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Fuzzy Logic A slick iPhone unbrick trick | A slick iPhone unbrick trick |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 20 November 2007 | |
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Page 3 of 3 With a bricked iPhone showing a flashing screen, plugging into iTunes was no guarantee of being able to fix it. But luckily, iTunes recognised the iPhone and listed it in iTunes! The screen was still flashing, but I could click on the iPhone entry in the left pane of iTunes. Once there, I clicked the restore button, hoping it would work. Featured Whitepaper
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But sadly, there was a problem – restoring with iTunes produced the dreaded 1602 error that initially plagued even some iPhone owners who hadn't unlocked their iPhones! A quick search on Google showed that an upgrade to iTunes 7.5 was all that was needed. So, the latest iTunes was downloaded, installed and the restore tried again – using a 1.1.1 firmware file I’d downloaded by pressing the Shift key (or Option key on a Mac) when pressing the ‘restore’ button in iTunes. As the restore process worked, I naturally wondered whether it would work or not, or if I’d bricked my iPhone permanently. But after a few minutes, the restore was complete. The instructions at iPhone Unlock seemed to suggested I’d need to use their ‘re-virginiser’ software for 1.1.1 phones to restore it back to 1.0.2 firmware and then go back to 1.1.1, but after the restore process was over, and the iPhone re-activated using the iPhone Unlock process, the phone’s previous 1.1.1 unlock was still in force! So there was no need to re-unlock the phone – all that was needed was to re-sync my data, music and video files, and re-download all those third party apps once more. The sync is complete, but I’m still only half way through downloading all the apps once more through a Wi-Fi connection – much faster than EDGE, that’s for sure! So… for anyone out there wondering if it’s safe to update a 1.0.2 iPhone to the latest 1.1.1 firmware, it was safe for me, and I can only assume it will be safe for you, although naturally any changes you make to hardware you own is done at your own risk. I was even able to successfully restore the iPhone and get it back to fully working condition – quite easily, as it turned out. The 1.1.2 firmware has been widely reported to have been hacked before it was even officially available, and if you search the Internet you’ll find plenty of information about it. But 1.1.1 is more than good enough for now, especially if you’re on 1.0.2 or older firmware and want to know how to safely upgrade. Nice to know that you can brick an iPhone but get it back to working condition quickly and easily thanks to tireless hard work of the iPhone community – long may their work continue – and long may Apple make more and better iPhones, the most startling gadget of the 21st century thus far! |
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