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1.1.3 iPhone Update Liveblog
It's time to kiss my beautiful jailbreaked iPhone goodbye and to surrender to the inevitability of the 1.1.3 update. Goodbye delightful shell access. Goodbye beautiful 3rd party applications. I'm upgrading for the sake of my readers--and hopefully downgrading soon after! Read on for the liveblog...
Gallery: 1.1.3 Liveblog
2:15 - Before getting started, I'm doing backing up parts of my iPhone disk. I've also put a few symbolic links in place--more out of hope than conviction that possibly I can use them to access my disk. I'm aware that the 1.1.3 upgrade will change my baseband software and that downgrading after 1.1.3 will probably lock my baseband and make it impossible to use my iPhone as an actual phone, so be aware of this if you chose to upgrade.
2:30 - I'm downloading the upgrade after having agreed to whatever terms and conditions Apple threw up there in iTunes. It looks like the download is going to take about 20 minutes total. Time to go get some Diet Coke, the liquid fuel of Champions. Direct download is here for the iPhone 1.1.3 restore file.
2:40 - iTunes says 10 minutes remaining...
2:50 - 37 seconds remaining. Schramm already has his icons wiggling. I am jealous.
2:55 - Fully downloaded, ready to install. I begin the update, with a heavy heart and a leaden stomach. "Preparing iPhone for Software Update"..."Updating iPhone Software".....It's at the part where I see the white Apple logo and the progress indicator spinning in a circle...Verifying updated iPhone software...Updating iPhone firmware...
3:00 - My iPhone has been updated and is restarting. I'm now being prompted for my AT&T/Cingular Account info. Hmmmm.... I have to enter my current mobile number, my zip code, and the last 4 digits of my social security number. Sheesh. Can you say BIG BROTHER?
3:01 - "Please wait while AT&T validates your account. This may take up to 1 minute." As far as iTunes is concerned, I'm now in but Bologna is waiting for activation from AT&T.
3:03 - New Welcome message: "Edit Home Screen". It tells me that I can touch & hold any icon until it wiggles (hi Mike!) and drag it to wherever I want. Press "Home" when done. Okay. RIP a major part of XLaunch's functionality.
3:05 - Hmm. Isn't this interesting. I connect via iPhuc and I can see my entire disk. No, maybe not. Darn!
3:10 - I go to Safari. I has an interesting new layout, with the bookmark add feature at the bottom of the page. It complains because having upgraded it no longer is patched to open local files, which was the last page I displayed.
3:15 - I'm heading back to iTunes, doing an option-Update and selecting the 1.1.2 firmware. Let's see how a downgrade goes...."The iPhone could not be updated. An unknown error occurred." The iPhone now goes into recovery mode. I have connected it to iPhuc and issued a cmd fsboot. And it reboots just fine out of recovery mode. Still running 1.1.3. I'm guessing I'll need to do a restore rather than a recovery--and jailbreakable 1.1.1 is probably my best bet.
3:20 - Custom ringtones were not affected--neither the ones from iTunes or the ones from SendSong. The modem firmware is 04.03.13_G.
3:25 - Restore. I'm attempting to do a restore (not update) back to 1.1.1. Lets see how that goes. Nope, another error. Not happening. Tried again, another failure. Back to iPhuc and cmdfsboot.
3:30 Thanks to iPhuc, I'm back in business. But still running 1.1.3.
3:35 On Nate True's advice, I'm trying the WTF method. I've manually used iPhuc to enter recovery mode, then did a filecopytophone of the 1.1.1 WTF dfu file from my 1.1.1 restore file. I then issued cmd go, connected to iTunes and tried the restore from the 1.1.1 file.
As you probably know, the ipsw files you download from Apple are actually zip archives. Inside the archive in the DFU folder is a file whose name starts with WTF. It's this file that I used with the filecopytophone command.
3:38 Verifying Software...And I get the (expected) 1015 error. Now, I'm connecting to iPhuc and just issued a cmd fsboot. Maybe it will work? Nope, not this time. Still stuck in recovery mode. Trying again... Back to Verifying...If I get 1015 again, I'm going to try Independence. Connecting to Independence now...And it works!
3:50 Connecting to iTunes...iTunes says I don't have a proper SIM (which I do, perfectly legal AT&T SIM). Back to INdependence.
3:55 I'm busy trying to jailbreak and get into 1.1.1. Unfortunately, jailbreakme.com isn't quite working...Another try and I'm IN. Settings > General > About and I'm clearly running 1.1.1 and Installer.app is on Springboard!
Reader Jose writes: "Looks like you can get the lyrics to come up (assuming your song already has them) by tapping on the "Cover" while holding the iPhone vertically. There is no lyric display I can find in the horizontal "Cover Flow" mode or in the "Song List" mode."
4:05 I'm reinstalling both the BSD Subsystem and SSH under 1.1.1 for the moment.
4:10 I've OktoPrepped and added another symlink and am reupgrading back to 1.1.3. Be aware that after you upgrade/downgrade that you will get INTERMINABLE "Wrong SIM messages". Damn you Apple.
4:15 And I'm back to 1.1.3. That's a wrap for now guys. More as I explore... (No, the Oktoprep and symbolic link were both complete dead ends. There is no working jailbreak for 1.1.3 at this time.)
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Reader Comments (Page 8 of 9)
philming said 6:09PM on 1-16-2008
Hi !
Check
http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23454
and
http://www.gsm.com.vn/forum/main/showthread.php?p=783314#post783314
:)
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ZFone said 6:39PM on 1-16-2008
I had a Jailbroken 1.1.2 and installed chooseyourcarrier.app and made up a carrier so instead of AT&T it says @#$%. last night I upgraded to 1.1.3 I lost all my apps...jailbroken stuff but my carrier still says @#$% instead of AT&T on the Firmware 1.1.3...how wierd does that mean all my contents are still in the springboard but i can't access it ???? some one please Advise Thank You
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rumpster said 9:40PM on 1-16-2008
That's exactly right. Unless you removed all your Installer-added apps before you upgraded to 1.1.3, they're all still on your iPod. 1.1.3 just prevents you from accessing them. It has been suggested that after 1.1.3 gets jailbroken, all those apps that are still on there will show up again. Hope that helps.
Yorch said 6:49PM on 1-16-2008
Hi! does someone know which firmware version will I get if I buy an iPhone at an Apple Stire in California next week-end?
I'm travelling from Acapulco, mexico ONLY to buy my iPhone and don't want to get it 1.1.3 OTB and wait an eternity to at least jailbreak it...
Thank you so much for any information! ;-)
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rumpster said 9:34PM on 1-16-2008
wow, this Erica Sadun is absolutely retarded, eh? What's wrong with this woman? How can someone like her retain a job they absolutely suck at?
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ryan said 9:34PM on 1-16-2008
Could you jailbreak it by simply installing OpenSSH, then adding Installer into the Applications folder. I may be misunderstanding a lot of everything but that makes sense to me. If so, wouldn't OpenSSH be easier then jailbreaking it completely first. (You know, reverse the order). Just a guess that's likely wrong but worth a toss out there. I don't need to be explained why it's wrong if it is, a simple it won't workll do.
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ryan said 9:35PM on 1-16-2008
i dont know but maybe there is a way to take the new apps (new versions of maps and safari) and get them down to 1.1.2? I'm guessing that odds are there encrypted to only work with 1.1.3 but im just throwing that out there... I trust Erica otherwise and I'm just sticking to 1.1.2 and 7.5 until some way comes to get a 1.1.3 hack (you may need 7.5 for apps, like i needed 7.42 for independence when i originally jailbroke mine)...
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Bobby V said 1:29AM on 1-17-2008
Ok so 1.1.3 didn't erase carrier image . So my phone still says
Bobby V instead AT&T. AND YOU CAN STILL ACCESS FIELD TEST USING *3001#12345#* , I was thinking this may help :)
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JH said 7:10AM on 1-17-2008
This is awesome!!!!! Great work. I was wondering if you could better explain a few steps. At 3:35 you explained how you did a 'filecopytophone' of the DFU file from 1.1.1. What commands did you use to do this? How did you get the file on the phone? I'm trying to mirror you steps. Please help!!!!!! JH :-)
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cajun said 12:05PM on 1-17-2008
Quick question... I have a phone still on 1.1.1 that is was bought with. I also have iTunes 7.5. If I run the oktoprep now, will I be able to upgrade to 112 or will it direct me to 113?
