Unlocked iPhone Upgrade: links to live by
I decided to get off my butt and upgrade my unlocked iPhone from 1.0.2 to 1.1.1 last week…and it was a complete disaster. Here are some of the mistakes I made, how to avoid them, and the links which will bail you out.
- Check your iTunes version, and make sure it’s supported by iNdependence before you start. I’d become somewhat relaxed with my iTunes upgrades, only to learn halfway through the upgrade that 7.5 is not supported by iNdependence. A quick download of AppZapper to completely remove iTunes, and a download of iTunes 7.4 (you’ll have to dig around to find the file) later, I was back with a useable version of iTunes.
- Always do option-clicks on the “restore” and “update” buttons in iTunes. I didn’t decide to upgrade to 1.1.1 until after 1.1.2 came out, and I didn’t realize that clicking “upgrade” (like all the walkthroughs will tell you to do) was going to put 1.1.2 on the phone. If you make this mistake, and have an iPhone that’s been upgraded from 1.0.2 to 1.1.2, follow these instructions to save your phone.
- Start here if you haven’t already screwed yourself up; the guys over at ModMyiFone.com will take you all the way through the downgrade/upgrade process.
- The jailbreakme.com trick didn’t work for me. The ModMyiFone guides will take you through a nifty little process that lets you visit a website from your iPhone, and jailbreak it automatically. Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked for me (on two phones that I’ve now upgraded). Instead, unlock it with iNdependence, and install Installer.app manually through iNdependence.
Like I said, my phone was an absolute disaster…but I was able to upgrade my wife’s iPhone in about 15 minutes. Now, if only I could get her to consistently sync her phone…
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