apple logo apears release the lock button and continue holding the home key.
6. A Yellow Triangle will appear, and iTunes will prompt to restore iPhone.
7. Continue with the restore process, when iphone restores and restarts, It will open in iTunes and activate iPhone automatically…
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+1saamy December 25, 2007
i have done this via iBrickr already… all works fine except the sim error still comes up… even the AT&T sim doesnt work anymore…any thing i could do??
+1Norman towns July 21, 2008
i have an unlocked iphone and itunes poped up and asked if i wanted to upgrade my iphone i thought nothing of this and said ok now i havent been able to use my phone at all its locked i tired to unlock it numerous times but nothing will work what should i do ??????
+5Norman towns July 21, 2008
i have an unlocked iphone and itunes poped up and asked if i wanted to upgrade my iphone i thought nothing of this and said ok now i havent been able to use my phone at all its locked i tired to unlock it numerous times but nothing will work what should i do ? i tried every thing that has been said and still no luck but i dont have the 1.0.2 how or where do i download that from?
+3estrella October 17, 2008
i have locked and bricked my iphone recently while trying to upgrade it via itunes. İf I downgrade to 1.0.2 can ı still be able to make&receive phone calls and send sms ?
+2if not ,how can upgrade to 1.1.1 after the unlocking iphone?