Comments on: iPhone 3G Unlock Still Pending — Will Unlock OS 2.2/Baseband 02.28.00!

By: Britt

Britt — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:17:57 +0000

-Has asked Orange to unlock the French Orange simcard/iPhone - Time goes, but Orange does not respond, the info. from Orange is that they do not know how long it takes (if/when they can do it)!!!

The subcription is nearly a year old and the request for unlock was done 3 weeks ago!

By: si

si — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:52:17 +0000

Orange France will unlock the Iphone free of charge after you had it for six months

If its less than six months old on mobicarte they will ask you to top it up with around 75 euros as there is a bonus amount which takes the balance to over 100euros

Orange then contacts Apple, within 7 days when you update your phone on ITunes 8 with a DIFFERENT SIM you will be greeted with a message saying your Iphone is unlocked

PS The Iphones in Belgium are factory unlocked...

By: yellowsn0w

yellowsn0w — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:08:38 +0000

It’s a good thing that version 0.9.4 of yellowsn0w is out. It fixes a lot of issues.

By: frog

frog — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:02:32 +0000

My carrier unlocked my iPhone without charge, iTunes did the actual physical unlock though.

By: ktalla

ktalla — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:47:14 +0000

Hi Kaysha, I am really curious about how you get your iphone unlocked in France. Would you please share the tip; I leave in France and own an iphone 3g 2.2 with an Orange sim card, and I have not found yet a way to unlock it. I would be glad to know how to get rid of the lock thing. Thanks – Ktall

By: mike

mike — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:13:04 +0000

it seems you must upgrade base band and firmware in order to use yellowsn0w. I personally still have 2.1 running only because of the txt messaging issue with 2.2. 2.1 displays only “new txt message” as opposed to 2.2 displaying the senders name along with “”new txt message”.

By: Kaysha

Kaysha — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:37:56 +0000

Is this issue still relevant when the iphone is available unlocked in most parts of the world. I just had to pay a small fee when I bought mine in France and I got unlocked straight away by itunes

By: the dude

the dude — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:35:29 +0000

Wait, i dont think understand… so it doesnt matter and now an iphone that has the latest basband CAN be unlocked? but all the people that followed the precautions about preserving their original baseband will need to upgrade it?

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:28:05 +0000

dopeness!