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New Firmware Fixes Previously Bricked iPhones

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the house-that-iphone-built-comes-crumbling-down dept.

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."

4 of 182 comments (clear)

  1. Apple support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apple's lack of morality is the real problem here.

    They sell products for a fortune, and one year later support is gone.

    It's garbage that company and its products. Only complete morons buy Apple.

    1. Re:Apple support by havenskate · · Score: 0, Troll

      Yay yay! I'm a moron. Yay! That's great!

  2. Paying lip service, or is there a secret plan? by The_Abortionist · · Score: -1, Troll

    1 - Unlocking is stealing from the service provider who is footing half the bill for the phone.

    +

    2 - Linux open sourcers are code thieves.

    =

    3 - Is this an attempt by Apple to woo Linux developers into the BSD camp by saying it's OK to steal? Looks like it to me!

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    Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents.
  3. IMPOSSIBLE! by StevenABallmer · · Score: 0, Troll

    This stuff cannot be done! Apple has locked you out and now you must buy a Zune!

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    The Secret Diary of Steve Ballmer