Iphoneunlockuk are claiming a way to activate the phone to use it as a IPOD, if this is done, will any of the posts above work to get it to work with my O2 Simcard, or should I just sit back and wait
Thanks
Chris
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Iphoneunlockuk are claiming a way to activate the phone to use it as a IPOD, if this is done, will any of the posts above work to get it to work with my O2 Simcard, or should I just sit back and wait
Thanks
Chris
I've been looking at the 'iphoneunlockuk' site aswell wondering if i should just pay £40 for a liftime of updates from them? Does anyone know if i can trust this company? Should i just wait a little longer to see if a free solution appears????
I JUST WANNA USE MY IPHONE ITS KILLIN ME LOOKING AT THE BOX!!!!!
I JUST WANNA USE MY IPHONE ITS KILLIN ME LOOKING AT THE BOX!!!!!
Go figure
What I can't understand is why
is being so greedy. Tying the customer into over priced contracts, paying a premium for the device and screwing telcos to get a slice of the revenue cannot be making economic sense. How many iphones would apple sell if it were a $399 un locked phone? Millions. Obviously all these firmware upgrades and cat and mouse games must be costing a fortune, not to mention the amount of law suits they will have to face. WTF???
Apple's greed may be what kills the iphone, not jailbreak!
What I can't understand is why
is being so greedy. Tying the customer into over priced contracts, paying a premium for the device and screwing telcos to get a slice of the revenue cannot be making economic sense. How many iphones would apple sell if it were a $399 un locked phone? Millions. Obviously all these firmware upgrades and cat and mouse games must be costing a fortune, not to mention the amount of law suits they will have to face. WTF???Apple's greed may be what kills the iphone, not jailbreak!
Alright mate? Are you gonna pay the £40 or wait? Let me know if you use iPhoneunlockuk and i may follow (im a follower not a leader ha ha).
Cheers
There seems to be a bit of misunderstanding of the current situation. As it stands, right now you cannot unlock a UK out-of-the-box 1.1.2 iPhone - even though AnySIM 1.2 has been released for the 1.1.2 software. The reason for this is that Apple have updated a part of the baseband firmware (the bootloader) and the current tools, such as AnySIM and iEraser, don't interact properly with this new bootloader and are unable to patch the modem firmware as of yet. iPhoneSimFree also does not work because it relies on modifying the bootloader to unlock the phone.
However, you can update a US iPhone that has been updated to the new 1.1.2 modem firmware. This is because the update doesn't seem to upgrade the bootloader, and so the new AnySIM 1.2 will work. I don't know about IPSF in this case though.
I would be wary of iPhoneUnlockUK. As far as I can tell, they're simply using free tools from the dev team and are totally reliant on them to release new software before they're able to unlock. There's a thread around here somewhere on them.
I'm using my UK iPhone as an iPod touch at the moment. As mentioned, this was done by downgrading the phone firmware to 1.1.1, which is a relatively simple and painless task (it took all of about 5 minutes to downgrade using iTunes and iBrickr, and another 5 to jailbreak using the i.unlock.no method) The problem is that, contrary to what I said earlier, 1.1.1 doesn't want to speak to the modem and this means your O2 cards won't work in the phone. This is probably due to some change in the modem firmware making it incompatible with 1.1.2.
However, people have been reporting that if you downgrade to 1.0.2 (also simple), you can O2 cards in it and it will work as a normal phone. But I've also hear some others say that although the phone works, visual voicemail and EDGE don't work properly. This may be down to a simple configuration issue which apparently is fixable (see the O2 specific section here). I have not tested this, mainly because I don't have access to an O2 SIM card.
The advice that everybody is being told is to simply wait. The current hope is that in the next couple of days, the dev team should be able to figure out the bootloader and as they have already obtained the secpack, unlocking the phone should be possible. But in the meantime you can downgrade to 1.1.1 and at least use everything but the phone part.
However, you can update a US iPhone that has been updated to the new 1.1.2 modem firmware. This is because the update doesn't seem to upgrade the bootloader, and so the new AnySIM 1.2 will work. I don't know about IPSF in this case though.
I would be wary of iPhoneUnlockUK. As far as I can tell, they're simply using free tools from the dev team and are totally reliant on them to release new software before they're able to unlock. There's a thread around here somewhere on them.
I'm using my UK iPhone as an iPod touch at the moment. As mentioned, this was done by downgrading the phone firmware to 1.1.1, which is a relatively simple and painless task (it took all of about 5 minutes to downgrade using iTunes and iBrickr, and another 5 to jailbreak using the i.unlock.no method) The problem is that, contrary to what I said earlier, 1.1.1 doesn't want to speak to the modem and this means your O2 cards won't work in the phone. This is probably due to some change in the modem firmware making it incompatible with 1.1.2.
