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Ok, time for another unscientific reader poll. Did you upgrade your iPhone to v1.1.1? If so, what happened? Tell us all about it (why you did or didn’t upgrade, what happened if you did, etc.) in comments. Let it all out, we’re here for you.
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If you went ahead an installed 1.1.1 only to end up with a Jonathan Ive-designed paperweight at the end of it, you’ve got a couple of choices: go to your nearest Apple store, tail between your legs, and hope they take pity on you and fix your iPhone somehow, or turn to your friendly neighbourhood hack-community and see what functionality they can restore. Over at the Apple-Touch forums we’re pointed in the direction of some instructions that promise at least a partial restore; in this case, use of all but the GSM functionality unless you’re using the original AT&T SIM.
So, if you can make do with WiFi connectivity, this might just be your salvation; basically it downgrades all but the baseband to firmware version 1.0.2 – not perfect but we’re told that the team are still beavering away. Full instructions after the cut…
With the tail end of Sunday in sight, I’d imagine quite a few iPhone owners have been spending the weekend getting to grips with Apple’s 1.1.1 firmware upgrade, downloading the 152.3mb file and bringing their shiny handset up to Steve-speed. The headline feature is of course the iTunes WiFi Store, but there are plenty of other tweaks and improvements that might not leap out at you instantly; should you have missed them, or if you’re wondering what a shop-fresh iPhone will come with, here’s the full run-down of the 1.1.1 handset including some of the features Apple hasn’t mentioned…
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A lot of people out there aren’t too happy with Apple right now. Some of them express their displeasure with expletive-filled tirades in the comments section of any pertinent blog post they can find. Other, arguably more creative folks use the popular medium of the day to make the object of their frustration appear foolish and hypocritical in an entertaining manner. To witness just such a protest, head over to the video after the break…
[Thanks, Scott]
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Well would you look at that, instructions are now available for downgrading your iPhone from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2. It won’t downgrade your baseband, meaning so far you can’t re-unlock an iPhone that’s been 1.1.1-ified, but it’s still 1.0.2 in all its third-party application glory. The iPhone Dev Team folks are working on a way to downgrade the new firmware to let people unlock their phones again, but for now AT&T users sitting pretty, and non-AT&T folks can at least do the WiFi thing. There’s a video tutorial after the break.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Read – iPhone Dev Wiki instructions
Read – Hackint0sh thread where the magic happened
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The iPhone 1.1.1 update has a hidden little surprise for y’all: Bluetooth audio streaming is now available off of your iPhone for whatever you darn please, meaning you can finally listen to music from the phone wirelessly. Oddly enough, this “function” has been unleashed by a Visual Voicemail bug that leaves Bluetooth audio on even after you’ve left the Voicemail interface. Of course, it’s only mono audio, and the audio keeps playing out of your built-in speaker — if you plug in headphones to cut off the speaker you’ll lose Bluetooth streaming as well — but it’s nice to see Apple forking over some “should have been there in the first place” functionality accidentally to go along with all that stuff of the same ilk 1.1.1 took away from us.
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Rather than simply suing Apple, Steve Jobs or AT&T individually, Dongmei Li decided to throw all three under the bus. The suit, which was reportedly filed this week in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, accused the trio of “price discrimination, underselling, discrimination in rebates, deceptive actions and other wrongdoings for their role in the September 5th price drop on the iPhone.” As you’d expect, Li was one of the folks who waited hours on end to be one of the first iPhone owners, and apparently feels quite slighted by the slashing. Purportedly, the plaintiff is hoping to secure “compensatory damages in the amount of $1 million” in addition to other punitive damages, and if you’re up for a good laugh, hit the read link to browse through quite a few (more) comical gripes.
[Thanks, Mark]
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Little comfort to those who face bricking their unlocked iPhones or languishing on old firmware forever, but the iPhone DevTeam have been pretty unequivocal at accusing Apple of taking the, let’s say, AT&T pleasing option when it comes to constructing their upgrade. As they told Gizmodo:
“Apple has multiple ways of upgrading the [firmware of the] baseband [radio chip] without committing a 500,000-phone massacre. First, they can issue a secpack [security pack] for everything in the firmware. They could simply issue one of these to restore the value if a regular token is not detected, thus rewriting this part to its original state. This process would most likely defeat any unlock available, Dev Team or iPhone Sim Free, without bricking the iPhone in any way. New firmware updates could also employ new firmware which closes the loophole that allows the use of a secpack for other operations. They could make this method of updating even resistant to tampering or abuse for a unlock. The possibilities are there”