Skip to Content

iPhone 3G unlock (finally) crashes everyone's party

by Aron Trimble Jan 1st 2009 at 11:45AM

While everyone was assuredly watching the ball drop in in NYC and finishing off glasses of bubbly, the iPhone Dev-Team was hard at work pushing out the iPhone 3G unlock. They previously stated that an iPhone 3G unlock would occur in the final hours of 2008, and though the unlock was made available a few hours in to 2009 it is currently being released as a beta.

The 0.9 beta release of "yellowsn0w" does still have some noted issues, but a big feature worth noting is that the unlock will work with the latest modem firmware (02.28.00). In other words, if you have an updated iPhone 3G at version 2.2, it is possible to unlock your iPhone without having to exploit holes only found in previous versions of the firmware. Even though this release is dubbed a "beta" reports are pouring in at the Dev-Team blog of success stories.

For more details, issues and experiences (positive or negative) head on over to the Dev-Team blog. While this intrepid blogger will be passing on the unlock, if you have any luck trying this out, let us know in the comments.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

View Tags

Related Stories

Categories

iPhone Jailbreak/pwnage

While everyone was assuredly watching the ball drop in in NYC and finishing off glasses of bubbly, the iPhone Dev-Team was hard at work...
 

Add a Comment

Sign in »
*0 / 3000 Character Maximum

35 Comments

Filter by:
Nj

Get your iphone unlocked or upgrade it to the latest version
UNLOCKING iPHONE 2G & 3G Using Pure Software
WITH ALL The iPHONE FEATURES WORKING FINE.
UNLOCK WITHOUT OPENING THE PHONE, SO DONT WORRY
If anyones interested, please email me cuteprick@hotmail.com or call me...
Come with your iPhone & i'll unlock it within 15mins.
To get ANY iPhone issues Solved/Repaired

CALL ME ON 9820541041
AM LOCATED IN MUMBAI

February 27 2009 at 1:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nathan

Unlocking doesn't do any damage to the warranty :) You can restore the iPhone to factory settings so apple don't even realise.

Unlock iPhone 3G

January 08 2009 at 11:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Catt

I'm just glad I don't have a Zune!

January 02 2009 at 4:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
david Manrique

does that DFU mode on/off thing concerns only unibody macbooks and macbook pro's or every single apple computer, cause i have a macbook pro from 2008 but before the new ones came out so do i still have to turn on DFU mode? i mean i do have OSX 10.5.6 ... help anyone? thank you and happy new year

January 02 2009 at 6:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
The_Hacker

in regards to the disabled DFU mode


heres a quick fix

go here

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=2493

follow the instructions and you should be good to go!

note: works for 10.5.6 and up!

still trying to get my G3 unlocked... still no luck....

January 02 2009 at 6:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
lintyboo

WORKS AMAZING!

I had initial problems due to the fact that the new Unibody MacBooks are having problems with iPhones in DFU mode, which is required for QuickPWN or PwnageTool. So I used Bootcamp and it worked LOL.

When to T-mobile USA and it works just fine on a 16GB iPhone 3G :)

January 02 2009 at 12:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tbaby

I hope everyone knows that unlocking any devices voids warrenty on that device including iphone.

January 02 2009 at 12:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
1 reply to tbaby's comment
JJ

Are you working for At&T or Rogers or Vodafone that you need to point this out? I think anyone looking to unlock is VERY aware of the consequences regarding unlocking.

And beyond that, "re-locking" and restoring the phone to default settings makes it so that any Genius would never know.

I guess you sat at the front of the class with you brown nose and red apple?

January 02 2009 at 12:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
michaelgcohen

Any Canadians managed to break free from their Rogers sim using this? I would like to be able to purchase a pre-paid sim when I travel to Asia

January 01 2009 at 11:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Richard Orlin

Big deal. You still can't buy an iPhone without signing a contract. So, it's unlocked....you've still paid your money to Apple and AT&T.

January 01 2009 at 9:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Giovanni P.

After several restarts and button pushing the software iPhone 3G unlock version worked like a charm, i woke up this january 1, 2009 with the surprising news on the iphone dev blog website that the new unlock came out and in order get it you needed to have a jailbroken iphone 3G and to add the new source that muscle nerd created to get the yellowsn0w app, after installing the app, you had to restart the iphone 3G with the different sim card carrier of your choice, well lets just say after so many tries of rebooting and toggling some buttons like for example airplane mode, and Location services, i finally saw that t-mobile icon show up, and some bars. i even got browse the web on edge network speed, But all the time spent trying to make things work, was worth every minute. I am very happy to say that muscle nerd and the iphone dev team did a great job with this project and i would like to congratulate them!

January 01 2009 at 8:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Buy an ad here

Hot Apps on TUAW

Tweets

© 2012 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved.