[Tutorial] How to testpoint downgrade bootloader and unlock OTB 1.1.2

[pimas23]

Please, where can I find .fls and .eep files for download my friends?

Thank you!

[ericjarvies]

Please, where can I find .fls and .eep files for download my friends?

Thank you!

do you mean independent of the Bootloader Downgrade package via Installer app? in other words, if you are stuck at 1.0.2 and having to use iBrickr, then the package file is of no use for you. instead, you need to use iBricker to copy the ienew/iunew/etc files, along with the .eep/.fls files into the usr/bin folder(remember to chmod 777 * once in usr/bin). send me a pm with your email address and i'll email ¥ou a zip file containing all of the files you need. or better, if unlock.no would post a zip file, or a pxl, that would be best!!

eric

[pimas23]

do you mean independent of the Bootloader Downgrade package via Installer app? in other words, if you are stuck at 1.0.2 and having to use iBrickr, then the package file is of no use for you. instead, you need to use iBricker to copy the ienew/iunew/etc files, along with the .eep/.fls files into the usr/bin folder(remember to chmod 777 * once in usr/bin). send me a pm with your email address and i'll email ¥ou a zip file containing all of the files you need. or better, if unlock.no would post a zip file, or a pxl, that would be best!!

eric

Yes! That's exactly what I need, the files independent from the Bootloader Downgrade package!

Thank you for the fast reply!

[pimas23]

I am getting a "Failed to initialize comm layer: (is it open by another app?)" error after trying to run bbupdater.

Does anyone know what it means?

Thank you guys!

[GeeZuZz]

pimas23: Make sure you unloaded commcenter, and if you did, try restarting your phone and unload it again before you try bbupdater again..


ps- i emailed you a few times telling you of the problem, but never received a reply.. perhaps your spam filter moved all my emails to junk.
I did recieve and read your emails (thanks for sending me the correct output!). I'm sorry i haven't replied yet, but my "iphone folder" in my inbox gets flooded by messages from "stupid people" so i sort of forgot your message - but i had flagged it and was going to reply it... But i'll reply you here instead so others can read.

Actually, i think i already had done what you suggested before you sent me the mail, you probably didn't see this post: http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showpost.php?p=195545&postcount=198

Anyway, i did an update to it now - and included the 1.1.1 baseband firmware since i have obtained it now.

I'll include the links here:

Bootloader Downgrader PXL (http://home.no/geezuzz/bbtools.pxl)
PXL package is untested - does it install ok in iBrickr? The files inside are OK, just not sure installation in ibrickr works.

Bootloader Downgrader ZIP (http://home.no/geezuzz/bootloaderdowngrade.zip)
This is the exact same file downloaded when installing Bootloader Downgrade package in Installer.

[GeeZuZz]

Btw, 1.1.1 Jailbreak at http://i.unlock.no/ (visit from iphone) is now updated with final version of Installer 3 and Community sources 3.3.

[dark0]

I just finished the 1.1.2 OTB HW unlock last night.

The hard part (opening and testpointing) passed without a glitch.
For the preparations I followed the http://i.unlock.no tutoral, but i helped myself with the iClarified downgrade and the HackMyiphone unlock tutorials (very helpful for the images and detailed steps for downgrade and upgrade)


For the mechanical part of the HW unlock, i used a pocket knife, credit card and a RFID ID card (thicker and stronger plastic than a credit card). Some damage exist on the corner of the plastic antenna cover.

The opening took 3 hours to complete, remember, no haste!!!
If you get pissed off, get up, go eat something or have a smoke, or just take a walk

To protect the covers, i covered everything in electrical tape and left only the seams visible, so when the knife slipped, it hit the tape first.

The trace is fightneningly small, so have magnifying glass and a very sharp object ready for the scratch process. Be very gentle, the trace is quite fragile. I actually uncovered more of the trace with the needle during the testpoint


I hit upon a problem at the SW unlock part. I maintained the iPhone at 1.1.1 and did the AnySim unlock. I got no service/no signal, which had me very worried. I tried several reboots and changed sim cards, no success.

But because my IMEI was intact and the Wi-Fi and bluetooth were functioning - tested both, both working, i strongly suspected that it's a software issue, and that the antenna is ok.

So i proceeded with the 1.1.2 upgrade, and applied AnySim 1.2.1u with my T-mobile SIM. Everything worked as planned, although i had to apply iWorld.

In all, it is a not an easy job, so read a lot and watch a lot of videos of opening the iphone before going for it.
And accept the fact that if you haven't opened an iphone before, it will suffer scratches.
Thanks to everyone whose tutorials i mentioned, and the community for the advices and shared experiences

[Sarkar]

One question. Can I do this hack even on a 1.1.2 OTB that has been upgraded to 1.1.3? Meaning it has the new 04.03.13_G baseband.

[GeeZuZz]

One question. Can I do this hack even on a 1.1.2 OTB that has been upgraded to 1.1.3? Meaning it has the new 04.03.13_G baseband.
No, that's not possible.

[r-evil-s]

Do I need to downgrade to 1.1.1 and jailbreak it in order to apply the hardware unlock, or a jailbroken 1.1.2 would do as well?

[ti_zana]

hi there, i'm starting with this tutorial, i've opened the phone, and i wanted to know how to take off the TP shield, need i to cut it, or... ??
thx in advence

[ti_zana]

Hi there, i'm starting with this Tutorial, i've opened the phone, and now, i want to know plz how to take off the Shield wich protect the TP,,, need i to cut it or...?

thx in advence for replys

[GeeZuZz]

r-evil-s: I'm pretty sure you could do it on 1.1.2 as well.

hi there, i'm starting with this tutorial, i've opened the phone, and i wanted to know how to take off the TP shield, need i to cut it, or... ??
thx in advence
Use something sharp and unhook the shield on the sides all the way around.

[ti_zana]

i was doing it now.. but the rasor blad i have is not sharp anymore :/
i'll continue the work tmrw, thx again for the reply ;)

[GeeZuZz]

i was doing it now.. but the rasor blad i have is not sharp anymore :/
i'll continue the work tmrw, thx again for the reply ;)
It doesn't need to be THAT sharp - i used a thin screwdriver first time. But at the battery there's glue covering it, so you need the razorblade there to cut it loose from the glue.

[ti_zana]

hehe, the thin screwdrivr worked like a charm.. will continu the work tmrw as i'm getting sleepy, thx for ur kind help GeeZuZz

[boliva]

Hey GeeZuZz and everyone,

I've followed the guide on iphone.unlock.no on an OTB 1.1.2 iPhone. After successfully connecting the testpoint and finishing running iunew I haven't been able to restore to any baseband. I tried manually with bbupdater and the 1.1.1 fls and eep file with no success. I also tried to restore via iTunes to 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, but it always fails at the end with the 1011 error.

I have been able, however, to downgrade to 1.0.2, manually jailbreak and activate, and upload the required files for the process to be done again.

When I try to run ienew it stays at 'Wating for data...'. If I try to run iunew again it exits at 'Did you erase the flash first?'. If, at this point, I try to restore the baseband using bbupdater it keeps retrying once and again with no success.

I would really appreciate your help, to anyone who can lend me a hand.

Best regards.

[henriqueu]

No it will not. I have one such phone myself - we have to wait to 1.1.4 secpack is found.

