I know what a blacklist is , but what is whitelist ? does the void warranty issues if there are on a device?
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Whitelisted iPhone 4S
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thanks, because I just purchased a phone , the wifi is greyed out , he swore it was working until he did a reset , i've done a few resets and nothing worked so might be a hardware issue, i wouldn't want to take it to apple and turns out it's a stolen phone or something that would look awful
They always swear that everything works great with no probs.
you gotta do your own inspection before you hand over your money.
you gotta do your own inspection before you hand over your money.
Greyed out wifi is a hardware issue and they only way to fix it would be to take it to Apple. If it's out of warranty then you're out of $150. I wouldn't want to use an iPhone that can't even access Wifi
Just take it to apple and be honest. If its been reported stolen they'll know. Afaik they aren't going to confiscate it, or call police, or anything like that. I don't think there is much to worry about aside from perhaps bruising your pride.
I did , I checked the imei before the purchase I was just trying to find out if there is a way to check if it's stolen or not, checked it on swappa and it said the iPhone is whitelisted...
That just means it is permanently unlocked. Now go make an appointment. If they replace the phone, be sure and tell them to unlock it.
I can unlock it myself lol I wouldn't give them a hard time about it... fingers crossed appt in an hour
I believe when they transfer your phone with the new one, the new one is automatically unlocked on the spot
Well there you go!
They replaced it
, he did mention the unlock thing I told him no biggie 
They replaced it
So you didn't have them unlock it?
How did you unlock it? I was under the impression that the 4s was difficult to unlock if not done by apple.
white list refers to the list of imei's added to apples unlocked imei list. Only carriers have access to this list, they register your phone with apple as confirmed to unlock, carriers add it to registered unlock list. So when tell you to connect to itunes, your phone then requests the permission from apples server via itunes, your baseband is updated. Sometimes you may have to restore, this is because during restore process it guarantees the request is sent, and is updated. This list is the whitelist.