Confirmed iPhone 3G Software Unlock Date and a Mac System Update Warning
Well it is now official, the Dev-Team has updated their blog today to let you all know when the iPhone 3G software unlock will be released. Seems as if New Years eve is what they are aiming for.
- The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
- This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
- The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone.
Another bit of jailbreaking related news, a word of warning to all Mac owners: If you are planning on jailbreaking or unlocking your iPhone, TiPb suggests you put the Mac 10.5.6 system update on the back burner until the Dev Team comes up with a solution to the issue. Or you try the following work around:
We believe this behavior is due to a kernel bug not a specific countermeasure by Apple. Possible fixes are (try at your own risk!)
Replace the following plugin kexts from within IOUSBFamily.kext with the ones from 10.5.5 and then rebuild kextcache (if you don’t understand this, then you shouldn’t attempt it!)
- /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBHub.kext
- /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext
Use a USB hub in-between the DFU device and the Mac and insert/reinsert the iPhone’s USB cable.
Use a PwnageTool created .ipsw on Windows! Oh the irony!
Again, take heed to their warning, if you don’t understand what they are saying, Don’t Attempt It!
[Via blog-iPhone-dev.org]
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I already have my iPhone 3G jailbroken and I have the 2.1 firmware on it still. I am tempted to unlock my iPhone 3G, but I remember there were many YouTube problems last time I unlocked my 2G iPhone. Hopefully this won’t happen again.
Haleighluja. This is perfect timing for me. My unlimited media net package ends on December 31. Now i can use my tmobile sim…does the dev team take donations
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Hi..I have firmware 2.1 installed and the 3g iphone is fully unlocked! Will the iphone be locked or have any other problem if the unit is upgraded to 2.2 ? I unable to use many of the applications that are being released on 2.2! Add to this by accident I removed my Facebook application & now I cannot install it back cos it can only be used on 2.2!! Is there a way of downloading the old FB rev ?
Hi every one please help me to unlock my phone, my iphone was unlockd but with 2.2 but after updating with itunes i could not open the phone. even i bought some software online but nothing happend.my new version is 2.2.1 latest released by apple.if there is possibalty to downgrade my phone to 2.2 from 2.2.1 so plz help me thanks.
Hi everyone, can u help me pls. coz i have an iphone that’s already unlocked but i accidentally downloaded it with the newer software, and now i can’t open my iphone. Is this normal? What shall i do?.. Thanks for the help.
I’ve not heard much about iphone unlocking but this looks like a move in the right direction. No doubt it is an area that will explode shortly
Great info on cell phone unlocking. I like cellular phones and work at a little cell phone shop where we unlock phones and mod them for people. Add http://free-cell-phone-unlock.com to your list of free cell phone unlock sites, I use the downloads there a lot to help me unlock phones for customers, don’t be mad but hey I have to make a living some kinda way!! lol.
Anyways, I figured you could use that in your bag of tricks too