MatrixClaw
Jan 14, 2009, 07:53 PM
I got a 16gig 2G iPhone yesterday and I've been trying since 10 this morning trying to unlock and jailbreak it to work with T-Mobile, but nothing is working!
When connected to iTunes, it finds my iPhone but says it doesn't have a SIM card in it, I click OK and the iPhone is not recognized.
If the phone is in Restore Mode, iTunes recognizes it, but only shows the serial number, no firmware version, etc. Will let me click "Restore."
With my T-Mobile SIM installed, it says that the SIM inserted does not work with the iPhone and doesn't show anything else. It also shows, on the phone itself, T-Mobile on the top left hand corner.
Originally, I tried to use Ziphone to unlock/jailbreak it (Using Windows XP SP3), but it seems this only works with older firmware, and would hang in "Starting Recovery Mode," or something like that. I then tried QuickPwn 2.1 and 2.2, everything goes smoothly until the DFU part, in which case, my phone will not enter DFU.
I called a friend over, who's done unlocking on his and a few other friend's iPhones many times before, and we took it to his house and tried it on his Mac using Pwnage Tool 2.2, 3.0 and QuickPwn 2.2. Everytime, on each one, it failed to enter DFU mode.
The previous owner told me it's been unlocked and jailbroken before, but just got tired of having to do it everytime a new version would come out, as he's not computer-savvy.
What exactly am I doing wrong here? This is getting really annoying :(
When connected to iTunes, it finds my iPhone but says it doesn't have a SIM card in it, I click OK and the iPhone is not recognized.
If the phone is in Restore Mode, iTunes recognizes it, but only shows the serial number, no firmware version, etc. Will let me click "Restore."
With my T-Mobile SIM installed, it says that the SIM inserted does not work with the iPhone and doesn't show anything else. It also shows, on the phone itself, T-Mobile on the top left hand corner.
Originally, I tried to use Ziphone to unlock/jailbreak it (Using Windows XP SP3), but it seems this only works with older firmware, and would hang in "Starting Recovery Mode," or something like that. I then tried QuickPwn 2.1 and 2.2, everything goes smoothly until the DFU part, in which case, my phone will not enter DFU.
I called a friend over, who's done unlocking on his and a few other friend's iPhones many times before, and we took it to his house and tried it on his Mac using Pwnage Tool 2.2, 3.0 and QuickPwn 2.2. Everytime, on each one, it failed to enter DFU mode.
The previous owner told me it's been unlocked and jailbroken before, but just got tired of having to do it everytime a new version would come out, as he's not computer-savvy.
What exactly am I doing wrong here? This is getting really annoying :(
