3 posts and columns on bricking

The People Crazy Enough to Think They Can Change the World Are the Ones Who Do. (Until We Change It Back With iPhone 1.1.2.)

in News on October 10, 2007 at 8:22 am PT

The sputtering outrage over the firmware update that disabled third-party iPhone applications and bricked iPhones uncoupled from AT&T’s network became a cry of victory yesterday when the iPhone dev community said it had found a way to again implement third-party applications on the device. According to Engadget, the iPhone Dev Team, an unofficial group of [...]

iBricked

in News on September 28, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

iBrokeIt (Updated)

in News on September 28, 2007 at 5:01 am PT

Turns out “irreparable damage” was a fairly apt description for what Apple’s latest iPhone firmware update does to modified or unlocked iPhones. Issued yesterday afternoon, iPhone 1.1.1 update does indeed play havoc with modified iPhones, particularly those that have been hacked to work on non-AT&T networks. It wipes out all unsupported third-party applications and disables [...]