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Unlocking iPhone 3GS that I won on eBay

thenetstud

thenetstud

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Oct 15, 2007
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Saskatoon, SK
I recently won this auction:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250688576071&ssPageName=STRK:

I should be recieving the phone on Monday. Now according to this the phone is currently locked to Rogers. I am on TELUS and just purchased a SIM card from them.

As long as the iPhone isn't loaded with 4.0.2 or 4.1 I should be able to unlock this phone correct?

What would be the simplest way to do this?

Thanks for the help!
 
Got the phone today and it is on 4.0.1 so I was able to jailbreak using jailbreakme.com and I installed Ultrasn0w for the unlock.

I am having issues though with getting no service messages or only one bar of signal strength. When I get no service my Wi-Fi isn't picking up any available networks either.

I think I want to do a restore but if I am reading correctly I can't restore to 4.0.1 because I don't have my SHSH blobs saved and I can't save them because Apple is not signing them anymore. Am I right?

If so what should I do from here?
 
thenetstud said:
Got the phone today and it is on 4.0.1 so I was able to jailbreak using jailbreakme.com and I installed Ultrasn0w for the unlock.

I am having issues though with getting no service messages or only one bar of signal strength. When I get no service my Wi-Fi isn't picking up any available networks either.

I think I want to do a restore but if I am reading correctly I can't restore to 4.0.1 because I don't have my SHSH blobs saved and I can't save them because Apple is not signing them anymore. Am I right?

If so what should I do from here?
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I think you are out of luck for now unless the previous owner happened to have saved his blobs in tinyumbrella :(. You best bet is to troubleshoot ultrasn0w
 
u can use tiny umbrella to save ur 4.0.1 shsh as long as u still on 4.0.1, correct me if im wrong.
 
Marlon177 said:
u can use tiny umbrella to save ur 4.0.1 shsh as long as u still on 4.0.1, correct me if im wrong.
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Sorry. You could save 4.0.1 only as long as Apple was signing it. The firmware currently on your phone has nothing to do with it. Right now, Apple is only signing 4.1.
 
Check Cydia, maybe it has the blobs. There was a report recently that even phones that were never jb'd sometimes have blobs.
 
Applejuiced: No I am using Telus

Kre62: I checked Tiny Umbrella and they did not have my blobs saved, thanks for the suggestion though.
 
IrishVixen said:
Sorry. You could save 4.0.1 only as long as Apple was signing it. The firmware currently on your phone has nothing to do with it. Right now, Apple is only signing 4.1.
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yes u can, i just saved my 4.0.2 shsh using tiny umbrella, u have to check advanced options, select 4.0.1 for request version and request from cydia, then save my SHSH

my iphone 4 is 4.0.2 out the box, cant even jb, thats how i save 4.0.2 shsh.

thenetstud said:
Applejuiced: No I am using Telus

Kre62: I checked Tiny Umbrella and they did not have my blobs saved, thanks for the suggestion though.
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try what i said above, and see picture below for reference. (of cuz u have to choose 4.0.1 instead of 4.0.2, cuz my phone 4 came 4.0.2 out the box)

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/7779/81830425.jpg
 
Applejuiced said:
Are you trying to use it on Tmobile USA by any chance?
If yes make sure you turn off 3G thru settings so you don't get conflicts like that with signal.
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Wow did you even read the oringinal post??
But any way the reason it says no service is because the person you brought the phone from upgraded the phone to 4.1. Therefore upgrading the baseband, then they downgraded to 4.0.1 but the baseband still remanded 5.12.04 when only 5.13.04 is unlockable. Check the firmware in settings/about all the way at the bottom and tell us what it says.
 
Marlon177:

I attempted to save my 4.0.1 SHSH Blob in Umbrella using both OS X & Windows 7 and neither time worked:

screenshot20100914at124.png



hhhshadydave: Baseband is 05.13.04
 
Marlon177 said:
try to save 4.1 first, then back down to 4.0.2 then 4.0.1
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Regardless of what you think, OP can only get current hashes from Apple (4.1) and if Cydia has older hashes, he can retrieve those from Saurik's server, not from Apple.

Apple quit signing 4.0.1 on August 17th or thereabouts.
 
iPhone-power said:
Regardless of what you think, OP can only get current hashes from Apple (4.1) and if Cydia has older hashes, he can retrieve those from Saurik's server, not from Apple.

Apple quit signing 4.0.1 on August 17th or thereabouts.
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maybe i was wrong then, is apple still signing for 4.0.2?
 
iPhone-power said:
Nope, less than 24 hours after 4.1 came out last Wednesday, Apple shut off 4.0.2
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then maybe the tiny umbrella would work, thats what i did last night, at first i was trying to save 4.0.1, i get the same error message with OP, then i tried 4.1, it worked, so i back down to 4.0.2, it worked again, but it doesnt work on 4.0.1, cuz my i4 is running 4.0.2

edit: i just restored my i4 to 4.0.2 using cydia server, it worked, so that means cydia now have my 4.0.2 shsh.
 
Marlon177 said:
then maybe the tiny umbrella would work, thats what i did last night, at first i was trying to save 4.0.1, i get the same error message with OP, then i tried 4.1, it worked, so i back down to 4.0.2, it worked again, but it doesnt work on 4.0.1, cuz my i4 is running 4.0.2

edit: i just restored my i4 to 4.0.2 using cydia server, it worked, so that means cydia now have my 4.0.2 shsh.
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And again, the firmware version on your phone has zero to do with the firmware version Apple is signing.

From Apple: you can only get currently signed firmware, 4.1 right now
From Cydia: any hashes saved on Saurik's server

Once you save the hashes the first time, Saurik's server saves all hashes for subsequent firmware versions.

If you want to verify what is happening, fire up TinyUmbrella, under advance settings select Apple and firmware 4.0.1 or 4.0.2. It cannot get those from Apple and will error out everytime.
 
iPhone-power said:
And again, the firmware version on your phone has zero to do with the firmware version Apple is signing.

From Apple: you can only get currently signed firmware, 4.1 right now
From Cydia: any hashes saved on Saurik's server

Once you save the hashes the first time, Saurik's server saves all hashes for subsequent firmware versions.

If you want to verify what is happening, fire up TinyUmbrella, under advance settings select Apple and firmware 4.0.1 or 4.0.2. It cannot get those from Apple and will error out everytime.
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seriously, i have no idea what i was doing when i fire up the tiny umbrella, so just let OP try my method, if it works it works, if its not, then too bad, and OP can always run jailbreakme.com to jailbreak on 4.0.1
 
Marlon177 said:
seriously, i have no idea what i was doing when i fire up the tiny umbrella, so just let OP try my method, if it works it works, if its not, then too bad
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Have you ever used TinyUmbrella on your iPhone 4 in the past
Are you the first owner of the iPhone 4
Was it a replacement iPhone 4

All possibilities
 
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