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iPhone 3g jailbreak/unlock related question

  • 25-12-2008 04:36PM
    #1
    lau1247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭


    I've noticed that O2 has brought the iPhone 3g 8gb onto prepay recently and I was thinking of getting one. It was printed on the leaflet I picked up in store that indicate along the lines - unlocking it may render the phone useless


    The thing that's stopping me at the moment is that I'm still a little bit sceptical about what if during the process of jailbreak/unlocking it to become sim free, something is messed up and I end up having a useless albeit very expensive phone/brick/paper weight.


    One friend did mentioned that if that happens, simply perform a restore and everything is back to as if the first day being bought from store. Is that true?


    I hope maybe some iphone owners out there who may have gone through this and shed some light on this issue
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Comments

  • #2
    Kid Nothing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭Kid Nothing


    iPhone 3G can't be unlocked (yet), jailbreak is harmless


  • #3
    Sighface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭Sighface


    Iphone 3g can be unlocked using a TurboSim which is a small sim card like device that can be placed under the sim card easily found on ebay. there will be a software unlock for any iphones running on the 2.1 software which will be released on new years eve by the Iphone Dev Team (http://blog.iphone-dev.org/)


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