I'd introduce myself but this is urgent so that'll have to wait 
Gonna try to keep this short so I hope it isn't too confusing. I'd also like to apologize in advance if I've put this in the wrong place, I'm new here.
Basically, I had a jailbroken & unlocked iphone 3GS that I sold to my friend in England (I'm in Sweden) since I upgraded to 4S and didn't need it anymore. Before sending it off to her I restored it to factory settings to avoid having to delete everything manually. BIG mistake. As it also removed the jailbreak + unlock. Stupidly enough I didnt realise until a few days later when she informed me it wasnt working. It was once again locked to the operator I'd been using it with initially.
So I sent her a SIM card to use to get past the activation part so she could later jailbreak and unlock herself. But this won't work. SIM card is activated and registered, but the phone still isn't recognising it. She only managed to get past this by using something called Hacktivate (?) to jailbreak without a valid SIM card, but unlocking with Cydia and ultrasn0w etc. won't work.
Today, she did some research and found out that people are having problems with the latest iOS update (which happens to be installed in the phone atm) causing problems with SIM cards in 3GS (I havent done any research on this myself so if someone could confirm this, that'd be great) So naturally, a downgrade seemed to be a good option.
She has tried to downgrade several times, but it won't work. She gets error messages.
Also tried the Ultrasn0w fixer (since apparently Ultrasn0w hasn't been updated to work on 5.1.1 yet?) but that didn't work either. She added the correct source but was then unable to find the software in Cydia.
So naturally my question is: Can anything be done to fix this problem now or are we completely f*cked? I feel bad as it's basically all my fault for removing the unlock in the first place. I feel like such an idiot but I guess I've learnt my lesson
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks.
Gonna try to keep this short so I hope it isn't too confusing. I'd also like to apologize in advance if I've put this in the wrong place, I'm new here.Basically, I had a jailbroken & unlocked iphone 3GS that I sold to my friend in England (I'm in Sweden) since I upgraded to 4S and didn't need it anymore. Before sending it off to her I restored it to factory settings to avoid having to delete everything manually. BIG mistake. As it also removed the jailbreak + unlock. Stupidly enough I didnt realise until a few days later when she informed me it wasnt working. It was once again locked to the operator I'd been using it with initially.
So I sent her a SIM card to use to get past the activation part so she could later jailbreak and unlock herself. But this won't work. SIM card is activated and registered, but the phone still isn't recognising it. She only managed to get past this by using something called Hacktivate (?) to jailbreak without a valid SIM card, but unlocking with Cydia and ultrasn0w etc. won't work.
Today, she did some research and found out that people are having problems with the latest iOS update (which happens to be installed in the phone atm) causing problems with SIM cards in 3GS (I havent done any research on this myself so if someone could confirm this, that'd be great) So naturally, a downgrade seemed to be a good option.
She has tried to downgrade several times, but it won't work. She gets error messages.
Also tried the Ultrasn0w fixer (since apparently Ultrasn0w hasn't been updated to work on 5.1.1 yet?) but that didn't work either. She added the correct source but was then unable to find the software in Cydia.
So naturally my question is: Can anything be done to fix this problem now or are we completely f*cked? I feel bad as it's basically all my fault for removing the unlock in the first place. I feel like such an idiot but I guess I've learnt my lesson
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks.