After reading the whole forum several times.. and reading many virginizer guides... im quite confused about what to do...

a friend of mine updated his unlocked 1.02 iphone to 1.1.1 bricking it...

he tried virginizing with the virginator from iphone elite but now he cant use his iphone...

i have a 4gb iphone and i want to update to 1.1.1... so my question is.. wich is the safer and easier guide out there? ipsf with the fake geohot server? virginator? doing everything manually?

thanks in advance

I'm with you, but I'm not sure. I used iUnlock (command line original version) on my new 1.02 phone when it was released. I used the guide and automated script to viriginize and it seemed fine and ran through as indicated until the very end where it just said "Done" and didn't run the bb ping, and then when I tried manually I can't get the bbupdater -v command to run (get "error in use?") and cannot putty into the phone either (just keep getting Network Connection Refused errors).
BUT, it's still 1.02, i can use iBrickr, restore and sync with iTunes, ran anysim 1.1 and unlocked again and have all phone functions still (wi-fi, BT, EDGE, SMS, youtube, etc.). I've tried the script a bunch of times and have the same errors, each time I just redo a 1.02 restore and anysim 1.1 and it's back to where it was.
Haven't tried putting installer back on yet (miss my apps). And I get error (1) or error (6) if I try to update to 1.1.1 in iTunes...strange.

EDIT
So after some more researching around, it appears the way to get rid of this error:
"bbupdater -v Resetting target... Error. Failed to initialize comm layer: (is it open by another app?) Done #"
is to run the following command:
"launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist" and reboot, then "bbupdater -v". Appears the script doesn't unload before this step, so it gets stuck. At work right now, will try it when I'm home tonight and post results.

yes... im kind of worried that i will brick my iphone in the process... cause 1.1.1 is not such a big upgrade also... anyway...

more tips?

Try this. It worked perfectly for me.

ive found this guide that seems to be a really good one... although is not easy...

http://www.modmyiphone.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=10461

and this seems even better.. a new revirginator version... that is mostly automated...

http://rdgaccess.com/iphone-elite/viewtopic.php?t=98

That's the automated script I used. I don't have a brick, since I'm still with a fully working phone, it just looks like (after researching) that the script is missing the unload command at the end (which would also explain why I can't putty into the phone or update via iTunes to 1.1.1 I believe). I'll know for sure tonight and post here or PM you tetsu, but others have indicated running the unload command and rebooting and it works fine.