Help! Unlock for iphone 3.1.3???

mydogjack

Somebody please help me out. Had to restore my iphone and in doing so through itunes it upgraded to 3.1.3. I do not have any unlock methods that work;
1. Is there gonna be an unlock program?
2. How long before its released; weeks, months?

mydogjack

p.s. its an unlocked iphone from th US and was jailbroken and unlocked. Its bricked now, least I thimk thats the term. In other words its locked, frozen and of no use now.

Gumbo

mydogjack wrote: »

p.s. its an unlocked iphone from th US and was jailbroken and unlocked. Its bricked now, least I thimk thats the term. In other words its locked, frozen and of no use now.

just going through something similar with my friends iPhone at the moment, does your phone say "sim locked" and the phone asks for a passkey?

Stuxnet

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055822172

no jailbreak yet, the dev team are keeping their cards close to their chest waiting for next major iphone os release, 3.1.3 was a ploy by apple to see their hand, ! you can downgrade and re-jailbreak if you can use the above thread

mydogjack

Need it unlocked first, then i'll jailbreak it. yeah it asks for pin when sim in, and just shows the itune connect sign when the sim is out. Hope somebody can unlock it.

Leiva

mydogjack wrote: »

Need it unlocked first, then i'll jailbreak it. yeah it asks for pin when sim in, and just shows the itune connect sign when the sim is out. Hope somebody can unlock it.

Mydogjack,
You have it the wrong way around , you need to jailbreak first to unlock .
If you updated your firmware to 3.1.3 via iTunes ( which I think you did) then there is no exploit or jailbreak available yet for your device.
You will have to sit tight my friend , when a new jailbreak will be available is crystal ball stuff.

M.

(p.s) what phone is it 2g 3g 3gs ?

mydogjack

It is a 3G model. Thanks for the advice. Looks like its no good for a while so. I really hope someone can come up with some program soon. What about downgrading the firmware to 3.1.2? Is it possible?

KoolKid

Itunes won't let you restore to an earlier version now.

mydogjack

Disaster! only had the phone a couple of weeks. Phoned some unlock shop in Dublin, they said they should be able to do it in a few weeks time.

Leiva

mydogjack wrote: »

It is a 3G model. Thanks for the advice. Looks like its no good for a while so. I really hope someone can come up with some program soon. What about downgrading the firmware to 3.1.2? Is it possible?

No ...3.1.3 would have updated your baseband aswell (5.11 to 5.12 ) at this point in time there is no unlock available for baseband 5.12 .
So if you could roll back your firmware to 3.1.2 then your baseband would still be 5.12


What usually happens (well last couple of times) is when a jailbreak is released then a unlock follows suit .

Sit tight , there is some movement in the hacker community , but people are keeping their cards close to their chest , CAT & MOUSE .

m.

Leiva

mydogjack wrote: »

Disaster! only had the phone a couple of weeks. Phoned some unlock shop in Dublin, they said they should be able to do it in a few weeks time.

Dont give them a cent ....they use the same software and methods as what the community give out for FREE .
You will be able to do it yourself , if you a have questions then you will get help here .

mydogjack

Cheers, thanks for the advice. I downloaded domething called 'IREB' I think to check firmware, etc. Dunno what base and stuff its on but as you said more than likely all the newest s*it.

TheCelticWizard

It sounds to me like you are facing two problems here. The first and most immediate is that as it was an unlocked American model rather that sim free, you need to activate the phone again using iTunes, that's why you're getting that screen with the cable and iTunes symbol. Trouble is to do that you need to insert an AT&T sim card with the pin disabled, that's why iTunes didn't automatically reactivate the phone as part of the update process. Until you can accomplish this the phone will remain "bricked", and you won't be able to jailbreak or unlock even if the dev team release a fix, and they did post warnings in cydia saying that because the update contained no significant functionality, they wouldn't waste another exploit on jailbreaking it. Somebody else might though, so hopefully if you manage to get it activated it will all work out.

mydogjack

Thanks celticwizard, how the hell will i purchase an at&t card? Is this the u.s. only or have they networks elsewhere?

Leiva

Mydog,
Don't worry about getting your hands on a AT&T sim.

Most modern day jailbreak methods (eg) Blackra1n , have a thing called " Hacktivation" built into the jailbreak process.
This basically means that the jailbreak software will activate your phone , sim card inserted or not.
Basically get you to the home screen and past the "insert sim" screen.

So your ideal solution would be another release of Blackra1n for 3.1.3 with hacktivation built in ( which I would be astounded if not ! )

M.

mydogjack

Mixednuts, i'm optimistic again. Thanks for the advice, hopefully there will be a blackrain or something like it for 3.1.3. Some folk say that they might not bother with an unlock for 3.1.3, hope they are wrong.

TheCelticWizard

mixednuts wrote: »

Mydog,
Don't worry about getting your hands on a AT&T sim.

Most modern day jailbreak methods (eg) Blackra1n , have a thing called " Hacktivation" built into the jailbreak process.
This basically means that the jailbreak software will activate your phone , sim card inserted or not.
Basically get you to the home screen and past the "insert sim" screen.

So your ideal solution would be another release of Blackra1n for 3.1.3 with hacktivation built in ( which I would be astounded if not ! )

M.

Well that's good news, sorry MyDogJack it's a long time since I jailbroke, didn't mean to freak you out!