Why did the 3.0.1 iPhone software update brick my 1G iPhone?

Posted by Jeff Leonard on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Jeff Leonard
Published on 2009-08-03T13:41:08Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 18:03 UTC
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The 3.0.1 software update bricked my iPhone and I had to do a hard reset, wipe and reload to recover it.

Has anyone else had their first Gen iPhone bricked by the 3.0.1 software update?

Does anyone have any insight about what causes this update to brick 1G iPhones?

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