Good news. PQDVD has released a safe and efficient iPhone unlock software :

One-click iPhone Unlock, which let your iphone work on any network with a standard GSM sim card. Enable your iPhone to be Phone + WiFi + iPod and watch Youtube on the road.

• One Click to Unlock your iPhone in seconds
• Unlock all versions of iPhone firmware (1.0.0 - 1.0.2 and the latest 1.1.1)
• 100% easy. No computer knowledge needed.
• 100% safe. You don’t need to worry about anything.
• Fully optimized for iphone.
• Watch any Youtube video on the road.
• System Required: Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
• Unlock software for Mac OS will be coming soon
• Enable you to hack/activate iPhone to use any services without AT&T’s two-year contract
• Need’t to give any of your money or personal information to AT&T NSA.
• It is the easiest way you can find to unlock an iPhone.

You can also refer to FAQ for one-click iphone unlock software.

1. Upgrade or downgrade iPhone to the default 1.0.2 settings through iTunes. (We have released One-Click iPhone Downgrade to automate the process for you.)

2. Connect your iphone to the computer and run the One-Click iPhone Unlock software.

3. When the software says “Imported Successfully”, get to the iphone and run the “Unlocker” application on the dashboard. The unlocking process may take several mintues, please wait patiently.

4. Congratulations! Your iphone is fully unlocked, you can insert other SIM card now and the AT&T restriction will never bother you again.

Get One-click iPhone Unlock here! It’s the easiest way to unlock iPhone 1.1.1. Lifetime free upgrades are also included.

Posted on September 29th, 2007 by admin
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Apple’s 1.1.1 iPhone update is out, and while there’s a healthy list of new functionality and tweaks, all eyes are still on the unlock situation.  After Apple’s warnings (which some took as threats) that hacked iPhones could potentially turn into expensive, slender bricks after the update process, owners of modded handsets scurried desperately to find ways to restore authenticity to their iPhones.  Whether that’s necessary or not seems to vary; there are conflicting reports coming in from around the blogosphere as to if the 152.3mb update kills or not.

Gizmodo are saying that their iPhones have updated okay but that any third-party apps installed have disappeared from the launcher screen (although the programmes themselves are still believed to be in the flash memory); some of their readers, however, are finding their newly-updated (and previously hacked) iPhones are throwing up SIM errors.  That’s the result iPhone Central’s Jonathan Seff has had - his hacked, unlocked iPhone is refusing to recognise the AT&T SIM (although the SIM itself will still work in other handsets).  Hackint0sh are similarly putting out the warning that unlocked iPhones get relocked following the update, and won’t recognise the original SIM.

Right now we’d have to suggest that anyone with an unlocked iPhone should NOT attempt to update to 1.1.1, at least until a verified way to restore the AT&T lock becomes available.  If you’ve used Jailbreak to open your iPhone up to third-party apps and custom ringtones then you’ll need to decide whether the new features in the update are worth losing those add-ons, since Jailbreak and Installer.app won’t work after the firmware change.

Let us know how you get on!

From http://www.myitablet.com/update-bricks-unlocked-iphones-271567.php

Posted on September 28th, 2007 by admin
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Apple continues posting warning signs around their stores, cautioning customers that unlocked and modded iPhones fall outside their warranty. And at the same time, Apple Geniuses around the country quietly are reportedly accepting bricked iphones, slipping into the back and returning with functioning units.

We’re not sure whether they’re doing a low-level reflash or just swapping units out. We have reports of at least four customers who walked in with iBricks and walked out with iPhones. It is unclear at this time whether these customers unlocked their iPhones or not–we’re also receiving reports of iBricks from people

From http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/27/apple-geniuses-are-reportedly-unbricking-iphones/

Posted on September 28th, 2007 by admin
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What goodies does Apple have in store for us this time around? Quite a few, we’d say! Follow the break for more!

1: We deleted installer.app on ours and kicked off the update, things are taking a while but no obvious problems yet. Stay tuned.

 2: Success! The phone’s restarting now.

3: WiFi Music Store, check. New calculator icon to match the iPod touch, check. Phone had to be reactivated.

4: We’re hearing numerous reports of “Incorrect SIM” errors on unlocked iPhones after the update — user beware!

