How to Activate and unlock a unused 3Gs from a foreign network

SingAHappySong

Hello
I have a 3Gs that was bought in France and is locked to and has never been used.
it is still unactivated and has no sim.
Current FW = 3.1.3
BaseBand = 05.12.01

I scoured the web only to find how to do everything else on different versions.

Regards..

Dont be at yourself

SingAHappySong wrote: »

Hello
I have a 3Gs that was bought in France and is locked to and has never been used.
it is still unactivated and has no sim.
Current FW = 3.1.3
BaseBand = 05.12.01

I scoured the web only to find how to do everything else on different versions.

Regards..

Ring up the French network that it's locked to. If the phone is less than a year old, you can pay 90e. If it's more than a year old, they do it for free. Yay for French law.

CathalDublin

ultrasn0w can unlock 05.12.01
you could use any recent version of redsnow to jailbreak and activate 3.1.3
You'll need:
Redsnow(grab the latest for windows here) or I'd imagine any version you can find online will do for 3.1.3
The matching firmware for your phone(grab it here)

How To:
Open redsn0w
Select extras
select custom ipsw(the stock firmware you got from felixbruns above)
Click back and click jailbreak
Then follow the onscreen instructions.

when its jailbroken and activated, join a wifi network, open cydia and install ultrasn0w

You can create a custom 5.0.1 firmware in sn0wbreeze and update through itunes using this custom firmware and keep your 05.12.01 baseband
BUT
If you update you'll be stuck in tethered mode only as there is no untethered jailbreak out(due out in the next few days mind you) and you run the risk of updating the baseband if you don't know what your doing, if you update the baseband by mistake your only option will be to update to the ipad baseband which I would not do till an untethered JB is out.
Using the ipad baseband has its consequences(gps issues, chances of recovery loops high, etc)

SingAHappySong

Cheers .. thanks a Bundle !!!!
Will try this at the weekend and let you know how I get on....

Regards

SingAHappySong

Sadly i'm getting Stuck
Following all instructions,, I'm getting as far as the screen after "Identifying Build" and the Device ID and ECID and Build No. are displayed, But the program Stops there and the Next Button is grey'd out and the Phone Stays in DFU mode.
Tried it on the Latest Itunes ver 10.5 and also on ver 9.1 and it was the Same.
tried blackra1n , it claimed to have jailbroke it .. it was a lie. phone was unchanged.

SingAHappySong

Anybody Know who to update Firmware without upgrading BaseBand ??