Apple wasn't bluffing over iPhone hack

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Apple iPhone warning proves true

Users may not be able to add Apple features to an unlocked phone

An Apple software update is disabling iPhones that have been unlocked by owners who wanted to choose which mobile network to use.
Earlier this week Apple said a planned update would leave the device "permanently inoperable".
Thousands of iPhone owners hacked their expensive gadget in order to unlock it for use with other mobile carriers and to run a host of unsupported programs.
There are also reports of the update causing issues with unaltered iPhones.
On Monday Apple issued a statement in which it said many of the unauthorised iPhone unlocking programs caused "irreparable damage" to the device's software.
The company said this would "likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed".
That warning has now proved correct as many owners are reporting their phones no longer work following installation of the update. Apple requires iPhone owners to take out a lengthy contract with AT&T in the United States but there are a number of programs on the net that unlock the device for use with other networks. Some owners are reporting on technology blogs and Apple's own forums that the update is deleting contacts information, as well as photos and music, on iPhones that have not been modified in any way.

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[DJ OD]

So...

Don't upgrade to firmware v1.1.1 until it's hacked! Only major benefit is the Video out anyway.

Turns out by upgrading the firmware of a hacked iPhone does NOT totally brick the phone. It DOES re-lock it but so far that's it.

Apple don't scare me! LOL!


DJ OD

[yazooo]

yeah no big rush to upgrade the fw, the additions are not that great yet...

[blaggard]

Yep Apple are releasing these statements to keep AT&T and O2 happy. I had no intention of uprading until the new firmware has been "sorted" one of the things 1.1.1 does is change the IMEI number to a "special" number so that Apple service centres can refuse to honour the warranty. There are already stories of people being handed their phone back! twats, commonn sense and endles warnings from everyone concerned in the unlock should be enough to stop people form rushing into the upgrade!

[fin23]

baffles me it really does, other forums are full of people trying to 'relock' there phones to apply this update?

I just cant see the benefit, no major fix's with this update.

Untill they release something everyone wants, why update?

Problem is, if apple mange to modify the baseband and really make the iphone as tight as the touch at the mo, the 3rd party apps and stuff will stop being made.. as only a few hundred thousand people will have 1.02 iphones... could become a rarity.

[blaggard]

I really don't see them locking it down too tightly, it's become a challenge for the dev team now, they're all over it like a rash. As long as we hold off the updates until they're sorted we have working phones. I'd like cut and paste, group send and forward but I think they'll be sorted 3rd party. Meanwhile I'm loving it!

[andymac746]

Could apple in the future force phones to autoupdate like an xbox ??

[blaggard]

Only if you let it

[cronus71]

I don't own one, but I think it would be silly of Apple to have this strategy, how many people will not buy this phone now? Who knows, maybe this was never meant to happen either and now Apple are covering up a bug by saying it was a "feature".

Call Nokia, they have plenty of phones.

[blaggard]

Call Nokia, they have plenty of phones.

Matter of opinion

[yazooo]

i couldn't think of using this phone without the homebrew! too many annoying things they either left out or dont work too well....if it wasn't for swap tunes and being able to have different libraries...well i just do not envy people who are using non modded phones

[evilsatan]

Just wait til this hits main stream media, as has been said previously in this thread sales will drop like crazy!

[blaggard]

Why would sales drop? people happy to sign on will do so and those of us willing to unlock know it will only be days before the new unlock appears, 1.1.1 is Apples forst attempt, it won't be unbreakable.