Latest iPhone firmware is unlocked

I love it. That did not take long,what about a week. Poor poor Apple. I wonder how much they paid their tech team for a solution, when are they going to learn. All thought I beat it was to make AT&T happy.
I still can not believe they bricked people's phones that is F*#%ked up serves them right I would be pissed if a company did something like that to me and the deal with the prices I know when new tech comes out it cost more but a month later that is a bit ridiculous. WHO THE HELL DO THING THINK THEY ARE!!!!!!!.

Does the Iphone update the firmware by itself, or do you have to do it manually? If you have to do it manually, I bet nobody will update from now on. Until somebody starts making custom firmwares like the PSP hackers do.

Originally posted by slmh1296:

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WHO THE HELL DO THING THINK THEY ARE!!!!!!!.

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Rudeboi: The issue here is that neither Apple or AT&T are losing money out of this. Apple has been paid for the iPhone. AT&T still has you in their contract, so you have to pay that out whether you make 0 calls or 1000. A lot of people with unlocked phones probably still use their service still, but have it unlocked as an extra option for in an emergency.

Yes, a licence was accepted when the phone box was opened, but as the owner of the hardware, users should be able to do what they want with it. All Apple needed to do was refuse to update the phone, bricking it is low and a very bad PR move.

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Originally posted by slmh1296:

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WHO THE HELL DO THING THINK THEY ARE!!!!!!!.

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They are a company, called Apple.

They are just like any other company.

Say YOU opened up a company, and then consumers found out ways to get your product, cheaper, or do something with it, that would piss you off. Would you like that? I didn't think so. Apple has a deal with AT&T, if they wanted to, they would have sold the phone is unlocked, if this unlocking thing keeps happening, AT&T can easily just drop out of this iPhone thing because they won't be making money.

I think Apple has a right to brick anyone's phone, it sucks I know, but they are just trying to protect their product.

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good for the bricked ones , that update was just wrong

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Originally posted by slmh1296:

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WHO THE HELL DO THING THINK THEY ARE!!!!!!!.

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They are a company, called Apple.

They are just like any other company.

Say YOU opened up a company, and then consumers found out ways to get your product, cheaper, or do something with it, that would piss you off. Would you like that? I didn't think so. Apple has a deal with AT&T, if they wanted to, they would have sold the phone is unlocked, if this unlocking thing keeps happening, AT&T can easily just drop out of this iPhone thing because they won't be making money.

I think Apple has a right to brick anyone's phone, it sucks I know, but they are just trying to protect their product.

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Who cares? Not me! If somebody had a legitimate iphone with no modding and it bricked, then it would be different. This is just to appease all the cry babies who decided to take it upon themselves to modify their phone in a way seen illegitimate by Apple.

@joonbugg

Three posts equals a triple post....edit button for the win....

wasent there a guy suing apple for locking there phones. well looks like he lost his case

To the group that hacked the update "YEAH THOSE ROTTEN FOLKS AT APPLE MAKING YOU PAY FOR A NEW PHONE!!!, COME HERE FOR 99$ AND WE WILL FIX IT" man ah'll tell you what, that is F**KING low. 1.Hack for profit? or 2.reward with a big F**KS fly out to the man. Oh yeah it was financial ah forgot myself for a mo there. Your not my number 1, fascists.

Originally posted by pcrazy99:

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I don't think Apple has any right to brick a phone once it is sold. It's like if I bought a brand new car and I wanted to upgrade the engine to get as much hp as I could. Should the car company have the right to disable my vehicle because I did something that they did not approve?

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If I had an iPhone which I don't and it got bricked I would want to do what I could to fix it.

So my thought would be should I drop $100 on getting this software, the answer to my self would be Yes if the would make future updates Free.

im sure there is a torrent out there that has this 99 dollar downgrader software for the iphone.

Originally posted by DoomLight:

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im sure there is a torrent out there that has this 99 dollar downgrader software for the iphone.

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Originally posted by ydkjman:

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So my thought would be should I drop $100 on getting this software, the answer to my self would be Yes if the would make future updates Free.

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Originally posted by slmh1296:

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I love it. That did not take long,what about a week. Poor poor Apple. I wonder how much they paid their tech team for a solution, when are they going to learn. All thought I beat it was to make AT&T happy.
I still can not believe they bricked people's phones that is F*#%ked up serves them right I would be pissed if a company did something like that to me and the deal with the prices I know when new tech comes out it cost more but a month later that is a bit ridiculous. WHO THE HELL DO THING THINK THEY ARE!!!!!!!.

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Originally posted by svtstang:

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Who cares? Not me! If somebody had a legitimate iphone with no modding and it bricked, then it would be different. This is just to appease all the cry babies who decided to take it upon themselves to modify their phone in a way seen illegitimate by Apple.

@joonbugg

Three posts equals a triple post....edit button for the win....

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morguex are you an apple plant or what.. ?

Does it matter what you think about modding the iphone, it?s not as if you can laugh at all the people who previously had a bricked phone anymore.

The BBC just reported a test case is going through against apple, the suit is made under Californian anti competition laws.

Its going to clarify the lines on the AT&T contract and determine if its legal to avoid anti-competitive laws by having something in the service contract.

Which ever side of the line it?s going to fall... its going to make things interesting which ever way it goes.

If the judge rules they didn?t, it sort of gives a green light to apple and all other companies..... This for a user?s point of view is a bad thing.

