iPhone Will this erase my Jailbreak?

[c0venant]

I am going to ask (and pay) my carrier to unlock my phone, but it is currently jailbroken and I would like to keep it that way. Does unlocking the phone imply performing a full restore on iTunes, thus losing the jailbreak?

It's an iPhone 5 running iOS 7.0.4

Would appreciate your help. Thank you

 

[dhlizard]

If you restore to apply the unlock it will.

Just get SAM from Cydia, deactivate your phone and plug into iTunes to re-activate. The unlock will attach.

http://www.bingner.com/SAM.html

 

[eddiec312]

I am going to ask (and pay) my carrier to unlock my phone, but it is currently jailbroken and I would like to keep it that way. Does unlocking the phone imply performing a full restore on iTunes, thus losing the jailbreak?

It's an iPhone 5 running iOS 7.0.4

Would appreciate your help. Thank you

According to this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5014 you might not have to restore. After the carrier unlocks you can try sticking in another SIM and it might work off the bat. But if it doesn't then you probably do have to restore it.

The hard part is finding another carriers SIM card to test it after it is unlocked.

 

[c0venant]

Just get SAM from Cydia, deactivate your phone and plug into iTunes to re-activate. The unlock will attach.

http://www.bingner.com/SAM.html

thanks, but is that app updated to work with iOS 7? I don't want to mess up my phone.. The instructions I see on the website don't mention Evad3rs jailbroken devices.

According to this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5014 you might not have to restore. After the carrier unlocks you can try sticking in another SIM and it might work off the bat.

that would be wonderful if it worked. I really don't want to lose this jailbreak seeing as there probably won't be a new one until early next year. It's a long wait.

 

[localboy28]

Won't affect the jb
Change sim and connect to iTunes

 

[AndrewR23]

I just got a 5 unlocked through AT&T 3 days ago. Its running 7.0.4 as well.

I requested unlock, 2 days later got an email it went through.

And Bam, put in my tmobile sim and it worked. I never restored, or connected to iTunes!