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For those having problems this is the only way I was able to get it to work on AT&T without dropping in and out signal over and over.

1. Install BossPrefs and Yellowsn0w from Cydia

2. Disable everything in BossPrefs

3. Reboot your iPhone using BossPrefs

4. Wait 1.30 min when you see lockscreen

5. Take your sim out and insert it

6. Wait a moment

7. In settings turn on Fly Mode

8. Turn off Fly Mode

9. Your iPhone 3G should be working now!
 
OK, I have spent the last 2 days working solid trying to get this to work on the UK Three (3) carrier on a iPhone that was locked to o2. Follow these steps, each one is pretty important:

1. Restore your iPhone with itunes to 2.2 firmware (if you haven’t already)

2. Jailbreak with QuickPwn (if you haven’t already)

3. Open installer and add the source Dev Team provided and download yellowsn0w 0.9.4 (if you haven’t already)

4. Download BigBoss Prefs (if you haven’t already)

5. Download Mobile Terminal (if you haven’t already)

6. Go into Settings -> Phone -> show My Caller ID Turn this ON
** Although it maybe greyed out and say OFF, you can still turn it ON**

7. Go into BigBoss Prefs and click Reboot

8. Once phone is on, go into Terminal

9. OK, now the timing of this next part in important.
There are 4 lines that need to be entered. You need to type;
- yellowsn0w –r
- yellowsn0w –c
- These two commands need to be entered between 2-4 seconds within each other. They way you do that is type in one of the commands (yellowsn0w –r) on the terminal screen (but don’t press enter) then if you click the top right corner (hit the battery symbol) another terminal will appear, type the second command (yellowsn0w –c) but don’t press enter. Now, hit the battery twice more and you’ll be back at the first terminal screen. Press enter, quickly press move to the second screen and press enter again. As long as “open: Resource Busy” does not appear, move to the next step, otherwise repeat the above, make sure you quick enough entering the commands.

10. Next do the same as the above but enter these two commands:
- yellowsn0w –r
- yellowsn0w –l
- Again, make sure they are entered within 2-4 seconds of each other. And AGAIN, you will know if this worked by waiting 20 seconds after you’ve entered “yellowsn0w –l” and “open: Resource Busy” does not appear. (You should also see “Searching...” where your signal should be..,”

11. OK, nearly done, press home button to get out of terminal, go into Settings and turn on Aeroplane mode...turn it off...it’ll probably say “Searching...” again, if after another 20 seconds it’s still saying it, turn it on and off again and NOW it should find your network. **You’ll know if it’s working after this step as the “Carrier” bar will appear under WiFi.


NOTES – I’ve done this 3 times now to my own phone, seems to require it after each reboot. And don’t worry, it never worked the first time I tried it on each of the 3 occasions. I had WiFi on, Edge on, doesn’t seem to matter, it all seems to be about the terminal commands and having your Caller ID Showing...

OW, and BIG PROPS goes out to deli_gt who advised me through these hard times
 
Weird Experience with Yellowsn0w, cannot find network

OK, so i bought a pay as you go iphone from O2 yesterday. Got it home, followed the instructions and bada-bing bada-boom my Orange contracted sim worked, no problems. I've been using it today and also had no problems, they really have done a great job with this. BUT, i was trying something earlier because my friend was sending me a large text message and it didn't seem to receive them. I turned the phone off, then on again and since then have not been able to get any signal from Orange. I have uninstalled Yelowsn0w through Cydia and re-installed it (upgrading to 0.9.5 in the meantime) but still don't seem to be having any luck with it finding the Orange network. Has anybody else had similar problems or does anybody have any suggesstions? Any help would be much appreciated!
 
Whenever i click the link under Release Info., it brings me to a page with huge word saying Yellowsn0w Third Generation. Am i missing something? I must sound stupid here but i am trying to help my friend unlock his phone

You have to add http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/ as a source to Cydia in order to be able to install yellowsn0w via Cydia.
 
so i have a silly question...i was wondering if anybody could help me out?

i currently have a 2.1 16gb iphone 3G with att contract. modem firmware 2.11.07. I jb'ed it via pwnagetool and I use cydia. I downloaded the IPSW for iphone3g and then used pwnage
HOW exactly do I upgrade to firmware 2.2 and jailbreak it? I checked out http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ about the yellowsn0w but I still don't get it. :( I still want to be able to unlock it in the future so I did not upgrade 2.2 via itunes yet. I use windows, but don't see any pwnagetool for 2.2 yet.
much help appreciated!!
 
so i have a silly question...i was wondering if anybody could help me out?

i currently have a 2.1 16gb iphone 3G with att contract. modem firmware 2.11.07. I jb'ed it via pwnagetool and I use cydia. I downloaded the IPSW for iphone3g and then used pwnage
HOW exactly do I upgrade to firmware 2.2 and jailbreak it? I checked out http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ about the yellowsn0w but I still don't get it. :( I still want to be able to unlock it in the future so I did not upgrade 2.2 via itunes yet. I use windows, but don't see any pwnagetool for 2.2 yet.
much help appreciated!!


Your looking at old instructions. Just restore you iphone in the latest version of iTunes, upgrade everything normally and then use winpwn to jailbreak. You need to be on 2.2's modem firmware to use Yellowsn0w. Once jailbroken add Yellowsn0w's source in Cydia or Installer and download / install. Don't use pwnage and deal with all that. Just adds to many problems for so many. Again, the old news of don't upgrade to 2.2 via iTunes is exactly that, old and not the correct procedure. Upgrade to 2.2 NORMALLY and jailbreak with either quickpwn or winpwn.

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w
 
Cool. I added it and it works now. I thought the Dev-team would just put the release in the download section rather than making things a bit more complicated. Thanks!!!:D

Putting it in the downloads section WOULD make it more complicated, because transferring it to the phone via ssh is something that a lot of people wouldn't want to bother with trying. They offer yellowsn0w through a simple download in cydia/installer that makes it simple for everyone. :)
 
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