I bought a 8gb iphone 3g of a friend of my friend for 150 bucks. i bought it because i heard all these people talking about taking it to t-mobile and getting service off them. so i went and they said i had to unlock the phone..i didnt know how so i paid 50 dollars for that.. then i took it back to the t-mobile store and paid 80 something dollars to get a mothly service plan. when i put in the sim, all the phone said was no service!!!!!!! wtf do i do! i took it back to t-mobile and he said he couldnt help me cuz its not there phone, i took it back to the chinese bastard and he said he doesnt know..! is there something else i have to do?? if so plz help.

You will definitely not go to jail in Germany for doing so, at the maximum you’ll get a fine, if at all. Here in Europe we lawyers know a thing called proportionality principle, i.e., if you do something completely insignificant to the rest of the world like hacking your phone, you’re not going to be bang-bang-bang-you’re-a-terrorist-and-will-immediately-be-sent-to-Guantanamo’ed like you might be on the other side of the Pond in Bush-land, but you’re probably going to get a call from your service provider to stop using this device first… Do you really believe a European access provider would like to have the negative publicity of his users being fined?

And I don’t know about anyone else-but I really do not want to give the FBI any reason to check me out-I have nothing to hide. That being said, they should be spending their time on people who DO.

You wont go to jail for just doing that.

Even if the FBI checks you out they will find nothing.

If I want to switch to T-Mo-I would get a 1st gen phone I guess.