Unlock My iPhone?

Norm said:
Ok I did the first one. It was as easy as advertised.

How do I know I was successful in unlocking it? I know I did the jailbreak because of Cydia. But how can I verify it was unlocked?

And are all jailbreak apps installed via Cydia?
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Just did a quick Google search and seems that the only way is to stick in another SIM from a different carrier.

Yes, everything through Cydia. They used to have another provider called Rock Your Phone, but Cydia and Rock merged.
 
Yeah, figured that would be an easy solution. Now I just need to find someone else's sim card. I imagine you can go to a t-mobile store and they would help you out if they thought you were really going to jump to their service.
 
yea one of the guys said something like that where i was reading

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=526517

walk into a Popular (franchise) Mobile Carrier Store other than yours, simply ask the retailer that you signed up for a plan over the phone with them "the other day" and you are using this iphone with your plan "given to you as a gift from a friend". just say I want to be sure that this phone works with your SIM, before I get my SIM in the mail...Or to sound less conspicuous.... you can simply say you are shopping around for a phone plan, you do have a phone (your iPhone) but before you look into their phone plans, first you want to make sure if your iPhone works with their SIMS.

he/she should give you zero hassle and let you pop in one of their cards to test it, voila!!!
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t-mobile used to have an iphone specific contract, just for jailbreakers. haha.
they actually might still.
Do you know any of the 9 T-mobile customers in NJ that will let you try their card?
 
Norm said:
Yeah, figured that would be an easy solution. Now I just need to find someone else's sim card. I imagine you can go to a t-mobile store and they would help you out if they thought you were really going to jump to their service.
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Norm one of my buddy's did this not to long ago.
He did not have any issues. Then canceled the service when he was done..
 
make sure you use tinyumbrella and backup your customer firmware so you can restore it back to this point now if anything goes wrong.
save the .ipsw file on your laptop you are bringing
 
gtluke said:
make sure you use tinyumbrella and backup your customer firmware so you can restore it back to this point now if anything goes wrong.
save the .ipsw file on your laptop you are bringing
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I think this would be 50 times more time consuming than just jailbreaking and unlocking it again.

What's going to happen now when I go to sync it? Nothing strange? The Apple Stormtroopers at my door?
 
Norm said:
I think this would be 50 times more time consuming than just jailbreaking and unlocking it again.

What's going to happen now when I go to sync it? Nothing strange? The Apple Stormtroopers at my door?
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Sync'ing is fine. Just don't upgrade it to a new OS version, then you are screwed.
 
Norm said:
I think this would be 50 times more time consuming than just jailbreaking and unlocking it again.

What's going to happen now when I go to sync it? Nothing strange? The Apple Stormtroopers at my door?
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Mr. Zurawski? The Apple gestapo is here to see you.

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LOL Jeff!

Norm the danger is that if your phone crashes you won't be able to put 4.0 back on, apple won't let you put anything but 4.2.1 on it now, and that will destroy your jailbreak/unlock.

Make sure you "make my life easier" in cydia so you can fake the authorization if you need to do a restore. Make sure you tinyumbrella your .ipsw so you have 4.0 to restore from.

You are missing the point that apple tries VERY hard to prevent you from using anything but the very newest OS, you don't want to do that, I don't think they have unlocked the newest baseband yet which comes with the newest OS. There are tools that allow you to upgrade the OS without the baseband upgrade, that's what those sn0w programs do. The baseband is the "phone" part of your phone,
 
gtluke said:
AT&T can go international, just the iphone cant because Steve Jobs hates you.
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I traveled to Germany and Turkey this summer with my AT&T Iphone. It worked as-is. Didn't need a different sim card. 😕 I'm not a Jobs fan either, but c'mon.
 
I'm assuming it's cheaper to use a Taiwan prepaid sim card and just stick it in his iphone, like you would do with ANY other phone except an iphone (or that nonsense no sim car verizon)
The out of country fee is probably crazy no?
 
Yes it would work perfectly fine. But I could never turn it because the data charges are astounding. The pre-paid is the way to go.

My wife took the old one to a T-Mobile place and it didn't work. So, it's more or less back to square 1.
 
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