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iPhone Elite team announces "revirginizer" release
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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Jeff said 11:16AM on 10-23-2007
It works...just upgraded to 1.1.1 ;-)
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Vinod said 11:21AM on 10-23-2007
They ARE truly elite :)
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Pun B said 11:26AM on 10-23-2007
LOL the pic. So that's Revirginizer as in "putting the 'Apple' back on its tree.
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nevrozel said 11:35AM on 10-23-2007
Please report here if you actually succedeed. Thanks a lot.
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druchtie said 12:03PM on 10-23-2007
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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Dennis said 12:05PM on 10-23-2007
So does this apply to the iUnlock method or just the AnySIM method?
Does anyone know?
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moti said 12:07PM on 10-23-2007
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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Charles Romestant said 12:16PM on 10-23-2007
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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sekdawg said 12:18PM on 10-23-2007
Does anyone know if this will work to restore simfree phones to a virgin state?
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Charles Romestant said 12:20PM on 10-23-2007
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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Charles Romestant said 12:21PM on 10-23-2007
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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Zal said 12:30PM on 10-23-2007
Is this safe to use with Erica's unlock.app ?
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Zibri said 12:31PM on 10-23-2007
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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NW said 12:54PM on 10-23-2007
@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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Carl Trimble said 1:07PM on 10-23-2007
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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Jason said 1:11PM on 10-23-2007
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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Dex said 1:12PM on 10-23-2007
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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D. Law said 1:15PM on 10-23-2007
Is there a one-click solution for virginizing a phone? This seems like a lot of hackery and voodoo.
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Fraggle said 1:17PM on 10-23-2007
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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Doog said 1:20PM on 10-23-2007
Will test shortly and post my results...
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