iPhone unlock :: Europe

[elander]

The unlocked phones they sell in Germany only work with German carriers, and the "free" phones of France only work in France. There's no way around that at the moment, and the phones now on sale all have version 1.1.2 of the firmware, and can't be "jailbreaked".

You're out of luck I'm afraid, you've just bought an overprized paperweight...

[fryke]

I'd say a good go-back to 1.1.1 should work just fine. Jailbreak that and follow guides to jailbreak 1.1.2.

[elander]

Well, IPSF won't work with a downgraded iPhone, so that won't help...

[fryke]

Huh?
-> 1.1.1
-> jailbreak
-> oktoprep
-> 1.1.2
-> jailbreak
-> anysim or ipsf...

no?

[Thank The Cheese]

A thread regarding downgrading from 1.1.2 to 1.1.1

http://hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=15272

seems to be a great resource (was linked to in Gizmodo, in case that adds credibility), with many follow up reply posts.

it is possible to do, so don't let elander scare you; It just means it will take more work than if it were 1.1.1 already. Obviously I can give no guarentees because I haven't tried it myself (I am using an unlocked 1.1.1 iPhone in Australia, but it was boughed on eBay pre-hacked).

and anyway, even if it turns out you can't do it, I can guarantee eventually a 1.1.2 jailbreak will come along. so the worst case scenario is that you will have to just stare at the phone for a while. that sounds like torture though!

obviously all this is risky, so the usual warnings apply, but there is a pretty friendly and enthusiastic community out there, so you should get plenty of support.

AS for legalities, I don't see anything illegal about it. There is a specific mention in the DMCA regarding phone unlocking for a start, and frankly....(expletive) apple! I have been sitting here waving my money at apple for the last 6 months and they refuse to take it, so I personally take extra delight in owning an unlocked iPhone.

[fernando.alonso]

Great information "thanks the Cheese"
I'm still waiting till the Jaibreak for firmware 1.1.2 is out there... (downgrading doens't feel right, would it be like placing OS8 in an IntelCoreDuo in the meantime, I keep reading about all this matters, but frankly... regarding the 'legality' of the procedure, I'm done with this. I can't care less, since in the Netherlands nobody can even tell what's gonna happen/when with iPhones.

[Thank The Cheese]

Originally Posted by fernando.alonso

I'm still waiting till the Jaibreak for firmware 1.1.2 is out there... (downgrading doens't feel right, would it be like placing OS8 in an IntelCoreDuo

keep in mind, though, it's not that big a jump from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. In fact, Gizmodo described the new features in the 1.1.2 release as:

New features: Foreign language support, including UK English, French, German and Italian. A battery status indicator in iTunes is all you get other than that.

Unless you need one of those languages, there really isn't anything to miss in the update.

[fryke]

jailbreak for 1.1.2 is easily done if you can downgrade to 1.1.1, AFAIK.