Unlock iPhone: How To

Posted on March 30, 2008
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The problem of using iPhone in countries which are not supposed to be the places to use one has been puzzling the brightest minds of the generation. It is a common knowledge that if you want to use iPhone where it is not supposed to work the only thing you can do is hack it.

I’ve spent hours browsing various forums and now I come up with a number of solutions. In fact there are different methods and it is you who device which one to use.

First of all here are a few terms you need to understand the subject properly:

Jailbreak – It is the method used to set the iPhone OS file system in read/write mode. You can install third party applications only on a “jailbroken” iPhone.
Activate - Before you can use any of iPhone’s features, you must activate iPhone by signing up for a service plan with the iPhone service carrier in your area and registering iPhone with the network.
Unlock – It’s a procedure used to make the iPhone work with any GSM Carrier and involves hacking the baseband on iPhone.

In some countries you have to do all 3 procedures to make the device work while in others jailbreak is quire enough.

In order to hack an iPhone you need a number of tools:

The opinions split here: some people reckon that ZiPhone is the best app to hack the device while the others are sure that there is nothing better than iPlus.

These two apps break iPhone differently. To my mind iPlus is preferable because it downgrades the bootloader to a fake blank version 3.9 (and you will be able to go back to version 4.6 later which will protect you from Apple firmware updates).

A lot of people believe that iPlus is the safest way to hack iPhone.

On the other hand ZiPhone has such an attractive used interface that you are extremely tempted to use this app (I don’t know about you, but I myself got really tempted). After all, ZiPhone seems to be an ideal application to hack iPod Touch.

However the inability to restore back 4.6 bootloader prompted me to use iPlus2.0b with the international payload. Though iPlus2.0b is command line driven, it did its work of breaking, activating and unlocking the iPhone with zero trouble.

Nevertheless, iPlus has a possibility to restore the bootloader back to 4.6 so I suppose it is morep referable to use this application. Moreover, it does its work without any visible difficulty or problems.

You can use the following instructions to hack your iPhone.

You can also skip the installation of 1.1.4 firmware. In order to do it you fill in the code: *3001#12345#*

If you don’t like the code interface you can use the app iLiberty+ (made by the developers of iPlus)

So at the end of my post I would like to give you a few links that might be useful for you. Please visit them and read some information on hacking iPhone before actually doing it:

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