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Why won't my iPhone 4 unlock? Baseband question?

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redsoxfan626

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I never really paid much attention to jail breaking before, but I moved to Israel last week and now I want to unlock my iPhone 4 to use it with an Israeli carrier. I updated to 5.0 (which I'm now thinking was a mistake). I think my baseband is 04.11.08, if I'm looking in the right spot. Is there a way to unlock this?

I did the tethered jailbreak with Redsn0w and I have Cydia installed. I then installed Ultrasn0w, but when I put an Israeli SIM card in, it said "no service". How do I unlock it? Thanks.
 
Thanks for your help. Is there a way to downgrade to that baseband? And if not, will there be the baseband I'm using now become unlock-able eventually?
 
You're kind of stuck because even Gevey won't unlock 4.11. Not sure if apple is still signing 4.3.5
 
OK, I guess I can't unlock it now. Since I've never really tried jailbreaking before, I really don't know much about how this whole thing works...Should I expect an unlock to be possible at some point for this baseband? Or will I never be able to unlock it?
 
redsoxfan626 said:
I never really paid much attention to jail breaking before, but I moved to Israel last week and now I want to unlock my iPhone 4 to use it with an Israeli carrier. I updated to 5.0 (which I'm now thinking was a mistake). I think my baseband is 04.11.08, if I'm looking in the right spot. Is there a way to unlock this?

I did the tethered jailbreak with Redsn0w and I have Cydia installed. I then installed Ultrasn0w, but when I put an Israeli SIM card in, it said "no service". How do I unlock it? Thanks.
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Since you update to OS5 as well as baseband 04.11. You are SOL, there isn't any option for you at this moment including Gevey sim.

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forcetactic said:
You're kind of stuck because even Gevey won't unlock 4.11. Not sure if apple is still signing 4.3.5
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Apple has stopped signing 4.3.5 more than a week ago.
 
redsoxfan626 said:
OK, I guess I can't unlock it now. Since I've never really tried jailbreaking before, I really don't know much about how this whole thing works...Should I expect an unlock to be possible at some point for this baseband? Or will I never be able to unlock it?
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There's no way to tell what might eventually be released, but it's been more than a year since the last software unlock came out. If it were my decision to make, I'd sell the current phone and buy a factory unlocked one.

Sorry.
 
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