Downgrading your 2.0 iPhone from the Pink Screen of Death

Fantastic help provided by hacker AlJaMa I must say on his how-to method for downgrading a 2.0 iPhone back to 1.1.4! I'll definitely use the specified error and recovery codes and try to benefit from his words. You too also guys go ahead!
http://iphone-pink.com/

Wow, there is a ton of misinformation in this comments thread:

a) The "illicit" 2.0 firmware is the same (identical md5sums) as the "real" 2.0 firmware I have access to as part of the dev program.
b) There are tools, public tools, that let you install it without having to worry about the PSOD
c) If you have the illicit firmware installed with those tools, your phone will be working fine, whereas legit developers are the ones who's phones aren't working now.
d) The 2.0 firmware is laughably buggy and extremely slow. It isn't worth hacks to get it on your phone unless you need it to develop apps.

You could point out that this only occurs if you are doing unlocking related activities. For legitimate iPhone SDK development, you can downgrade/upgrade from 2.0 -> 1.1.4 -> 2.0 without any problems using the official XCode method.

Just to clarify, this pink screen is the screen the iPhone/iPod touch has before activation. When plugged in, the serial phones home through iTunes to see if it is registered in the beta program. If not, then the pink screen stays. I found an easier way to get it restored though, just disconnect from the internet and plug the device in. Then it just brings up the normal iPhone/iPod page in iTunes and option click restore and select the 1.1.4 firmware in the Library/iTunes/iPod software folder.

For what it's worth, you're still left high and dry if you need to unlock your iPhone to use it as a phone (if you're living in someplace without AT&T like, say, Vermont). Downgrading from 2.0 to 1.1.4 doesn't downgrade the baseband, and none of the currently available unlocking tools work with the updated baseband.

Or, call me crazy...but you could just stop hacking your iPhones!

how can i get hold of / install 1.2 on my ipod touch??

http://iPh2one.com

Thats kind of pointless to do it this way. I had this happen to me last night and all you have to do is downgrade baseband to 3.9FB, then upgrade it back to 4.6. Once you do just do a restore with the 1.1.4 firmware and you are good to go.