Downgrade your iPhone and make it work again!

Phones - 29/09/2007

Someone posted on Hackint0sh forums a very easy way to downgrade your iPhone to 1.0.2 and use third party applications again or just use your disabled phone!

Ok, here is the trick:
Have the iPhone docked and plugged into your computer. Have iTunes open as well:

• Hold down the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds. The phone should shut down.
• When the phone shuts down, release the Sleep/Wake button but continue holding Home
• Wait until iTunes recognizes the iPhone and release the Home button
• A message will appear telling you to restore. Click OK
• Using Safari or Firefox, download the v1.0.2 software from this location
• Back in iTunes, hold Option on the Mac and Shift on the PC while clicking Restore. Navigate to the software you downloaded and select.
• The phone will restore, but it will fail. This is normal.
• Your iPhone should show a yellow triangle. Run Nullriver's AppTapp. It should bring you back to the Activation step on the phone and show an error in the application. Disregard the error.
• Run AppTapp again and it should succeed.
• Use INdependence to activate your iPhone. That's it!
  

Of course when this guy opened his thread in the forum, some people found it hard to believe it... in the first pages we saw messages like "ban him" and "delete his post"... If I was him I would be really pissed off!!!

You can visit Hackint0sh forums and see the whole conversation.