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."

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In the SOVIET Union

[Anonymous Coward]

Phone brick you.

stop saying "BRICKED!!!"

[Anonymous Coward]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

To "Brick" means to make the device irretrievable, irrevocably useless. Except perhaps as a paperweight or doorstop, though curiously not as an actual brick.

"Defective due to a firmware conflict" does not make an iPhone "bricked." It is malfunctioning, but if there is a way to make it work again it is NOT FRICKIN' BRICKED.

Look. I get it, I know you think the word "bricked" is cool to say. I used to think "owned" was cool, way back in 1997. But it's not, and misusing it makes you, to use another overused word, a "tool."

They lost me as a perspective customer

[merc]

This isn't flamebait, I'm just saying this scared me away from buying an iPhone (among many other things which have already been hashed on here and the consumerist).

I'm excited to see what comes out of the Android platform from google.