However, people have been reporting that if you downgrade to 1.0.2 (also simple), you can O2 cards in it and it will work as a normal phone. But I've also hear some others say that although the phone works, visual voicemail and EDGE don't work properly. This may be down to a simple configuration issue which apparently is fixable (see the O2 specific section here). I have not tested this, mainly because I don't have access to an O2 SIM card.
The advice that everybody is being told is to simply wait. The current hope is that in the next couple of days, the dev team should be able to figure out the bootloader and as they have already obtained the secpack, unlocking the phone should be possible. But in the meantime you can downgrade to 1.1.1 and at least use everything but the phone part.
Please post back here...
Hi,
Please post back here since my original post related to this company.
It's up to you but there seems to be a few people on this thread interested.
Many thanks.
Hi,
Please post back here since my original post related to this company.
It's up to you but there seems to be a few people on this thread interested.
Many thanks.
so just to confirm, could UK iPhones folow the guide from the unlock-iphone-112-via-downgrade guide from the win&mac site to the end of stage 1 to use their iPhones as iPod Touches for the time being? (Before full jalebreaking and unlocking is achieved for 1.1.2)
Would doing this work AND would we be able to simply click Restore in iTunes to go back to a virgin iPhone if/when the full 1.1.2 unlock is released.
Im bored of only dialing "emergency numbers"
Would doing this work AND would we be able to simply click Restore in iTunes to go back to a virgin iPhone if/when the full 1.1.2 unlock is released.
Im bored of only dialing "emergency numbers"
If you want to use your UK iPhone as an iPod Touch, downgrade via iTunes to 1.1.1 and use the *#307# etc hack to get to Safari and jailbreakme.com.
If you want to use your UK iPhone as an actual iPhone and are with o2 (but not necessarily an iPhone tariff, just o2), downgrade to 1.0.2 and use independence to jailbreak and activate.
If you want to use your UK iPhone as an actual iPhone and are with o2 (but not necessarily an iPhone tariff, just o2), downgrade to 1.0.2 and use independence to jailbreak and activate.
does any body know if or how i could use EDGE on O2 Pay as you go? am i right in thinking it is not avalible for pay as you go customers and only for contracts? I no i can use GRPS as my curent phone uses it so when i am in an area that has edge will my pay as you go sim card in a unlocked iphone (whenever it can be unlocked) work?
thanks for any help you can give!
thanks for any help you can give!
I have a UK iPhone 1.1.2. I currently have it downgraded to 1.1.1 and using it as a iTouch. I have read on this forum that by downgrading it further to 1.0.2, I would be able to use the iPhone features with an O2 sim card? Is this correct, and if so, please provide a simple step by step idiots guide on how to do this....thank you!
(tried a few methods but found them too confusing)
It is true, just downgrade the firmware in iTunes using the option restore method, to 1.0.2.
Put your SIM in, then use independence, I used the beta since I've got iTunes 7.5. It will jailbreak and activate the iPhone (not an unlock) and you'll be rocking. Just setup Edge settings manually. Visual voicemail obviously does not work.
There is no real need for a guide, once you've downgraded just follow the instructions or readme of independence, it's fairly straight forward and it tells you what to do itself. You basically get the Yellow connect to iTunes logo, connect and launch independence and it does its thing.
Give it a shot, if you need help post back!
Put your SIM in, then use independence, I used the beta since I've got iTunes 7.5. It will jailbreak and activate the iPhone (not an unlock) and you'll be rocking. Just setup Edge settings manually. Visual voicemail obviously does not work.
There is no real need for a guide, once you've downgraded just follow the instructions or readme of independence, it's fairly straight forward and it tells you what to do itself. You basically get the Yellow connect to iTunes logo, connect and launch independence and it does its thing.
Give it a shot, if you need help post back!
Okay trying it with iBrickr as right now. Managed to downgrade to 1.0.2 (yellow triangle connect to itunes) and now running iBrickr. From what I have read, if I activate using the normal methods, this should work and I can use a UK O2 sim....will report back.
If I need to do something else, please advise
Okay, after iBrickr did its thing, I then got the normal activation request, at which point I went down the jailbreakme route - but this did not work as it requires 1.1.1
Now stuck?
Not sure that iBrickr made much difference either
Now stuck?
Not sure that iBrickr made much difference either
No joy. Pacay requires my iPhone to be jailbroken (or something along those lines) which is not possible.
Stuck now!
There must be something simple that I have done wrong or missed...any thoughts please?
I can confirm it too -- brand new O2 iPhone, downgraded to 1.0.2 and jailbroken & activated using iNdependence 1.3b2. I had to reflash the 1.0.2 downgrade a second time before iNdependence actually performed the jailbreak (came up with "unable to enter recovery mode" or something similar the whole time), but after that everything went smoothly.
This works with a Mac only. Any Windows/pc solutions that are proven to work? Thanks