The new iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 is out, and is only recommended to people that activated the iPhone with AT&T.
If you unlocked your iPhone with AnySIM or iUnlock don´t update and wait for a new jailbreak aplication coming soon.
If you update to this firmware, the iPhone doesn´t get bricked, but it will return your iPhone to the activation screen.
The iPhone Dev Team should get this thing working fast (remember the free unlock?).
The new Firmware upgrades/fixes:
- iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
- Louder speakerphone and receiver volume
- Home Button double-click shortcut to phone favorites of music controls
- Space bar double-tap shortcut to intelligently insert period and space
- Mail attachments are viewable in portrait and landscape
- Stocks and cities in Stocks and Waether can be re-ordered
- Apple Bluetooth Headset battery status in the Status Bar
- Support for TV Out
- Preference to turn off EDGE/GPRS when roaming internationally
- New Passcode lock time intervals
- Adjustable alert volume
Here is a summary of what the firmware update does in different scenarios:
The update will work ok in iPhones with no modification.
The update will work ok in iPhones with Installer.app (although it gets wiped out. The apps seem to remain in the iPhone, but they won’t appear in your screen.)
The update will work ok in unlocked iPhones, but it will return your iPhone to the activation screen. From there, no activation is possible. The iPhone doesn’t get bricked but, if you want to keep using it, don’t update your iPhone.
This has been confirmed with both anySIM and iPhone Sim Free.
“Third-party applications won’t work after the update” (confirmed by Dev Team.)
“Firmware 1.1.1. relocks iPhone properly” (confirmed by Dev Team.)
Unlocked iPhones updated to 1.1.1 will work with legit AT&T cards (confirmed by Natetrue)
iPhoneSimFree, the pay-method , reports that the their SIM unlocking solution doesn’t hang your iPhone at the activation stage. You can still activate with an AT&T SIM, but other SIMs won’t work after activation—you’ll have to wait for a new jailbreak for that.
Are you going to wait for a new jailbreak, or you need some of this updates like the Support for TV Out?
Update:According to Jesus Diaz on Gizmodo-
Here`s a video of the firmware update process with my unlocked iPhone (done with iPhone Sim Free.) You can see the result at the end: activation limbo (unless you have a legal AT&T card and a contract. Unlike me and all international users who have unlocked their iPhones.)
If you don`t want your iPhone on Activation limbo, just wait. You waited all this time for a free unlock right? Now you need to wait with your unlocked iPhone. Is that hard?
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I did unlock my phone using iUnlock. I did it using AppTap. When I bought it, I activated with AT&T. I unlocked it so that when I travel, I could slip out the sim card and use a foreign one to save money.
So my question is, if I installed the upgrade, would my phone work (albeit relocked and without custom apps)? Or would it brick it, or send it to an activation screen.
The iPhone should go to the activation screen, and custom apps are gone.
According to Cnet news:
You need to wait for the iPhone Dev Team
And we all need to donate, for this great work