Hey guys....i have a 1.1.2 OTB....52 week...2 days ago i downgrade de firmware to 1.1.1 ok! no problem...i jailbreak! But i can't use the phone...( because i'm in portugal )....so i don't know why the baseband were erased....and the only solution i found.....guess...upgrade 1.1.3...so i'm stuck!

Anybody help me??

P.s: i can't downgrade to 1.0.2, 1.1.1 1.1.2 =x.....from itunes off course

ohh sorry for the bad english =P

[darkcloudy]

Hrm.. ok so i have no idea what is going on..
The phone will not power on if not connected. The phone will not power on if connected to my computer through USB. If I connect the phone to a wall outlet, it will start up, then just turn off after a few seconds on the apple screen.
Sometimes it will restart again, and do the same, sometimes it doesnt do crap.
Then if i hold the power+home button, it will go into recovery mode, but if I unplug it from the wall to go plug it into my comp, it will shut off. It will stay in recovery mode though without powering off unlike just a normal start up when connected to the wall.

Wtf is wrong with it?

[Sarkar]

No, that's not possible.

Hmm...why's that?

I understand that there is a baseband downgrader for BL 3.9. Meaning for people who have accidently upgraded their baseband. Would have thought if I downgrade my BL this should work...

[p01s0n]

Hey GeeZuZz and everyone,

I've followed the guide on iphone.unlock.no on an OTB 1.1.2 iPhone. After successfully connecting the testpoint and finishing running iunew I haven't been able to restore to any baseband. I tried manually with bbupdater and the 1.1.1 fls and eep file with no success. I also tried to restore via iTunes to 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, but it always fails at the end with the 1011 error.

I have been able, however, to downgrade to 1.0.2, manually jailbreak and activate, and upload the required files for the process to be done again.

When I try to run ienew it stays at 'Wating for data...'. If I try to run iunew again it exits at 'Did you erase the flash first?'. If, at this point, I try to restore the baseband using bbupdater it keeps retrying once and again with no success.

I would really appreciate your help, to anyone who can lend me a hand.

Best regards.


I have the same problem... Is the BB restorable ?

Thanks

[darkcloudy]

Ok theres either 2 things that happens with all these phones that keep messing up.
1st, I suggest doing this unlock on 1.0.2.
If you have No IMEI, No Firmware, No WiFi, that means you probably erased your baseband, then some reason turned off the phone.

I fixed someones phone today that had 1.1.2 OTB, was giving me the Repair Needed, No IMEI, No WiFi, ect.

I downgraded to 1.0.2. I jailbroke/activated it with iBrickr and activate.bat.

I then installed the all the required stuff iBrickr makes you do to install Applications. Once I was done with that, I installed BSD Subsystem and Mobile Terminal vt100 from my PXL files.

I then uploaded the "bootloader downgrade zip pack" I had downloaded from the official i.unlock.no thread. I uploaded all the files into my /usr/bin folder.

I went to Terminal vt100 on my phone and typed:
launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist (capitalization does matter, so just do it.)
If it doesnt say anything, then it should have worked.

Then type:
chmod +x bbupdater
bbupdater -v
2 things can happen. 1) it will ask if the com is being run by another program. or 2) it will ping the baseband and work (if it says it cannot find the baseband, thats fine, that means you already erased the baseband.)

If it says the com is being run by another program, turn off your phone. Start it back up, and then try bbupdater -v again. If it still says its being run by another program you need to manually delete the file from your phone. I was having this problem where even by unloading it, it still wasnt working properly, and that caused ienew, iunew, and bbupdater -f and -e not to work properly.
To delete the file, the easiest way is to simply run iDemocracy with your phone plugged into the comp, click File Browser, and just go to the directory (System/Library/LaunchDaemons) and delete the file (com.apple.CommCenter.plist). Once you delete the file. Restart your phone, go to Terminal, and try bbupdater -v again. It should work now.

From there on is sorta self explained on the other guides. Type in terminal
chmod +x ienew
chmod +x iunew
ienew
ienew will then run, may take a few minutes, if it says anything like already being erased, thats fine whatever.

Now its time for the testpoints/iunew. Type in:
sleep 20; iunew
This will give you 20seconds to setup the test points before iunew runs. Obviously if you are fast enough, can save yourself the time sitting there and change the number to 10 or something.
If it says something like "please connect test points" you didnt get the test points correctly. So do it again.
If you were having the hang at "Spamming AT" that should be fixed now because of you deleting the com file and erasing the baseband.
It show now ask you to hit any key and enter to download the nor file.
hit any key and hit enter.
It will say "downloading nor", just let it sit there, it sometimes can take up to 10mins from what Ive seen. Dont rush it. Just let it go.

After its done you will need to upload the baseband back onto the file.
So if you downloaded the bootloader downgrade package like i said, you will type this.

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep
This will take awhile, maybe another 10mins. Let it sit for atleast 10mins. If nothing looks like anything is happening, meaning it just froze after you hit enter and nothing else happened underneath it; just let it sit there for 5-10mins, then if still nothing, hit the home button. For some reason this happened to me, and after i hit the home button after a few seconds, it refreshed itself and everything seemed fine. It of course took me home, and then i went back to terminal, typed in
bbupdater -v
and now it was able to successfully ping my baseband and tell me I had 04.01 firmware and 3.9bootloader.

This is just a rough post of what everyother guide tells you to do. The main importance is if you are having the "did you erase the flash first?" or "is this com being used by another program?" you need to delete the com.apple.CommCenter.plist file, and restart your phone. That solved all my problems.

[SignWave]

huh?When i tried the tutorials it looks very easy at 1st but when im in the middle of my process it makes me nervous coz we dont have full conffidence when ever pipol around here are getting messed up with there phones specially the baseband area. :( im goin to withdraw my HW procedure before anything else happen.


ill just have to wait for the Latest Software Unlock
Happy with my Turbo sim :)

[p01s0n]

Ok theres either 2 things that happens with all these phones that keep messing up.
1st, I suggest doing this unlock on 1.0.2.
If you have No IMEI, No Firmware, No WiFi, that means you probably erased your baseband, then some reason turned off the phone.

I fixed someones phone today that had 1.1.2 OTB, was giving me the Repair Needed, No IMEI, No WiFi, ect.

I downgraded to 1.0.2. I jailbroke/activated it with iBrickr and activate.bat.

I then installed the all the required stuff iBrickr makes you do to install Applications. Once I was done with that, I installed BSD Subsystem and Mobile Terminal vt100 from my PXL files.

I then uploaded the "bootloader downgrade zip pack" I had downloaded from the official i.unlock.no thread. I uploaded all the files into my /usr/bin folder.

I went to Terminal vt100 on my phone and typed:
launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist (capitalization does matter, so just do it.)
If it doesnt say anything, then it should have worked.

Then type:
chmod +x bbupdater
bbupdater -v
2 things can happen. 1) it will ask if the com is being run by another program. or 2) it will ping the baseband and work (if it says it cannot find the baseband, thats fine, that means you already erased the baseband.)

