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Resurrect bricked iPhone

If the process to unlock your Apple iPhone fails you might end with a so called bricked iPhone that is not working properly anymore. That’s probably the worst scenario for any iPhone user who tinkered with the phone trying to unlock it.

Those users might be in for a surprise though because the new official firmware released by Apple seems to be able to resurrect a bricked phone. It seems that the original firmware, the bricked one, is overwritten by this new update.

The Apple iPhone Firmware Update v1.1.3 was applied by putting the iPhone into recovery mode, connecting it to iTunes and restoring / upgrading it. The phone hat to be activated in iTunes afterwards and was working fine after restarting the iPhone.

Gizmodo has a video up showing how they applied the new firmware for the iPhone.

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About the Author:Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand. You can follow Martin on Facebook or Twitter.

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  1. pingpong says:

    this is corect Martin, i have experienced the same few hours ago, after a sleepless night trying to recover a briked 1.1.2 bl4.6. Many attempts to downgrade, different solutions failed. the pone was briked with a black screen, and a big yellow triangle. No sound no dial pad acces. The last resort wast to try updating and after two attempts the pnone has been recoverd and updated by I tunes. I look forward to see the next jailbreak!! Any news?

  2. free ipod touch says:

    This is great, I won’t have to worry about getting a permanent brick :)

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