I have been trying to unlock my 3GS for some time now. The first attempt failed completely. I had my confirmation email but then after nearly a month nothing had happened. I phoned O2 and after some time I got through to customer services representative who told me that for some reason my original form [...]
I have been trying to unlock my 3GS for some time now. The first attempt failed completely. I had my confirmation email but then after nearly a month nothing had happened. I phoned O2 and after some time I got through to customer services representative who told me that for some reason my original form had not been sent through to the correct dept. He sorted that out and told me it may be up to 14 days before my phone would be unlocked.
I had a text from O2 which I thought was telling me I had been unlocked. Foolishly I upgraded my iPhone from its YellowSn0w jailbreak/unlock to OS 3.1.2. Then I found that my phone had not been unlocked… I checked the text from O2 again and realised it was not the unlock confirmation…
A few days later I phoned O2 to check on the status of the unlock and was told it would happen within the 14 days which has a few days left to go. On the 29th December nothing had happened. So I tried phoning O2 again and after a long wait I was cut off.
Today I finally got a text telling me I was unlocked and to put a new sim in the iPhone and connect to iTunes. I duly complied and iTunes told me the phone was not unlocked.
As I am off to the USA for a month I could not afford to go through the process again. Having upgraded the OS I had also upgraded the baseband which prevented me from Jailbreaking using YellowSn0w again. After a quick check I found that the Blackra1n and BlackSn0w jailbreak/unlock actually recommended using the OS/Baseband I had upgraded to. So a quick download and in less than 5 minutes my iPhone was jailbroken and unlocked. I can now put my US SIM in it and not be clobbered for stupid data roaming charges.
Now looking back on the O2 problem it may well be my fault as I have switched my 3G and 3GS sims. However if that is the cause then I would have thought that O2 might have picked this up and warned me rather than letting me try to go through the unlock process twice and fail…
O2 – 2 strikes over 6 weeks. BlackRa1n – Home run in 5 minutes…
I live in one country and work in another so an unlocked iPhone was important. The whole process of jailbreaking and unlocking was a long drawn out affair with a hint of voodoo and an uncertain outcome. I held off upgrading the iPhone for a while as it all worked. Came across the Blackra1n and thought try it one old broken screened iPhone I bought (cheap, but still not replaces the screen) Ran the program, er… thought well that didn’t work, it finished doing whatever it was doing in a few seconds and seem to say that was it. Much to my surprise that was it. from there you run the Blackra1n program now loaded in the iPhone and a couple of things to do there and its all done, jailbroken and unlocked. They must be a drawback……… not found it yet
I want to jailbreak and unlock my new iphone 4. All sites only have unlock iphone 3.1.3 3GS. Any help anyone?
This is weird – I have an iphone 3G and twice during it’s lifetime I’ve used this trick to sort out seemingly impossible situations (where O2 and Apple were proving to be utterly useless and/or unsupportive)…
The first time is a whole different story, but the second time is relevant to this thread and occured when joy of joys I was able to leave O2 and asked for the phone to be unlocked. All went good and they followed on with their unlocked SMS, but when my new Vodaphone sim came and I duly inserted it and hooked it up to iTunes it failed to recongize that the phone was unlocked. After numerous phone calls, banging on desks and promises of elevating my case (whatever that was) I considered whether my my old trick would work…
you see I use a PC and despite running a restore nothind had been resolved, but finding a friend with a Mac and running a restore on their’s produced a successful result – unlocked immediately.
It’s only a hunch, but I bet most of the people who have OS problems with their iPhones are running PC’s. My advice is get a Mac or find someone with one that you can borrow for 10mins and watch all your problems melt away…