I'm a n00b iPhone User w/ No Understanding of Jailbreaking/Unlocking - Help!

[dhlizard]

I for one am very happy you made your post LissiSays because I have/had a lot of the same questions. I still have v1 on T-Mobile but its been dropped several times, the battery is not what it used to be and I would like some of the new apps. (v1 iPhone, v1.1.4 (4A102).

Is there anyway to get the new 3GS other than to buy one on eBay for half my house mortgage?

I live outside the Albuquerque area (way out) and only have T-Mobile, no ATT.

Thanks for any help.

Why not just get a 3G. There must be tons of Jailbroken/unlocked ones on Ebay which will work on Tmob.

Got to be alot cheaper. Besides, 3GS only does a couple of things that the 3G won't do.

 

[RandomKamikaze]

Why not just get a 3G. There must be tons of Jailbroken/unlocked ones on Ebay which will work on Tmob.

Got to be alot cheaper. Besides, 3GS only does a couple of things that the 3G won't do.

Also the fact that the 3G S is not jailbreakable and therefore not unlockable

 

[Moi un Mouton]

I for one am very happy you made your post LissiSays because I have/had a lot of the same questions. I still have v1 on T-Mobile but its been dropped several times, the battery is not what it used to be and I would like some of the new apps. (v1 iPhone, v1.1.4 (4A102).

Is there anyway to get the new 3GS other than to buy one on eBay for half my house mortgage?

I live outside the Albuquerque area (way out) and only have T-Mobile, no ATT.

Thanks for any help.

You could start by updating to 3.0 on your existing phone, and using Redsn0w to unlock it again. Then you can get all the app-store apps you want (well, not GPS-based ones) and all the nice new 3.0 features.

 

[CoachStall]

Thank you so much!

I saw this morning that Ultrasn0w was released so I'll be updating the phone on iTunes to 3.0 as soon as I get home. This might sound silly, but I don't know, does the AT&T sim card have to be in the phone during this process? The AT&T sim card is still activated for a few more days from the previous owner. Or do I put my TMobile sim card in?

And does it matter if you do this process on a MacBook? Or is it better on a PC? I still have my old PC laptop (even though it's super slow) and wonder if there is a difference.

I left the AT&T Sim Card in the phone until the unlocking process where I had to put in the TMobile card to see if it was successful. I also forgot to turn off the 3G before the process but it didn't do anything. The E for Edge appeared on its own and THEN I turned off 3G when I remembered.

Do you need to have an active Att sim card in the phone to connect to cydia? Can you unlock without ANY Sim card present?

 

[Moi un Mouton]

Do you need to have an active Att sim card in the phone to connect to cydia? Can you unlock without ANY Sim card present?

You can, yes.

 

[CoachStall]

I am havinh trouble with the iphone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw file. While reading through the iClarified jailbreak procedure i download the restore file provided by the link in the walkthrough and it saves as a ZIP file, Not as an IPSW. This makes it unable to use redsn0w. I need some help!

 

[dhlizard]

I am havinh trouble with the iphone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw file. While reading through the iClarified jailbreak procedure i download the restore file provided by the link in the walkthrough and it saves as a ZIP file, Not as an IPSW. This makes it unable to use redsn0w. I need some help!

Unzip it or use the IPSW downloaded on your computer when you upgraded to 3.0. It's already stored if you use iTunes to upgrade.

 

[PiXy]

hi, its very confusing to start on what to do... basically the rules changed as soon as apple upgraded to to 3.0 software. i also have a 3g so i speak from expierence. heres the best advice i can give you, but beware there are glitches in unlocking an iphone, but seeing as you have tmobile you have no choice. hopefully the new redsnow 7.2 download will be better than the 7.1 version. i have yet to see... but this your best bet.. download redsnow 0.7.2 then download iphone1,2_3.0_7a341_restore. its better to download the iphone123 from firefox.... you can get both of those from dev team website or many others out there for whatever operating system you have, just search for them.or if you have a mac download pwnage. then you have to add ultasnow to your new cydia app... follow dev teams intructions for this as well. all the others, like qwkpwn, etc were for older versions of itunes. they will not work with the new iphone firmware 3.0. hope this helps.

 

[pelicanflip]

I for one am very happy you made your post LissiSays because I have/had a lot of the same questions. I still have v1 on T-Mobile but its been dropped several times, the battery is not what it used to be and I would like some of the new apps. (v1 iPhone, v1.1.4 (4A102).

Is there anyway to get the new 3GS other than to buy one on eBay for half my house mortgage?

I live outside the Albuquerque area (way out) and only have T-Mobile, no ATT.

Thanks for any help.

honestly, the only way to get a brand new 3GS right now would be to either buy it with/without a plan in an Apple store in the US and wait for the jailbreak to be released, or to buy a factory unlocked iphone from overseas, or eBay/other online means.

i'm in the same rut as you. i'm just going to buy the 3GS here in the US, and wait patiently for the jailbreak to be released. I'd rather just wait a month or two instead of shelling out 200-300 bucks extra. Not to mention, the warranty would be overseas too, so if I would want to return the iphone for a new one or anything, it would take up to two weeks for it to return.

Two weeks vs. me going downtown and picking up a new one. i'd forego the immediate want of a 3GS for a much easier time with my 3GS later on.