Help please - problem unlocking 1st Gen iPhone

[parasky]

Help Please!

I just jailbroke my 1st gen iPhone using Quickpwn and it looks like everything worked great, cydia and installer are now on my phone. However, the main reason I wanted to do this was to unlock my phone and it appears that never happened. I popped a T-Mobil sim card in my phone and the phone said to connect to Itunes. When I did, Itunes said that I was using a non-supported sim card. So it looks like I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Darth.Titan]

Jailbreaking and unlocking are two different things. Search the forums as there are tons of threads with info on unlocking your iPhone.

 

[parasky]

Yes, I know the difference. But I thought quickpwn did both?

Anybody? I thought that running quickpwn both jailbroke and unlocked the phone but it looks like it only jailbroke my phone and didn't unlock it. Does anybody have an idea of what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

 

[jmann]

If it is a 2G then you need to download "bootneuter" from cydia. That should unlock the phone.

 

[instaxgirl]

I unlocked my boyfriend's 2G a month ago with quickpwn.

I didn't install Cydia though, just hit the unlock box. Can't remember what I did but handily I just followed the tutorial on iClarified.

Google iClarified, go into tutorials and find the one for unlock 2G with quickpwn. Follow instructions

 

[Moi un Mouton]

You should restore the phone to an unactivated state first. I did this by using DFU mode to make sure it was clean.

Then run the QuickPwn process and you should find the unlock works OK.

 

[parasky]

Thanks Everybody! I finally got it to work. I went to iclarified and followed the pwnage tool tutorial and that finally made it work.

One more question. Pwnage restored my phone so now when I connect it to iTunes it is asking whether I want to set it up as a new phone or restore it from a back up. I think the backup is from my other iPhone, though. So should I set it up as a new phone even if it isn't activated from AT&T?

Thanks.

 

[jmann]

Set it up as a new phone. You had the option whether or not to "hactivate" it when you were going through pwnage tool.

 

[parasky]

Thanks, I obviously had no clue what I was doing!