If you went ahead an installed 1.1.1 only to end up with a Jonathan Ive-designed paperweight at the end of it, you’ve got a couple of choices: go to your nearest Apple store, tail between your legs, and hope they take pity on you and fix your iPhone somehow, or turn to your friendly neighbourhood hack-community and see what functionality they can restore.  Over at the Apple-Touch forums we’re pointed in the direction of some instructions that promise at least a partial restore; in this case, use of all but the GSM functionality unless you’re using the original AT&T SIM. 

So, if you can make do with WiFi connectivity, this might just be your salvation; basically it downgrades all but the baseband to firmware version 1.0.2 - not perfect but we’re told that the team are still beavering away.  Full instructions after the cut…

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With the tail end of Sunday in sight, I’d imagine quite a few iPhone owners have been spending the weekend getting to grips with Apple’s 1.1.1 firmware upgrade, downloading the 152.3mb file and bringing their shiny handset up to Steve-speed.  The headline feature is of course the iTunes WiFi Store, but there are plenty of other tweaks and improvements that might not leap out at you instantly; should you have missed them, or if you’re wondering what a shop-fresh iPhone will come with, here’s the full run-down of the 1.1.1 handset including some of the features Apple hasn’t mentioned…

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