Hey,
I really need some help on fixing my phone. I looked everywhere and I can't find a solution, nothing seems to work.
Let me start by saying I'm not an expert on iPhones, jailbreaking or any of that. Everything I do, I follow tutorials and just google and try to find the answer, so please bear with me.
Ok, so I bought a second hand iPhone over an year ago. It's a 3GS 32GB. The iPhone had been bought in the US and was locked to AT&T. The guy who sold me the phone jailbroke it and then he explained to me how I could unlock it so I could use it in my country with my own SIM card.
I unlocked it with ultrasn0w which I got from Cydia and everything worked perfectly and I never had a problem with the phone.
However, recently I wanted some new apps but it said that those apps were only compatible with iOs 4.0x, so I started thinking that it was time to upgrade my phone (My firmware was 3.1.2)
Since I rely on a carrier unlock, I only wanted to update to a firmware that had an unlock already available. So I updated it to 4.1.2 and followed this tutorial.
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-up...00-with-redsn0w-0.9.6b5-for-ios-4.2.1-unlock/
So I "restored" my phone to 4.1.2 through itunes and then jailbroke it with redsn0w, just like it says on the tutorial.
Everything seemed to go well, so then I followed this tutorial to unlock the iPhone, which basically tells me to install ultrasn0w.
http://www.redmondpie.com/unlock-4.2.1-ios-iphone-3gs-3g-with-ultrasn0w-how-to-guide/
However, ultrasn0w is not working. I installed ultrasn0w 1.2.3 (the only version that showed up on Cydia), restarted my phone and nothing. My phone is still locked and I always have the "No Service" sign showing. My iPhone is basically an iPod touch now.
I don't know what's the problem. My friend followed the exact same tutorials and her phone is working fine. She has a 3G though, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
But this jailbreak and unlock supposedly work with 3GS, so I don't see how that could be it?
Also, my 3GS has an old bootroom. According to what I've read, 3GS with old bootrooms are the ones which were produced before the 40th week, and you can see that on the 4th and 5th digit of the serial number. Mine is 23.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled ultrasn0w, I've turned my phone on and off, I've turned off 3g, I've turned airplane mode on and off and nothing works. Ughh
I've just noticed that on Settings>General>About where it says "carrier" the name of my network is there, yet it's "unable to load network list" when I click on "carrier" under Settings.
I'd really appreciate if you could help me, because I'm going desperate. This is my only phone and I really need it. I tried to give you as much information as I could. I hope there's a solution.
Thank you
I really need some help on fixing my phone. I looked everywhere and I can't find a solution, nothing seems to work.
Let me start by saying I'm not an expert on iPhones, jailbreaking or any of that. Everything I do, I follow tutorials and just google and try to find the answer, so please bear with me.
Ok, so I bought a second hand iPhone over an year ago. It's a 3GS 32GB. The iPhone had been bought in the US and was locked to AT&T. The guy who sold me the phone jailbroke it and then he explained to me how I could unlock it so I could use it in my country with my own SIM card.
I unlocked it with ultrasn0w which I got from Cydia and everything worked perfectly and I never had a problem with the phone.
However, recently I wanted some new apps but it said that those apps were only compatible with iOs 4.0x, so I started thinking that it was time to upgrade my phone (My firmware was 3.1.2)
Since I rely on a carrier unlock, I only wanted to update to a firmware that had an unlock already available. So I updated it to 4.1.2 and followed this tutorial.
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-up...00-with-redsn0w-0.9.6b5-for-ios-4.2.1-unlock/
So I "restored" my phone to 4.1.2 through itunes and then jailbroke it with redsn0w, just like it says on the tutorial.
Everything seemed to go well, so then I followed this tutorial to unlock the iPhone, which basically tells me to install ultrasn0w.
http://www.redmondpie.com/unlock-4.2.1-ios-iphone-3gs-3g-with-ultrasn0w-how-to-guide/
However, ultrasn0w is not working. I installed ultrasn0w 1.2.3 (the only version that showed up on Cydia), restarted my phone and nothing. My phone is still locked and I always have the "No Service" sign showing. My iPhone is basically an iPod touch now.
I don't know what's the problem. My friend followed the exact same tutorials and her phone is working fine. She has a 3G though, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
But this jailbreak and unlock supposedly work with 3GS, so I don't see how that could be it?
Also, my 3GS has an old bootroom. According to what I've read, 3GS with old bootrooms are the ones which were produced before the 40th week, and you can see that on the 4th and 5th digit of the serial number. Mine is 23.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled ultrasn0w, I've turned my phone on and off, I've turned off 3g, I've turned airplane mode on and off and nothing works. Ughh
I've just noticed that on Settings>General>About where it says "carrier" the name of my network is there, yet it's "unable to load network list" when I click on "carrier" under Settings.
I'd really appreciate if you could help me, because I'm going desperate. This is my only phone and I really need it. I tried to give you as much information as I could. I hope there's a solution.
Thank you
