Added: I wasn’t able to update my firmware on my own iPhone. It errors out as soon as iTunes extract the ROM. The issue was fixed by update iTunes to version 7.7. Everything went well afterwards.

I forgot to bring my iPhone to work today. But I was able to play with my co-worker’s iPhone after we updated (restored) the firmware to 2.0.

Exchange worked great on iPhone, we were able to download Emails, Contacts and Calendars off of our server. The crazy part is we can search users in our Active Directory, holy sheez! I’ll never have to carry my company phone (WM5 Treo) no more.

Thanks to my buddy Rich for telling me about the Chinese input for iPhone 1.1.1. Now, not only in SMS, I can input Chinese in contacts, notes, search bars… Well, anywhere that allows input. I can switch back and forth from Chinese to English. The input method is available in both simplified and traditional Chinese.

Click here for more information and installation instructions:
http://www.iphone.org.hk/cgi-bin/ch/topic_show.cgi?id=1319

Apple might face another lawsuit again, from a report of this firm Greenpeace (I’ve never heard of) shows that the iPhone contains hazardous chemicals that are harmful to the earth.

Zeina Alhajj, Greenpeace International toxic campaigner said:

“It seems that Apple is far from leading the way for a green electronics industry as competitors, like Nokia, already sell mobile phones free of PVC.”

Way to go, Apple! Just one after another!

Looks like they finally did it!… 3 weeks after the iBrick disaster. Oh! Hold on, it only works on iPhones in virgin state, meaning if the iPhone was bricked while upgrading to firmware 1.1.1, due to a previous unlock. If this happened to you. Then the Dev Team’s AnySim 1.1 FREE solution won’t work (yet), Hmm… Bummer!

If the phone is brand new, never been unlocked and upgraded to 1.1.1. Or it was purchased with iPhone firmware 1.1.1. Then the AnySim 1.1 will unlock your iPhone! They’ve also announced that “You might run into the same problem when the next firmware version comes”.

I wonder who makes more money. Is it the Dev Team’s FREE AnySim that accepts Donations, or the iPhoneSimFree sold in individual license.

This application is called WeSMS, developed by weiphone.com. I know this application means nothing to a lot of us in the U.S, cuz not that many of us have phones with Chinese. But for those who uses iPhone and has a few friends with Chinese phones. This can be fun and useful. I think the messages will only go through if the person you sent msgs to is in the same network as you. Example: at&t to at&t, T-Mobile to T-Mobile. No cross-network Chinese SMS. (Correct me if I’m wrong!) At this time, I think it’s only available in simplified Chinese, and Pingyin input only.

You can download WeSMS (Chinese SMS input for iPhone) on my site. The installation goes as follows.

• Use iBrickr to upload the *.PXL file within the rar. (Before you can do this, you need to install the PXL support on iPhone. Just follow the instructions on iBrickr.)
• Restart iPhone.
• You can to launch WeSms application on the springboard, you cannot just input Chinese via SMS on iPhone.

Thursday night, I cannot wait anymore. I decided to purchase iPhoneSimFree (IPSF) v1.6 to fix my baseband. If you have upgraded to version 1.1.1 and bricked your phone, follow the instructions I provided previously to unbrick and activate the phone back to 1.0.2 firmware. I paid $60 to purchase IPSF (The only software that unlock/fix 1.1.1 baseband for now.) to have the phone recognizing my SIM and change the IMEI back to original.

Note: If your iPhone was bricked, the IMEI changed to a default number. When using IPSF, make sure you take out your SIM, although the instructions might tell you to leave it in. Because the IEMI changes only if bricked iPhone descovers a SIM in the slot. It shows your original IEMI when SIM removed.

Alright. So, I managed to unbrick my iPhone into iTouch. Basically it has all the features except Calling/SMS/GPRS. But, it’s a break through for me.

Now, waiting for someone to come up with the baseband restore. Then I can have my iPhone back! Yeh!! Here are the steps for my notes. I’m not responsible if this causes any damage to your device.

• Download iTunes 7.4
• Dock your iPhone and connect it to windows, and press Power+Home button for exactly 10 seconds. Meanwhile you will see the slide to power off screen.
• Download Apptap
• Confirm your iTune software is not running. Press Crt+Alt+Del Task Manager and end the process of itunes and itunes helper.
• Dock your iPhone and run Apptap. It will jailbreak your iphone and install installer.app on your iphone. It might show error at first. But just restart the program and your iPhone keep on trying till it gets done! Don’t worry how many times it takes. It will get through.
• Download Paycay (This activates iPhone without using iTunes.)
• Run the “(CLICK HERE) activate” Batch File. Follow the instructions. This step should get through at once.
• Restart and it should be back to the normal mode without asking you to activate. 

OK! Let’s wait for the next step!