iPhone iPhone SimFree FREE tool (iUnlock) released...

[Muffin87]

Is anybody going to make a screencast abbout the procedure AND the consequences?
Will one be still able to sync media and stuff through iTunes after unlocking it with iUnlock?

 

[tvguru]

Damnit! I'm running out of excuses for not getting one!

 

[VanNess]

I suppose I will be the only one who thinks this is just utterly bad form for MacRumors to post (advertise) this on the front page of the site.

So what is it here exactly? MacRumors? MacWarez? MacCracks? MacSerials?

 

[nismo]

So the point of unlocking it is solely so you can use TMobile? Are there any other benefits of unlocking your phone? Also anybody got any pics of their unlocked phones?

 

[cynerjist]

Did you use the new software that was just released today?

Yes.

If you mind, could you indulge us with what method/tutorial you used so that I can begin to clear some of the links out/streamline the post? Thanks! (Also for those wondering, I successfully unlocked it yet have no T-Mobile sim in order to test it! DOH!)

I used the outline on the website i posted earlier in this thread. since, there has come out a tutorial that is even clearer that lists literally the same thing. it is here. I restored the iphone (FW 1.0.2) and started from scratch.

http://modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_software_unlock_iPhone_iUnlock

 

[ascham87]

I suppose I will be the only one who thinks this is just utterly bad form for MacRumors to post (advertise) this on the front page of the site.

So what is it here exactly? MacRumors? MacWarez? MacCracks? MacSerials?

Yeah, this breaks no laws and is illegal in no way. Check your facts up buddy, this still remains macrumors.

 

[djearlybird]

I suppose I will be the only one who thinks this is just utterly bad form for MacRumors to post (advertise) this on the front page of the site.

So what is it here exactly? MacRumors? MacWarez? MacCracks? MacSerials?

No one forces you to come to this site, we are all here for the same reason, Mac info/news.

 

[VanNess]

Well, if Apple wanted you to have an unlocked iPhone, they would have sold you one. But they didn't, did they?

 

[killmoms]

Well, if Apple wanted you to have an unlocked iPhone, they would have sold you one. But they didn't, did they?

And so we should just accept what Apple does because they're perfect and holy?

 

[ascham87]

Well, if Apple wanted you to have an unlocked iPhone, they would have sold you one. But they didn't, did they?

They wanted you to have one though, it's just that the terms of the deal with AT&T most surely involved locking the phone to their network. Apple is known to screw partners and I really doubt Steve Jobs saw AT&T as anything more than a means to an end in this situation. He would love to sell unlocked iPhones and in fact, Apple has made no attempts so far within the past 2-3 weeks to stop any of the software unlocking attempts, it has been AT&T.

 

[dcwckd]

Everything is groovy then.

 

[Frisco]

Apple's biggest mistake was going with At&T only. This is a multbillion mistake.

 

[ascham87]

Apple's biggest mistake was going with At&T only. This is a multbillion mistake.

They knew it was going to get unlocked and they will make virtually no attempts to stop it. AT&T believed that they were getting the better end of the deal in this situation, but Apple will screw them in the end, on such a grand scale. What a great time to be alive.

 

[Canuck4]

My Iphone is with AT&T but Im happy for these people not only in the US but worldwide that they'll be able to use this great phone with other carriers.
This lock on one carrier only wasnt such a great idea but who cares.
Get over it dude and stop beeing miserable.
Do you work for AT&T?

Well, if Apple wanted you to have an unlocked iPhone, they would have sold you one. But they didn't, did they?

 

[dcwckd]

Ascham87, check your pms please.

 

[DanB91]

why are most of the tutorials windows tutorials??? they dont even mention mac!!!!!

 

[w8ing4intelmacs]

would this allow me to use my existing at&t sim card with, say, an iphone i buy on ebay?

 

[benlee]

would a restore undo the process. Thus returning it to a locked phone? If it needed to be serviced

 

[w8ing4intelmacs]

Yes.

at the risk of sounding redundant, i wouldn't have to sign up for the data plan then (between home and work, i'm almost always connected to the internet via wifi)

 

[cynerjist]

why are most of the tutorials windows tutorials??? they dont even mention mac!!!!!

I've found the opposite to be true. I used windows and mac both for the hacks the past month or so and using windows has been SO much harder than the mac for hacking the iphone. did you see the link i posted above?

Here is the OS X Tutorial for unlocking iPhone
http://modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_software_unlock_iPhone_iUnlock

 

[MGLXP]

Do I have to activate the iPhone with AT&T before I can unlock the iPhone? Also, is it possible to update the phone without activating it?

 

[MacNemesis]

So the point of unlocking it is solely so you can use TMobile? Are there any other benefits of unlocking your phone? Also anybody got any pics of their unlocked phones?

Well although T-Mobile is the most common cited GSM provider in the US (aside from AT&T), they aren't the only one. Here in the Queen City we have Cincinnati Bell. I would love to take out my sim card and keep my excellent service (and no contract!) and use an iphone instead. Especially for $200 less.

 

[maclover201]

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would a restore undo the process. Thus returning it to a locked phone? If it needed to be serviced

I think it would, since this hack modifies Mac OS X.

 

[ascham87]

Do I have to activate the iPhone with AT&T before I can unlock the iPhone? Also, is it possible to update the phone without activating it?

You will need to "activate" the phone with a program that tricks it into thinking it is activated, such as iNdependence.

 

[Stella]

Congrats to these developers.

Free the iPhone!!