Elliott C. Back: In Aere Aedificare

If you bought an iPhone this Christmas hoping for some unlocking love, chances are you were disappointed. The new iPhones have a 4.6 bootloader which hasn’t yet been hacked. Specifically, they come in the following versions:

• Firmware: 1.1.2
• Bootloader:4.6_M3S2
• Modem: 04.02.13_G

For now, all OOTB iPhones with this configuration (or newer, we know 1.1.3 is coming soon) cannot be unlocked. They expect a new 1.1.3 firmware to come out in January that will contain enough information to allow them to unlock new 1.1.2 iPhones, but you never know. For now, your options are limited to:

• Buying an actually unlocked iPhone from Germany or France and paying the high unlock cost via iTunes
• Buying a Turbosim or Stealthsim card for about $100, which should be resistant to further software updates.

Good luck to everyone who bough an iPhone this Christmas and doesn’t have AT&T service. You’ll need that, and a large bucket of patience.

Update: Now that the 1.1.3 firmware is out, a method for flashing the bootloader to 3.9 has emerged. Looks complicated and risky; an official release should be out soon.

Update: There’s now a software unlock, and it’s easy. Just do:

• Set “autolock” in settings to never: Settings, General, Auto-Lock
• Add this installer location: iphone.sleepers.net/repobeta.xml
• Install the “Geohots Gunlock Script” unlock script package from BigBoss’ Experimental/Beta Repo
• Install BSD Subsystem + Term vt100
• On 1.1.2 or 1.1.3, go to settings, and set AIRPLANE mode to ON
• Open termvt100 and type:
  cd /usr/bin
  geounlock

And, that’s it! Only for 4.6 Bootloader (BL) iPhones on 1.1.2 or 1.1.3, and not from the iPhone dev team, who aren’t as elite as they wanna be.

5 Responses to 'Unlock New OOB 1.1.2 Apple iPhone'

1. Danielle said:

   on January 14th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

   Oh, the irony! I was searching for the unlock, Elliott : (

2. Marcela said:

   on January 16th, 2008 at 11:17 pm

   can you explain further on the whole buying unlocked from germany or france? cost is irrevelant at this point and switching to at&t is out of the question. write back, thanks.

3. Myst said:

   on January 18th, 2008 at 9:18 am

   From to day wee can unlock the 1.1.2 OOTB iphone with the hardware unlock, and i think in several hours wee get the software unlock all information can be found in the forum hackint0sh.org

4. Mandelbaum said:

   on February 8th, 2008 at 10:33 am

   German Guide: iphone.talkmacbookair.com/iphone-112-out-of-the-box-unlock/

5. call_ej said:

   on February 11th, 2008 at 11:51 am

   I am on t-mobile in Germany. I used a US purchased phone OTB 1.1.3 and downgraded to 1.1.1 and upgraded to 1.1.2 before I ran Gunlock. Works great!!! Unlocked phone without the hardware.

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