Possible Consequences?

mallbritton said:

Hello, everyone.

I'm currently working in Eastern Europe and living with a host family. The father just came back from a trip abroad and brought a used iPhone 5. I know nothing of the history of the device and have no way to find out since it was purchased in another country. But it is unlocked and jailbroken. I don't know if it was jailbroken to unlock it or just to customize it, though. All I do know is the language was set to Russian and all the native iOS apps behave very strangely (at least to me). For example Maps opens to a web browser. I don't have any experience with jailbroken iPhones so what I'd like to know is what might be all the possible consequences of restoring this device to "factory." I know it could possibly re-lock the device (if it was previously locked) which I certainly don't want to do. But I'd like to get all the native apps to work like they are supposed to for the family and the only way I know to do that is to restore the iPhone to "factory."Or is there another way to find out if it is carrier unlocked? We've put a SIM in it and it does pickup the network and works for calls.

Best regards,
Michael

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mallbritton said:

I did not know about that web site, thanks. It works perfectly on my iPhone which is factory unlocked. I did not think there was a jailbreak for the iPhone 5 but wasn't sure.

Thanks very much for the information.

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