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help me unlock my iphone4 with 5.0.1 and Tmobile

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vzippa5

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So I just received an iphone 4 as payment for a favor I did for a friend. I currently have Tmobile's no contract plan and I want to keep it because it's so cheap. Just wondering if I have my ducks in a row before I get started...

Looks like I have to:

1) cut down my Sim card to micro sim size, put it in my iphone
2) run a program on my mac to jailbreak and unlock
3) restart tethered to my computer, whenever my iphone needs a beboot.

is that it? Can anyone help me out and let me know if I missed anything? Any tips or instructions would be highly appreciated!
 
None of the above will work. You need to wait until the Gevey SIM is updated to support iOS 5 basebands. That costs around $75 if you get it RIGHT when it comes out.. But if you wait, it goes significantly down in price (because good quality fakes are made).
 
vzippa5 said:
really?! wait check out this video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP-lREnZ6go

and this... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100731222229AAOSpvH

if I really can't cut the sim, there's so much misleading and conflicting info out there!!
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It is not misleading & conflicting info out there. It is just that you do not have clear under standing how unlock an iphone or any phone works. It is not just a simple of cutting a sim to fit a particular phone. This is worked if you have an unlock phone.

So, my recommendation is for you to research & read more about unlock. Otherwise, you will waste your $20 with T-Mobile to get a new sim card because you destroy yours.
 
ok so thanks for clearing this up a little bit.

So is the problem that I have the current IOS 5.0.1?

the phone itself has a at&t sim in it right now - can I unlock with that, then put the tmobile sim in there?


Basically, do I have ANY options to get this iphone4 to work???
 
Currently 5.0.1 or it's baseband has no unlock of any type or a time frame when or if there will be one. So you are sOl for now. End of story!

I'd sell for the money or use it to buy a factory unlocked one.
 
vzippa5 said:
ok so thanks for clearing this up a little bit.

So is the problem that I have the current IOS 5.0.1?

the phone itself has a at&t sim in it right now - can I unlock with that, then put the tmobile sim in there?


Basically, do I have ANY options to get this iphone4 to work???
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no your only option is to use the iphone as an ipod touch while you wait for an unlock solution. Which has not been out for over 10 months.
 
vzippa5 said:
ok so thanks for clearing this up a little bit.

So is the problem that I have the current IOS 5.0.1?

the phone itself has a at&t sim in it right now - can I unlock with that, then put the tmobile sim in there?


Basically, do I have ANY options to get this iphone4 to work???
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No, nothing you can do to use it on tmobile now.
It will only work with AT&T sims.
 
You obviously haven't been paying attention. Gevey works for bb 4.10 and lower.
M Quick said:
I always thought the gevey simcard was a bogus because you could do that without an actual gevey sim? It's just the procedure you pay for on how to find this work-around, no?
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