If it says the com is being run by another program, turn off your phone. Start it back up, and then try bbupdater -v again. If it still says its being run by another program you need to manually delete the file from your phone. I was having this problem where even by unloading it, it still wasnt working properly, and that caused ienew, iunew, and bbupdater -f and -e not to work properly.
To delete the file, the easiest way is to simply run iDemocracy with your phone plugged into the comp, click File Browser, and just go to the directory (System/Library/LaunchDaemons) and delete the file (com.apple.CommCenter.plist). Once you delete the file. Restart your phone, go to Terminal, and try bbupdater -v again. It should work now.

From there on is sorta self explained on the other guides. Type in terminal
chmod +x ienew
chmod +x iunew
ienew
ienew will then run, may take a few minutes, if it says anything like already being erased, thats fine whatever.

Now its time for the testpoints/iunew. Type in:
sleep 20; iunew
This will give you 20seconds to setup the test points before iunew runs. Obviously if you are fast enough, can save yourself the time sitting there and change the number to 10 or something.
If it says something like "please connect test points" you didnt get the test points correctly. So do it again.
If you were having the hang at "Spamming AT" that should be fixed now because of you deleting the com file and erasing the baseband.
It show now ask you to hit any key and enter to download the nor file.
hit any key and hit enter.
It will say "downloading nor", just let it sit there, it sometimes can take up to 10mins from what Ive seen. Dont rush it. Just let it go.

After its done you will need to upload the baseband back onto the file.
So if you downloaded the bootloader downgrade package like i said, you will type this.

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep
This will take awhile, maybe another 10mins. Let it sit for atleast 10mins. If nothing looks like anything is happening, meaning it just froze after you hit enter and nothing else happened underneath it; just let it sit there for 5-10mins, then if still nothing, hit the home button. For some reason this happened to me, and after i hit the home button after a few seconds, it refreshed itself and everything seemed fine. It of course took me home, and then i went back to terminal, typed in
bbupdater -v
and now it was able to successfully ping my baseband and tell me I had 04.01 firmware and 3.9bootloader.

This is just a rough post of what everyother guide tells you to do. The main importance is if you are having the "did you erase the flash first?" or "is this com being used by another program?" you need to delete the com.apple.CommCenter.plist file, and restart your phone. That solved all my problems.

I cannot restore 1.0.2 because iTunes freezes on "Waiting iPhone"

[darkcloudy]

What vers. of iTunes are you using? Are you just putting it in restore mode or dfu mode? If youre doing restore, try dfu. If youre doing dfu try restore. Try DFU through iBrickr, try manually putting it in DFU. You have to experiment with these phones. No phone is the EXACT same problem, but they are generally close.

If that doesnt work. Try turning the phone on/off. Restarting your comp, changing usb outlet. If all else fails, if possible, simply try it on a different computer.
For some reason on my personal computer I cannot restore this one phone from 1.1.3 to 1.1.1, it just gives me the 1604 error. But if I go on one of my other back up computers it will work.

[p01s0n]

What vers. of iTunes are you using? Are you just putting it in restore mode or dfu mode? If youre doing restore, try dfu. If youre doing dfu try restore. Try DFU through iBrickr, try manually putting it in DFU. You have to experiment with these phones. No phone is the EXACT same problem, but they are generally close.

If that doesnt work. Try turning the phone on/off. Restarting your comp, changing usb outlet. If all else fails, if possible, simply try it on a different computer.
For some reason on my personal computer I cannot restore this one phone from 1.1.3 to 1.1.1, it just gives me the 1604 error. But if I go on one of my other back up computers it will work.


I used iTunes 7.6 and 7.5 on 3 different computers.
iTunes gives me always the same error (1011).
I tried with 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3 firmwares.

Both DFU methods (trough iBrickr and manual) gives the 1011 when trying up/downgrade.

How can I put the Phone in Restore mode ?

Thanks

(sorry for my english)

[waitR]

Dear GeeZuZz!

I have followed your guide on your website, but no luck.
I have no error messages during the process, bbupdater -v gives me 3.9BL, and anySim ran fine, at the end it said, that the phone is unlocked, but it isnt, something went wrong...
I can't use my SIM, all calls fail, I can see my carrier name in the upper left corner, but no calls go out, no calls come in (if I call my SIM from an other phone it doesnt ring, I can leave only a message.)

I have tried it with two phones already, no luck. The phones are fine, wifi is working, IMEI is correct, BL is 3.9 (reported by bbupdater -v and bbinfo), carrier is detected, but the no calls in/out.

What can be the problem?
Because bbupdater and bbinfo both reported 3.9BL, I will try a 1.1.2 restore, than DFU and back to 1.1.1 and baseband downgrade. I hope it will solve this issue.

I wish your process would work because it would speed up the whole process!

Thank you,
waiter


On the second phone I tried to run Baseband Downgrade, but no go.

[GeeZuZz]

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep
This will take awhile, maybe another 10mins.
Did your phone work directly after running bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep and unlocking with anySIM? Because someone told me that even though phone appered to work, and anysim unlocked fine, and sim-card was accepted, but he didn't get signal. But when he restored to 1.1.1 again, he got signal.

Anyway, thanks for your post.

BTW: chmod is not needed on the files in my archive - they are pre-chmod'ed correctly.

[waitR]

restoring with 1.1.2, and back to 1.1.1 and doing baseband downgrade and restoring again with 1.1.1 and running anySim (again with successfull unlock message)

did not solve my problem.

What sould I do?

[qwameske]

I followed the procedure and I got till i got the message:

# iunew
Resetting the Baseband...Done
Opened: /dev/tty.debug
iUnlocker: tool by geohot
uploads and runs testcode.bb in the same dir
uploads the nor image in "nor"
make sure your switch is on
thanks to iProof and lazyc0der for finding this method
thanks to the siemens guys for discovering it
and thanks to nightwatch for the awesome toolchain
Spamming AT, waiting for a response
Attempting to read[1]...c0
Connected established to bootrom
File size: 1608
Checksum: 0x37
Attempting to read[2]...c1
TESTPOINT WORKS: 55
Press any char, then hit enter after testpoint has been disconnected
x
Attempting to read[1]...0
Downloading modified nor...


Now my iphone won't do anything it just stays there. ANY IDEAS?? cuz I don't wanna restart it just in case...

[waitR]

strange. the second restore fixed. The problem is, that I tried many many things, and now I dont know what was the solution, and I have another phone in a state like this. :)))

waiter

[darkcloudy]

Did your phone work directly after running bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep and unlocking with anySIM? Because someone told me that even though phone appered to work, and anysim unlocked fine, and sim-card was accepted, but he didn't get signal. But when he restored to 1.1.1 again, he got signal.

Anyway, thanks for your post.

BTW: chmod is not needed on the files in my archive - they are pre-chmod'ed correctly.

I personally did the whole procedure on 1.0.2. And that is one of the things I would recommend you change on your guide to be honest. Id say if possible do it on 102. But if unable to, then 1.1.1 is fine.

So since I was on 102, i obviously had to restore to 1.1.1, which after I did, everything ran perfectly now. Even if I did the HW unlock on 111, I still would of restored to 111 simply because I prefer to have a fresh restore of the version. The same reason you recommend to restore after running bb downgrader, and ect. Things just worth smoother, and itll cost you what, 5-10mins extra of your time to ensure a perfect working phone?
Ive done it on 2phones just this weekend, and everything has gone smoothly with your downgrade pack. 1 of which I downloaded off installer, and 1 which I downloaded from your zip pack, casue apparently someone brought me a phone that looked like they tried to do the "software" portion of this HW unlock, but no HW, so it just erased everything, and gave the repair needed error.

