I signed up for the iPhone Developer Program yesterday at the enormous expense of $100 and made the decision to start learning SDK 3.0. At this stage I know absolutely zero Objective C and have never written a program for iPhone, web or otherwise – but you gotta start somewhere, right?

I want to stress that I’m a legitimate user with a full Developer membership (yes I sheepishly forked out the $99 to be a member of this very elite group of upwards of 30,000 suck – er, developers). I downloaded the OS image and installed it – which immediately locked up my phone. It’s telling me now that I need to activate with iTunes. Ok, no problem, I’ll fire up iTunes. Can’t activate, why? Not a member of the developer program. Well I AM, so I go to XCode to provision the phone, but of course I can’t because the phone isn’t activated. It’s a vicious circle. OK had I known then what I know NOW I would have then gone to the Developer Portal and provisioned the phone THERE, but that insight came only hours later.

Eventually I completely bricked the phone. I wouldn’t even turn up in Xcode. OK, so I tried to downgrade.. can’t do that either. I ended up having to put the phone into DFU mode, loading an old OS image, and then using QuickPwn to fix the phone (thanks QuickPwn!). If this happens to you, don’t believe the dudes from Apple or on the forums – it IS possible to downgrade your phone using the general method I described.

I don’t think I’m supposed to talk about OS3.0 much so I won’t, but I will say that I’m looking forward to doing some development and learning the ropes of Objective C.

Tags: iPhone, sdk

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