iPhone SIM Free announces 1.1.1 SIM Unlock, iPhone Unbricking
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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Josh said 11:38AM on 10-11-2007
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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Felicia said 11:40AM on 10-11-2007
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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Daniel D said 12:06PM on 10-11-2007
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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Matthew Fleigle said 12:28PM on 10-11-2007
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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kerimeton said 12:06PM on 10-11-2007
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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Mars said 12:06PM on 10-11-2007
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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Alan Quatermain said 1:40PM on 10-11-2007
The unlock worked for me, on a 1.1.1 phone downgraded to 1.0.2. In answer to Felicia's question, the ipsf installer doesn't require 1.0.2, but the jailbreak to be able to activate the new sim card does — you have to downgrade and change a couple things in order to get a jailbroken 1.1.1.
Personally, I'm sticking with 1.0.2 for the moment, until tools like iNdependence have been updated with the necessary information to make 1.1.1 activations as user-friendly as they have with 1.0.2.
Next step: iPhone as a remote for the Apple TV. Browse your ATV media from the comfort of your iPhone, then tap a button to have it play on you big screen. Mmmmmm...
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zeroMPHfallover said 12:10PM on 10-11-2007
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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Earle said 12:21PM on 10-11-2007
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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John said 12:25PM on 10-11-2007
I like the new background
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Shaah said 12:36PM on 10-11-2007
Groovy! Napster Bad! But I'll wait for the free version.
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Jon said 12:37PM on 10-11-2007
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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ZinkDifferent said 12:43PM on 10-11-2007
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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Vincent J. Livecchi said 12:48PM on 10-11-2007
I second the ok for the new background.....
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Bazemore said 12:54PM on 10-11-2007
I used the unlock and it did unbrick my phone. I am now using it with my t mobile sim
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Chad Zeluff said 12:57PM on 10-11-2007
if history repeats itself a free version will be out in a few days :)
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Martyn said 12:55PM on 10-11-2007
I can see scary faces in the new background, please bring back the old one!
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ronaldishak said 12:56PM on 10-11-2007
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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mwdelta said 3:45PM on 10-11-2007
yeah and if history repeats itself the free version will brick your phone too :)
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Aymeric said 1:10PM on 10-11-2007
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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