iPhone hackers create open source unlock

To Sebastian.

Estoy en Chile tambien. ¿Ya lo recibiste? ¿como te fue con el chip de Entelpcs y iUnlock? Yo estoy a punto de comprar uno y hacermelo enviar por Lanbox pero prefiero que tu lo pruebes primero para ver si funciona. Si si, soy un cobarde, lo sé... ;-)

Un saludo de Viña

mark

This unlocking tutorial worked really well for me...
http://iphone.unlock.no/
If anyone has questions, feel free to contact me Rando1103@gmail.com

Alright,
I read posts above and was just wondering, I live in Canada and i would love to purchase the iphone via online US store and then just unlock it, but does anyone know of a way to "re-lock" it so to say. So that when it is released in Canada I would not have to worry about update problems?

I tried to use the unlock software and instructions last night and it all worked without a problem. Here is the picture of the unlocked iPhone connected to Canadian Fido network:
http://softwaretrenches.com/2007/09/iphone_is_unlocked_1.html

Do you still need to activate thru AT&T before applying the hack? Can I just purchase an iPhone on ebay and never give a single penny to AT&T? (I want to try this on Fido (Canada))

This has me wondering now... will iPhoneSIMfree lower their price to 66$ and give previous owners a 16.5$ credit?

As I'm not owning an iPhone and I also wonder what happens if a new update is out and I choose not to install it. Will iTunes bar my access to th iphone or some features making it compulsory? If not, all ppl have to do after a patch comes out is wait a week or so and it will be re unlocked again. My guess is it will be less than a week anyway.

While plenty of users are going to trudge through this complex hack, iPhoneSIMfree is still going to make plenty of cash with their "it just works" solution. Time is money for many people, and it's a lot easier to spend $99 than to work through this messy open source hack.

I didn't take the time to read through the previous posts, but I can confirm that this worked without a hitch for me (the iUnlock procedure). Just google for a tutorial and you'll find one.

I'm now using Telstra Mobile in Australia. the EDGE works just fine, and Youtube works too after hacking it a little (google, again).

There is one sucky thing though, and it's probably coz the iphone isn't really meant to be working much outside the US.

When someone on a mobile in Aus calls, it doesn't pick up the +61 code, then the 4, then the number for the mobile. It just uses the common 04xxxxx (x's are rest of number). However, having added the +614 into all my address book contacts for when i'm overseas, the iphone now doesn't figure out that +614xxxx is the same as 04xxxx and so caller id doesn't work properly.

Even more annoyingly, it works just fine for SMS.

Does anyone know if theres a haxie for this apart from manually adding 04xxxx numbers to all my contacts?
I suppose this is a problem everyone who has an iPhone outside the us will encounter. It will probably be addressed by Apple in a firmware update as they ready for Europe's launch. But i'm scared that since i have the US version of the iphone, that this firmware will not be available for mine.

Perhaps TUAW could look into it?

Thanks guys.

Personally, I paid for the unlock because it gives me many more options. Primarily, I'm not locked into AT&T outrageous billing practices due to Apples mistakes with the iphone. What it gives me is the option to put a working prepaid SIM T-Moblie or even T-mobil Germany, VodaFone, etc into my fully paid iPhone. I even do my part to reduce the annual ENRON style profit that AT&T is making. they must be NUTS to think we'll gladly fork over FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED United States Dollars for a 2 week trip to Europe and the phone is shut off. Additionally, I can choose to keep my iPhone at 1.02. Hey it's a working phone and a heck of a lot better than the series of Palm Treo's that I suffered with over the past 5 years.

@reg -

again, i dont think apple will or should block any hacking or unlocking, im just saying that i dont see that its necessarily in their best interest either way. its like the appletv, it doesnt effect them if you do it, it only possibly effects the end user.

i just dont think people who alter the original state of an item have the right to be upset if things change. its not an argument over legitimate unlocking, if and when it comes, because apple just WONT reverse it, theres no debating that. but until its 'official,' there is no reason for them NOT to undo the unlocking if they write it into their updates.

you do make a good point in your 3rd post, that since its on the baseband and not on the firmware, they would have to intentionally do it, but what if they have a good reason to? what if att changes their network structure and apple needs to accomodate? im not a mobile phone expert, but i would imagine that would require some updates to the lowest levels of the system, and if they arent officially breaking anything, why should they care?

my points about capitalism are because you say things as if hacking is the way apple will stay ahead of the competition. i feel that apple will do just fine on their own. and privilege/rights mean that its a privilege to be able to hack/unlock our system, that apple doesnt stop us, as opposed to being our right (i know unlocking is legal, thats not what im saying here).

as for the breaking into your house analogy, let me change it to something more suited to this topic. if i find a way into your wireless network and youve done things to try to keep me off of it, just because i did the research to break it, should i be able to use it?

and of course people who unlock their phones this way would be upset if they were locked again, because nobody wants their work undone, but what grounds do they have?

as to you being out of the US, id love for you to be able to use your iphone. i want as many people as possible to use apple products, but until they officially release it there, everyone who uses the unlocked system needs to understand they are on thin ice and should be ready to lose it at any time.

forgive me if i jumble my words here, its hard keeping my thought in a little box ;-)