Apple’s 1.1.1 iPhone update is out, and while there’s a healthy list of new functionality and tweaks, all eyes are still on the unlock situation. After Apple’s warnings (which some took as threats) that hacked iPhones could potentially turn into expensive, slender bricks after the update process, owners of modded handsets scurried desperately to find ways to restore authenticity to their iPhones. Whether that’s necessary or not seems to vary; there are conflicting reports coming in from around the blogosphere as to if the 152.3mb update kills or not.
Gizmodo are saying that their iPhones have updated okay but that any third-party apps installed have disappeared from the launcher screen (although the programmes themselves are still believed to be in the flash memory); some of their readers, however, are finding their newly-updated (and previously hacked) iPhones are throwing up SIM errors. That’s the result iPhone Central’s Jonathan Seff has had - his hacked, unlocked iPhone is refusing to recognise the AT&T SIM (although the SIM itself will still work in other handsets). Hackint0sh are similarly putting out the warning that unlocked iPhones get relocked following the update, and won’t recognise the original SIM.
Right now we’d have to suggest that anyone with an unlocked iPhone should NOT attempt to update to 1.1.1, at least until a verified way to restore the AT&T lock becomes available. If you’ve used Jailbreak to open your iPhone up to third-party apps and custom ringtones then you’ll need to decide whether the new features in the update are worth losing those add-ons, since Jailbreak and Installer.app won’t work after the firmware change.
Let us know how you get on!
From http://www.myitablet.com/update-bricks-unlocked-iphones-271567.php
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