I just finished doing this!
Using the info posted on iphoneatlas, I was able to successfully get my phone modified, updated from 1.02 to 1.11 firmware, and then get back into it.
I got ssh installed manually (along with the updated BSD subsystem) like their instructions said, and then I was able to manually patch springboard and install the Installer.app program. It works!
I'd say the whole process took me about 2 hours of time, total.
Note that my phone is subscribed with AT&T and I've never attempted to carrier-unlock it. Their instructions talk about backing a file up and restoring it later, etc. for some people with unlocked phones, but I can't speak for that part of the process.
A few "gotchas" I ran into though:
1. After you first SSH into your iPhone and rename Media to a backup file, create the symlink called "Media" that points to your iPhone's root directory and then apply the 1.11 firmware upgrade through iTunes - you need to launch iTunes again after rebooting the phone, so it can complete the activation process. (Otherwise, it's stuck in "Emergency only" mode and the next steps they tell you about running iphuc and checking for read/write filesystem capabilities will fail!)
2. I had a number of applications like Summerboard on my phone when I was running firmware 1.02. I can see now the "cleanest" way to do this whole upgrade is to go through and uninstall all of those through AppTap Installer BEFORE attemping this upgrade. Installer.app seemed to preserve its list of my "installed applications" after this upgrade, so things like Summerboard still show up as installed, despite not actually working anymore. My attempt to uninstall them is failing with a script error of some sort.
3. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not having any luck getting any of the IM applications (Apollo, etc.) to actually connect to my ICQ accounts. They appear to work properly but never seem to establish connections.
Using the info posted on iphoneatlas, I was able to successfully get my phone modified, updated from 1.02 to 1.11 firmware, and then get back into it.
I got ssh installed manually (along with the updated BSD subsystem) like their instructions said, and then I was able to manually patch springboard and install the Installer.app program. It works!
I'd say the whole process took me about 2 hours of time, total.
Note that my phone is subscribed with AT&T and I've never attempted to carrier-unlock it. Their instructions talk about backing a file up and restoring it later, etc. for some people with unlocked phones, but I can't speak for that part of the process.
A few "gotchas" I ran into though:
1. After you first SSH into your iPhone and rename Media to a backup file, create the symlink called "Media" that points to your iPhone's root directory and then apply the 1.11 firmware upgrade through iTunes - you need to launch iTunes again after rebooting the phone, so it can complete the activation process. (Otherwise, it's stuck in "Emergency only" mode and the next steps they tell you about running iphuc and checking for read/write filesystem capabilities will fail!)
2. I had a number of applications like Summerboard on my phone when I was running firmware 1.02. I can see now the "cleanest" way to do this whole upgrade is to go through and uninstall all of those through AppTap Installer BEFORE attemping this upgrade. Installer.app seemed to preserve its list of my "installed applications" after this upgrade, so things like Summerboard still show up as installed, despite not actually working anymore. My attempt to uninstall them is failing with a script error of some sort.
3. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not having any luck getting any of the IM applications (Apollo, etc.) to actually connect to my ICQ accounts. They appear to work properly but never seem to establish connections.
