iPhone Unable to Jailbreak iPhone 3GS

[Eckscaliber]

I'm trying to Jailbreak an iPhone 3GS, but I'm not having any success. I've tried Redsn0w & p0sisxpwn. They both keep giving me error messages. I'm only jailbreaking it because there is no SIM card, and I don't know of any real way to use the phone as an iPod, without having a SIM.

 

[cymolia]

what do you mean you dont know a way to use the phone as an ipod ? any iphone can double as an ipod even without a simcard

 

[Applejuiced]

What ios version?
You might need to find a sim in order to activate it.
Latest ios versions couldn't be hactivated.

 

[evangw]

Yeah, but you can use any SIM to activate it from the original carrier that it was locked to (assuming it's not an unlocked phone; if it is, even easier and literally any SIM will work).

It might even be on a baseband that can be unlocked, although IIRC you'll need a carrier-specific SIM card before doing that if the phone can't be hactivated. I remember on the 3GS you could even 'downgrade' to the iPad's contemporary modem firmware (06.11.00 or something like that) that did allow unlocking hacks, although I think there was then some problem with the GPS not functioning properly.