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Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks, How-tos, iPhone

A better downgrade/revirginizing guide

Hack That Phone has put up an especially well-done 1.1.3 downgrade guide that walks you through everything from the actual downgrade to restoring your baseband and revirginizing your iPhone. If you're suffering from 1.1.3-upgrade-regret, a surplus of pictures and easy-to-follow instructions will help you work through your downgrade.

Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks, How-tos, iPhone

Downgrading your 1.1.3 iPhone or iPod touch

If for whatever reason you've upgraded your unit to firmware version 1.1.3 and wish to return to an earlier installation, you can. You won't be able to use your iPhone, however, as a phone but only as a glorified iPod touch. Here, by popular request, is a quick how-to guide.

If you are getting Segmentation Fault errors, please read this

Continue readingDowngrading your 1.1.3 iPhone or iPod touch

Filed under: Hacks, Software Update, iPhone

Breaking: Reports of 1.1.1-to-1.0.2 iPhone downgrades trickling in

Remember that bit where I said upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 was a one-way trip? Looks like I spoke prematurely. Tonight, reports are trickling in about successful 1.1.1-to-1.0.2 iPhone firmware downgrades using this method described at the "iPhone Devteam" wiki, which relies on a combination of firmware-fu and the INDependence software. TUAW reader skwasha tipped us off to an ongoing conversation at the hackint0sh forums that got the ball rolling on this.

I have not yet been able to confirm this downgrade so let us know in the comments if the method worked for you or not.

Update: After downgrading your iPhone will most likely not work as a phone. But you'll be able to use it with third party apps and WiFi. Developing.

Update 2: More detailed instructions here at Nate True's blog.

Update 3: This method is now called "pulling a kmac" after the original poster who figured this out.

Update 4: If you're getting the "Please Connect to iTunes" thing, you'll need to set some environmental variables. You can do this with either iBrickr/iphoneinterface or with iPHUC. Instructions for both at Nate's blog.

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