Welcome
This site serves as a repository for my software, and a weak blog of sorts below.
I have a factory unlocked iPhone 4s running a T-Mobile SIM, and it is not yet November. I can guarentee only that it worked for me, not that it will work for you. Read the details below. The idea originated HERE.
The process:
- Bought an "ATT" iPhone 4s from an Apple store. They rang it up as "Device Only", and did NOT require any phone number, or ATT account information.
- Removed the ATT SIM card that came inside the phone.
- Inserted an ATT GoPhone SIM, plugged the phone into iTunes, activated.
- Got the unlocked message above.
- Bought and inserted a T-Mobile prepaid SIM.
Assumptions:
- "ATT" iPhone 4s phones are not locked unless attached to an ATT plan when purchased.
- It might also be possible that even if purchased unattached, activating with a real ATT plan SIM may cause locking, but I don't think so.
- You must have the phone sold "Device Only" for this to work. The employees at the apple store I went to were very helpful, your results may vary.
After the NC storms of April 14, 2011 4:30PM
Some images were taken from inside a ziploc bag so the quality is reduced.
Why I hate iTunes:
Instead of dragging and dropping files onto a standard mass storage device like I should be able to do, I have to work around 4 seperate iTunes bugs to put files onto my iPhone:
1.) You must sync first to determine if there are any media files iTunes is going to resurrect on your phone even though you deleted them, then delete them from within iTunes to really make them go away. (This turned out to have something to do with the fact that I was putting the same files on an iPad and iPhone. Now that I'm no longer doing so, I never have this issue.)
2.) You must drag and hold the files you wish to drop into the iTunes window for up to 10 seconds before "copy" appears and you can drop them. If you don't wait, you won't copy them.
3.) You must close and reopen iTunes because it may lock up if you try to do step 4 without restarting (50/50 chance).
4.) Select all files, right-click, select get info, change some data (such as insert a random comment), click ok. This gets around the bug that prevents icons for movies which were dragged and dropped onto the iPhone. This is critical for iPad because this includes the name as well.
iTunes 10.2.1.1 64bit, Windows 7 Pro 64bit, iPhone 3GS iOS 4.2.1, iPad 1 iOS 4.2.1.
If you have an Apple iOS device (iPhone, iPod, iPad, AppleTV) you MUST backup your SHSH blobs! You need to do this whether you jailbreak your device or not. It increases the value of your device, by allowing you to install any firmware version for which you have blobs. Apple will only let you install the newest version even if it causes you serious problems for some reason. Backing up your blobs will not do anything to your device except increase its value. Use the tool found here: http://thefirmwareumbrella.blogspot.com/
I have decided to go for the gold and just slap stuff on this site with virtually no information, as more of a repository. This site is currently not advertised and is mostly just for evidence of my experience, and a direction to point friends looking to score some of my software. If you try something and it doesn't work, let me know, as I probably didn't grab all the necessary components out of my development folders.
Here you will find software I have made. Typically this is for my own use, but I figured you may also find it useful. You will not find significant instructions but most of the software is not particularly complicated. I also try to remember to use help text which pops up when you hover over something in a program.
