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How hard was it to unlock your iPhone?
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Posted by: Cicero77

For those of you who have unlocked your iPhone yourself, how difficult was the process? What about adding the proxy edit for the T-mobileweb? What was the overall success rate? Take someone like me, I’m marginally considered a power user when it comes to PCs. I’ve used a hex editor and made seem edits to my Moto V3 RAZR. Comparatively speaking, how much more difficult would it be to unlock an iphone on my own? On a side note, the hex editing was the easiest part; trying to get the drivers to work right on my PC after installing mobile phone tools by mistake first was probably the greatest challenge.

I figure, I’ll buy a 4gig iPhone online from the apple store (I don’t care about capacity, more about the functionality), unlock it, and if I’m not happy with the phone, sell it on eBay. I’m sure unlocked iPhones are selling for higher than they’re going for from the store direct. Right?

Posted by: BornineastLA

Easy process as long as you READ each and every step of what ever how to you are using. I dont know about the proxy hack because I didnt do it. I just added the 19.99 plan and internet works without a hack. Speed is great and the iphone functionality just blew me out of the water. It is one thing to play with one in a store but to own one yourself and be able to add 3rd party apps, etc is GREAT.

Posted by: superman17

in theory it wasn't a hard issue just follow the steps carefully.

Posted by: f1restarter

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the unlocks when they get confused with the various methods to unlock and try to mix and match, thats when things go bad. Just follow one guide, follow it to the letter and you wont have any problems.

Posted by: meekus

it took me over 3 hours the first time and about 30 minutes for the other phones that i unlocked

Posted by: sungfra

There are lots of good guides out there. Seems confusing at first since there are many steps and apps/files to the process. But at a high level, there are really only 3 main steps:
1) To jailbreak / free your iphone from AT&T
2) Install some form of application installers
3) Install unlock app to unlock

Nice thing about the iphone is, just restore to 1.02 (not 1.1) if you want to start from the beginning.

Posted by: AC87

As Simple As 1, 2 , 3

Posted by: xcharliemx

Unlock was easy, like said before, just follow ALL STEPS to the letter. My problem was when I wanted to relock. Make sure you won't want to relock and you'll be OK.

Posted by: mad_core

How exactly do you relock, theres so much information out there it get confusing my iphone gets worse by the hour, im scared of bricking it at this moment.

Posted by: inwood

buy a 4gig online? it will be impossible to buy a 4gig from the apple store seeing as they discontinued it. so you'll have to be stuck with a 8gig and i just got my iphone 2 days ago unlocked it on first try in 1 hour. i never had to do the proxy thing but everything works perfectly fine on my phone and i'm satisfied

Posted by: thatdude90210

I unlocked mine at work during lunch hour. I received it from Apple's online store that morning and just couldn't resist the urge to unlock it. Just followed the directions to the letter and took less than 30 minutes.

Posted by: Vincent9V

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Originally Posted by thatdude90210

I unlocked mine at work during lunch hour. I received it from Apple's online store that morning and just couldn't resist the urge to unlock it. Just followed the directions to the letter and took less than 30 minutes.

Yeah, I had that same urge as well. Took me a few hours to get everything working.

Posted by: dsigma6

Proxy is easy once you realize that whoever wrote the instructions worded things in an attempt to confuse the S out of you.

Posted by: Cicero77

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Originally Posted by dsigma6

Proxy is easy once you realize that whoever wrote the instructions worded things in an attempt to confuse the S out of you.

Nice. I didn't take a close look at it, but I'm sure a quick glance would make my brain hurt

Using the proxy on the iPhone sounds like a great idea, but I'm still kind of stuck on my BB Pearl that I continue to use about 25% of the time.