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Craig said 2:51PM on 1-17-2008
Just a note about new update 1.1.3 DON'T DO IT took forever and now my phone is a brick! Tech support advised to restore phone and that all would be wonderful again WRONG. Lost everything in, restore and the wonderful part of this whole damn thing is it didn't fix the problem! Now I am advised to go get a new sim card and start from scratch, This phone has been a miserable pain in the ass since I got it!! should have stayed with nextel.
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Big j said 11:21PM on 1-17-2008
has any one found a jailbreak for this new firm ware? I want some freaking apps.
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alvareo said 2:33AM on 1-18-2008
I can upgrade to firmware 1.1.3 for free but the only features listed are “Bug fixes“ and sth like “iTunes movie rentals compatibility“. What does this mean? I can have really everything but the apps, for free, or only the two 'features' listed above???
P.S. It's an iPod touch
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jorge said 11:24AM on 1-18-2008
"3:35 : I've manually used iPhuc to enter recovery mode, then did a filecopytophone of the 1.1.1 WTF dfu file from my 1.1.1 restore file. I then issued cmd go."
Erica please help ! I'm stuck at this point. I've tried it on a PPC, on an Intel, on 10.4.x, on 10.5.x, on macport's iphuc, google code's iphucs 742 universal, standalone, as sudo, as an administrator, no matter how I try, I always get either "segmentation fault" or "bus error". PLEASE HELP, filecopytophone WTF(111).dfu is not working !!!!
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jorge said 2:46PM on 1-18-2008
Ok.
This iphuc : http://rapidshare.com/files/84834417/dfuiphuc.html
or this one:
http://rapidshare.com/files/84835461/hackediphuc.html
When run on a clean 10.5/iTunes 7.4.2 fixed the "bus error" and/or "segmentation fault" errors I was getting no matter how I tried. Now my iPhone is back to 1.1.1 (from 1.1.3), although due to the "upgraded" baseband my SIM is no longer valid, and I can't make calls anymore (yet :-). --E believes that the reason behind all this is that iphuc uses the "MobileDevices private framework". Thanks !
jonesmgguinness said 12:16PM on 1-19-2008
I'm sure that someone has probably posted this already but there is a tutorial to downgrade the baseband after downgrading to 1.1.1. for the 3.9 bootloader. My phone is placing and receiving calls now but i did lose visual voicemail.
http://iphone.unlock.no/#how-to-downgrade-1.1.2-or-1.1.3
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Big j said 10:40AM on 1-20-2008
so what if we don't want to freaking downgrade? How bout something useful info like a jailbreak for 1.1.3?
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chris said 3:01PM on 1-21-2008
Help! ok so i had a jailbroken iphone with 1.1.2 running. Yesterday the installer app said it had an update available so i chose to update. The update did not work and i was no longer able to open installer, nor could i go to jailbreakme.com to reinstall it. So i thought i would just jailbreak it again but forgot that 1.1.3. was out on itunes already. Currently i have a regular iphone running 1.1.2 but does anyone know how to get it to update to 1.1.2 instead of 1.1.3 on itunes? is there a download somewhere. ive looked but no luck so far. any suggestions would be great. i miss the 3rd party apps!!!
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JUSTIN25 said 11:39PM on 1-23-2008
so am i understanding this right?, if i upgrade my unlocked iPhone (i mean a phone with third party apps, and using att) it would still be fully functional, but without third party apps? it will not render it unuseable? also if it is still functional will i lose any pictures, songs, contacts, ect...?thanks.
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sharron said 5:15PM on 1-24-2008
Hey! MSS the way you download it is that you
go to itunes and connect your iphone to your on it then
it will shw up as a screen where it shows an iphone and other stuff and in the middle there are buttons that
say RESTORE and UPGRADE there you click
UPGRADE and then follow the directions on your screen
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