This is very very interesting and Gizmodo has a few users who have confirmed this process as well. A new unlock method has surfaced which claims to work without the need of any software, hardware or jailbreak. Michael Capozzi claims he has found a way to unlock the iPhone 4S without using any hardware or software. The video below shows a demonstration of his method. This works with AT&T’s iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. You will need to cut the T-Mobile SIM card so it fits into the Micro-SIM card slot in the iPhone 4S. There are several devices to do this accurately available online.
Here are the magical steps:
Insert original carrier AT&T SIM card
Dial 611 for AT&T customer service hotline and drop the call
Turn on Airplane Mode
Take out AT&T SIM card
Insert T-Mobile SIM card
Make sure WiFi is off ( also tap on ‘Forget this Network” to make sure it doesn’t connect automatically later)
Switch off Airplane Mode and iPhone will search for network. This is followed by the Apple splash screen appearing.
Activation Required will be displayed on the screen
EDGE network will activate automatically – notice the ‘E’ on the top left corner of the screen
Wait for about 20-30 seconds and turn off the phone
Turn on iPhone and the same Activation Required screen will be displayed
When you see one signal bar, tap on Use Cellular Connection
Eject SIM card
Activation Required screen will be displayed the second time
Who so ever has jailbroken his iPhone, might have surely experienced SBSettings mod. This awesome mod has so many shortcuts and features that make iPhone more interesting to work with. iOS 5 is getting launched on the 12th will bring over 200 new features and this SBSettings for iOS 5 is also getting launched very soon. Here are some cool new features:
Notification center integration
Your choice of using the old style window or the notification center. Or both.
You choose which toggles to appear in notification and window sections.
Current SBSettings toggles should be supported. Current themes should work in notification area as well.
You get to choose what will show up in notification section. More button row, no more button row, the extra text, no extra text, the dock, the toggles, no toggles at all, or any combination of. The notification area is a limited screen resources so it’s up to you to decide how you want it used.
The author of this mod says that he will try to launch this updated mode by 12th of this month as well.
Checkout some screen shots of a couple various configurations with the default theme:
If you are running a jailbroken iPhone, you got to check this cool new theme called ‘DreamBoard’. ModMyI user Timothy Elliot has created a high-quality ”Lion” theme for iOS 4 called Lion Ultimatum that replicates many of the basic functions of the Mac OS X Finder on an iPhone. According to Macnn:
The theme requires the iPhone be jailbroken, and also running Dreamboard, an advanced theming platform that builds on iOS’s own Springboard. The theme doesn’t just replicate the look of Lion; it offers stacks, a Dock, Launchpad, Dashboard, fully usable (custom) Finder menus, draggable and close-able windows and a customizable lock screen.
iguitardude2744 on Youtube has selected some 30 odd Cydia tweaks that would add lot jazz to your iPhone or iPad. Some are for iPod touch as well. You will surely love few of these. Note that you need a jailbroken iOS device for this to work.
My personal top 30 Cydia tweaks of 2011. The tweaks chosen are both new and old, popular and unpopular. 30 is a big number so, I hope that most of you are able to find a tweak that you will enjoy having on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. The tweaks are my personal picks and we all will have our opinion.
Interesting move by Apple. Comex, the founder of JailbreakMe.com, has just announced on Twitter that he’ll be joining Apple as an intern next week. Comex will be taking a break from the jailbreak community.
It’s been really, really fun, but it’s also been a while and I’ve been getting bored.
So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple.
Forbes reports Comex as Nicholas Allegra, a 19-year old Brown University student from Chappaqua, NY, by Forbes. In that article, Allegra described jailbreaking as “like editing an English paper… You just go through and look for errors. I don’t know why I seem to be so effective at it.” The article ended by wondering if Apple’s security team needs a new intern. It seems that they do, though Allegra didn’t specify what he will be working on at Apple.
Yesterday DevTeam released a fresh version of Redsn0w (0.9.8b5). This version can jailbreak iOS5 Beta 5. This is available for Apple Developers. Once iOS 5 comes alive next month, DevTeam will able formally jailbreak the live version too.
WWDC 2011 is winding down to a close, and developers of jailbroken apps for Cydia are probably itching to get started on all the iOS 5 goodness. It seems like a good time to release the tethered redsn0w jailbreak for iOS 5. The following devices are supported
iPod touch 3G
iPod touch 4G
iPad 1
iPhone3GS
iPhone4 (GSM)
iPhone4 (CDMA
Please note that this is a tethered Jailbreak. You will need to reboot your device everytime you reset your iPhone. THIS JAILBREAK IS INTENDED ONLY FOR DEVELOPERS OF JAILBROKEN APPS! There are just too many broken components (Apple’s official apps, 3rd-party App Store apps, Cydia apps, MobileSubstrate apps, etc) for this to be useful to anyone but those truly looking to fix bugs in their iOS 5 jailbroken apps.
MuscleNerd has updated his twitter feed that Ultrasn0w unlocking tool has been updated and has fixed few important bugs and is ready to go public. Here is that tweet:
The new version of ultrasn0w will not unlock new basebands, however – it’s purely for users that have already performed the hack on their device and wish to retain the unlock when they update to iOS 4.3.1, reports CultofMac.
