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New Firmware Fixes Previously Bricked iPhones
drcagn writes "Ars Technica reports that Apple's new 1.1.3 firmware update unbricks iPhones damaged from unlocking and updating the firmware months ago. In September, users who hacked their iPhone's firmware to unlock it found their iPhone bricked when they updated to new firmware, creating a massive upset and internet furor. Although Apple claimed this was not an intended effect of the update, it held the stance that it is not their responsibility to ensure that updates work with users' warranty-voiding hacks, and many cried foul. This update, which provides new features Jobs showed off at Macworld, while not officially unbricking the iPhone, has restored iPhones from Gizmodo and a reader of the Unofficial Apple Weblog."
Obviously, it was only mostly bricked.
Don't listen to him folks, they're all still expensive coasters, that's right.
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
And if Apple bought AOL, we would have the iFrisbee.
Actually, it was just resting. On its back.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
If a iPhone can receive an update that unbricks it, then it was never bricked in the first place.
... I had to go put in a new battery before I finished this post. Looks like it un-bricked my keyboard, whew.
Correct. Welcome to the new age of blogger journalism where something is called bricked the moment even a single feature or other stops working.
My wireless keyboard is on the verge of being bricked, excuse me...
I bricked about this happening to "meme" a couple years ago, then bricked the solution, so I'd like to brick some words of encouragement to anyone who feels bricked by the loss: brick your vengeance. If you can't brick "brick," then nobody can.
Heretofore, "to brick" can brick anything. You can brick a beer; you can brick a pizza. You can brick a computer; and you can brick your girlfriend. You can brick your hat, except in Soviet Russia, where hat bricks you.
Go brick something, and then brick somebody about it in the hopes that they'll brick someone else. Brick the word, so the whole world will brick that they bricked "brick." Hopefully after that, maybe they will have bricked that some words are better off left unbricked.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
The only iPhone that cannot be unbricked is this one:
http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
Crap! I managed to brick my iPhone into a firewall. But I didn't think that Windows CE-ME-NT would dry so quickly all over it! Seriously, the 2000 grade formula drys in XP amount of time. Please, feel free to brick me now with your brick iPhone that I know you think are now just useless bricks now. Mwa ha ha ha ha. Score.
Once you start despising the jerks, you become one.
Correction: the update reanimates zombie iPhones.