Archive for the 'Unlocking' Category

Author : Philip King
Tag : Unlocking
Date : Jun 23rd, 2009
Comment : 2

If you’re running a 2G or 3G iPhone with the 3.0 firmware, your (unofficial) carrier options just opened up a bit, as the Dev Team has delivered Ultrasn0w 3.0 for full unlocking.

Downloading and installing the unlocking tool requires that you have jailbroken your iPhone and it’s only available for users with 2G or 3G iPhones, [...]

Author : Rob Goodchild
Date : Jun 16th, 2009
Comment : 1

The iPhone Dev Team has got us excited (and Apple worried) by announcing they have a fully-working software carrier unlock ready for the 3.0 firmware ahead of its official release.

On Tuesday evening they will do a live demo of the new yellowsn0w carrier unlock working on official 3.0 firmware, just before the big Apple release. [...]

Author : Philip King
Date : Apr 14th, 2009
Comment : 0

Buy.com seems to be buying iPhones from foreign countries where it hasn’t been locked down to a specific carrier, then selling them in the US for $800.

Too much? That’s up to the market, we suppose. But with the new models coming out soon, that seems like a lot.
The sales description says that these phones [...]

Author : Philip King
Tag : Unlocking
Date : Jan 6th, 2009
Comment : 0

Want to use yellowsn0w to unlock your iPhone, but aren’t sure if it will work in your particular region or country?

We combed the internet to find this very cool site resource that lists, blow by blow, each country and their success (or failure) at unlocking their iPhone using the latest version.
The site is here: [...]

Author : Philip King
Tag : Unlocking
Date : Jan 4th, 2009
Comment : 0

It seems the unlock program for the latest version of the iPhone firmware had a number of issues, and the Dev Team have released a new version that seems to have fixed a number of issues “including some STK issues”, according to the developers of the unlock.

The previous version, released a few days ago, had [...]

Author : Philip King
Date : Jan 1st, 2009
Comment : 0

The iPhone Dev Team has officially released their 3G unlock, named yellowsn0w, to the Cydia app installer, which if not already available, should be available for download as soon as they get their repository in order, since it is New Years Day.

They also explained the message from earlier today. Interestingly, the unlock is not [...]

Author : Philip Nicosia
Tag : Unlocking
Date : Dec 16th, 2008
Comment : 0

The Dev team have announced on their blog they will be releasing a software unlock solution for the iPhone 3G.

We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that [...]

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