When it’s ready, ultrasn0w will be available to download through Cydia. Users updating to 4.3.1 will need to use the latest version of PwnageTool (Mac) or Sn0wBreeze (Windows) to preserve their baseband
iOS 4.3.1 was launched just 2 days back by Apple and one iPhone hacker has already jailbroken this version using PwnageTool 4.2. But this is a tethered jailbreak which will need to attach your iPhone to your computer every time you need to reboot. This jailbreak is still in the early stages and is not yet a stable release. Here is what you will need to do this jailbreak:
PwnageTool 4.2
iOS 4.3.1 firmware
iTunes 10.2.1
Mac OS X
PwnageTool bundle for iOS 4.3.1
Universal Ramdisk Fixer
tetheredboot utility
For the rest of the step, follow step-by-step guide over at Redmond Pie:
The Phone Dev Team’s PwnageTool has been updated. For those who dont about PwnageTool, basically this tool allows Jailbreak of iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV and can now do an untethered jailbreak and also fixes issues with iBook. Earlier untethered jailbreak was not possible with PwnageTool.
With [Chronic Dev Team's] permission, we’ve incorporated their 4.2.1 “feedface” untether into today’s PwnageTool 4.2. This means iPhone unlockers can safely restore to a custom 4.2.1 pre-jailbroken IPSW and retain their current baseband and unlock.
PwnageTool also includes two very recent improvements to the 4.2.1 JB: iBooks was just fixed by @comex and @pushfix last night so that it works as intended on DRMed books, and the wifi problem on AppleTV 2G was fixed by @nitotv, @DHowett, and @saurik. Both of these fixes will also be available in upcoming Cydia package updates, so if you’re already jailbroken you can wait for those updates rather than restore and jailbreak again
PwnageTooluses the “feedface” untether developed by the Chronic Dev Team to allow for untethered jailbreaking in the latest release, and supports all 4.2.1 devices other than the iPod touch 2G. Another issue fixed in this version is the Wi-Fi problem that some users had with the second-generation AppleTV. Check it out and if you use PwnageTool as your preferred jailbreaking tool, go ahead and give it a try.
Thank goodness… You won’t have to connect your jailbroken iPhone running the latest iOS 4.2.1 everytime you restart to PC anymore. The Chronic Dev Team finally released Greenpois0n RC5 last evening which can now jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 fully untethered. You can download the Mac version of the software from greenpois0n.com. The windows and linux versions will be available soon.
Dev Team has been able to do it again, within a week after iOS 4.2.1 release, ultrasn0w has been updated to unlock iOS 4.2.1. This unlock will work for iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS with baseband 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, or 05.13.04. It will also work with iPhone 4 with baseband 01.59.00. But new iPhone 4’s with baseband 06.15.00 cannot be unlocked as of now. Here is what Dev Team had to say:
Ultra-recycle
Today we’re pleased to announce our free carrier unlock for iPhone3G/3GS owners with a baseband later than 05.13.04. The unlock for that baseband exploited the AT+XAPP command, thanks to a crash initially discovered by @sherif_hashim (@Oranav also found this crash). So what hole are we exploiting today, since Apple closed that AT+XAPP hole? Well, we’re exploiting the exact same hole!
It turns out that the very first iPad firmware 3.2.2 has baseband version 06.15.00 still vulnerable to AT+XAPP. The iPad baseband is built for the exact same baseband chip as the iPhone3G/3GS — they’re fully compatible!Some of us have been running 06.15 for weeks now on our iPhones in preparation for this release.
Since 06.15 is a higher version than 05.14 or 05.15 (where AT+XAPP is gone), anyone stuck at those versions can simply upgrade to 06.15 to unlock again! Luckily for us, Apple *still* provides the iPad FW 3.2.2 with this vulnerable baseband right from their own servers. (Grab it now, before they take it down!)
We’ve been busy updating both PwnageTool and redsn0w to make the baseband update as seamless as possible.
First up is “PwnageTool 4.1.3 Unlock Edition”. It has a special dialog box which will ask you if you want to update to the iPad baseband. You must already have the iPad 3.2.2 IPSW on your computer (see the above link)….so just point PwnageTool at it (or let it find it on its own if you’re in “simple” mode).
Directly after PwnageTool 4.1.3 is available, the official ultrasn0w repo http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com will be updated with ultrasn0w 1.2, which covers iPhone 4 baseband 01.59.00 and iPhone 3G/3GS basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, 05.13.04 and now 06.15.00.
Finally, we’ll release an update to redsn0w today for those without Macs and can’t run PwnageTool. The new redsn0w will give you the option to update your baseband to 06.15 too.
I am going to reproduce iClarified method of jailbreaking iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 using Limera1n hack. I have always believed that iClarified produces the safest method of jailbreaking iPhones. First I am going to demo the Windows method (via this page) and then you will find the Mac method (via this page):
WINDOWS:
Limera1n supports iOS 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, and 4.1. Remember: Do not update to iOS 4.1 if you need the unlock. Ultrasn0w does not support that baseband yet. The only exception is the iPhone 4. You can update to iOS 4.1 without upgrading your baseband by following this tutorial.
Step One Open your web browser of choice and navigate to http://www.limera1n.com. Click the Download for Windows link at the bottom of the screen.
Step Two When prompted save the download to your desktop
Step Three
Double click the limera1n.exe file from the desktop to launch the application
Step Four Click the large make it ra1n button
Step Five
You iPhone will now be placed in recovery mode.
Press both the power and the home buttons.
When Limera1n asks you to, release the power button.
Your phone will now be in DFU mode
As limera1n performs its exploit you will see the image of a lime raindrop on your iPhone.
Limera1n will let you know when it is complete.
Step Six
After you power back on your iPhone you will see a new icon on the SpringBoard entitled limera1n. Press it to continue.
Step Seven
Once Limera1n opens select Cydia then press the Install button at the top right of the screen.
Step Eight
Once the Cydia installation has completed you must reboot your iPhone.
Step Nine
When your iPhone has restarted you can run Cydia. Let it do all the necessary updates then follow our Unlock tutorial if possible for your device.
NOTE*: To remove the limera1n icon from your desktop you can install CyDelete from Cydia then use it to delete the application. Eventually this capability should be present in limera1n itself.
