Apple is playing hardball with the unlocked iPhone movement.

In a terse statement, Apple said "many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update is installed."

Apple also said that it "has discovered" the irreparable damage. Gee, think AT&T asked Apple to nuke these renegade programs?

The company added that it will release its next iPhone software update later this week. In other words, if your iPhone is set up for automatic updates it will become an iBrick. Apple's take:

Apple strongly discourages users from installing unauthorized unlocking programs on their iPhones. Users who make unauthorized modifications to the software on their iPhone violate their iPhone software license agreement and void their warranty. The permanent inability to use an iPhone due to installing unlocking software is not covered under the iPhone's warranty.

In other words, if you unlock the iPhone you are iScrewed. See Jason O'Grady's unlocking iPhone chronicles.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6371

lol anyone bought an iphone wanna try to brick their shiny new iphone?

eventually those hacker WILL find another way round to crack their iphone. never ending story...

This post has been edited by evilpuppy: Sep 29 2007, 08:09 PM

True that. Give it like a week or two, it'll be released soon.

But in the meantime, whoever is not aware of it and just run the update, their phones are definitely gonna get iBricked

maybe later will come out custom firmware for iphone...
just like PSP

Dont update the phone then. Apa susah?

situation:

visiting little baby cousin at bukit jelutong, after awhile u feel like going to the toilet, iPhone left on table. Baby cousin take it as a chocolate, start to "Nom, nom, nom" and activated iPhone update.

not only u get iBricked, u'll also shit bricks.

^True.

No use they stop the unlocking, theres like, a billion nerds and geeks around the world!!

iPhone updates doesnt happen OTa (over-the-air), you need to download the 100Mb+ update .ipsw file, launch iTunes, agree to the EULA, and then the process starts. I doubt your "baby cousin munching on the iPhone" situation would trigger such things, Apple is not stupid. The user end however, is open to question.

To the threadstarter, the hackers already have won. There are already working downgraders to downgrader those new iPhones with 1.1.1 in them to 1.0.2 to be jailbroken and unlocked. After that, follow what Xeda says "Dont update the phone then, apa susah?".

eh... this has moved in apple byte alrdy
actually I just want to share this article that I subscribe to, I dont know how actually this Apple stuff works nor do I care lol

Why are you posting if you dont care? Or are you posting to get a reaction from the current or future iPhone owners? Furthermore, you dont have to open a new thread , this news is neither shocking or important enough to warrant this.

dude, its not my intention for this to end up in apple bite, its origin is in kopitiam
and i dont need a permit to open thread in kopitiam

In any case, it's common knowledge that you run risks dabbling with customized firmwares. This fact is acknowledged and understand upon by those who know what risks they face, it is only that those who knows not a single clue about how the process works, and goes in blindly that got their iPhone bricked by this update. I'd say they brought this calamity to themselves since they dont really know what they are about to do.

ya lor. my previous comment was written before mods transfer to apple bytes. pardon the lame joke.