Peter Binder Since July 26.7.2010, XNUMX, jailbreaking and unlocking phones has been legal. This decision, which applies only to the territory of the United States, was established by the US government body The US Library of Congress Copyright Office. Although it is now legal to jailbreak, Apple will continue to deny claims if it is detected.
According to the Copyright Office, the jailbreak of mobile devices, the most significant of which is the iPhone jailbreak, does not constitute copyright infringement and is therefore legal. It also became legal to unlock the phone. This decision was made despite a large number of opponents, with Apple itself trying to keep jailbreaking and unlocking as illegal.
Apple has a clear stance on jailbreaking and has stated several times in the past that jailbreaking is illegal in that it constitutes copyright infringement. Furthermore, it is said that a jailbreak could enable potential attacks on the network.
On July 27.7.2010, XNUMX, Apple issued a statement that read: "The company's goal has always been to make sure our customers have a great iPhone experience. And jailbreak can make that experience worse for them. As we've previously stated, most of our customers don't jailbreak, which voids their warranty and can cause their iPhone to become unstable and unreliable.”
This statement implies that even though it is now legal to jailbreak, Apple will no longer accept any claims you may have if it is discovered.
Source: www.ilounge.com
I would just like to add that this decision is not valid outside the US, so nothing has changed in terms of "legality" everywhere else.
But it doesn't matter because you'll lose the warranty anyway :)
I want to ask, I bought a used iphone from the first owner and it was jailbroken. Will I have problems in the case of a claim? Is there any way to find out if he was or not? Thanks
I claimed an iPhone that had been jailbroken, and everything went without a problem. If you haven't jailbroken it, I'd be quite calm... ;-)
Thanks for the info. I will add to the article. But it's true that it doesn't matter :D.
Re Peter:
You go to iTunes Restore and delete the iPhone, but you don't find anything with the operator. It would be worse if the iPhone didn't turn on, then it wouldn't restore and they could find out if it was Jailbroken. A year ago I retired my iPhone 3G. All you could see was the bitten pineapple logo and then it turned off. I took it to the service center and they gave me a new one :D. (I'm with Vodafone)
:-) I think so too and gave it that way. I was just surprised by the reaction above where it says that I will lose the warranty anyway. Or will it kill the guy?
You got it right. The jailbreak can be removed without a trace using the Gnome procedure, the service doesn't even know anything about Apple (though it could in theory, but it doesn't). In short, before going to the service, you must restore the iPhone to factory settings, then you will not lose the warranty. But if you come with a currently jailbroken one, they refuse to recognize the warranty...
In this case, if I wanted to get rid of the jailbreak so it wouldn't be known, I would use restore via DFU mode rather than classic restore. This will erase absolutely all traces left by the jailbreak.
And how will it be done? That DFU mod? Thank you
Instructions are provided in this article: http://bit.ly/aT1FXV the procedure for DFU mode starts from point 2 and ends at point 4.
Or a video tutorial on YouTube: http://bit.ly/9mhpb2
They won't accept your complaint whether you have JB or not, if it's judged by Britex, you're still out of luck (my experience with T-mobile).
Fortunately, the phone came back to me in its original condition, i.e. without scratches.
I also have a good experience with Britex. I just had to write a sales report for the warranty repair with the seller at TM, and I forced him to write in the condition of the phone that there are no scratches anywhere and that the moisture sensor is negative. I heard that I steam the phones over a kettle until the sensor turns red and then they say the phone came into contact with water and refuse to accept the warranty. That's why it's necessary to catch them in this way when they are already accepted for repair and they won't allow themselves to do anything :-)
Well, I bought a second-hand iPhone from another owner and he sold it to me "with a warranty". However, in the warranty card there was a record of receiving a claim and it was then manually written "returned without repair". My phone started to bother me, so I went to O2 and found out that the first claim was rejected because the phone was badly bumped in one corner. In the plate, it is really deepened as if from a stone, and that is enough for Britex to write that as a result, the properties of some silicon components could suddenly change, and thus the warranty expires. Good that? It's to the point that the phone annoys me... I have the same standby time and use time. Now I know that it is 100% a software error, but I still don't know how to solve it. Restore in DFU does not help. The original owner did a jailbreak on the iPhone and I think this is a result of that. Do you have any experience? Sometimes mail.
I know the word "illegal" or "legal" is often used in this regard, but I find it highly misleading. Illegal = breaking the law, not the warranty terms.
Hello, I want to ask, I recently bought an ipod from a friend and it had jailbrake installed. After I connected it to itunes and tried to upgrade the sowtvare, everything was deleted and the ipod stopped working completely, just pops up the apple logo and nothing else. Later I found out about jailbreak and also that you can't upgrade with jailbreak. The computer did not recognize it even after several attempts to connect. In the store where it was purchased by the original owner, they took away my claim, but I am not sure if I can have some legal recourse??? Thank you