Hack the iPhone

Recovering from an update to 1.1.3 firmware

(intel Mac & Windows XP / Vista)

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If you messed up, and updated to 1.1.3 firmware and shouldn't have, all is not lost. The process detailed here is for those of you that have the version 3.9 bootloader on your iPhone. If you do not know how to determine your bootloader version then read this flowchart.

You will be able to get your iPhone back to full functionality. Thank you to Michael over at iPhone Alley for being the guinea pig on this one! I should mention that Michael did have a legitimately activated AT&T iPhone. I'm unsure whether or not you (if previously unlocked) would need to run anySIM again as part of this process, as I'm unwilling to update my iPhone to find out.

For those of you with the version 4.6 bootloader, you can downgrade also, you will just lose phone functionality.

Attention

You should read my Warning to all iPhone owners page before proceeding.

Step 1.

Turn the iPhone on and plug it into iTunes. Put it into DFU mode by holding the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for 10 seconds. The screen will go black. Let go of the Sleep/Wake button. Continue holding the Home button for another 10 seconds and iTunes will detect that the iPhone is in recovery mode and display this pop up. Click OK.




Press your Option key (if using OS X) or press your Shift key (if using Windows) and then click the Restore button in iTunes. In the file browser that appears, navigate to where you have 1.1.1 firmware on your computer already. You can download 1.1.1 firmware here.




Various messages will appear while the process continues.









When the restore has finished you will get an error message pop up (click OK), and the iPhone will display this graphic.




Another pop up will appear. Click OK again.




Eject the iPhone from iTunes and close iTunes.





OS X users download iNdependence 1.3 Beta 2 here. Windows users download iBrickr here. Windows users you can also run the original AppTapp Installer.exe found here to do this.

Launch iNdependence or iBrickr (or AppTapp Installer.exe) to get the iPhone out of recovery mode. You won't have to click anything, just wait a minute. You should then see the image below on the iPhone and it should chirp indicating it is no longer in recovery mode.

Note: Should either program fail, restore to 1.1.1 firmware again (this is a common solution, especially with iNdependence).