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Before we start with the guide, you need to first download iPhone firmware 2.1 (for 1st iPhone, use this download link and for iPhone 3G, use this download link).

You can then follow these steps to downgrade from iPhone firmware 2.2 to firmware 2.1:

• Connect your iPhone to your Mac or PC and select your iPhone from the list of devices in iTunes. If things had gone horribly wrong while hacking your iPhone and iTunes does not detect your iPhone then you will need to put it in DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) mode.

• • You can follow these steps to put your iPhone in DFU mode (this is required only if iTunes does not recognize your iPhone):
    • Connect your iPhone to your computer.
    • Turn iPhone off.
    • Hold power and home together for 10 seconds (exactly).
    • Release power but keep holding home until the computers beeps (observed on a PC) as a USB device is recognized.
    • A few seconds later iTunes should detect your iPhone.

• In the Summary Tab, Hold down Option and press the “Restore” button. If you are using Windows hold down Shift and press the Restore button. (This is an important step as just pressing the “Restore” button will result in restoring your iPhone with the latest firmware which is firmware 2.2 currently, by holding down Option in case of Mac or Shift in case of Windows, allows you choose the firmware file that you want to downgrade to.)

• You should be able to see all the older iPhone firmware files you had downloaded so far, select iPhone firmware 2.1 file (iPhone1,1_2.1_5F136_Restore.ipsw) to restore your iPhone or browse to the folder where you have downloaded it and select it.

• You might get the any of the following errors: 1011, 1013, 1015, you can ignore them. However, if you get errors such as: 1601, 1602, 1600 or anything else then try putting the iPhone into DFU mode and try again.

• Your iPhone should now be restored to iPhone firmware 2.1 (Settings -> General -> About). You can then jailbreak and unlock your 1st gen iPhone or jailbreak iPhone 3G using QuickPwn v2.1 by following this step-by-step guide.

We haven’t tried this yet on the iPhone 3G as we haven’t upgraded to iPhone firmware 2.2 after the warning from the iPhone Dev Team but have tried this out on an iPod Touch (after upgrading it to iPhone firmware 2.2) and it works without any problem. James who had tipped us about this method has tried this out and confirms that it works.

Based on the information that iPhone Dev team had shared about firmware 2.2, we are assuming that this does not downgrade the baseband firmware in case of iPhone 3G which also gets upgraded with the iPhone firmware 2.2 update. So we are not sure if iPhone 3G users who accidentally upgraded to iPhone firmware 2.2 will be able to unlock their iPhones when iPhone Dev Team release their software method to unlock iPhone 3G.

But by downgrading to iPhone firmware 2.1 they should be able to at least jailbreak their iPhone 3G so they can install the unofficial iPhone apps (which was the condition when they upgrade to the latest firmware).

In case of the 1st gen iPhone, since the baseband firmware does not get upgraded, by downgrading to iPhone firmware 2.1, 1st gen iPhone users should be able to jailbreak and unlock their iPhones.

Please remember that hacking your iPhone could result in voiding your warranty so please proceed with caution.

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I have been getting a couple people asking me if to upgrade to 2.0.1 or if to wait, and I found a couple really useful articles/guides that answer allot of the questions on everyone’s minds. 2.0.1 seems to have fixed the slowness of some of the apps in 2.0 on both the iPhone 3G and first gen iPhones, but some users have gotten errors while updating.

Hopefully this article will help you answer any questions and/or solve/avoid any problems encountered if you choose to or have upgraded to 2.0.1

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Engadget is reporting that Apple has started seeding 2.1 Beta 1, Build 5F90 Firmware to beta testers and developers and they are already reporting some great improvements over 2. I had already mentioned that 2.0.1 was being circulated internally by Apple and some of it’s trusted beta testers, but 2.0.1 is mainly bug fixes to 2.0 long list of gremlins.

2.1 on the other hand seems to be chock full of surprises. Having a look at the WebKit framework there are commands for “plugins,” “copy,” “paste,” “cut,” and some others. It is still unclear if this is simply code left over from the Apples Desktop OS X, but it is highly unlikely.

Maybe Apple saw the work of the Developer that submitted the Copy and Paste App and decided to buy/license it from them. Rumor has it they did the same thing with the Handwriting regocnition software that was submitted to th AppStore that made it’s way into Japanese and Chinese iPhone Firmwares.

Courtesy Engadget

This is a screen shot of an app that was submitted to the AppStore (by a developer that I cant find the name of) that shows their App that has cut, copy and paste features.

Apple has always said that they were thinking of adding Copy and Paste, but they had bigger things to deal with. Hopefully someone else has done all the hard work for them and all they need to do is give the App permissions and tweak it so that it works through out the operating system and between Apps. Because without a real clipboard that allows you to copy and paste text/urls/email addresses between safari and mail or a third party aapp like Wordpress, this new feature will be worthless for the msot part.

Update thanks to MacRumors:

… Apple has included new Core Location features that might suggest that turn-by-turn GPS could become a reality. Core Location can reportedly track your direction and the speed at which you are traveling.

Along with the new firmware, Apple has also seeded a new version of the iPhone SDK but the new SDK can not be used to submit Apps to the current App Store. There have been earlier reports that Firmware 2.0.1 had been spotted in the wild, but a 2.1 upgrade would presumably introduce more than just bug fixes.

Update: Besides Core Location speed and heading additions, Apple has also included early Push Notifications APIs that allows applications to process notifications in the background. Apple promised this feature by September.

This photo courtesy Gizmodo and Gear Live

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