From Engadget

Posted on September 28th, 2007 by admin
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The iPhone Dev team have release new version of free GUI based iPhone SIM unlock tool anySIM 1.0.2 in which they have fixed lots of bugs and also optimized the unlock process further. However, the best part of this update is that you can now install it on your iPhone using the cool Installer.app. So if you are one of those who tried unlocking iphone byusing anySIM 1.0.1 and faced problems then you can check the latest version of the unlock tool.Follows are the detail steps.

• Download the iUnlock_Reloaded.zip from here, here or here. Save it to a directory.
• cd to where you just saved the download and unzip it.
• in another wiindow, ssh into your iPhone and run: mkdir /unlock
• back on your Mac, scp the three files to your iPhone: scp -p iUnlock_reloaded *bin root@youriphoneip:/unlock
• on your iPhone, run: cd /unlock
• on your iPhone, run: ./iUnlock_reloaded

If it worked, and says your iPhone is unlocked, you’re done. If not, read on.

If it says that the flash went ok, but the unlock failed, do this:

• put a copy of the 1.0.2 firmware in a directory on your Mac. If you need to download it, get it from here.
• rename the extension on the firmware from ipsw to zip
• unzip it
• run: dd if=009-7698-4.dmg of=ramdisk.dmg bs=512 skip=4 conv=sync
• use finder to navigate to the directory where ramdisk.dmg is and double-click it to mount it.
• copy the following files to the directory you unziped iUnlock_Reloaded.zip in:
  • /Volumes/ramdisk/usr/local/bin/bbupdater
  • /Volumes/ramdisk/usr/local/standalone/firmware/ICE03.14.08_G.eep
  • /Volumes/ramdisk/usr/local/standalone/firmware/ICE03.14.08_G.fls
• copy those three files to your iPhone: scp -p bbupdater ICE* root@youriphoneip:/unlock
• on your iPhone, run: cd /unlock
• on your iPhone, run: launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist
• on your iPhone, run: ./bbupdater -f *.fls -e *.eep
• on your iPhone, run: launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist
• on your iPhone, run: ./iUnlock_reloadedIt should successfully flash and unlock this time.

Posted on September 27th, 2007 by admin
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The Associated Press managed to talk to Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, about Apple’s recent announcement that hacked or unlocked iPhones might become expensive paperweights after an upcoming software update is applied to them. (The AP also quoted our very own Erica Sadun on the topic.)

Phil says that this isn’t about punishing people for unlocking their iPhones, but rather that the various iPhone unlocking apps have ‘caused damage to the iPhone software and that Apple can’t be help responsible for what happens to a hacked iPhone.

I’m willing to believe that Apple isn’t maliciously trying to brick iPhones that have been unlocked. It is far more probable that the update might, under certain circumstances, break your hacked iPhone and Apple doesn’t want to spend the time fixing the update to play nice, and they don’t want to have to pay for all the broken iPhones that may result.

From http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/24/schiller-on-unlocked-iphones/

Posted on September 25th, 2007 by admin
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Apple has your unlocked iPhone in their crosshairs. What do you do? This method in no way guarantees that your iPhone will survive the update after being unlocked. If you’re risk adverse, you may want to wait a day or two for these instructions to get debugged. And be aware there may be a lock/unlock limit set by hardware.

The IMEI errors seems to be unrelated to unlock method–I’m hearing from people who used pretty much each of the unlock scenarios. Some people have simply re-unlocked and are using their phones without problem but can’t re-lock, reversing the unlock.

Important note: depending on the method of unlocking, some people are experiencing munged IMEI’s. Looking into this! “Delayed Green” says that he saw this “Incorrect SIM” error in the early unlock days and that he knows of no way to fix the problem. Things to try: a different SIM, removing the SIM, powering down and back on, making sure the radio is working.

I’m hearing about both success reports and problems. If you haven’t tried relocking yet, do yourself a favor and just wait until we figure out why some relocks are going wrong. Here’s yet another link to check out.Following are steps to relock iphone.

• (Take out your SIM from your iPhone.)–Still checking on this step.
• Download the 1.0.2 firmware to your computer and unzip it. It uses a .ipsw extension but your unzip program should still work. Change the extension if you have to.
• Extract the ramdisk as such: dd if=009-7698-4.dmg of=ramdisk.dmg bs=512 skip=4 conv=sync
• Mount the extracted ramdisk.
• From the ramdisk, copy /usr/local/bin/bbupdater, /usr/local/standalone/firmware/ICE03.14.08_G.eep, and /usr/local/standalone/firmware/ICE03.14.08_G.fls to your iPhone. Place these into a folder on the OS partition (such as /bbupdate) and not into a folder on /var/root. The /var/root partition is set noexec and you cannot run programs from there.
• Disable com.apple.CommCenter.plist–either using UIctl or launchctl: launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist
• On the iPhone, navigate to the folder where you stored bbupdater and the eep and fls files.
• Run bbupdater as such: ./bbupdater -f *.fls -e *.eep
• Reload comm center: launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist
• Reactivate with your favorite AT&T SIM. I personally like using iASign.

