Over at Google Code, the iphone-elite team has released their revirginizing tool, which is designed to rebuild your iPhone's seczone lock table. After using this tool, the team suggests, your 1.0.2 unlocked iPhone will return to its pre-unlocked state and be safe to upgrade to 1.1.1.
As with all restore/revirginizing methods, I recommend caution. You may want to wait a few days, listen to reports, and see if iPhones truly get restored to a "never been kissed" or even "never held hands" state of pure Apple-in-the-Garden innocence.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
10-23-2007 @ 11:16AM
Jeff said...
It works...just upgraded to 1.1.1 ;-)
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10-23-2007 @ 11:21AM
Vinod said...
They ARE truly elite :)
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10-23-2007 @ 11:26AM
Pun B said...
LOL the pic. So that's Revirginizer as in "putting the 'Apple' back on its tree.
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10-23-2007 @ 11:35AM
nevrozel said...
Please report here if you actually succedeed. Thanks a lot.
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10-23-2007 @ 12:03PM
druchtie said...
I have a iphone v1.0.2 with anysim and install.app on it. Will revirginizing tool effect install.app? (I'm a noob) What my question is: will the revirginizing completly recover my iphone?
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10-23-2007 @ 12:05PM
Dennis said...
So does this apply to the iUnlock method or just the AnySIM method?
Does anyone know?
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10-23-2007 @ 12:07PM
moti said...
I unlocked my iPhone weeks ago with the iunlock method. never used anySim. Will this effect this procedure?
Greetz from Germany,
moti
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10-23-2007 @ 12:16PM
Charles Romestant said...
Iunlock and Anysim are essentially the same, so they corrupt seczone in the same way, so yes use this to restore your phone to a never beentouched but yearning to be touched state
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10-23-2007 @ 12:18PM
sekdawg said...
Does anyone know if this will work to restore simfree phones to a virgin state?
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10-23-2007 @ 12:20PM
Charles Romestant said...
nope no simfree restore. IPSF overwrites the seczone token and it cannot be recovered ( unless you have a backup of your nordump previous to running ipsf)
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10-23-2007 @ 12:21PM
Charles Romestant said...
nope no simfree restore. IPSF overwrites the seczone token and it
cannot be recovered ( unless you have a backup of your nordump
previous to running ipsf)
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10-23-2007 @ 12:30PM
Zal said...
Is this safe to use with Erica's unlock.app ?
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10-23-2007 @ 12:31PM
Zibri said...
Lol.. that image was so nice i put it on our site :)
http://www.iphone-elite.org
Thanks everyone for support.
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10-23-2007 @ 12:54PM
NW said...
@Charles Romestant - It was my impression that the IPSF solution does not corrupt the baseband/seczone so you wouldn't need this fix if you used their unlocker.
Also, if it did, having a copy of your original NOR dump wouldn't help you because simply reflashing with it won't help. If that were the case the same could have been said about people who used iUnlock/AnySIM and that isn't.
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10-23-2007 @ 1:07PM
Carl Trimble said...
Why do I get...
-sh-3.2# norz seczone.backup 0x3FA000 0x2000
geohot's nor dumper
all your norz are belong to us
super fast...just the way i like it
Dumping: A03FA000-A03FC000
16(Resource busy)
-sh-3.2#
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10-23-2007 @ 1:11PM
Jason said...
Wait, wait - so if I used IPSF, am I worse-off down the road as far as possibly being bricked with future updates?
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10-23-2007 @ 1:12PM
Dex said...
Ok, So I kinda of a N00b, so I am trying to understand this the best I can. If I unlocked my iPhone using the following method, http://www.theiphoneunlock.com/free-unlock-manual-english/#comment-60 , I can use this "revirginizer", upgrade to 1.1.1, and unlock using anySim? Do all 3rd party hacks that work on v1.0.2 work on v1.1.1? Thanks for your help.
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10-23-2007 @ 1:15PM
D. Law said...
Is there a one-click solution for virginizing a phone? This seems like a lot of hackery and voodoo.
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10-23-2007 @ 1:17PM
Fraggle said...
Windows users don't go grabbing 1.1.1 update just yet. The only way to jailbreak 1.1.1 in windows is to create the symlink in 1.0.2 prior to upgrading. So read the jailbreal 1.1.1 if you want to go that way. Mac go users ignore.
*16:NW IPSF writes over sectors of the bootloader so the only problem is if that gets updated in the future.
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10-23-2007 @ 1:20PM
Doog said...
Will test shortly and post my results...
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