i updated my 8gb 2G phone and it gives me an error that the sim needs to be replaced with one from a valid carrier (im on rogers with an older rogers sim)

now i get itunes error 9838... we will see when the traffic dies down more i guess. Patiently awaiting new Pwnage tool

Originally Posted by warrenpeace

Alright, I searched and found something that completely contradicts your answer:

"Originally Posted by Robcoffee View Post
I upgraded my 8gb iPhone to 2.0 last night, and then put my o2 sim in which is not an iPhone contract sim just there inexpensive simplicity contract, iTunes asked me to activate the iPhone which consisted of pressing continue where it asks for your Apple login, entering an e-mail address and then activate. The iPhone was then activated and runs 2.0 smoothly, all the phone features work perfect (including Edge) and I have been busy downloading half the appstore to it."

Don't know how he pulled that one off. Both of you, try searching for ICC-ID in this forum (or ICCID). That should give you some insight in to why this should normally not work at all.

In short, normally if the ICC-ID does not match, Itunes will just choke and say that this is an invalid SIM. There is actually a fairly good thread on this subject.

Originally Posted by Stretch

Don't know how he pulled that one off. Both of you, try searching for ICC-ID in this forum (or ICCID). That should give you some insight in to why this should normally not work at all.

In short, normally if the ICC-ID does not match, Itunes will just choke and say that this is an invalid SIM. There is actually a fairly good thread on this subject.

I agree. Indeed, until I see many more posts confirming RobCoffee's I remain incredulous as to what he/she reports. One can't take at face value all posts.

Too late, I'm installing and will just revert to 1.1.4 if it doesn't work.

Had to do it -- curiosity killed the cat.

Originally Posted by warrenpeace

Too late, I'm installing and will just revert to 1.1.4 if it doesn't work.

Had to do it -- curiosity killed the cat.

You can't just downgrade. You need to change iTunes versions etc... Idiot.

Curiosity also killed your iPhone.

Well I for one am interested in your result here warrenpeace!

Originally Posted by Scape-Server

You can't just downgrade. You need to change iTunes versions etc... Idiot.

Your insult was really called for.
It's outrageous that ppl tinker with their own devices.

That's not really the point, is it? The point imo is much more that they first ask for advice or for a reason why to (not) do something. People here try to help and even give a technical reason. To then just be ignored.

Insulting is not ok, but why ask if you want to try anyway. In such a case I would just try it first and then post my results. I for one hope that he succeeds (that would benefit us all), but I find it very unlikely that he will succeed.

Originally Posted by Stretch

Insulting is not ok, but why ask if you want to try anyway. In such a case I would just try it first and then post my results. I for one hope that he succeeds (that would benefit us all), but I find it very unlikely that he will succeed.

I wouldn't be quite so quick to assume this. In the UK, the iphone carrier is o2. They have said on their website that non iphone PAYG sims will work in a UK iphone with no need for unlocking. So maybe firmware 2.0 now allows ALL o2 sims to activate an iphone. It would be the path of least resistance for them to do this rather than allow just iphone sims and PAYG sims. Hence a 'simplicity' sim may actually work to activate an iphone!

@warrenpeace

Sorry for the insult. I didn't read your previous post . I thought you were on a non official carrier. I understand that you are testing something

My bad No hard feelings?

James.