Thanks to Shaun T. Erickson and Kai Cherry

“What about restore?” — Unlocks survive restore. It’s a different part of your phone.

“Will this affect Jailbreak or 3rd party apps?” — No but you still may have to restore before the next firmware update.

“Will the next firmware update lock me out from jailbreak and 3rd party apps?” — We have to see but…likely yes.

“Do I have to update my iPhone when the next firmware is released?” — No. But then you’re kind of sticking your iPhone into a time warp. Everything else will change but not your iPhone. And I don’t see there being a parallel development effort on the part of hackers.

From http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/24/how-to-relock-your-iphone-before-the-firmware-update/

Posted on September 24th, 2007 by admin
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Many theorised what Apple’s response might be to those who choose to hack or unlock their iPhones - remote locks, being banned from upcoming feature upgrades and other devious tricks were suggested - but until now there was no real evidence that the Cupertino crew would actually do anything if they came into contact with an obviously tampered handset.  Steve Jobs himself pretty much dismissed the matter of unlocked iPhones at the mobile’s recent UK launch, commenting that it was simply a game of cat & mouse in which Appleattempted to stay one step ahead of the hackers.

A colleague of ZDNet writer Jason D. O’Grady had an unpleasant experience of being the mouse, however, when he recently took an iPhone displaying the green tinted camera issue back to an Apple store.  The handset, less than two weeks old, did not meet with a warm welcome on return to the family home:
“Because it had been “hacked” with some 3rd party apps and was running T-Mobile they refused to service it, said the warranty was voided and “blacklisted” the phone against future service, or return!”
Only after paying a 10-percent “restocking fee” and a number of conversations with the manager did they grudgingly agree to accept it and issue a refund.  O’Grady suggests doing a full restore and putting back your original AT&T SIM should you need to take your iPhone back in (let’s hope that the issue demanding return doesn’t prevent you from doing that!) which seems a sensible course of action.

Apple’s Terms & Conditions - already highlighted as being confusing even to legal professionals - do strictly prohibit either tampering with the iPhone or using a carrier other than AT&T, but of course that hasn’t stopped the legions of hackers either seeking to release it from the network or add third-partysoftware.

Posted on September 21st, 2007 by admin
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If you’ve unlocked your iPhone via the AnySIM application or another method and have lost your ability to access visual voicemail, there’s an easy fix — as reported by iPhone Atlas reader “Gumps,” and originally posted on on the whirlpool.net.au user forums by Simon K.

Gumps writes:
“Many people including me had an unusable voicemail button on the iphone after unlock. I have found a simple solution thanks to whirlpool.net.au forum’s user Simon K.”
Open the Phone application, then tap the keypad function. Enter the following:

*5005*86*phonenumber#

(where “phonenumber” is the number you dial to get to your voicemail) then press the Call button.

From http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2007/09/19/unlocked-iphones-how-to-re-enable-voicemail/

Posted on September 20th, 2007 by admin
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The iPhone Dev Team has released a simple-to-use GUI tool that allows you to unlock your iPhone for use with any SIM. The tool, which is based on their previous command-line work, provides one-touch speedy unlocking. This is a big improvement on the first generation release. It no longer requires you to use special files or to dump nor data.

You can download your copy from the DevTeam website, as a PXL package or, soon, from Installer.app. “Wheat” is the guy responsible for those amazing graphics.

Find out more at the #iphone channel at irc.osx86.hu. Remember, this is early software and unstable. If risk isn’t your thing, you’ll probably want to wait a few days or weeks for things to stabilize.

Update: After reports of failed unlocks, Sam has updated the version to fix a timing issue. Current iphone unlocking tool version is now 1.0.1, which solves the timing issue.

Update 2: I know of a youtube hack and have heard third-hand of a Visual Voicemail hack. Will post when I have details.

Posted on September 17th, 2007 by admin
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