Unlock Your iPhone?

Posted in Apple, Cracking, Hacking, Hardware, iPhone by Elliott Back on July 3rd, 2007.

How long will it be before someone can actually unlock the iPhone to work with other carriers? The iPhone OS passwords have already been cracked, according to a forum post on Hackintosh by sam, who claims:

The password for root is “alpine”
The “mobile” user accounts password is “dottie”

They’ve also found the encrypted restore image, which contains the machine’s instructions to run. If they can find a way to decrypt, modify, and replace it, they should be able to make the iPhone sing and dance. The other options is a mysterious service called Unlock Your Apple iPhone Today which claims to unlock “75% of all the iPhone we have currently tested with unlock codes generated from the phones IMEI.” Then again, they look like a spam operation, so trust them with your IMEI if you dare.

The sad thing is that even when someone unlocks the iPhone and gets it to work on another network, it doesn’t even have 3G support for fast internet, and the new provider probably won’t be able to provide data services, visual voicemail, or any other compelling iPhone features. Unlocking your iPhone is the same as bricking it.

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eas 1 year ago 1 point
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As much as I'd love to see the iPhone unlocked, I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, I'm not linking to sites like iphoneunlocking.com. I suspect many if not all of them are just doing it to build a domain with high pagerank to be exploited later.

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http://unlockediphoneforsale.com/

Daniel Nicolas 1 year ago 1 point
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Bricked usually is termed as 'useless', only good for a paper weight or a doorstop, ie. as good as a brick.

Having a multi-touch screen ipod + wifi device with a near-decent browser that people are developing iphone specific apps on... = not exactly useless.

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http://www.wakingideas.com

no 1 year ago 1 point
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other data phones that have been unlocked have needed the extra step of redirecting data services to the new provider
this is obviously an extra step and annoyance, but if possible will yield the same services.
the current 'activating' hack also allows iTunes to work as usual, so it is definitely worth the effort.

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leern 1 year ago 1 point
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unlock this bad boy to work with voip when it's in wifi range & now you've got a phone.

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http://leern.org

At&t Employee 1 year ago 1 point
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At&t outbidding to keep this as only our phone. Maybe when the contract is up you will get the method but until then keep searching because it's not coming

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kam 1 year ago 1 point
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iphonejtag with its hardware/software is the best bet on unlocking your phone if you know what your doing otherwise iphonesimfree software hack will probably work fine just have to find someone whose willing to help you though the steps.

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http://www.unlockedphone.blogspot.com

Sam 1 year ago 1 point
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There is a pretty good video explaining the iPhone hack that you can look at by searching on a new online video network called Webcastr. The link is www webcastr.com. Just search iPhone when you get there. (Lots of other good stuff, too.)

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http://www.webcastr.com