iPhoneSimFree offers world's first 1.1.1 iPhone unlocks

So, what do you expect to happen now that a pair of jailbreak solutions are out? Why, a 1.1.1 unlock for baseband version 04.01.13_G of course. The "world's first" 1.1.1 unlock comes courtesy of the for-profit iPhoneSimFree team after a tithe to the usual service providers. For their customers who by chance bricked their iPhones by updating to 1.1.1 in haste, IPSF is making their SimFree v1.6 wares freely available to unbrick your $599 coaster. Just hit the read link for all the details.

[Thanks, Dustin B.]

[Philometalist @ Oct 11th 2007 3:26AM]

Making money off of everybody else's work. Way to steal the glory.

[CubeGuy @ Oct 11th 2007 3:30AM]

Perhaps you missed the Free part of iPhoneSimFree.

[Philometalist @ Oct 11th 2007 3:34AM]

Perhaps YOU missed the part that says "for-profit" in the actual article.

[rawhead @ Oct 11th 2007 3:34AM]

@cubeguy

I'm pretty sure the "Free" modifies the previous noun "SIM" and does not mean Free of charge. Notice where it says, in the article, "For their customers . . . IPSF is making their SimFree v1.6 wares freely available"

[CubeGuy @ Oct 11th 2007 3:39AM]

Then which team was doing it for free again? You don't have to be a jackass about it.

[Philometalist @ Oct 11th 2007 3:56AM]

Chill Cube, just do everyone a favor and research things before you derive such firm opinions of them next time, especially when such opinions are intended to make others appear to be jackasses.

BTW If you click the "read" link below the article you'll find all of the detailed info regarding this.

Have a nice day.

[Jonhimslf @ Oct 11th 2007 9:23AM]

CubeGuy, people are being jackasses about it because your "Perhaps you missed the free part iPhoneSimFree" comment was very condesending and 'jackass-y'

[NG @ Oct 11th 2007 3:27AM]

can't believe they are faster than the dev team

[Reader @ Oct 11th 2007 4:23AM]

Why? Who's gonna do better: The 10 guys being paid to do this or the thousands of hackers that have endless amounts of time and do this for fun? That's why digital protection can't win and is a pointless battle on the corporate side.

[NG @ Oct 11th 2007 11:30AM]

of course the hacker army..

[maverick @ Oct 11th 2007 3:29AM]

will this unlock an iphone that i purchase now? as in, if i went to the apple store and bought a brand new iphone w/ 1.1.1 probably already installed, does that mean i can use this simfree v1.6 to unlock it and use it for tmobile? please someone let me know.

[Ali @ Oct 11th 2007 3:38AM]

Yes, the article mentions that it works with all 1.1.1s irrespective of whether you upgraded to it or if your device was shipped with it. But keep in mind that you have to cough up 100 dead presidents for that unlock.

[JJ @ Oct 11th 2007 3:33AM]

This is why Apple have stopped people unlocking phones because you have these people making a profit unlocking the iphone for a price where apple thinks they could charge unlocking the phone

[lifesuk @ Oct 11th 2007 3:46AM]

while you saying that, you have been charged by Apple for thousands...

[Nick @ Oct 11th 2007 9:29AM]

unfortunately unless someone ends up having a court order telling Apple to unlock phones per request.. they arent going to. It doesnt set a good precedent for being a partner in business with Apple if Apple decides to go back on its "exclusivity" deal and open up the device to your competition.

[Scott Stevenson @ Oct 11th 2007 3:36AM]

Nice, way to go iPhoneSimFree guys, hopefully you all are making serious donations to the Dev Team's efforts (ie: to the tune of hundreds if not thousands of $SS). If not your karma will get you in the end. I'm sure there are people who'd be happy to reverse engineer your work and release it freely.

Scott Stevenson

[Farish @ Oct 11th 2007 4:35AM]

Agreed. Pls put your $ where your mouth is. Simply giving kudos to the iPhone Dev team aint enuff.

[Harry @ Oct 11th 2007 3:38AM]

Post is wrong...
The bricks they refer to are people who used anySim or iUnlock
IPSF users didnt get bricked on the 1.1.1 update

Read what you post before you post it.

"Steps for "un-bricking" your anySim or iUnock iPhones"

Harry

[Wilky @ Oct 11th 2007 4:14AM]

Steve Jobs only has a salary of $1 he received $646,000 in share options this year that he is fully entitled to sell. So will people stop going on about how poor the Dev Team is at Apple because a few people have unlocked their iPhones that you have effectively paid full price for.

It is your legal right to have an unlocked phone in Europe. As Apple are not prepared to offer unlock codes what is wrong with a 3rd party doing so, at least in Europe.

Other mobile manufacturers have to operate within this framework and you can get their phones FREE of charge with contracts that cost you LESS than the Apple contract.

So stop this bleeding heart nonsense about how Apple is hard done to because a few people want to excercise their legal right to have an unlocked mobile phone.

[thom @ Oct 11th 2007 7:30AM]

iPhone dev team refers to a group of hackers, not apple owns development team.

[Wilky @ Oct 11th 2007 9:40AM]

Erm, yeah, I knew that. *gets coat*
:-)

[Farish @ Oct 11th 2007 4:33AM]

Wait for it. The iPhone Dev team will be releasing a free tool to unlock 1.1.1 very soon and remember to donate to the iPhone Dev team for all their hardwork and effort. Woot!

