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Welcome to the Age of the Unlocked iPhone

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A working software unlock method for the iPhone has finally been released. This software has been in development by the company iPhone Sim Free, and after undergoing a long period of delays it is now available world wide. The soft unlock comes in the form of an iPhone application, which you must put on your phone and run. After running the unlock application, you may use your iPhone with a variety of GSM carriers provided you have a registered SIM card.

 

In order to unlock your iPhone, you must first purchase a copy of the IPSF software from iphoneworldwideunlock.com for $50 USD. The unlocking process itself is fairly easy to comprehend, although neophytes might find it time consuming to go through all of the directions. You can read about the first unlocks to be carried out worldwide at Gizmodo. There seems to have been some initial problems with the first revision of the application, but those have supposedly been resolved.

 

If any of you decide to purchase and run the IPSF soft unlock, please let us know how the process went for you! Also, early adopters beware! The open iPhone hacking scene has declared they will attempt to reverse engineer this software process and put out a free unlocker as soon as possible.

 

Source: TheInquirer

BREAKING NEWS: Scratch the above, a FREE iPhone soft unlock method has been created and confirmed according to Gizmodo. It appears that the requisite files are now online, and Gizmodo states a full tutorial will be written soon. Behold, the power of the scene!

UPDATE: It appears the file is an iPhone application. I would suggest following the IPSF unlock guide, but instead of purchasing their software just replace it with the iUnlock application. Below is a temp-file mirror for the application; full instructions will be posted when available. A prelinimary guide is now available.

 

UPDATE: The iPhone unlocker GUI application has reached mature status, and can now be obtained at one of the mirrors listed on either HaRRo's freeiphoneunlock site or below at unknown-files.net.

 

NOTE: The following Unlock.app has had its iUnlock module replaced with the latest one as instructed on HaRRo's site. You DO NOT need to download the latest iUnlock and replace it manually.

 

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can this unlock it to the point where verison can be used with it or is the whole 3g thing getting in the way?

 

Soundless, the iPhone is a GSM Quad band phone, meaning its underlying hardware can only operate on GSM networks. Thus, it cannot work with Verizon because Verizon operates a CDMA network.

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GBK.Xscape

More Breaking News- Engadget

HaRRo over on the iPhone Dev Team has already upped the ante -- just hours after releasing the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software, he's already got an early beta version of the graphical one-click iPhone-based software cooking. We tested out an early build (sorry folks, it's not quite ready for release yet) and can confirm that despite the visual glitches you see above, it's already a fully functional one-click unlock solution, not different from IPSF's paid unlock software. Unfortunately, you still have to actually get the app onto the phone and go through the faux-activation process with your SIM afterward (and re-enable YouTube, if you so choose), but this is the first major step in automating the process of quickly and easily unlocking everybody's iPhone. More information -- including the final build of the GUI unlock -- will be posted as it comes to HaRRo's iPhone unlock site

 

This is so awesome, its just triumph after triumph after triumph in the iPhone Scene.....

 

My post earlier asked for this and a few HOURS later it is here....

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Darwinian Dude

OK, when I got home and read this and went to download the file, most links are wrong, including a Torrent.

So:

 

The 6.3kb iUnlock.zip that has a 20kb quicktime movie that doesn't play as the only item inside, is NOT the right file. :(

The 3.9mb iPhoneUnlock.zip file IS the right file.

 

Anyone want to buy me an iPhone i can keep and so i can test if it works so they don't have to brick theirs??? :D

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thegodfaza

1) What did you do to your iPhone Colonel.

 

2) What does apple think about it. Are they not going to support unlocked iPhones, release an ununlocking software update, or consider legal actions?

 

EDIT: I was thinking about this and I don't understand why Apple or AT&T don't unlock the phones themselfs. When I bought my V3 from Armagedden Networks(don't remember their actual name) they told me that my phone comes unlocked because they had to legally unlock the phone if I asked them to do it. So doesn't that law apply to AT&T.

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sandmanfvrga

Good this is free, that $100 an unlock was stupid. I bet those guys are pissed and they should be, if they did like $20 for each one, they would hae still been hacked, but more would buy it. $600 iphone and $100 unlock? To much. Yay free!

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Onetrack

Ahh GBK.Xcape beat me to it - looks like there is a gui for the installer now

 

Also, now that they know how to write to the flash - i would suspect the installable apps to start pouring in :)

 

The floodgates are opened, and as the news spreads you'll see a big jump in iphone sales.

 

Gotta give those guys credit - what a great job dissecting the unit.

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cabron
@cabron your dream become truth ;)

how you only need an iPhone ...

 

cheers mate

~R

 

yeah :D

this + the price drop of 8gb model and a friend from my friend in miami = god smiling to me

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