Following on my previous rant, iPhone Elite (a development group that�s spun off of the unofficial �iPhone Dev Team�) has posted instructions on how to unbrick an iPhone (via InfiniteLoop).
While it�s certainly doable for anyone with a modicum of technical expertise (and written for that audience), one can only wonder about average users (for whom it could be argued that Jean Fran�ois Champollion had an easier time deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics).
Example:
6. Complete the baseband downgrade by jailbreaking/activating, installing SSH on to the iPhone etc. There are tons of wiki's about that so I won't repeat. (Probably also true for step 4 and 5.)
7. Extract the baseband firmware and EEPROM files of 3.14 from the ramdisk of firmware 1.0.2. The files are named ICE03.14.08_G.eep and ICE03.14.08_G.fls and are located under /usr/local/standalone/firmware.
8. Get the secpack of baseband firmware 4.0 (some people have that, I have no idea how they got it but its needed). Name it "secpack". (maybe http://**********.com/files/61914114/secpack40113.bin will help)
9. Download iEraser2 here or from Geohot's blog.
10. Install all the tools onto the iPhone (I use the location /usr/local/bin.) You need to have SSH access to the 1.0.2 firmware iPhone and upload iEraser2, the secpack, ICE03.14.08_G.eep, ICE03.14.08_G.fls and anySIM 1.0.2
This is ludicrous. Apple, please figure out a way, tacitly or explicitly, to unlock the damned phone so people can get on with things � and please stop bricking phones. Your contract with AT&T is not nearly as important as your goodwill and market opportunity.
Alex Eckelberry
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