[Harry @ Oct 11th 2007 4:36AM]

but free unlock tools die on next update... iphonesimfree ones dont. they survuve the update... they dont have the cat and mouse problem!

[sl4ught3r @ Oct 11th 2007 4:39AM]

I'm sure iPhone Sim Free developed this tool days or weeks ago, but have been waiting for Dev Team to Jailbreak the 1.1.1 so they could load this 3rd party app on 1.1.1

It's too much coincidence it has been released HOURS after the Jailbreak method was released!

[Bazazz @ Oct 11th 2007 5:43AM]

Well, ISPF probably knows that other dev teams are getting close to finding the solution, so they want to make a quick buck before free solutions are released.

Unlocking solutions, provided by phone carriers, or by 3rd party (for a fee) a common in Europe. you just either buy a phone locked from a carrier store and have it unlocked after 6 months for free, or buy from a non-carrier store and get the same phone, unlocked AND subsidized (sometimes cheaper than carrier branded / locked one).

so, once the Iphone starts selling in Europe, it won't be long before Apple will have to sell it unlocked. won't be cheap, though...

[Pentium @ Oct 11th 2007 8:02AM]

so now iPhone is unlocked again, waiting for the free version :D

[FireFox @ Oct 11th 2007 9:23AM]

How is this possible? There is a team of lets say 10 Engineers that can do it and they ofcourse want to get payed for it. There is an army of fans out there that are all working together...

[Chris Wanja @ Oct 11th 2007 10:30AM]

Can someone answer this - how do you install this?? Do you install 1.1.1 and then jailbreak it then unlock?!? Do you just upgrade and then it works? Do you have to do all the iPhone Dev Team tutorial? I have yet to see a complete guide to this.

[Aelver @ Oct 11th 2007 5:06PM]

I would really like to know this too.

One bad thing about IPSF, they aren't very forthcoming with info. I wish they had a forum on their site.

[Chris Wanja @ Oct 11th 2007 10:33AM]

So if you used IPSF to unlock your phone original with 1.0.2, do you just upgrade to 1.1.1 and not worry about it??

[nick @ Oct 11th 2007 8:17PM]

Thats what I want to know. I used ipsf also.
I would guess it goes like this...
Upgrade...1.0.2 to 1.1.1
Then re-jailbreak/activate (dev team method)
Then it should work? No? Yes?

Or do I have to re-run the ipsf app?

[Chris Wanja @ Oct 11th 2007 8:29PM]

You tell me!! I have thrown emails at their e-mail address over and over. I have also tried TUAW and Gizmodo. Engadget is my last hope. Will someone finally answer this question!!

[Mike @ Oct 11th 2007 10:13PM]

According to the people http://www.freeouriphones.com/ ,where i purchased my IPSF, once your IMEI is in their server you're good to go. That being said, I'm not upgrading to 1.1.1 since some of the apps I use haven't followed.

[Chris Wanja @ Oct 11th 2007 10:15PM]

Ok I understand that. What I am asking is: after we upgrade how do we activate?? Do we follow the Jailbreak method mentioned by the iPhone Dev Team??? If not, do we use iNdependence like we did last time?? What do we do?

[tom @ Oct 12th 2007 12:37AM]

what stupid ass would upgrade their unlocked phone firmware? bunch of dumb shits. equivalent to: uuhm i think i'll stick a paper clip in an electrical socket just to see what happens.

word of the month:

pendejos

[Thierry Girard @ Oct 21st 2007 8:16AM]

Just to let you know: I used iPhoneSIMfree after having paid the 60$ on a virgin iPhone 1.1.1. It does not work for me. Get the error 'could not download firmware'. This is repeating even afer restore (in 1.1.1), downgrade to 1.0.2 etc.
So be careful, you don't always get what you paid for. (until now no reply from the company selling the software).

[tom @ Oct 21st 2007 11:01AM]

I should have been more specific. I was calling people stupid who originally bought an iphone with firmware 1.0.2, unlocked it then updated the firmware to 1.1.1.

I was not referring to those who bought a virgin 1.1.1 iphone.

[Thierry Girard @ Oct 21st 2007 8:18AM]

ok, I have to add to my previous post:
iPhoneSIMfree were very helpful in geting me forward in this. They send me a file to correct the error. Then I downgraded again to 1.0.2 and run iPhoneSIMfree. Now everything worked like a charm (wow!). I tried to upgrade to 1.1.1 but then could not activate/jailbrake with iNdependence 1.2.4 (yes, I did run the pre 1.1.1). So I downgraded again and will leave it like that for the time being.

[lomax2004 @ Nov 6th 2007 11:26PM]

I unlocked using IPSF and it was sucessfully unlcoked but it only works on AT&T. When I reboot my phone with the T-mobile Sim it say that" Activate Phone Connect to iTunes" on the top and in the middle of the screen it says" Different Sims Detected Please connect to iTunes". If I put my att sim again it says phone activated and if I replaces the sims with T-mobile it says diferent sims and the signa is at zero, if I go to setting carriers, I can see the network selection on Automatic and under it T-mobile and ATT but it does not let me select any of it. Now every one talks about how there phone is unlocked. Why is mine not working, I tried downgrading, restoring and upgrading back to 1.1.1 and re running iphonesimfree but it says that it is already unlock.

Can any one know the solution or am I the only one out here with this problem. Thanks in advance.