<![CDATA[Gizmodo: anysim]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: anysim]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/anysim http://gizmodo.com/tag/anysim <![CDATA[ Confirmed: Bricked iPhones Rise From the Grave With Firmware 1.1.3 ]]> For all those unlocked iPhones out there that were bricked after attempting firmware upgrades, we have some great news. It appears that Apple's new 1.1.3 iPhone firmware rewrites either most or all of the phone's firmware, allowing for bricked iPhones to be brought back to life. If this sounds too good to be true, watch the video above. We tested it on our own dead iPhone that was originally unlocked with AnySIM and later bricked by an attempted upgrade. This phone had just been gathering dust in one of Brian Lam's many gadget drawers, so we were surprised when we finally had success with bringing it back to life. Getting the iPhone working again wasn't as easy as we expected, and at times it didn't seem like the firmware upgrade had worked, so here's what happened.


To upgrade, we put the phone in recovery mode, then connected to iTunes and restored/ upgraded. After the phone had finished upgrading, it would not work with our already valid ATT sim, so we had to activate the phone using iTunes. This is where we ran into some trouble, because after activating the iPhone under our existing account, the phone still did not show any signal and would not activate to our account. We restarted the phone and just like magic, were taken directly to the home screen. The phone now had signal and was clearly activated to our account. We made a few test calls, and tested the data connection, both with complete success.

For all of you out there that will state the video could be fake because it has been edited, let us direct your attention to the plastic-film that is still on the glass of the iPhone. In every shot you will see that the phone still has it's plastic-film on, confirming we are using the same phone before and after.

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Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:28:26 EST Christopher Mascari http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=346239&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ iPhone Dev Team Releases Open Source Unlock Software ]]> As we told you last Wednesday, the iPhone Dev Team have opened up the source to AnySIM, the free SIM unlock software for the iPhone that lets you use your phone on pretty much any GSM network in the world. The source being open, on the other hand, makes it a lot easier for Apple to see what kind of vulnerabilities there are in their code so they can patch it up quicker for the next firmware release. [Goole Code]

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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:00:45 EST Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=331411&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ 250,000 Unlocked iPhones Have Been Sold ]]> Apple just stated in their earnings call that out of 1.4 million iPhones sold since launch, 250,000 are unlocked. They know this from subtracting the number of iPhones activated on AT&T from the number of iPhones sold total—which is 250k. That's a farmhouse load of unlocked phones, which match up with the 500,000 downloads of AnySIM 1.0 unlocker we've seen before. Those are official numbers from the iPhone Dev Team, which make sense when you factor in lookeyloos who download it and people who unlock even with an active AT&T plan. [9to5Mac]

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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:04:00 EDT Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=313741&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Free iPhone 1.1.1 Unlock is Here ]]> The iPhone Dev Team just released AnySIM 1.1, the free utility that unlocks iPhones from the not-so-sexy handcuffs of AT&T. The updated version works on firmware version 1.1.1, but doesn't fix baseband problems caused by updating an unlocked 1.0.2 phone up to 1.1.1. This means that for those people who've previously unlocked via AnySIM, you need to wait until the iPhone Revirginizer is released (which is also being worked on by the iPhone Dev Team). For everyone else who didn't unlock their phones, they're free to do so now, but be aware that you might run into the same problem when the next firmware version comes. [Hackint0sh via TUAW]

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Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:08:10 EDT Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=311478&view=rss&microfeed=true