Locked Sim Card
 

Ok so i purchased another iPhone 3g yesterday and i swiped it clean and now it says i need an unlocked sim to activate it. My active sim card has a sim pin on it in the current iphone i use so i can take it out of this one and put it in the new one...anyone know how i can get around this.???

Re: Locked Sim Card
 

what's the firmware on it? If you're on 3.1.2 jailbreak it with blackra1n (blackra1n.com) and it should fix the sim card asking.


Also if you put ANY sim card in it and connect it to Itunes it should load up just fine. I used a tmobile one and it worked, just didn't get service till i unlocked it.

Re: Locked Sim Card
 

Thanks that worked...

Now in your thread you say there is an unlock and jail break for 3.1.3 which is what this 3g is that i just purchased.

I downloaded Sn0wbreeze and im attempting to use it but i cant find the ipsw file where it says to browse.

sn: i appreciate all the help dearly

Re: Locked Sim Card
 

you cannot unlock a phone on 3.1.3 unless it has a 5.08 bootloader, which is slim to none chance that it does. But you can can jailbreak it.

I attached the 3.1.2 IPSW in my unlocking thread, use that link to download it and point snowbreeze to that.

Re: Locked Sim Card
 

You were speaking of this you posted right>?
updating from a lower than 3.1.2 FW

If you have an iphone firmware of below 3.1.2 I would suggest updating to 3.1.2 (various bug fixes and a few improvements) and jailbreaking/unlocking it. Use the following process, but be very careful not to update to 3.1.3 or you're fu$%^ed.


downlaod the update for 3.1.2 from here.u

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite....1_Restore.ipsw


I downloaded that... is the ipsw file that i browse for in snowbreeze in this zip file some place?

Re: Locked Sim Card
 

This isn't a zip file. this IS the ipsw file you're looking for. It will patch it and basically reflash 3.1.2 on your phone. you will be jailbroken but you cannot unlock it for tmobile (yet) because your baseband is probably 5.12.01 now

Re: Locked Sim Card
 

When I use the link above and download it...its a zip file that is 230 mb.

I know im becoming annyoing and your the only one that seems to want to help me so i understand if your beggining to become frusterated. You dont have to keep responding, im just new to this and pretty much clueless, im sorry.

Re: Locked Sim Card
 

trust me man it's totally cool. When I first started on here I had a windows mobile phone and I was asking pro cooks all sorts of questions that they answered on top of cooking quality ROMs and never flamed me for continually asking stuff.

we'll get you up and running. Just promise me you'll hang around and the next person who has questions you'll help them :headbang:


here is the Link again. Let me know if it is a Zip file because it shouldn't be, it should just be an ipsw file.


http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite....1_Restore.ipsw

Re: Locked Sim Card
 

Im not going anywhere, I like ta get people helped out and this seems like a pretty good place, teach and learn.

Its still a zip file ive attached a screen shot.

And i still cant make my themes work... im not having any progress!

Re: Locked Sim Card
 

I just re-clicked on the link in my post above yours (attached screen shot) and you can see it's coming in as an ipsw file. This is so weird.

you can even see in my link that the the file is an ipsw file (by the link file name)

just download it and unzip it I guess, or use a different browser and try again?


as far as the theming check that other thread again.