iPhone unlocked with free download
updated 09:15 am EDT, Wed September 12, 2007
Free iPhone unlocking
After months of development, participants of the unofficial iPhone Dev Team have finally achieved their own software unlock of the iPhone (download mirror). Unlike efforts from groups such as iPhoneSIMfree and UniquePhones, however, the Dev Team version is being distributed for free, and has already begun to spread rapidly across the Internet. Sources claim that the unlock has been independently tested and verified as working.
Those responsible for the unlocking software, dubbed "iUnlock," may have exploited a buffering bug also used by the iPhoneSIMfree team. The pursuit of an iPhone unlock has been a goal ever since the device's June 29th release; aside from representing a technical challenge, many have expressed frustration with the two-year AT&T contract required with a normal iTunes activation. Unlocking phones for use with other carriers is also legal under an exemption of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, although specific steps in the process may be illegal. The legitimacy of the Dev Team software has not been scrutinized in this regard.
MacNN bears no responsibility for any damage or legal issues caused by installing iUnlock.
file extension?
09/12, 09:48am reply
What is the file extension of this file? When downloaded OS X sees it as a MPEG file but can't open it.
imagine engine
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No extension
09/12, 10:09am reply
This is a program file which runs on the iPhone itself. Unix executable programs don't usually have any extension.
ttrostel
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does
09/12, 10:32am reply
anyone know how to install this thing?
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Install Guide
09/12, 10:44am reply
http://www.freeiphoneunlock.com/guide/
ClickSpace
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RE: install guide
09/12, 11:03am reply
Is that the same method?
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Now, we wait...
09/12, 11:19am reply
I've got my cash set aside for a refurb 8GB iPhone... The unlock is available... Now, just waiting for that major iPhone update that will include the WiFi Music Store, and God willing tethering and voice-dialing, to see if it breaks any (or all) of the unlock methods... In the meantime, I'll curl up in the belly of this dead Tan-tan I found...
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re: now, we wait
09/12, 12:13pm reply
An unlocked phone most likely won't get "relocked" or "broken" after a firmware update. However, if you wait until the new firmware is out, there is a good chance that the current unlock method will no longer work. So, if you want your phone locked, I'd advise you to buy that phone before the firmware update comes.
tomodachi
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Complete files & tutorial
09/12, 12:22pm reply
I followed these instructions and used these files. It works!
http://iphone.unlock.no/
Guest
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what can I do with this
09/12, 01:44pm reply
OK...so i can get an iPhone unlock it and then what? Can I take it to Verizon and use it in thier network? Will all the features work? I am just wondering I don't know much about this stuff...
jorgem4
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re: what can I do with th
09/12, 02:17pm reply
jorgem4: after unlocking the phone you should be able to take it and use it with any GSM carrier. Verizon is not GSM so that won't work but, for example, T-Mobile would work in the US, and many/most carriers elsewhere in the world, excepting Korea and Japan and 1/2 of China, are GSM. A few S American ones are CDMA like Verizon/Sprint as is one of the Canadian ones.
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