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iPhone Dev Team announces free GUI iPhone Unlock Tool
The iPhone Dev Team has released a simple-to-use GUI tool that allows you to unlock your iPhone for use with any SIM. The tool, which is based on their previous command-line work, provides one-touch speedy unlocking. This is a big improvement on the first generation release. It no longer requires you to use special files or to dump nor data.
You can download your copy from the DevTeam website, as a PXL package or, soon, from Installer.app. "Wheat" is the guy responsible for those amazing graphics.
Find out more at the #iphone channel at irc.osx86.hu. Remember, this is early software and unstable. If risk isn't your thing, you'll probably want to wait a few days or weeks for things to stabilize.
Update: After reports of failed unlocks, Sam has updated the version to fix a timing issue. Current version is now 1.0.1, which solves the timing issue.
Update 2: I know of a youtube hack and have heard third-hand of a Visual Voicemail hack. Will post when I have details.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Manny said 9:15PM on 9-15-2007
Great news erica. And thanks for your contribution to the GUI as well.
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Michael Rose said 9:16PM on 9-15-2007
A proud moment for T-Mobile, O2, Vodaphone and Rogers customers. :-)
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Sam said 9:19PM on 9-15-2007
anyone think this might work with a tracfone sim, or similar pay as you go services. i have a trackfone currently, and hate the phone, but the prices are reasonable, any help?
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mlzech46 said 9:25PM on 9-15-2007
Erica, will this work with a brand new unopened 4GB iPhone? I live in Costa Rica and have one coming to me via a friend. If I need something else to activate it first can you point me in the right direction? Thanks for all your hard work on this project. Those of us outside of the US greatly appreciate it!
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JR said 9:24PM on 9-15-2007
Has anyone used this app to unlock their iPhone? The Dev team forums are a mess since this app was released, with a few threads indicating that it should not be used and has Bricked a few iPhones.
Seems a bit scary.
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Manny said 9:26PM on 9-15-2007
@ Sam
It will only work with GSM phones. If I recall correctly, I think Tracfone offers both GSM and CDMA phones.
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Alex Bratu said 9:26PM on 9-15-2007
The work you and other developers put into applications such as this is what makes the Mac community so great. Thanks.
Excellente as Spanish Mr. Burns would say.
Some ideas of additions to the iPhone that I haven't seen written about anywhere; perian for iPhone (so the ipod app will play all video file types that itunes/quicktime can play), the unarchiver for iphone (commandline, perhaps added to MobileFinder one day).
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gre_gmat said 9:30PM on 9-15-2007
how to do it?
can anyone give some help?
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Manny said 9:33PM on 9-15-2007
@ Sam again
I just checked Tracfone's rates...They suck compared to T-Mobile ToGo. Tracfone's $99 refill card is 400 minutes. TMO's $100 refill card is 1000 minutes.
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Sam said 9:35PM on 9-15-2007
ya my tracfone is a GSM phone, and it does have a sim card i can remove, will this work?
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Sam said 9:39PM on 9-15-2007
ya i would love to use t-mobile, except they have absolutely no coverage where i live
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Brennan Tallack said 9:44PM on 9-15-2007
Excellent. Now I just need to find a way to import a sealed iPhone into Canada without paying the eBay tax. (not to mention most of the iPhones on eBay are already hardware unlocked and commanding a premium price)
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Manny said 9:46PM on 9-15-2007
If you have GSM service, then I can't see any reason why this won't work on your Tracfone SIM. So go out and enjoy some iphone goodness.
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Admiral said 10:06PM on 9-15-2007
All prepaid SIMs will work EXCEPT for TracFone and Net10.
These two prepaid SIMs require special phone firmware that allows you to make calls. Unlike most prepaid companies, the tracfone airtime is stored on the phone, not in a system at the MVNO's end. Without the special firmware you are not going to be able to use Tracfone.
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Max said 10:06PM on 9-15-2007
I loved the slide to unlock screen, that just cracked me up.
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Aron Trimble said 10:19PM on 9-15-2007
I have a question for the iPhone dev team... if i'm on AT&T and unlock my phone will visual voicemail and youtube work? Or do those break regardless of what network is being used?
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geiri said 10:32PM on 9-15-2007
Hi,
I'm getting an iPhone in a few days and am going to use this unlock app. How do I install this on the iphone ? Use the jailbreak app ? Apptapp or something
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kofster said 4:13AM on 9-16-2007
Well, I live in Trinidad and Tobago and I plan on using the iPhone with ether one of our service providers, bmobile (http://www.bmobile.co.tt) or Digicel )Http://www.digiceltt.com/home) However, I think I may use bmobile as Digicel does not have unlimited EDGE plans which suck. I want to thank the Dev team, Erica and wheat for making this possible for all dem folk all over the world, people who want to enjoy their iPhones with any service providers that they chose. I'll be getting mine by next week and unlocking it myself. After poolig an iPhone software folder amassing 265 MB since all the apps were released.
The next post I put up will be signed from my iPhone.
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teq889 said 11:19PM on 9-15-2007
The Chinese have already copied the I-Phone and made better.
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Mitch said 11:30PM on 9-15-2007
I unlocked my iPhone using the following procedure:
http://modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/IPhone_unlock_OS_X_Part_1
It had easy to follow instructions and worked great.
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