Ask Steve Jobs, he's the wizard calling all the big shots. May he burn in hell if he doesn't start selling application for the iTouch and iPhone, OR unlock it for 3rd applications.
I am using AT&T and I unlocked my iPhone using the iPhone dev team unlock method and iBrickr. Thursday night I ran the update and everything appeared to go smoothly until it finished and I saw the message "Incorrect Sim".
I immediately drove to the Apple store to see what could be done. After waiting 1.5 hours to meet with a mac genius and claiming to know no such thing about "unlocking" or "hackers" they replaced my iPhone. I believe he did this not because he bought my lie, but because I am a paying AT&T customer.
There was another guy there who was just as rediculous sounding. He bought his iPhone 6 days earlier, clearly unlocked it and never activated with AT&T and feigned innocence. The reps were really trying to help him until they looked at the IMEI screen on the locked phone, and said something about the numbers not being the same as the back of the unit. This really surprised me. But they looked up his phone in AT&Ts system some how and found that it was "activated" with some other service... They weren't making any sense, but it did sound to me like they had been prepped before this because they were obviously making sound judgments about his phone.
They turned him away basically saying that there was absolutely nothing they could do. Permanently bricked iPhone. I honestly felt bad for the guy.
I now have a new iPhone and I am not even thinking about hacking it again. I was LUCKY to have gotten away with only a couple of hours of frustration... not a $600 phone that only dials 911.
why the hell would you install the update given all the warnings (in press and even as you went through the install process) that your phone could be bricked and knowing that you had an unlocked iPhone?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FrankTheCrank @ Sep 28th 2007 2:24PM
So does Apple intend on selling apps for their officially closed iPhone. Or is it going to the same old same old for the next two years?
Homeboy @ Sep 28th 2007 2:31PM
Ask Steve Jobs, he's the wizard calling all the big shots. May he burn in hell if he doesn't start selling application for the iTouch and iPhone, OR unlock it for 3rd applications.
Geoffrey Sperl @ Sep 28th 2007 2:59PM
You mean the way games are sold for the iPod on iTunes? Just wait... I'm sure something's in the pipeline.
Will @ Sep 28th 2007 4:26PM
I am using AT&T and I unlocked my iPhone using the iPhone dev team unlock method and iBrickr. Thursday night I ran the update and everything appeared to go smoothly until it finished and I saw the message "Incorrect Sim".
I immediately drove to the Apple store to see what could be done. After waiting 1.5 hours to meet with a mac genius and claiming to know no such thing about "unlocking" or "hackers" they replaced my iPhone. I believe he did this not because he bought my lie, but because I am a paying AT&T customer.
There was another guy there who was just as rediculous sounding. He bought his iPhone 6 days earlier, clearly unlocked it and never activated with AT&T and feigned innocence. The reps were really trying to help him until they looked at the IMEI screen on the locked phone, and said something about the numbers not being the same as the back of the unit. This really surprised me. But they looked up his phone in AT&Ts system some how and found that it was "activated" with some other service... They weren't making any sense, but it did sound to me like they had been prepped before this because they were obviously making sound judgments about his phone.
They turned him away basically saying that there was absolutely nothing they could do. Permanently bricked iPhone. I honestly felt bad for the guy.
I now have a new iPhone and I am not even thinking about hacking it again. I was LUCKY to have gotten away with only a couple of hours of frustration... not a $600 phone that only dials 911.
doctorSpoc @ Sep 28th 2007 11:54PM
@Will
why the hell would you install the update given all the warnings (in press and even as you went through the install process) that your phone could be bricked and knowing that you had an unlocked iPhone?
no offense but that just sounds insane?!?