Comments on: iPhone 3G Unlock Updated: yellowsn0w hits 0.9.5

By: Augustus Rosenholm

Augustus Rosenholm — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 05:27:52 +0000

Thanks for the info on cell phone unlocking. I love 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

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:02:01 +0000

@Nick, why pay for free, and freely licensed software? To the best of my knowledge, the unlock comes from the Dev Team, so why not just get it from them and save what's a pretty massive amount of money?

It's like buying local tap water at the pub for $100?

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:27:09 +0000

I have unlocked my iPhone 3G. I have used a unlocking method from unlockiphoneuk.com and they sell that program for £19.99. Yes !!

It did work fine, but the only problem i have, sometime when im using a pin unabled sim cards, it does not find the carrier. Once i put a pin dissabled (any network) it works fine, and it does not effect anything whatsoever.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:28:33 +0000

I just bought a turbosim so I could use my iphone with my t-mobile sim, well I can now make calls but no internet?? My phone isn’t jailbroken or previously unlocked…what should i do?

By: Michel A

Michel A — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:06:39 +0000

GUIDE: How to fix "different sim detected" after jailbreak/unlock Once you jailbreak/unlock your iphone, you should have access to Cydia and Installer.

Follow the steps below to get rid of the "different sim detected" message

Use QUICKPWN 2.1 procedure to Jailbreak and Unlock.
Now you need to remove the previous activation, for that you need to follow the below procedures.

2.1 Remove any sim cards inside so you have access to cydia, than open cydia, and you are going to search and find the following applications, than install them

Open NTPD
Open SSH
Automatic SSH

Download and Use WinSCP to connect to iPhone Download WinSCP http://sourceforge.net/project/downl...irror=internap

Guide on using WinSCP with iphone http://limitededitioniphone.com/wind...p-with-iphone/

Follow the below steps:

4.1 Download patched lockdown file from here http://rs309.rapidshare.com/files/13...9/Lockdown.zip

4.2 Navigate to to /private/var/root/Library/ and copy lockdown folder to your desktop (for backup just in case - this you need to do)

4.3 Delete that folder from phone

4.4 Unzip downloaded patched file and upload to phone to replace the folder you just deleted (make sure you replace the acutal lockdown folder that has the files in it)

4.5 Naviagte into patched folder and make sure file pemissions are set to 644 for all files (right click on "lockdown" and go to properties, than set file permission to 0644)

4.6 Reboot phone

If you have any question, let me know.

By: Rizwan

Rizwan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Hey All,

Anyone with the problem of getting "Different Sim Installed" error, REMOVE ANY ATT SIM BEFORE INSTALLATION. ATT LOCKS THE IPHONE and you will get Different Sim error.

By: jorge

jorge — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:41:25 +0000

hey jerd idk about da i need help in da too my internet is not workin da is the only thing da is not workin ,if any1 can help me to get the internet workin ill appreciate!!

By: Jerd

Jerd — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:56:50 +0000

it worked fine for me.. but can’t access the web via 3G.. i wonder if my US bought iphone doesn’t like French 3G?

By: jorge

jorge — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:19:07 +0000

this is for the ppl that is havin problem callin n th signal fail , look if u are a t-mobile customer kall 611 n ask for internet suport and ask them if they can help u out to get u signal wit u iphone that wut i did n they told me let do some troubleshoot n they tell me to turn the iphone on n the iphone turn on n got the signal n they tell me to kall some1 to try i did n it did ,n my iphone is now workin good luck guys iff something contact me my e-mail tillidie_3-0-5@hotmail.com

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:13:36 +0000

@Ravishan, that syntax “*0 <– # 0″ does not make sense. Can you please verify what this is supposed to do? Obviously the Unix kernel of the phone will crap out on the # character

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:40:57 +0000

Hey Guys and Gals-

First off thank you, thank you, thank you!! Freedom from our contracts are within reach. I am currently in California and with AT&T and want to move to T-Mobile. What sim package is recommended? Also will be moving to the UK in the fall, and going to get the iPhone O2 PayG sim card from ebay. Thanks you have saved this poor college student a fortune!! Rock on!! Cheers!

