Following up on the iPhone 1.1.1 jailbreak, iPhone SIMfree--they are the commercial unlock folks--have announced a 1.1.1 upgrade and a 1.1.1 unlock solution. Moreover, they believe their unlock solution will restore and repair iBricks: "This now means that SimFree v1.6 release, is now capable of completely restoring/repairing software unlocked "bricked" iPhone". TUAW has not had the opportunity to try this out ourselves, so for now we're just passing along the link to the iPSF site. Let us know in the comments if you were able to unbrick and/or update to 1.1.1.
iPhoneSIMFree is available from various vendors around the world and costs about US$60-$100.
Update: TUAW Reader Matthew Fliegle writes: I am on AT&T, and I installed the IPSF 2.6 using WiNstaller (on 1.0.2 with 4.01bb). It took about five minutes with no error messages. Then I restarted the phone and a error popped up saying invalid sim. I connected it to iTunes and clicked update. That took another 5 to 10 minutes, and then it made me reactivate it with AT&T. The only thing bad is that it made me renew my contract for another 2 years, but I called AT&T and they said I shouldn't have had to renew it and they were putting it under review.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
10-11-2007 @ 11:38AM
Josh said...
NOW THAT (if its true and functional) is BIG news!
though i just dont hack my iphone cause im afraid of what apple will do to it (like turn it into a lazer or something!)
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10-11-2007 @ 11:40AM
Felicia said...
Does this unlock require you to downgrade to 1.0.2 first?
Also if the dev teams jailbreak wasn't ready for just anyone to use it, how will most of us with not much tech skills be able to do this without just "pushing a button" ?
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10-11-2007 @ 12:06PM
Daniel D said...
Seriously change the background back guys or at least have a poll so you can see that the majority of the readers actually prefer the old one.
I am hoping this is just a festive Halloween thing but could be wrong!
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10-11-2007 @ 12:06PM
Mars said...
There is, as of this moment, no easy point and click way to jailbreak, activate, and unlock phones running 1.1.1. As far as I know, all methods require you to downgrade to 1.0.2 first, at which time you can run the iphonesimfree app and unlock your baseband. Be warned that, while running the iphonesimfree app is simple under 1.0.2, jailbreaking and activating aren't.
As someone who just successfully upgraded his, I would suggest waiting a day or two for a GUI. If I knew what was laying before me when I started, I would have waited as well.
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10-11-2007 @ 12:06PM
kerimeton said...
old news kinda. Im waiting for a free unlocker tbh
The fact that this seems to be for OTB iphones with 1.1.1 too is awesome though
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10-11-2007 @ 12:10PM
zeroMPHfallover said...
How is this old news? It's not.
Also, as far as I know, this new 1.1.1 unlock from iPSF doesn't require you to downgrade to 1.0.2 first, as it works on brand new 1.1.1 phones.
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10-11-2007 @ 12:21PM
Earle said...
I'm 99% certain that this new iphonesimfree unlock does NOT allow you to use your phone with any carrier. It only makes it so your phone isn't bricked, and if you can trick it into activating THEN you can use it on another carrier. As of now there is no 1.1.1 activation trick like DVD jon's old one or w/e the latest one is. I could be wrong though.
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10-11-2007 @ 12:25PM
John said...
I like the new background
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10-11-2007 @ 12:28PM
Matthew Fleigle said...
Worked for me!I had a bricked 1.0.2, and I ran this then was able to successfully upgrade to 1.1.1. The best $60 I have spent in a while!!!
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10-11-2007 @ 12:36PM
Shaah said...
Groovy! Napster Bad! But I'll wait for the free version.
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10-11-2007 @ 12:37PM
Jon said...
Earle,
You are wrong. There are activation hacks for 1.1.1 (replacing lockdown temporarily with the 1.0.2 version to activate). This completes the solution, though I'm still waiting for a free alternative to unbrick my anySIM unlocked iPhone.
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10-11-2007 @ 12:43PM
ZinkDifferent said...
Earl/#7 :
Verbatim from the iPSF site:
"Further to this, we are very proud to announce, (after some very difficult and lengthy hardware hackery), we were able to retrieve the necessary info to create the world first 1.1.1 unlock solution."
So, yes, you would be wrong. Helps to read the provided link first.
Personally, based on recent history, I'm going to spend the $60 or whatever on iPSF's solution, since it has a higher likelyhood of not bricking my phone in the future as well - even if Dev team releases a new free unlock, I wouldn't trust these guys' solution one iota anymore (particularly considering how their promised brick/fix solution was abandoned - yet iPSF is fixing bricked phones).
Based on the alleged method used by iPSF (they supposedly reverse engineered Apple's official way of unlocking), it's also likely for this trend to continue.
Summary: nice!
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10-11-2007 @ 12:48PM
Vincent J. Livecchi said...
I second the ok for the new background.....
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10-11-2007 @ 12:54PM
Bazemore said...
I used the unlock and it did unbrick my phone. I am now using it with my t mobile sim
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10-11-2007 @ 12:55PM
Martyn said...
I can see scary faces in the new background, please bring back the old one!
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10-11-2007 @ 12:56PM
ronaldishak said...
I can confirm I'm running 1.1.1 using IPSF
it goes along the lines of this
0. Downgrading to 1.0.2 (if necessary)
**installer.app and IPSF installed and unlock here**
1. Preparing the iPhone for a jailbroken update
2. Performing a software update, leaving you with a jailbroken v1.1.1
3. Forcing v1.1.1 to mount read-write so you can access it
4. Installing SSH and BSD world
5. Activating with a Non-ATT SIM
6. Patching SpringBoard to allow third-party applications
7. Clean-up
done!! tmobile on my 1.1.1 iphone!
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10-11-2007 @ 12:57PM
Chad Zeluff said...
if history repeats itself a free version will be out in a few days :)
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10-11-2007 @ 1:10PM
Aymeric said...
Can anybody confirm that IPSF SimFree works with OTB 1.1.1 iphones? or should you downgrade 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 to install SimFree?
Thanks
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10-11-2007 @ 1:16PM
tickmo said...
ronaldishak,
i am wondering how you installed SSH. i got to this step and had trouble with the iphoneinterface binary. perhaps it is intel Mac only? or did you use windows?
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10-11-2007 @ 1:27PM
Jeff said...
Nothing to do with the post, but I like the new background, but wish it was a little more leapord like, a little more spacey and more clear on the sides.
yesterday i was just wondering if you guys, TUAW, would change the background. just so happened it got changed yesterday! lol
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