Ya I know I dont need to chmod, but i wouldnt be surprised if for some reason, they are using someone elses pack, and even though if they cant figure out that if it says permission failed they need to type chmod in, i just though id make it easier lol.

But ya, thanks for your help man, def has made my life easier on alot of stuff.

[jameszjca]

Hi darkcloudy,

How did you downgrade to 1.0.2. I stucked on "waiting for iphone".

Ok theres either 2 things that happens with all these phones that keep messing up.
1st, I suggest doing this unlock on 1.0.2.
If you have No IMEI, No Firmware, No WiFi, that means you probably erased your baseband, then some reason turned off the phone.

I fixed someones phone today that had 1.1.2 OTB, was giving me the Repair Needed, No IMEI, No WiFi, ect.

I downgraded to 1.0.2. I jailbroke/activated it with iBrickr and activate.bat.

I then installed the all the required stuff iBrickr makes you do to install Applications. Once I was done with that, I installed BSD Subsystem and Mobile Terminal vt100 from my PXL files.

I then uploaded the "bootloader downgrade zip pack" I had downloaded from the official i.unlock.no thread. I uploaded all the files into my /usr/bin folder.

I went to Terminal vt100 on my phone and typed:
launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist (capitalization does matter, so just do it.)
If it doesnt say anything, then it should have worked.

Then type:
chmod +x bbupdater
bbupdater -v
2 things can happen. 1) it will ask if the com is being run by another program. or 2) it will ping the baseband and work (if it says it cannot find the baseband, thats fine, that means you already erased the baseband.)

If it says the com is being run by another program, turn off your phone. Start it back up, and then try bbupdater -v again. If it still says its being run by another program you need to manually delete the file from your phone. I was having this problem where even by unloading it, it still wasnt working properly, and that caused ienew, iunew, and bbupdater -f and -e not to work properly.
To delete the file, the easiest way is to simply run iDemocracy with your phone plugged into the comp, click File Browser, and just go to the directory (System/Library/LaunchDaemons) and delete the file (com.apple.CommCenter.plist). Once you delete the file. Restart your phone, go to Terminal, and try bbupdater -v again. It should work now.

From there on is sorta self explained on the other guides. Type in terminal
chmod +x ienew
chmod +x iunew
ienew
ienew will then run, may take a few minutes, if it says anything like already being erased, thats fine whatever.

Now its time for the testpoints/iunew. Type in:
sleep 20; iunew
This will give you 20seconds to setup the test points before iunew runs. Obviously if you are fast enough, can save yourself the time sitting there and change the number to 10 or something.
If it says something like "please connect test points" you didnt get the test points correctly. So do it again.
If you were having the hang at "Spamming AT" that should be fixed now because of you deleting the com file and erasing the baseband.
It show now ask you to hit any key and enter to download the nor file.
hit any key and hit enter.
It will say "downloading nor", just let it sit there, it sometimes can take up to 10mins from what Ive seen. Dont rush it. Just let it go.

After its done you will need to upload the baseband back onto the file.
So if you downloaded the bootloader downgrade package like i said, you will type this.

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep
This will take awhile, maybe another 10mins. Let it sit for atleast 10mins. If nothing looks like anything is happening, meaning it just froze after you hit enter and nothing else happened underneath it; just let it sit there for 5-10mins, then if still nothing, hit the home button. For some reason this happened to me, and after i hit the home button after a few seconds, it refreshed itself and everything seemed fine. It of course took me home, and then i went back to terminal, typed in
bbupdater -v
and now it was able to successfully ping my baseband and tell me I had 04.01 firmware and 3.9bootloader.

This is just a rough post of what everyother guide tells you to do. The main importance is if you are having the "did you erase the flash first?" or "is this com being used by another program?" you need to delete the com.apple.CommCenter.plist file, and restart your phone. That solved all my problems.

[henriqueu]

well, i've a 1.1.2 otb iphone... and i upgrade my phone to 1.1.3 via itunes...anybody can help me?? I want my iphone back....i'm in portugal and i can't unlock it.... help me please ( xploadme@gmail.com )

[pimas23]

pimas23: Make sure you unloaded commcenter, and if you did, try restarting your phone and unload it again before you try bbupdater again..


I did recieve and read your emails (thanks for sending me the correct output!). I'm sorry i haven't replied yet, but my "iphone folder" in my inbox gets flooded by messages from "stupid people" so i sort of forgot your message - but i had flagged it and was going to reply it... But i'll reply you here instead so others can read.

Actually, i think i already had done what you suggested before you sent me the mail, you probably didn't see this post: http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showpost.php?p=195545&postcount=198

Anyway, i did an update to it now - and included the 1.1.1 baseband firmware since i have obtained it now.

I'll include the links here:

Bootloader Downgrader PXL (http://home.no/geezuzz/bbtools.pxl)
PXL package is untested - does it install ok in iBrickr? The files inside are OK, just not sure installation in ibrickr works.

Bootloader Downgrader ZIP (http://home.no/geezuzz/bootloaderdowngrade.zip)
This is the exact same file downloaded when installing Bootloader Downgrade package in Installer.


Thank you very much GeeZuZz!

Everything worked, your tutorials are simply the best.

Did three hardware unlocks already, all of the phones are working fine.

Cheers!

[darkcloudy]

I just went from 1.1.2 to 1.1.1 to 1.0.2. I cant honestly remember if I did DFU mode or not, but try both. Try restarting your comp, ect. Ive done 3 HW unlocks just this weekend, all on 102. Iam doing 1 tomorrow as well, I will see exactly what I have to do to get it down to 102. Like Ive said before, you have to experiemtn with these phones. They are very funny, keep trying stuff that you wouldnt think mattered.

[darkcloudy]

well, i've a 1.1.2 otb iphone... and i upgrade my phone to 1.1.3 via itunes...anybody can help me?? I want my iphone back....i'm in portugal and i can't unlock it.... help me please ( xploadme@gmail.com )

Nothing you can do, simple as that. By upgrading to 113 you screwed up your chances of being able to hardware unlock it. For now atleast.

[moky_sb]

Ok theres either 2 things that happens with all these phones that keep messing up.
1st, I suggest doing this unlock on 1.0.2.
If you have No IMEI, No Firmware, No WiFi, that means you probably erased your baseband, then some reason turned off the phone.

I fixed someones phone today that had 1.1.2 OTB, was giving me the Repair Needed, No IMEI, No WiFi, ect.

I downgraded to 1.0.2. I jailbroke/activated it with iBrickr and activate.bat.

I then installed the all the required stuff iBrickr makes you do to install Applications. Once I was done with that, I installed BSD Subsystem and Mobile Terminal vt100 from my PXL files.

I then uploaded the "bootloader downgrade zip pack" I had downloaded from the official i.unlock.no thread. I uploaded all the files into my /usr/bin folder.

I went to Terminal vt100 on my phone and typed:
launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist (capitalization does matter, so just do it.)
If it doesnt say anything, then it should have worked.

