Rumor: So your bricked your iPhone, what next?
Well, you can wait for the iPhone Dev Team to come up with a solution, and you know they will, they are the gods of the iPhone, I really don’t see why Apple doesn’t just put them on payroll and save us all the hassle. Or, you can lie.
Here is the deal, Apple’s latest firmware somehow changes the IMEI of your phone (I swear that the last time I checked that was illegal) anyways, that’s how the Apple dudes know if you hacked your phone. Apparently though, this is also affecting all of the prepaid wireless iPhones, not just the hacked ones. This bug is unconfirmed as of yet, which is why there is the Rumor tag.
Original post by James Allan Brady