iPhone Unlocking Dangerous?
Apple claims that unlocking your iPhone will potentially break it when a new update arrives. What do you think? Is Apple just trying to scare us, or are they trying to help us with a warning?
As a software guy, it seems somewhat plausible. Those unlocking techniques require firmware changes, and the new Apple update could conflict with that. My iPhone remains locked and unhacked, so I get the Apple experience, but I’m curious to see what happens. Heck, I’m still waiting for someone to answer this question: If you unlock your iPhone, and switch to, say. T-Mobile, how does does non-wifi browsing work? What is the Edge chip communicating with?
September 25th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
hacking into the I phone will not hurt the phone. I know from multiple success full attempts. My roommate got one when they first came out. We hacked into it, had some ringtones for a while and then did an update and whiped out all the hard work we had done. The 2 weeks ago I get mine do nothing to it and it crashes and wipes my flipping sim card out. I am still pissed as are the people that have not heard from me in weeks.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:18 pm
the new upgrade 1.1.1 will erase most unlocks (I think all unlocks. It has not damaged any of the phones I have unlocked! I have reinstalled the older firmware 1.0.2 and had no problem re-unlocking the phone. I use t-mobile and all you need to do is find the edge info on another t-mobile phone, program it into your Iphone and it works. The network does not care what the phone is.
October 5th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Apple will get you for hacking iphones. They have an agreement with at&t to make all iPhones exclusively designed for at&t service for a certain period of time. So to all the impatient people who have hacked iPhones for the mediocre t-mobile service, read your end-user agreements for iPhone, and hope your device doesn’t self-destruct!
October 6th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I got the new iPhone update, and I can’t use itoner anymore…