Help-Key: Activating, SIM unlocking and jailbreaking an iPhone the very, very easy way.
- March 20th, 2008
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I’ve been keeping up with jailbreaking the iPod Touch here on the Help-Keys, and I know its helped a lot of people to open up their hardware. Make no mistake, the iPod Touch is one of the most outstanding pieces of hardware I’ve ever seen, and the work the various hackers developers have been doing with it is amazing.
I also feel the iPhone is overrated and over-exposed, so I’ve sort of left it out. But when a friend of mine brought me an iPhone last night and wanted help activating it, AIM unlocking it, and jailbreaking it, I thought that would be a fantastic Help-Key.
I figured I’d do each part, step-by-step, like Bobby Brown. I thought it would be a hassle but with a reward at the end. I was wrong.
As our own John Biggs famously said, Apple might as well just start including the jailbreaking apps with the iPhone.
You seen, the people behind ZiPhone have put together an all-encompassing application that pretty much does it all with one click. In about ten minutes we went from having a virgin AT&T-locked iPhone to an unlocked, activated, jailbroken iPhone running on T-Mobile.
The only downside is EDGE isn’t working, even though I have it on my T-Mobile account. I’m going to try to make it work for next week’s Help-Key, isn’t that exciting?
I’ve even found a video of the app in action.
I’ve even found a video of the app in action, which you can see after the jump.
iPhone Games (Who am I?)
4 months ago
This is a great post Matt. Thanks for sharing!
diem (Who am I?)
4 months ago
EDGE not working for you? I got it running on the 19.99 tmo hotspot plan and then downgraded to the 5.99 tzones. Once you install Ziphone (which is amazing, awesome, and other words that start with “a”), shoot on over to installer. I am on 1.1.4, however hiding in “Tweaks 1.1.3″ is “T-Mobile 1.1.3 TZones Hack”. Install, and turn phone on and off. Make sure you have t-zones on your plan .
The 19.99 version seemed a bit faster to me, but I am near wifi most of the time and spending the extra $14/mo seemes like overkill. If you *really* want that extra speed, under “settings”, “general”, “network”, then “edge” make sure you have it set to internet2.voicestream.com OR interent3.voicestream.com. All those blogs out there said I should type “2″ instead of “3″ and when I called tmo they said I was on the “3″ network.
Max (Who am I?)
4 months ago
I tried to jailbreak my ipod touch with ziphone GIU v2.6b and my i pod got screwed up. When i turn i on, i keep getting this error message. Any solutions?
Quentin (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Actually, all you need to do to get edge working is to go into settings > general > network > edge > APN and enter internet2.voicestream.com
everything should work just fine. The edge fix in the installer app fixes the problem where sometimes the iphone does not retain the apn number after a reboot.
Loopi (Who am I?)
4 months ago
You’ll find the latest free unlock software (ZiPhone, iBreak), guide and a video tutorial collection on
http://www.freeunlock.com
I also made a comment for an old post, so sorry for kind of double comment. I’m just annoyed by the paysites offering the free software for up to $40…