The other way the plaintiff wins apples and at&t are going to have to allow the unlocking of the phones, like I said the feature has to be implemented shortly anyway.... possibly when the phones comes into other countries where the law is different to the USA, this of course is better for the consumer and will send the industry a clear message, which in light of recent law changes to allow the unlocking provision of phones would echo the previous decision.

Even if the case does fail and rules with apple and at&t it doesn?t mean they are going to be able to do the same in other countries.

And to all the lets laugh at the people who broke their phone despite being told doing so may break it, why don?t you just chill out as your reason to heckle is gone as the phones are not broken anymore.

The bottom line was these people modified their phones and broken them and shouldn?t cry about it is so far from the point, people mod phones all the time.

To try and clarify things,

Firstly the real thing on discussion is that apples/at&t?s contract has something in it that contradicts anti completion laws, or maybe it doesn?t. But fact remains it?s the first time this has been included in this way.

Secondly as I had said in a previous post, there is no other full device firmware update as far as im aware that will kill your device by loading the original firmware update. In fact in most cases this is what you do de-brick a broken modified firmware. This again is the first time a manufactures firmware flash has completely locked down all functions of a modified device after an update. Additionally to this it?s pretty clear from the reports of IMEI numbers being change so apple call centres would know it was a modded phone, indicate that apples update was actually detecting the mod as well.

Microsoft xbox live anti mod update recently did something similar by detecting a mod, however even this left the boxes fully working and simply locked out the xbox live account.

Windows update detected cracks / patches / etc and locked down windows update, which was all it did it to the overall operation of the machine afterwards.

at&t have also been reported in the last weeks to have included into their broadband customers contracts that online slander/discussion of their business online by users of their service will result in the termination of the users contract.

So again apple and at&t have gone one step further into the darkness than anyone else (corporation) has feared to tread before.

Call it a bold move call it a move of idiotic nature which illustrates once a company has thrown the shackles of small trade and hit the big time they have a tendency to forget about the customer and focus on making the most money, call it what you want.

As an after note to all the laugh at the broken iphone users out there who im sure will post endless amounts tosh back at me. First stop and think, have I not just illustrated that apple and at&t had indeed taken a risk in the recent months... ok its a different risk but its still something they are told they cant do but did it anyway.

So at the same time you?re really laughing at apple and at&t... ok they are on different sides of the fence but both arrived at the same point by the same means, be it by a slightly different road.

Now it all lies with the judge in California, who is the only one to say if what has happened is right or wrong. I hope he/she realises and considers the impact of their verdict as it will have strong implications which ever side of the fence it lands.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6978110.stm
<-- BBC?s Report

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11406.cfm
<-- Suit against apple

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11336.cfm
<-- now broken?

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11274.cfm
<-- and where it all started.

Hey plasma247, I started to read your post but got bored and sleepy, I wasn't heckling people with bricked phones.
The simple point I was trying to make was, if you choose to hack your phone with 3rd party software, and then a update from the company who made the device screws it up, don't whine about it.
anyway i'm not going to respond to you anymore, I've got other things to do.
Peace all

Originally posted by joe777:

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To the group that hacked the update "YEAH THOSE ROTTEN FOLKS AT APPLE MAKING YOU PAY FOR A NEW PHONE!!!, COME HERE FOR 99$ AND WE WILL FIX IT" man ah'll tell you what, that is F**KING low. 1.Hack for profit? or 2.reward with a big F**KS fly out to the man. Oh yeah it was financial ah forgot myself for a mo there. Your not my number 1, fascists.

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obviously he doesnt know what fascism is

obviously he doesnt know what fascism is

Well at least thats something better than nothing and i feel sooner or later this kinda thing will be accessible through the normal other channels. :)

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Originally posted by slmh1296:

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WHO THE HELL DO THING THINK THEY ARE!!!!!!!.

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They are a company, called Apple.

They are just like any other company.

Say YOU opened up a company, and then consumers found out ways to get your product, cheaper, or do something with it, that would piss you off. Would you like that? I didn't think so. Apple has a deal with AT&T, if they wanted to, they would have sold the phone is unlocked, if this unlocking thing keeps happening, AT&T can easily just drop out of this iPhone thing because they won't be making money.

I think Apple has a right to brick anyone's phone, it sucks I know, but they are just trying to protect their product.

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Originally posted by slmh1296:

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WHO THE HELL DO THING THINK THEY ARE!!!!!!!.

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They are a company, called Apple.

They are just like any other company.

Say YOU opened up a company, and then consumers found out ways to get your product, cheaper, or do something with it, that would piss you off. Would you like that? I didn't think so. Apple has a deal with AT&T, if they wanted to, they would have sold the phone is unlocked, if this unlocking thing keeps happening, AT&T can easily just drop out of this iPhone thing because they won't be making money.

I think Apple has a right to brick anyone's phone, it sucks I know, but they are just trying to protect their product.

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What would be interesting is to lay your hands on the agreement between Apple & AT&T. That would be a revelation of anti-consumer activity!

BTW why should apple care what end users do with their phones? They have got their money for the device.

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Well at least this is at a reasonable rate. Also this just goes to show you that upgrading is not always the best choice. Note Vista :P

@jetyi83 you little s***!!!!!!!!!!!!!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Can you read??????????? No????????? your only 14 years old. Please ask your parents before you post anything else!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for all your participation.

P.S I am 15, and a half!!!!!! you liar, I gonna tell your parents!!!

joe777 lets watch the lanquage and not flame other users.

To this day, I still cannot get over the amount of money they want, for a device that is locked into one provider. For that amount of money, they device should be unlocked, and you should be able to do what ever you want with it (as long as it doesn't interfere with the carrier's network).