Well here’s the update with our iPhone. For recap purposes the iPhone was running 1.1.3 software out of the box from the Apple Store. The iPhone was also activated officially through iTunes and is on a AT&T contract. The entire purpose of the jailbreak for 1.1.3 was to be able to install some third party software (NES emulator most importantly).

I reported earlier that we were able to complete the process and the “1.1.3 soft upgrade package” in the AppInstaller. Instructions here

Well, we started fresh. We put the iPhone into restore mode (holding the menu *home button* + power buttons, let the iphone restart, count off 10 seconds, release the power button, then release the menu button *home button*). We connected the iPhone to the PC, iTunes detected the iPhone was in restore mode. We held down the SHIFT key on the keyboard and clicked restore. We directed the iTunes to the 1.1.1 restore image and let the phone proceed through the restore process. The process was immediately stopped after the iPhone verified the software and we had to use ibrickr in order to force iTunes to accept the restore 1.1.1 image file.

The restore completed and we were greeted with the 1015 error which is typical. We booted up iBrickr again and initiated the reboot option. Unfortunately it gave us the Green Screen with the iTunes logo instead of the red screen. We were forced to complete the restore process again, but this time iTunes accepted the restore image file without the need of iBrickr. At this point we used iBrickr to reboot the phone once we were greeted with the 1015 error for the second time and we were able to get to the activation screen. Using the *#307# dial, accept call, erase number up top and type 0, click dial, answer the call, press hold, deny the call. Now we were in the contacts menu and we proceeded to add the two new contacts prefs://11 and http://www.jailbreakme.com as usual.

The phone was shortly jailbroken and we were able to start the 1.1.3 jailbreak for the second time today. For testing purposes we tried using a different AT&T Sim card since we had previously experienced the error below

We followed the steps for the 1.1.3 jailbreak here like before, and this time we chose to let iBrickr download the restore image instead of having the program find the file manually. I suspect that the software does not do a sufficient job of locating the restore image unless you manually place this file in the ibrickr directory so I suggest that you just have iBrickr download the image itself from apple.com

This time we were left with a frozen apple logo after the device reboot *it took approximately 20 minutes for the 1.1.3 soft update package* to complete installation. The device was now at the home screen with firmware 1.1.3 installed, app installer was there and looking sharp, but the AT&T signal was no where to be found. We were stuck with 1 bar and no AT&T logo, we tried going into the Phone application and there was no number displayed at the top of the contact list. Also iTunes did not display a phone number when it synchronized with the iPhone.

So for now, no success here with the 1.1.3 jailbreak with a 1.1.3 OTB iPhone, officially activated through iTunes on a 2 Yr At&T Contract…

The quest will continue, stay posted.