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What's a good way to unlock a 1.0.2 iPhone?
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Posted by: anandkapur

Hi,

Though this question has probably been answered, since so much has happened in the past few weeks, I'm just confused about which method I should use to unlock my iPhone. I know of two methods -- iPhoneSimFree, and anySim.

A lot of the articles I've read about upgrading to 1.1.1 and about virignizing your phone have caveats like "...will not work if you ran anySim" or "...not for iPhoneSimFree" users etc, and so given all this information, I was wondering if there is a recommended way of unlocking your phone.

I'm sorry for not being able to put the question out more clearly, but it's not easy trying to research through so many different approaches, and user comments to each of them.

As an aside question, is it possible to revert the unlock? I read somewhere that unlocking makes changes to the baseband, which cannot be reversed. I recently read on engadget about being able to reverse the baseband (from Iphone Elite here , but a comment on that site mentioned something about that not being equivalent to revirginizing. Here is the comment:

This still does not address the problem of those of us with 1.0.2/03.14.08_G phones who where unlocked with anySIM and now can not relock and virginize to pre-anySIM state and upgrade to 1.1.1. We remain in a limbo, unable to go backwards, unable to go forwards, unable to go to Apple, wondering if anyone realizes we're here, wondering if anyone is working on a solution.

I'm really confused.

Posted by: Red Setter

IPSF or TurboSIM

Anything else is a guaranteed way to damage the phone and make a lot of work for you down the road

You can say now that you don't want to update to 1.1.1, that theres nothing there worth upgrading for but consider this: Apple's update did not damage phones unlocked with AnySIM or iUnlock. The unlock, by means of how it unlocked the phone, damaged them. The update just exposed the damage.

You spent $400US for a high tech piece of electronic equipment. Why risk damaging it with an application that - by the eventual admission of the developers - is known to do so? (The Dev team has removed AnySIM from their site)

Why would you want to cripple your new high tech toy by keeping it shackled to a firmware version that is just 2 clicks away from Beta?

If a free solution means more to you that the ability to keep your phone current with updates, then at least wait till the Dev team, or Elite team releases a PROVEN 1.1.1 unlock

To answer your questions more specifically:

-Unlocks to version 1.0.2 made with AnySIM/iUnlock are now reversible.
-That reversal technique is really not designed to allow people to unlock 1.1.1 phones. It's meant to undo the damage the unlock does to the phone
-The process of reversing the update and removing the unlock is a long, tedious one requiring a lot of command line work through a terminal application
-Phones bricked by updating to 1.1.1 while unlocked by AnySIM/iUnlock can now be 'unbricked' by reversing the update and restoring the 3.X baseband
-AnySIM/iUnlock is known to be the cuse of the 'Update iBricks'. NOT the update itself
-Phones unlocked with IPSF or TurboSIM have survived the upgrade and (now that the 1.1.1 software has been jailbroken) can be activated and used with complete functionality under 1.1.1

Cliched, but very true: Marry in haste, repent at leisure. The same holds true for the iPhone: Unlock in haste, restore at leisure....

Posted by: Bigbuddy

my phone is 1.00 how do i get it upgraded to 1.02 to activate it?

Posted by: Red Setter

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Originally Posted by Bigbuddy

my phone is 1.00 how do i get it upgraded to 1.02 to activate it?

For instructions Read THIS

Posted by: jetfxr

READ THIS Link is No good.

Posted by: Red Setter

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Originally Posted by jetfxr

READ THIS Link is No good.

ROFLMAO

Did it take you to the Search page?

If it did them it's working perfectly

Posted by: jetfxr

NIAROFLMAO!
Might as well as been a link to the word Gullible!