FAQ: Unlocking, Jailbreak, Cydia, etc - All discussion goes here

guil · 29-05-2013 9:38pm

whellman1030 wrote: »

If I buy an iphone 5 from Vodafone with 24 months contract, unlock it and don't pay the contract anymore and change to another provider (for example 3), will vodafone come after me?

Of course they will and possibly blacklist the phone as well.

whiterebel · 29-05-2013 9:39pm

whellman1030 wrote: »

If I buy an iphone 5 from Vodafone with 24 months contract, unlock it and don't pay the contract anymore and change to another provider (for example 3), will vodafone come after me?

Apart from keep charging you for the contract, maybe they might blacklist it so it can't be used in Ireland.........:rolleyes:

whellman1030 · 01-06-2013 2:16am

Is 2 Mbps in 3G tested and real enough to make phone calls with viber and watch youtube?

guil · 01-06-2013 7:22am

whellman1030 wrote: »

Is 2 Mbps in 3G tested and real enough to make phone calls with viber and watch youtube?

No you need at least 100 Mbps for youtube

culabula · 01-06-2013 10:11am

whellman1030 wrote: »

Is 2 Mbps in 3G tested and real enough to make phone calls with viber and watch youtube?

If you have any more questions for this forum, lets have them more grown-up in nature. Otherwise, desist.

Savage Tyrant · 02-06-2013 3:53pm

For somebody in the know,

I bought an iPhone 5 yesterday and right out of the box it had iOS 6.1.4 (I had hoped and thought that it may have been a slightly older one)
Is there likely to be a jailbreak available anytime soon, or (and I may have picked this up wrong) am I to believe they are no longer working on new jailbreaks until iOS 7?

Thanks

guil · 02-06-2013 4:32pm

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

For somebody in the know,

I bought an iPhone 5 yesterday and right out of the box it had iOS 6.1.4 (I had hoped and thought that it may have been a slightly older one)
Is there likely to be a jailbreak available anytime soon, or (and I may have picked this up wrong) am I to believe they are no longer working on new jailbreaks until iOS 7?

Thanks

Are you sure it was on 6.1.4 when you got it. It's rare that a phone has the very latest software when it was released such a short time before. I got my iPhone 5 in march and I'm nearly certain it had iOS 6 on it.

Could be wrong but I don't think there was ever a jailbreak for the iPhone 5

Zimmerframe · 02-06-2013 4:33pm

guil wrote: »

Could be wrong

You are

guil · 02-06-2013 4:34pm

Zimmerframe wrote: »

You are

Short and sweet

Savage Tyrant · 02-06-2013 5:05pm

guil wrote: »

Are you sure it was on 6.1.4 when you got it. It's rare that a phone has the very latest software when it was released such a short time before. I got my iPhone 5 in march and I'm nearly certain it had iOS 6 on it.

Could be wrong but I don't think there was ever a jailbreak for the iPhone 5

I was under the assumption that 6.1.1 or was jailbreakable (but I'm a relative simpleton on these things and haven't attempted a jb since the iOS 4 days)

But yeah, 6.1.4 right out of the box yesterday. Very surprised. I can only assume it was a very recent stock delivery.

EuskalHerria · 10-06-2013 11:47am

Bought a Gevey sim on eBay for €8. Took 2 weeks to arrive from china and after 4 months my 4S on 6.0.1 is finally unlocked. Genuinely surprised it worked so easily.

pbarr · 10-06-2013 1:00pm

EuskalHerria wrote: »

Bought a Gevey sim on eBay for €8. Took 2 weeks to arrive from china and after 4 months my 4S on 6.0.1 is finally unlocked. Genuinely surprised it worked so easily.

Ya I used a gevey sim to unlock my 4s also. It works great. You're lucky the one from China worked, somebody told me that the cheap ones from China are imitations and don't work but that doesn't seem to be the case.

EuskalHerria · 10-06-2013 1:05pm

pbarr wrote: »

Ya I used a gevey sim to unlock my 4s also. It works great. You're lucky the one from China worked, somebody told me that the cheap ones from China are imitations and don't work but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I would have thought the same. Wasn't prepared to spend a fortune on a genuine one incase it didn't work and was suspicious that a cheap one wouldn't. Great feedback and it being cheap convinced me and I'm delighted it worked.

pbarr · 10-06-2013 3:41pm

I bought one from the German eBay sellerr. i think it was 28 euro and like yourself delighted with the result.

naasrd · 10-06-2013 4:13pm

I've a gevey I don't need anymore if anyone needs it, pm and I'll post it on free of charge.

whellman1030 · 10-06-2013 7:05pm

EuskalHerria wrote: »

Bought a Gevey sim on eBay for €8. Took 2 weeks to arrive from china and after 4 months my 4S on 6.0.1 is finally unlocked. Genuinely surprised it worked so easily.

Can this cards be used to unlock iPhone 5 on Meteor?

EuskalHerria · 10-06-2013 10:08pm

whellman1030 wrote: »

Can this cards be used to unlock iPhone 5 on Meteor?

It depends on the baseband and iOS it's on but I think so. The name of the seller I bought from was wonderful-Sunday. (http://myworld.ebay.com/wonderful-sunday)
They're currently away so in a few days they'll have all their products back up with full descriptions.

culabula · 11-06-2013 2:50pm

pbarr wrote: »

Ya I used a gevey sim to unlock my 4s also. It works great. You're lucky the one from China worked, somebody told me that the cheap ones from China are imitations and don't work but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Based on this I ordered one yesterday from eBay. Arrived at lunchtime.

Doesn't work.

Anyone any suggestions in case am doing something wrong?

