Originally Posted by nanni85

anyone with official AT&T activated iPhone in this forum can explain the new improvement of this new firmware?

I've got one I'll let you know later it is my wife's and is on a regular AT&T contract although I did a dvdjon back in July then I restored it to factory before activating through ITUNES.

Originally Posted by chrisfromohio

it means he took his unlocked phone, put the ATT sim in, updated it, update went ok, but the update also returns the phone to an activated state. to bypass the activated state, people commonly use independance, or similar apps, to jailbreak the phone and then upload a new lockdownd file, or some other method. looks like the jailbreak portion is broken though.

I tried to jailbreak the iPod Touch before and it returns to similar results. Does it mean something to this new firmware?

From gizmodo.com

Update 4:13PM: Brian Lam tried to activate his iPhone with firmware 1.1.1 (this iPhone was unlocked before the update with anySIM.) This time, he tried iTunes activation and his legit AT&T card. The result: it doesn't work. From Brian:

I took a 4GB iphone, never previously activated on AT&T. I activated it using Independence, and then loaded anysim on it, and reactivated using independence and Tmobile. Then, I applied firmware 1.1.1 to it, and it deactivated my phone. Without trying to activate in independence or iTunes, it didn't work with my legit AT&T SIM, or the TMO sim. Using the AT&T SIM and and trying to activate it in iTunes did nothing: iTunes reported that the AT&T SIM was actually not a valid SIM.

The lesson: After firmware updating a iPhone that was previously unlocked to V1.1.1, NO sims are legit

Originally Posted by Squuiid

From gizmodo.com

Update 4:13PM: Brian Lam tried to activate his iPhone with firmware 1.1.1 (this iPhone was unlocked before the update with anySIM.) This time, he tried iTunes activation and his legit AT&T card. The result: it doesn't work. From Brian:

I took a 4GB iphone, never previously activated on AT&T. I activated it using Independence, and then loaded anysim on it, and reactivated using independence and Tmobile. Then, I applied firmware 1.1.1 to it, and it deactivated my phone. Without trying to activate in independence or iTunes, it didn't work with my legit AT&T SIM, or the TMO sim. Using the AT&T SIM and and trying to activate it in iTunes did nothing: iTunes reported that the AT&T SIM was actually not a valid SIM.

The lesson: After firmware updating a iPhone that was previously unlocked to V1.1.1, NO sims are legit

oh. time to get some sleep.... no sims are legit at last

WARNING WARNING:
JUSTED UPDATED ON GIZMODO

Update 4:13PM: Brian Lam tried to activate his iPhone with firmware 1.1.1 (this iPhone was unlocked before the update with anySIM.) This time, he tried iTunes activation and his legit AT&T card. The result: it doesn't work. From Brian:

I took a 4GB iphone, never previously activated on AT&T. I activated it using Independence, and then loaded anysim on it, and reactivated using independence and Tmobile. Then, I applied firmware 1.1.1 to it, and it deactivated my phone. Without trying to activate in independence or iTunes, it didn't work with my legit AT&T SIM, or the TMO sim. Using the AT&T SIM and and trying to activate it in iTunes did nothing: iTunes reported that the AT&T SIM was actually not a valid SIM.
The lesson: After firmware updating a iPhone that was previously unlocked to V1.1.1, NO sims are legit

Originally Posted by timdorr

No, that would be the dumbest move ever. Apple isn't going to waste developement money trying to break people's phones. No one would be happy with that.

Originally Posted by PSLiNK

Apple planted a deadly virus in your phone in the form of an electronic plant. It survives on battery charges, like watering a plant. Ok i'm sorry. I was just kidding. I don't think apple will plant a virus on its own iphone. Also, if a virus is planted, I dont suppose delaying the time it actually executes helps anything at all. If a virus was planted, apple have nothing to lose to just execute it right away, and send out a clear message that hacking their firmware will not be taken lightly. Just my thought. Of course, your questions is kinda interesting, a possiblity, but common sense says otherwise.

Ahem. From Gizmodo:

Update 4:13PM: Brian Lam tried to activate his iPhone with firmware 1.1.1 (this iPhone was unlocked before the update with anySIM.) This time, he tried iTunes activation and his legit AT&T card. The result: it doesn't work. From Brian:
I took a 4GB iphone, never previously activated on AT&T. I activated it using Independence, and then loaded anysim on it, and reactivated using independence and Tmobile. Then, I applied firmware 1.1.1 to it, and it deactivated my phone. Without trying to activate in independence or iTunes, it didn't work with my legit AT&T SIM, or the TMO sim. Using the AT&T SIM and and trying to activate it in iTunes did nothing: iTunes reported that the AT&T SIM was actually not a valid SIM.
The lesson: After firmware updating a iPhone that was previously unlocked to V1.1.1, NO sims are legit


THUS even with a legit activated AT&T SIM it renders your already unlocked phone with 1.1.1 update INOPERABLE. I'd call that a sort of virus
wouldn't you?

Question is, can you reverse a phone put into this state?

Originally Posted by Squuiid

From gizmodo.com

Update 4:13PM: Brian Lam tried to activate his iPhone with firmware 1.1.1 (this iPhone was unlocked before the update with anySIM.) This time, he tried iTunes activation and his legit AT&T card. The result: it doesn't work. From Brian:

I took a 4GB iphone, never previously activated on AT&T. I activated it using Independence, and then loaded anysim on it, and reactivated using independence and Tmobile. Then, I applied firmware 1.1.1 to it, and it deactivated my phone. Without trying to activate in independence or iTunes, it didn't work with my legit AT&T SIM, or the TMO sim. Using the AT&T SIM and and trying to activate it in iTunes did nothing: iTunes reported that the AT&T SIM was actually not a valid SIM.

The lesson: After firmware updating a iPhone that was previously unlocked to V1.1.1, NO sims are legit

In other words, despite their initial blathering about how the phone isn't bricked, it is more-or-less as useful as a brick after the 1.1.1 update. If you can't activate it with an actual AT&T SIM using iTunes, it's basically a brick.

Proof positive that Steve Jobs smokes the big ole tubesteak. Apple isn't getting another dollar from me.

Originally Posted by GPUnique

Ahem. From Gizmodo:

Update 4:13PM: Brian Lam tried to activate his iPhone with firmware 1.1.1 (this iPhone was unlocked before the update with anySIM.) This time, he tried iTunes activation and his legit AT&T card. The result: it doesn't work. From Brian:
I took a 4GB iphone, never previously activated on AT&T. I activated it using Independence, and then loaded anysim on it, and reactivated using independence and Tmobile. Then, I applied firmware 1.1.1 to it, and it deactivated my phone. Without trying to activate in independence or iTunes, it didn't work with my legit AT&T SIM, or the TMO sim. Using the AT&T SIM and and trying to activate it in iTunes did nothing: iTunes reported that the AT&T SIM was actually not a valid SIM.
The lesson: After firmware updating a iPhone that was previously unlocked to V1.1.1, NO sims are legit


THUS even with a legit activated AT&T SIM it renders your already unlocked phone with 1.1.1 update INOPERABLE. I'd call that a sort of virus
wouldn't you?

Question is, can you reverse a phone put into this state?

still don't see how it's a virus. it's completely optional to update. the update happens to break unlocked/modified iphones. not a virus.

I'd really encourage someone to try the dvd jon method of activation with this upgrade from an unlocked phone. Since that is a patched version of iTunes, I expect there could be a different result.

Originally Posted by chrisfromohio

still don't see how it's a virus. it's completely optional to update. the update happens to break unlocked/modified iphones. not a virus.

It doesn't BREAK them it CRIPPLES them. That's a virus bro. Yes you don't have to update them, but if you do update them is disables the phone even when using a working AT&T SIM. Therefore the phone does not work. A new piece of firmware should wipe the unlock off and let you still use the phone with AT&T if you choose. This is a WAR targeted at stopping unlockers. The war is using a virus to punish us. Other phones without the unlock are fine. Thus they programmed this to cripple the phones so we cant even use them on AT&T.

Upon looking up a definition I found "most computer viruses have a destructive payload that is activated under certain conditions." Our "certain condition" which makes us different from others is the unlock. This is a virus.