Then type:
chmod +x bbupdater
bbupdater -v
2 things can happen. 1) it will ask if the com is being run by another program. or 2) it will ping the baseband and work (if it says it cannot find the baseband, thats fine, that means you already erased the baseband.)

If it says the com is being run by another program, turn off your phone. Start it back up, and then try bbupdater -v again. If it still says its being run by another program you need to manually delete the file from your phone. I was having this problem where even by unloading it, it still wasnt working properly, and that caused ienew, iunew, and bbupdater -f and -e not to work properly.
To delete the file, the easiest way is to simply run iDemocracy with your phone plugged into the comp, click File Browser, and just go to the directory (System/Library/LaunchDaemons) and delete the file (com.apple.CommCenter.plist). Once you delete the file. Restart your phone, go to Terminal, and try bbupdater -v again. It should work now.

From there on is sorta self explained on the other guides. Type in terminal
chmod +x ienew
chmod +x iunew
ienew
ienew will then run, may take a few minutes, if it says anything like already being erased, thats fine whatever.

Now its time for the testpoints/iunew. Type in:
sleep 20; iunew
This will give you 20seconds to setup the test points before iunew runs. Obviously if you are fast enough, can save yourself the time sitting there and change the number to 10 or something.
If it says something like "please connect test points" you didnt get the test points correctly. So do it again.
If you were having the hang at "Spamming AT" that should be fixed now because of you deleting the com file and erasing the baseband.
It show now ask you to hit any key and enter to download the nor file.
hit any key and hit enter.
It will say "downloading nor", just let it sit there, it sometimes can take up to 10mins from what Ive seen. Dont rush it. Just let it go.

After its done you will need to upload the baseband back onto the file.
So if you downloaded the bootloader downgrade package like i said, you will type this.

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep
This will take awhile, maybe another 10mins. Let it sit for atleast 10mins. If nothing looks like anything is happening, meaning it just froze after you hit enter and nothing else happened underneath it; just let it sit there for 5-10mins, then if still nothing, hit the home button. For some reason this happened to me, and after i hit the home button after a few seconds, it refreshed itself and everything seemed fine. It of course took me home, and then i went back to terminal, typed in
bbupdater -v
and now it was able to successfully ping my baseband and tell me I had 04.01 firmware and 3.9bootloader.

This is just a rough post of what everyother guide tells you to do. The main importance is if you are having the "did you erase the flash first?" or "is this com being used by another program?" you need to delete the com.apple.CommCenter.plist file, and restart your phone. That solved all my problems.
first of all sorry for my bad english,
i fallow your tutorial and when i tap bbupdater -v i had something like:
# bbupdater -v
Resetting target...
pinging the baseband...
baseband unresponsive to pinging
Done
#
#

i try ienew and had something like this:
# ienew
Resetting the Baseband ... Done
Opened: /dev/tty..baseband
iEraser for 112OTB: tool by geohot
Waiting for data...

and it still remain here for hours
and if i try iunew
remain in "Spamming AT"

[OSUser]

Did your phone work directly after running bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep and unlocking with anySIM? Because someone told me that even though phone appered to work, and anysim unlocked fine, and sim-card was accepted, but he didn't get signal. But when he restored to 1.1.1 again, he got signal.

Anyway, thanks for your post.
Hi,
I have exactly the same problem that you described. Before I have downgraded bootloader on two iphones and unlocked them, but today found that procedure changed a little, so I followed new one - bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep. After applying anySIM I have inserted my SIM card, phone recognized it... but had no signal.
I tapped into preferences to see cariers... but it crashed.

Restore to 1.1.1. didn't help at all.
Right now I am trying to restore to 1.1.2 and then do a downgrade of baseband.

Also I found that on the locked phone instead of bars you see "no service"... on my locked phone I see empty bars.

[dark.mind]

Hi everybody! Here you have an unlocking experience:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iphone+procedure+argentina&search_type=

br

[darkcloudy]

So heres how i downgraded to 102. It was jailbroken on 112. I put it in restore mode, downgraded to 111. From there it was obviously still in restore mode, so I just tried click restore to 102 now. Didnt work, got error 2003. So I took it off the plug, plugged it back in, tried again, said Error 1 now. So that obviously doesnt work.

What I did then was opened up iBrickr, kicked it out of restore mode.
Then once it got to the activate screen, I opened up iTunes again, let iTunes recognize the phone so I got to that "Click continue to start activation" or whatever, then since I still had iBrickr open, I like iBrickr put it in DFU mode. Then restored it down to 102.
And poof it worked. Of course it says Error 1013, but thats fine, just let iBrickr kick it out of restore mode.
From there on just jailbreak/activate it like i said. With iBrickir/activation.bat(PAYCAY).

[hihihi]

hi im new to this hacking iphone thing....and i need to downgrade from 1.1.2 to 1.1.1

ummm i was reading http://iphone.unlock.no/bootloader_downgrade.htm

and it said that i need to physicly open my iphone and dont do it unless i know wat im doing.....wat does it mean by physivly open it??

it says it in the first paragraph on that site.

i could rly use any1s help...thx

[ernisrx]

Hi, I have same problem - no wi fi, need repair, but ... I can not downgrade to 1.0.2, Itunes says " waiting for Iphone" .
Any ideas?
P.S. Phone is really slow, if I try to dial something in emergency dial screen, it reacts after 5 seconds if I press any button.

[p01s0n]

Hi, I have same problem - no wi fi, need repair, but ... I can not downgrade to 1.0.2, Itunes says " waiting for Iphone" .
Any ideas?
P.S. Phone is really slow, if I try to dial something in emergency dial screen, it reacts after 5 seconds if I press any button.
same situation... no way

[_hydra_]

to all who have "waiting for phone" when downgrade to 102 - you have iphone w48+, this phone can't down to 102, one way to unlock this phone (if you don't have wifi), place comm board to other activeted 111 or 102 and retry the unlock process
sorry for my english :)

[pspklant]

same situation... no way

I also!!!!!!!!!!! Guys please!! Help!!!! us!!!

I don't know what to do....:(

[Gstar]

hi guys,

you are all able to restore to 1.0.2. i did it many times.
put the phone in dfu mode. connect to itunes and start the retore with the shift-key-trick to select the firmware. if itunes says error(1) and the restore stops just close itunes and the ituneshelper.exe in the tastwindow. then start ibirckr and select restore to 1.0.2. your display turn white and your phone is now prepared for restoring. now open itunes again and retsore while ibrickr is running. after the restore close both programs. then open itunes again and it gives you the "wrong sim card" message. close itunes. open ibrickr and click "free my phone". once it is jailbreaked the activation screen appears and you can activate it with pagacy. thats it. after that you install the pxl file system via ibrickr and follow the instruction from ibrickr during this process. now you are able to install the needed apps. first the bsdsubsystem. then the other apps. when i installed i used the pxl-file-method because all files have the correct permissions and are put in the correct dir especially the bbtools.pxl. you can find the pxl files here: http://iphone.exploit.org/ . the bbtools.pxl is in the gezzuzz thread.

this works 100%.
good luck.

[GeeZuZz]

when i installed i used the pxl-file-method because all files have the correct permissions and are put in the correct dir especially the bbtools.pxl.
So you used the PXL i linked to previously in this thread? And it installed OK?