By: neige

neige — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:24:16 +0000

I get the different sim detected as well, can not do anything but receiving calls

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:32:55 +0000

Ravishan, I followed your instructions and it messed up my iphone. It will no longer detect my sim card.

By: bryony

bryony — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:15:30 +0000

ravishan this worked for me when nothing else has before! iphone 3g three network. Thanks a MILLION!

By: Ravishan

Ravishan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:32:36 +0000

FOLLOW THIS METHOD = SUCESS GUARANTEED

Install YellowSNow 0.9.5 Through Cydia Install BosPref with Cydia Install Mobile Terminal Witg Cydia

You are done now, Put Everything OFF in Bosspref (SSH, 3G, EDGE, WIFI) Reboot Using BossPref (Power --> then Rebbot)

30 Seconds after reboot go to Mobile Terminal and type

*0 <-- # 0 not the alphabatical word (O)

yellowsn0w -c and yellowsn0w -r

Then goto setting turn on and off flight mode. wait a min to see the reception.

Otherwise, reboot again using BossPref as i told you earlier.

Then FLight mode on and off again.

Trust me it will work for you 100% Guaranteed. Otherwise contact me lilplaya360@gmail.com

By: anon

anon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:23:18 +0000

@ Michael from #6:

a) You're and idiot, you used FREE BETA software at your own risk, and you were warned in the process!

b) It probably works fine, but you're either too stupid or too stubborn to read and follow the instructions...

@ rene:

a) There is an exception in the law (DCMA) for unlocking your own cell phone

b) Jody Sanders, at the ripoff site, is also selling a modified version of pwnage, which is legal software -- no apple packages -- that belongs to its creators; FULL. STOP.

By: Istuff

Istuff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:54:56 +0000

I had success with me and my wifes 3g’s unlocked using their method. it works great. Just had to reboot and flick flight mode on/off once initially. Now it’s flawless.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:19:52 +0000

Well to tell u the truth devteam screwed many people over. People who once had version 2.1 on their iphones were using turbosims which worked without a problem. Now these smart idiots who told us to upgrade to 2.2 realized their beta software is garbage, and we suffer in return because 2.2 cannot be unlocked with almost no turbo sims. They should have warned us from the beginning that problems will arise and that this is not done yet. They made it seem as if christmas eve would be the day to use iphone 3g without turbo sims. I can make a software up also and name it “blueballs” but if it doesnt work then wtf is the point ? right?

By: Andres tapia

Andres tapia — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:53:03 +0000

Forgot to say that T-mobile shows up n I can recieve caps n text by can’t do anything else cuz I keep getteing the different sim error n won let me go in re menu at all

By: Andres tapia

Andres tapia — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:51:09 +0000

I’m having problems with 2 iPhone 3g and everytime i jailbreak n unlock them they work with the sim it came with but when I switch the sim cards 2 put T-mobile I get the different sim detected error n please connect to iTunes But when I do I can’t do anythig else I have rejailbreak n unlocked with different option but no fix……can anyone help?? Even if I put phone A sim in phone B I still get the error..really weird. 2days before I unlocked another iPhone 3g n worked fine

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:15:35 +0000

Agree with previous comment. If you dick about with this stuff and it doesn’t work then you can’t blame anyone but yourself. I bought a jailbroken 2G and happily hacked around with of bit once I went 3G on a contract I decided to leave it be after an unsuccessful jailbreak that bricked the phone. Never again!

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:18:39 +0000

No pity. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

By: MattyFresh

MattyFresh — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:09:27 +0000

Iam happy if it worked for sum but hasnt worked at all for me singnal goes from full to zero and seraching for signal and every version has done this and cant believe none of the dev team had any problems like this because a ton of people i know couldnt make out going calls i just cant believe this didnt happen to dev team