jh

Phone fell out of my hands while talking on it and opening a car door to load groceries... hit my foot and shot about 4-5 feet across the pavement.

In it to win it.

Commuter!

That iPhone 4 direct link is wrong... points to 2G iPod touch firmware instead. Should be http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone4/061-7380.20100621,Vfgb5/iPhone3,1_4.0_8A293_Restore.ipsw instead.

Laches FTW.

Poor location choice (at least priority-wise). They need to put one in Tempe for ASU/Mesa/Central E.V. folks. Chandler, San Tan, and Biltmore are all a haul for a lot of the population that frequent those stores.

Unfortunately, SP1 doesn't add the option to get rid of the Elements Gallery pseudo-toolbar... so annoying.

For more discussion of this issue - http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse_thread/thread/dfeec048e739346d

Jonny1964-

ATT (to my knowledge) does not charge for SIM cards, so this was not an inducement to cheat them out of anything. Playing dumb simply avoids a potentially awkward conversation with an underpaid and probably equally knowledgeable retail employee.

While I don't support the approach involving what could easily be considered credit fraud, I do take issue with the rest of your comment as it is couched in fallacy and ignorance.

First, your argument assumes there is free will vs. predestination (haha).

Second, in order for people to knowingly violate their warranties they must have read them. Most don't. Perhaps they should have reasonably expected to void (aka negligently voided) their warranty... but knowingly? You're aiming high with that one. I'd even allow recklessly voided.

Third, being warned at every stage of the possible bricking consequences is also a high standard. Can you say that with substantial certainty? Could it even be true? Many warnings were simple, stock disclaimers that if anything went wrong - the person(s) who wrote the software would not be liable. As to some sort of discussion regarding the potential outcome being a "bricked" phone really happen immediately (or at all in some cases) at every step. Hindsight is 20/20, but forging your argument by changing or inventing the past is just intellectual laziness.

Fourth, again with the overreaching - shamelessly? Really? You could detect that in the comments? You should have stuck with just "declare" as it would have been more honest and accurate.

Fifth, "undo the consequences of your own intentional actions." Yikes - where to begin? A) There have been no consequences yet and it is possible that there will never (or close to it) be as no firmware has been released to cause an issue. B) Taking action to alter or reverse prior action is suddenly not an option for people to consider, let alone choose to do? That's absurd. If there's an approach that effectively replaces every modification with stock, factory-fresh code/firmware/settings/etc - what's the problem? This argument would be different if it were a hardware modification, but with software not so much. Apparently this amorphous concept was lost upon you, as was the point of a warranty. If, using the approved software and configuration there is a problem with the device covered under warranty - it's *SHOCK* covered under warranty. If you made a modification to the software that is causing the problem and the modification is still present *SHOCK* it's not under warranty. However, if you (are able to) restore everything back to the proper software and it still has the problem - it's likely not the modified software at fault and should be covered as something is obviously wrong with the hardware. The notable exception to this would be if the modified software caused issues related to the device overheating or acting in some way that would lead to physical damage. Playing tic-tac-toe, Excitebike, using a terminal program, or *gasp* unlocking the phone does not fit the bill. Would you really try and argue that if an issue arose where significant numbers of "hacked" and normal iPhones experienced headphone jack failures, that it should not be under warranty due to software modifications? Whoops - we reached the logical boundaries of your argument. Sorry about that.

This process seems to just brick the phone. Re-unlocking brings it back from the dead. Hopefully Schiller means what he says and all of this was just a pointless exercise in FUD.

FYI -

This method seems to nuke the ICCID information for the SIM card as far as the iPhone is concerned. I am not certain if this would occur if you can manage to remove the SIM card at some point during the flashing process or if there is any real approach to avoid this end result.

The SIM card, while unusable in the iPhone, still worked in my old blackberry... go figure.

Anyway, the theoretical solution is to stroll into your local ATT store, play dumb, and get a fresh, new & most importantly free SIM card. I would recommend doing this sooner than later before a memo goes out to stores regarding a potential flood of iPhone owners experiencing this mysterious problem with SIMs having unknown ICCID issues...

However, in my particular case, iTunes sees this new SIM as an unsupported card.