[jameszjca]

Hi, I have same problem - no wi fi, need repair, but ... I can not downgrade to 1.0.2, Itunes says " waiting for Iphone" .
Any ideas?
P.S. Phone is really slow, if I try to dial something in emergency dial screen, it reacts after 5 seconds if I press any button.

If you turn on silent switch, the key pad will run smooth. However, your iphone doesn't have baseband, the emergency call won't work anyway. If possible, follow _hydra_'s comm board reflush way.

I have tried all the software way to restore to 1.0.2. None of them worked like they were claimed.

[jameszjca]

hi guys,

you are all able to restore to 1.0.2. i did it many times.
put the phone in dfu mode. connect to itunes and start the retore with the shift-key-trick to select the firmware. if itunes says error(1) and the restore stops just close itunes and the ituneshelper.exe in the tastwindow. then start ibirckr and select restore to 1.0.2. your display turn white and your phone is now prepared for restoring. now open itunes again and retsore while ibrickr is running. after the restore close both programs. then open itunes again and it gives you the "wrong sim card" message. close itunes. open ibrickr and click "free my phone". once it is jailbreaked the activation screen appears and you can activate it with pagacy. thats it. after that you install the pxl file system via ibrickr and follow the instruction from ibrickr during this process. now you are able to install the needed apps. first the bsdsubsystem. then the other apps. when i installed i used the pxl-file-method because all files have the correct permissions and are put in the correct dir especially the bbtools.pxl. you can find the pxl files here: http://iphone.exploit.org/ . the bbtools.pxl is in the gezzuzz thread.

this works 100%.
good luck.

I used you way, still stuck on "Waiting for iPhone". Looks like it's NOT 100% works.

[Gstar]

So you used the PXL i linked to previously in this thread? And it installed OK?

yes, pxl is fine. thanks a lot. after installing there is a new folder called /usr/bin/bbtools with the needed files in it. i also checked the permissions with squid. everything ok. easy to handle. but anyway i still get the "waiting for data" message with ienew and with iunew the "spamming at, waiting for a response" :confused:

I used you way, still stuck on "Waiting for iPhone". Looks like it's NOT 100% works.

jameszjca, what is your firmware right now? and what is the error message of itunes if you want to restore to 1.0.2? i have done this way many times but my phone is bricked although :( even restoring to 1.0.2 doesen't matter...

edit: ok ok i see no error just "waiting for iphone" mmhhh what is your FW and what is on your iphone display?

[crzy_dmd]

Hi every1, i just made the HW unlock with this tuto, and all went good :D

when finish, i notice my WiFi signal drop down, a lot!!!

now, i lost signal in my house, and im very close to the AP, so i decide to upgrade to 1.1.2, but same thing on signal :(

1. could be the BL issue?
2. or i damage the WiFi antenna when i open the phone?

any help on this will be appreciated.

anything else i just working great!!! many thx to all of u make this possible...

my phone:
1.1.2 OTB HW unlock, jail, anysim, etc...
now, 3.9 BL

[jameszjca]

jameszjca, what is your firmware right now? and what is the error message of itunes if you want to restore to 1.0.2? i have done this way many times but my phone is bricked although :( even restoring to 1.0.2 doesen't matter...


Hi Gstar:

Here is my situation. I have a 51 week iphone, did hw unlock days ago. After iunew I followed the guide to restore to 1.1.2 then 1.1.1. Both ended with 1011 error. After kick out of DFU mode by ibrickr, phone shows "repair needed" and no imei etc. Since I can't jailbreak it under 1.1.1 without baseband. The only way is to restore it to 1.0.2. But I tried all versions of itunes, each time created a new windows user. It always stuck on endless "waiting for iPhone". I have tried to restore it from 1.1.1->1.0.2, 1.1.2->1.0.2 and 1.1.3->1.0.2. None of them works.

I even decrypted 1.0.2 firmwire, re-encrypted it by 1.1.1 key and packaged it to 1.1.1 ipsw file to restore. It past "waiting for iPhone" stage. However, it can't pass validation stage. I believe there are digital signature in the shorter dmg file which prevents from forging.

[gsm3005]

all went ok till here with testpoint
iunew and the message
if it worked, enjoy your unlocked iPhone!!!

now the next stage load baseband

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep this when ever i run say error fls can't open


any idea please what else have to do to install bbupdater stage if i restart what happen without installing i try bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep and this not installing all time error comeing what shoud i do


thx

[darkcloudy]

So I came accross my first "Waiting for iPhone" problem that I could not fix. I tried it on different comptuers, different iTunes versions. I just could not get it down to 1.0.2. This was a week 51 phone. I have succcessfully done hardware unlocks on (1) week 44 (1) week 46 (2) week 48 iPhones. All 1.1.2 OTB, all able to be downgraded to 1.0.2. So Iam not sure what to say about getting to 1.0.2.
I did however do the HW unlock on 1.1.1. You just have to be EXTREMMMMMELY careful not to mess anything up. Simply because your WiFi will be gone. Do not under any cirumstance restart your phone after running ienew. Test to make sure your CommCenter has been unloaded before running ienew. Because you may have to either unload it/restart your phone or remove it/restart your phone. To check it, simply just hit "bbupdater -v" and if it gives you the, is it being run by another program error, then its obviously not unloaded.

I ran ienew, first time, got a bus error. So I closed terminal, then opened it again, did cd /usr/bin to make sure. Then tried ienew again. It worked this time. Then I ran iunew, got the test points on the first try. Downloading modified nor of course took forever (I'd say atleast 5minutes, just let it sit there do not do anything, obvioulsy have autolock on never.) The once iunew is done. Type
bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep
This process took almost 10minutes, so just let it sit there, dont rush it.
I do not recommend just upgrading/restoring once iunew is done, people seem to be having problems, and then theyre screwed cause they cant go down to 1.0.2 and have no WiFi. So just run the bbupdater files.
Ontop of that, once you get done running the bbupdater files, no matter what version you are on, i HIGHLY recommend restoring your iphone to 1.1.1, then starting over with whatever procedure you want to do, whether it be keeping it on 1.1.1, or oktoprep for 1.1.2.

[darkcloudy]

all went ok till here with testpoint
iunew and the message
if it worked, enjoy your unlocked iPhone!!!

now the next stage load baseband

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep this when ever i run say error fls can't open


any idea please what else have to do to install bbupdater stage if i restart what happen without installing i try bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep and this not installing all time error comeing what shoud i do


thx

Not sure what you mean "error fls cant open". Idk make sure you have the correct files on there. If possible upload them yourself. Did you download the bootloader downgrade from i.unlock.no repo? Or did you manually download the zip file from this thread and upload it yourself? If not thats the problem, If you did I'd still try and do it yourself again. Just dont restart, whatever you do, and dont just restore it 112.
What happens when you hit bbupdater -v?
You successfully did the Test points/iunew correct, and did ienew before that?

[MJSJEJE]

I had:
- Opened the Iphone (Hard time, but ok).
- Erased and replaced the baseband.
- Performed restore to 112
- Downgraded to 111
- As I kept the 111 I did baseband downgrade.
- Applied AnySIM 1.1
Everything worked great!! I made a few calls!!

