iPhone 1.1.3 on Vodafone New Zealand

[hasooni]

Hi,

I'd like to buy a brand new iphone and use it on my Vodafone New Zealand network. From what I've read this is pretty much impossible with the new iphones (baseband 4.6), but the old iphones have become so impossibly expensive that I'm not willing to pay so much. So I had an idea and wondered if anyone experienced with unlocking iphones can shed some light.

My idea is to get a brand new iphone, fool its baseband using a sim hack (e.g. TurboSIM) in order for me to use antenna functions (phone, wifi, bluetooth, etc.), and then jail break the phone's software firmware so I can install third party apps on it.

Is my idea above valid or am I totally lost here?

Thanks,
Husain

[secretmrx]

Hey

I live in chch NZ and am using an iphone on Vodafone New Zealand. I purchased my iphone from here. (http://http://www.toshcomputers.com/)

MAKE SURE YOU PURCHASE ONE THAT IS LOCKED AND NOT SIM BYPASSED.

THE CURRENT 1.1.3 BASEBAND WILL NOT ALLOW FOR ANY KIND OF SIM BYPASS AT THIS TIME.

There is a new method of permanantly unlocking iphones including the 4.6 bootloader and 1.1.3 baseband. The method is hopefully upgrade and restore resistant as it writes to the NOR which is never touched by apple soft upgrades. This method is the same as iPhone SIM Free (http://www.iphonesimfree.com). iPhone Sim Free was the first-ever software unlock for the iphone even before AnySIM. IPSF's unlock has never been broken by any software upgrade by apple. This unlock is considered a "true" unlock, as it rewrites the lock data in EEPROM. aka it deletes all the files in EEPROM and rewrites one that contains no lock data. So when iPhone checks for lock status, iphone's eeprom says the iphones unlocked.

Try to keep away from anySIM, as it is another free software unlock, but instead of rewriting lock data, it just modify's some strings in the basebands firmware, basically changing "lock = [true]" to "lock = [false]" and unlocking that way. The baseband has been updated allmost every software update and this method often renders iphones unusable if updated when the lock is in place.

The free IPSF-style unlock, developed by george hotz, is meant to do exactly the same as the $60 IPSF unlock. Its only just been released as its been incredibly hard to crack IPSF's code. Click here to go to the free-IPSF-style unlocks website (http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/2008/02/11246unlock-good-enough-for-prize.html)

So, basically you DONT want to use a sim bypass method eg turbosim for its dead. Im usin that on my 3.9bl iphone which has been soft upgraded to 1.1.3 so it doesnt upgrade the baseband. I reccomend the 4.6BL IPSF-Style unlock.

Hope this helped. :)

[ipearx]

Hi,

I'd like to buy a brand new iphone and use it on my Vodafone New Zealand network. From what I've read this is pretty much impossible with the new iphones (baseband 4.6), but the old iphones have become so impossibly expensive that I'm not willing to pay so much. So I had an idea and wondered if anyone experienced with unlocking iphones can shed some light.

I just bought a brand new iPhone from an Apple Store in the states about a week ago (around the 6th of Feb 08), and around the same day a 4.6 baseband unlock became available.

After a bit of downgrading, upgrading, unlocking and jailbreaking it's now working well, with 1.1.3 firmware, on a NZ vodafone prepay SIM card.

As I'm on prepay, I've deliberately put a rubbish address into the edge settings so I don't waste my prepay balance on Vodafones ludicrous data charges.

Hope that helps

[fundoc71]

Hey



There is a new method of permanantly unlocking iphones including the 4.6 bootloader and 1.1.3 baseband. The method is hopefully upgrade and restore resistant as it writes to the NOR which is never touched by apple soft upgrades.



:)


Hi!

I have posted my question in the other thread " unable to update to 1.1.2" . I thought what you have said " geohotz method is upgrade and restore resistant" is relevant. I had 1.1.2, 4.6 BL and downgraded to 1.1.1 and jailbroke. From there without updating to 1.1.2 i applied gephotz method to unlock the phone. Everything went on well and it even said "enjoy your unlocked phone" but my country's (bangladesh) sim was not recognised. Later on i realised i have not upgraded to 1.1.2 and hence tried to update to 1.1.2 after oktoprep. But the itunes says, after "preparing the iphone for software update" " failed to update unknown error 1604" . I have tried atleast 10 times the same procedure but all failed.

Is it because applying geohotz method makes some basic modification that further upgrade is not possible?

Thanks for sharing your experience.

[slipstream]

As I'm on prepay, I've deliberately put a rubbish address into the edge settings so I don't waste my prepay balance on Vodafones ludicrous data charges.

Hope that helps

Yes i know what you mean about their crazy prices but can you elaborate on what you did and where... Feel free to PM me if you prefer.

I bought a phone 1.1.2 and I think it is 4.6 bootloader though I dont know how to tell. got it from Jens at Tosh computers and had the iphone unleashed guys put a turbo sim in it and jailbreak it so this was all done by someone else. I would love to go to 1.1.3 but the turbosim sounds like i wasted my money on it if i cant use it with 1.1.3. Being a bit of a newbie to this I am very hesitant to screw things up. I am waiting till the SDK comes out and then hopefully there will be an easy method to unloack and jailbreak the phone with or without the turbosim in NZ.
I see Jens from Tosh Computers is selling 1.1.3 unlocked iphones in NZ and on Vodafone with the stealth sim evidently. There seems to be alot of conflicting reports of what works and what doesnt hence why i am sitting on the fence. I am very happy with 1.1.2 and the apps I have gotten and till the SDK comes out I see no real advantage to risking an update

Thanks for your help on the edge settings