Have you taken the plunge, enticed by the lure of a WiFi iTunes Music Store and better security, into the world of Apple iPhone v1.1.1? Well, you may have realized that the update isn’t worth giving up your third-party applications. Fear not, intrepid iPhone updater, there’s hope yet. You can get all your favorite third-party, natively installed iPhone applications back in working order by downgrading your firmware to v1.0.2!
Whether you bought a brand-new iPhone v1.1.1 or updated your iPhone recently, you can use this method to “down-date” your iPhone to the previously third-party application-compatible version. Oh, and if you want to unlock your brand-new iPhone with the v1.1.1 software installed, you can just perform this downgrade to v1.0.2 and unlock accordingly – of course, you won’t be able to update back to v1.1.1 until you re-lock your iPhone (the iPhone Dev Team solution is on the way).
Here’s one method to downgrade your iPhone to v1.0.2, head on over to the iPhone Dev Wiki for more details on how to perform this downgrade.
Guaranteed to work with iTunes 7.3.2. Apple didn’t think of everything.
Confirmed working with a locked iPhone that had been upgraded to 1.1.1. Downgrade using these instructions was successful. Phone is activated and all apps and 3rd-party software is working.
- Install iTunes 7.3.2, which you can download from the links below.
- Download the 1.0.2 iPhone restore file if you don’t have it already.
- Shift + Click Restore (Windows) or Option + Click Restore (Mac), then point to the file below (use .dmg file in download file).
- Use AppTap Installer you will be back to normal with EDGE and Wi-Fi support.
Mac: http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iTunes7/Mac/061-3608.20070802.im8t3/iTunes7.3.2.dmg Windows: http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iTunes7/Win/061-3610.20070802.x4r9j/iTunesSetup.exe