Then I stupidly synchronized my Iphone to my previous agenda and it locked again.
I tried to applied AnySIM again and didn't finish the process.
So I restored to 112 in order to repeat the whole receipt, downgraded again to 111. I access wifi by *#301# but the installer is not rebooting the phone, so I can't activate it. It is no longer an Iphone, no longer an Ipod touch.

Does anyone know what else can I try??
Thanks!

Finally I solved the problem thanks to the New and better 1.1.1 jailbreak method
It was the only way that made the phone react.
After that I have tried to update to 112 afert installing oktoprep but the phone got tilt and never finish booting.
So I have restored back to 112, downgraded to 111, and have jailbroken and unlocked it with Anysim 1.1. And IT IS WORKING!!!

Maybe the oktoprep didn't work for me because I had done a basedowngrade that didn't restore back when I had restored to 112.

Thanks to all!
MJS

[MylesAway]

I Have A Week 51 iPhone. I Was Well On My Way To Unlocking It When I Ran The Baseband Downgrader In Installer. Long Story Short I Am Now Stuck Back With The 1.1.3 Firmware As It Is All That I Can Load Onto The iPhone. Is There Anything I Can Do To Fix It? I Have Tried ibrickr, Various Versions Of itunes On Mac And XP, independence. There Are Only 2 Things I Have Been Able To Do, Get It Into Restore Mode And, Restore It With The Current 1.1.3 Firmware From Itunes. Please Help.

[crzy_dmd]

all went ok till here with testpoint
iunew and the message
if it worked, enjoy your unlocked iPhone!!!

now the next stage load baseband

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep this when ever i run say error fls can't open


any idea please what else have to do to install bbupdater stage if i restart what happen without installing i try bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep and this not installing all time error comeing what shoud i do


thx

Hi there, same happens to me...

what i do:

1. download the zip files
2. upload the files to the phone, (ibrckr)
3. chmod files
4. try again

some how, the 111.fls & 111.eep dont load into my phone when i install the package.

try this, and do not restart the phone, i didnt :p

[pramer]

Hi every1, i just made the HW unlock with this tuto, and all went good :D

when finish, i notice my WiFi signal drop down, a lot!!!

now, i lost signal in my house, and im very close to the AP, so i decide to upgrade to 1.1.2, but same thing on signal :(

1. could be the BL issue?
2. or i damage the WiFi antenna when i open the phone?

any help on this will be appreciated.

anything else i just working great!!! many thx to all of u make this possible...

my phone:
1.1.2 OTB HW unlock, jail, anysim, etc...
now, 3.9 BL

hi crzy_dmd! the same thing happend to me on my wifes phone. after the BL downgrade the WIFI signal is lousy. I can connect fine, when i am very close to my AP, but the connection drops when i am more than 3 meters away. GSM is fine.

if it is a BL issue, maybe a reset of all settings could help (but i am not sure about that, since there should be no settings stored in the BL)
so you had bad signal on 1.1.1 and 1.1.2. have you tried to go down to 1.0.2 yet?

the antenna cable runs indeed very close to the area, where you open the iphone, so there is a good chance that you (and me) have damaged it.
i found a pic of the antennas here hxxp://iphoneantenna.com/

[Digga]

Hey all, just confirming this worked spot-on for me.

Only hiccup was I first attempted on 1.1.2 (I had previously activated/jailbreaked my OOTB 1.1.2 and had tried to use it with a Stealth SIM with very little success, it just didn't work all the time and often dropped service).

When I attempted the ienew in term-VT100 on the iPhone, the whirling wheel appeared like it was trying to restart. The phone froze - I had no choice but to reboot it, while the bootloader was erased!

I almost panicked, left it overnight and came back and managed to restored to 1.1.2 and got back my IMEI, Wi-Fi and ICCID. I downgraded then to 1.1.1 and then I continued with the iunew which worked and finally Oktoprep'd up to 1.1.2. Ran AnySIM 1.2.1u in Airplane Mode and unlocked fine.

So many thanks to all community members here who posted their tips.
Cheers, -= Digga =-

[gsm3005]

Not sure what you mean "error fls cant open". Idk make sure you have the correct files on there. If possible upload them yourself. Did you download the bootloader downgrade from i.unlock.no repo? Or did you manually download the zip file from this thread and upload it yourself? If not thats the problem, If you did I'd still try and do it yourself again. Just dont restart, whatever you do, and dont just restore it 112.
What happens when you hit bbupdater -v?
You successfully did the Test points/iunew correct, and did ienew before that?

i download by i.unlock.no BSD Subsystem .. Term-vt100.. Bootloader downgrade after all that i tap term-vt100 it went throw all ok ienew and i see message hope fully main flash deleted .. then i run iunew it went ok too i see testpoint 55.. and on end message
ttempting to read[1]...44
run bbupdater -v and pray
if it worked, enjoy your unlocked iPhone!!!

now my problem start here .. i have to download bsband or what ever it call
by taping term-vt100

when i give this comand

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep

error faild to open or read fls file
why this is now where is problem i connect phone with ibrik i see file still there in usr/bin/ there is file same name so please point me what to do to install that i stuck on this last stage

[ericjarvies]

Seems quite simple IMO.

My only question is...

I assume after you SSH into the phone, you're not turning it off when you proceed to opening it?

I mean common sense says so, if you say "Don't restart" I just don't see how that's possible with the phone open.. Which is why I'm a tad bit confused.

It honestly looks like a simple procedure. But I can see where failure to pay attention to detail would cause problems for some people.

you can have the phone on during take-apart. in fact, you can remove back plate/on-off power cable from front side without any problems while powered up, as well as the inside metal plate. the iphone is pretty durable, and is not sensitive in the least bit. now then, i would worry more about getting that damn back-side off then i would about power on-power off.

if you have seen the case-take-apart videos... don't believe them!! i have now h/w unlocked over 50 iphones, and only 2 of them opened as easily as do those in the videos. otherwise, my first one i did ended up with both cosmetic and battery damage(nothing serious), and the 2nd and third faired well, and now i can take them apart and testpoint and put back together in 30 minutes, and no one can ever tell they were opened. hands down... a credit card and guitar pick work best. i also use hard pointed metal object(looks like a needle, but width of paper clip) to slide in between case, to initially open wide enough to slide in credit card, after which time i slide that cc through time and time and time again until the lid pops.

Eric Jarvies

[ericjarvies]

i download by i.unlock.no BSD Subsystem .. Term-vt100.. Bootloader downgrade after all that i tap term-vt100 it went throw all ok ienew and i see message hope fully main flash deleted .. then i run iunew it went ok too i see testpoint 55.. and on end message
ttempting to read[1]...44
run bbupdater -v and pray
if it worked, enjoy your unlocked iPhone!!!

now my problem start here .. i have to download bsband or what ever it call
by taping term-vt100

when i give this comand

bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep

error faild to open or read fls file
why this is now where is problem i connect phone with ibrik i see file still there in usr/bin/ there is file same name so please point me what to do to install that i stuck on this last stage

make sure the CommCenter plist is unloaded. make sure, while inside folder, you chmod 777 *. if that fails, type ps -A and find the PID's of everything running in the /System/Library/Fr... and then issue kill -9 123 (replace 123 with the PID number of the process). once all those are killed, try bbupdater -f *fls -e *eep command and hopefully it works.

helpful?