EuskalHerria · 11-06-2013 3:08pm

culabula wrote: »

Based on this I ordered one yesterday from eBay. Arrived at lunchtime.

Doesn't work.

Anyone any suggestions in case am doing something wrong?

Have you entered in the correct carrier code for the network the phone is locked too?

Also I had to remove the white reset sim twice (within 10 seconds of it putting the right network settings) before it worked for me.

culabula · 11-06-2013 3:42pm

EuskalHerria wrote: »

Have you entered in the correct carrier code for the network the phone is locked too?

Also I had to remove the white reset sim twice (within 10 seconds of it putting the right network settings) before it worked for me.

I can't even get that far!

pbarr · 11-06-2013 6:09pm

In my case I didn't have to put in any carrier codes. The instructions are here: http://www.gevey.com/instructions/
The specific instructions I followed are here: http://www.gevey.com/unlock-gsm-iphone-4s-with-sim/ My IOS is 6.1.3 and I had no problems. The only thing not working is the personal hotspot. When I turn it on I get a message to contact Meteor, it was to Meteor that the phone was locked to. I'm going to try a fresh restore and set up as a new phone and then unlock it again to see if it will cure the hotspot problem.

culabula · 11-06-2013 8:38pm

pbarr wrote: »

In my case I didn't have to put in any carrier codes. The instructions are here: http://www.gevey.com/instructions/
The specific instructions I followed are here: http://www.gevey.com/unlock-gsm-iphone-4s-with-sim/ My IOS is 6.1.3 and I had no problems. The only thing not working is the personal hotspot. When I turn it on I get a message to contact Meteor, it was to Meteor that the phone was locked to. I'm going to try a fresh restore and set up as a new phone and then unlock it again to see if it will cure the hotspot problem.

In actual fact I started again once I got the information that T-Mobile UK is actually identified as UK-ORG (Gevey seems keen for you to guess or learn Mandarin).

This time I got a bit further, as far as searching for the network after rebooting. However this went on for an hour and made no difference. I switched to manual and managed to tick a network, but it would not connect.

Eventually I tried various SIMs from Meteor, O2 IRL, 3 UK and SFR. Same result each and every time. He's posted me out a replacement.

pbarr · 11-06-2013 9:54pm

culabula wrote: »

In actual fact I started again once I got the information that T-Mobile UK is actually identified as UK-ORG (Gevey seems keen for you to guess or learn Mandarin).

This time I got a bit further, as far as searching for the network after rebooting. However this went on for an hour and made no difference. I switched to manual and managed to tick a network, but it would not connect.

Eventually I tried various SIMs from Meteor, O2 IRL, 3 UK and SFR. Same result each and every time. He's posted me out a replacement.

Good luck with it. Let us know how you get on.

culabula · 12-06-2013 1:28pm

pbarr wrote: »

Good luck with it. Let us know how you get on.

Not good: replacement arrived just now (excellent service) but really, life's too short for what ensued.

This one worked better than the first one in that I got to the searching part much more quickly. Perhaps it simply doesn't like Three SIMS (he warns about Giffgaff).

However, after many retries I finally got my 3IRL SIM to connect to 3 UK. Unfortunately a) it doesn't stay connected for long b) the signal is ridiculously weak and c) data doesn't work - so not a 100% unlock.

Fortunately, I can return the items.

EuskalHerria · 12-06-2013 1:35pm

culabula wrote: »

Not good: replacement arrived just now (excellent service) but really, life's too short for what ensued.

This one worked better than the first one in that I got to the searching part much more quickly. Perhaps it simply doesn't like Three SIMS (he warns about Giffgaff).

However, after many retries I finally got my 3IRL SIM to connect to 3 UK. Unfortunately a) it doesn't stay connected for long b) the signal is ridiculously weak and c) data doesn't work - so not a 100% unlock.

Fortunately, I can return the items.

My data didn't work until I turned data roaming on. My phone was locked to 3UK and once I put data roaming on it worked fine.

culabula · 12-06-2013 1:57pm

EuskalHerria wrote: »

My data didn't work until I turned data roaming on. My phone was locked to 3UK and once I put data roaming on it worked fine.

Using Three IRL in the six counties, I always have to put data roaming on, so that isn't the issue. The guy just suggested creating a custom profile for the APN, which I did, but this doesn't address the unreliability of getting on board the network in the first place.

The problem is it's just too fiddly, takes too long and you run the risk of being booted off the network at critical times.

Rew · 13-06-2013 1:11pm

A friend was looking to get an iPhone 4 unlocked and a mobile repair shop in Dub is claiming it can do an over the air unlock if you give them thew IMEI. I wasn't aware this was possible outside of the network operators, can anyone substantiate their claim?

whellman1030 · 13-06-2013 3:07pm

Found this for iphone 4 and 4s: http://www.gevey.com/instructions/

Anyway in Ireland by my research is only possible to unlock iPhone 5 by IMEI and only for vodafone or O2.

culabula · 13-06-2013 3:23pm

whellman1030 wrote: »

Found this for iphone 4 and 4s: http://www.gevey.com/instructions/

Anyway in Ireland by my research is only possible to unlock iPhone 5 by IMEI and only for vodafone or O2.

These Gevey SIMs as per my research of the past two days are very hit and miss.

All Irish networks will unlock iPhone either by paying up front or at the end of your contract.

O2 Ireland will unlock on request.

You can buy an unlocked iPhone 5 here: store.apple.com/ie

Cale · 13-06-2013 6:35pm

Hi all,

I have an iPhone 4 running 6.1.3 and baseband 04.12.05 and I wish to unlock it myself.

Just wondering which methods are out there and if you could direct me to those places (that work

)...?

Thanks.

Edit: Nevermind. Impossible apparently.

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