Eric Jarvies

[Superflav]

Quick Question.

I have iphone 1.1.2 OTB I upgraded (accident) to 1.1.3 and now I have BL4.6 with 04.03.13_G. :(

I can downgrade to 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 easily but no iphone functionality. I also have preprogrammed TurboSim

Can I downgrade HW to BL 3.9 ?:confused:
Any way I can get my iphone function back?

Thanks

[crzy_dmd]

hi crzy_dmd! the same thing happend to me on my wifes phone. after the BL downgrade the WIFI signal is lousy. I can connect fine, when i am very close to my AP, but the connection drops when i am more than 3 meters away. GSM is fine.

if it is a BL issue, maybe a reset of all settings could help (but i am not sure about that, since there should be no settings stored in the BL)
so you had bad signal on 1.1.1 and 1.1.2. have you tried to go down to 1.0.2 yet?

the antenna cable runs indeed very close to the area, where you open the iphone, so there is a good chance that you (and me) have damaged it.
i found a pic of the antennas here hxxp://iphoneantenna.com/

Hi there, thx for reply...

i try this:

install the BossPrefs, and in there, i shut off the EDGE, since there is no EDGE in my country, and WOLA!!! i get back the Wifi signal...

try it, and post if this work for u. ;)

[holgs]

WOOOOOOOWWW!
Just tried the hardware method and it really seemed to be working...
Actually I did all the thigs mentioned in the
http://gadgetsandyou.blogspot.com/2008/02/hardware-unlocked-my-112-ootb-iphone.html
which has nice detailed comments for a noob like me...

Still i got one question remaining:

I started with the hardwaremethod only, because I killed my wifi, imei, ... by trying to use a basebanderaser made for the old bootladers.
now i followed all the steps mentioned in the above tutorial and everything seemed to work.
On settings it sais now I have modem firmware 04.01.13_G and also my imei reappeared

BUT I STILL DONT HAVE ANY WIFI

So just wanted to ask if anyone knows the last steps???
Just RESTORE to 1.1.2 with itunes?
this should update the baseband and give me back my wifi & co, sholudn't it????
And I should still have the hacked BL 3.9? True???


Thanks for help on this...!!!

[GeeZuZz]

WOOOOOOOWWW!
this should update the baseband and give me back my wifi & co, sholudn't it????[/I]
Yes, do a restore to 1.1.2 - if you still have the problem it's probably hardware fault.

For people who have problem with "bbupdater -f 111.fls -e 111.eep" file not found etc.: Make sure you have installed latest versions of my bootloader downgrade package. If you installed it over a week ago, those files arent even included. If you installed them the first day i added them, they are not chmod'ed correctly, so you need to chmod 755 manually. All packages now containes pre-chmoded files, so there should be no problem with this anymore if you have the latest versions!

Note: Some people reported that after writing 111.fls and eep, phone appears to work normal, and unlock with anysim is successfull etc - but you get no signal. It looks like even though you flash baseband after bootloader downgrade, you will need to restore your phone to 1.1.1 again before you get signal. If someone has a logical explaination to this, please let me know...

[mr-pp]

I dont now its right here ore not.. but i got a great Problem!

we has downgrade my IPhone from 1.1.3 to 1.1.1 and now its damage :-(

you see the Cable to CD Icon. You can go to Emergy-Call-Modus and take numbers at the display. But you can´t call again whit the Green Bottom, thats do nothing, or wating more than 30minutes and mor ... but do nothing

Maybe the Baseband is Crashed ????

Bootloader 4.6 - Baseband: 4.02.13_G
US-Phone whit 1.1.2 from Week 46 2007

(sorry my english...is not the best :-))

[crankthatsoljaboy]

hey guys when i did the testpioints work 55 i ran bbupdater -v and it tells me error the baseband is not reconzied doesnt neone no about it write me back

[holgs]

Awesome,


thanks for the quick reply!

restoring to 1.1.2 after hardware unlock gave me back my wifi!!!!

So just to make sure for the last steps:

I now restore to 1.1.1.
jailbreak, activate

but then????
oktoprep, update to 1.1.2 and then anysim???
or the other way round???
I just dont want to brick my phone again!!!
Which version of anysim is safe to run after hardware unlock of an otb 1.1.2?????


Thanks!

[hihihi]

i am VERY new to jailbreaking and having an iphone.....

what is a site that i can go to that can teach me how to jailbreak and downgrade a 1.1.2 iphone to 1.1.1 becuz i think i need that version to jailbreak it...i jus wanna unlock it.

and also a site where i can find all the downloads for the programs i will need to jailbreak....thx a lot

please help me some1....id rly appreciate it..

thx

[gsm3005]

make sure the CommCenter plist is unloaded. make sure, while inside folder, you chmod 777 *. if that fails, type ps -A and find the PID's of everything running in the /System/Library/Fr... and then issue kill -9 123 (replace 123 with the PID number of the process). once all those are killed, try bbupdater -f *fls -e *eep command and hopefully it works.

helpful?

Eric Jarvies

thanks alot to all i try as you mention and that realy work for me and my phone unlock i tested and it perfectly working on orange .. wi fi all ok thanks again to all memeber who try to help me .

now one Q? if i delete anysim is it going efect my phone or it satay unlock becuse there is a icon anysim not important to delete but i want to know just for Knowledge is possible to remove icon of anysim without having anyproblem

Thanks

Gsm3005

[Anarchy]

So anyone can confirm that the testpoint will work after the new geohots software baseband downgrader?

[negrayrenata]

sorry gehoozz but, i can´t find the solution for this,
i am in 1.0.2 in perfect form the commcenter was deleted, but always the same mistake, can you help me?

[pitakid10]

Is the software version in the process yet?

[pramer]

Hi there, thx for reply...

i try this:

install the BossPrefs, and in there, i shut off the EDGE, since there is no EDGE in my country, and WOLA!!! i get back the Wifi signal...

try it, and post if this work for u. ;)


thx for your reply. i tried bossPrefs and netservices.app, but both of them were not able to get rid of EDGE (E still showing next to the carrier logo).
Today i tried without a SIM-card (pretty sure, that there is no edge without a SIM ;-) ) -- same weak WIFI signal.

I am on 1.1.2 now. Next thing will do is to restore to 1.1.1 and see, what will happen there.

btw. are you at 1.1.1 or 1.1.2?

[crzy_dmd]

thx for your reply. i tried bossPrefs and netservices.app, but both of them were not able to get rid of EDGE (E still showing next to the carrier logo).
Today i tried without a SIM-card (pretty sure, that there is no edge without a SIM ;-) ) -- same weak WIFI signal.

I am on 1.1.2 now. Next thing will do is to restore to 1.1.1 and see, what will happen there.

btw. are you at 1.1.1 or 1.1.2?


i was in 1.1.1 and then upgrade to 1.1.2, now wifi works fine... (not same as before the HW unlock, but now i have better signal)

[lolof]

Hello,

In view of the last event and the new upcoming one,
is it possible to upgrade the 3.9 bl back to 4.6.
Can someone give details on this.
Thanks

[qwerty2020]

I'm stuck at the iunew part. When I do that and connect the points it says "Did you erase the flash..." and I can't get any further than that. Can someone please help me....

Thanks in advance!!