iPhone Unlocking

[Jer-oh-me]

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone knew a good method for unlocking the iPhone. My dad found one on the train. It seems to be the first model, but it has the newest version of the firmware. Any suggestions? Trying to avoid buying software, but if necessary I'll talk my dad into it. We want to make it work on the Verizon network. I'm aware that I'll need a Verizon SIM card.

Anyway, any help will be appreciated.

[Tapewolf]

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone knew a good method for unlocking the iPhone. My dad found one on the train.

Um... are you saying he found the phone on a train?  If so, shouldn't you be trying to return it to the owner or something?

[Noone]

Actually, I'm quite certain unlocking an unlicensed IPhone is illegal too (Violation of Patent laws I think, but I'd need to double-check), so I wouldn't recommend trying.

[Cvstos]

First of all, even talking about doing that here would be a violation of the rules.

Second of all, the DECENT and HONEST thing to do is to return it to it's owner, because right now, if the cops find out that's stolen, JAIL is a very real possibility for your future.

Third of all, Verizon does not have SIM cards. No CDMA phone does.

Fourth of all, iPhones run on AT&T, a GSM network. You cannot unlock it to use on Verizon's network - it's impossible. In the US, iPhones can only run on AT&T and T-Mobile. And I'd like to think that if you manage to register it on either they'll then be able to track you down and get the phone back to it's rightful owner.

Fifth of all, you can better pray that user doesn't have MobileMe. http://www.apple.com/mobileme/whats-new/

That's right, they can use it to track where you are. All the cops (or even just the user) would need to do it track it's movements long enough to cross reference who lives and works or goes to school in a certain area and they'll know just who you are, and you'd go to jail.

Do the right thing. Go to a police station, say you found the phone, and give it to them so they can get it back to it's owner. You'll protect yourself from being tracked by GPS and arrested for keeping a phone you can't use on your network anyway, you get to make someone's day, win points with whatever cop you talk to (never know when you'll meet those guys again), and you get to do the right thing in a big way.

[Tapewolf]

First of all, even talking about doing that here would be a violation of the rules.

Assuming he did find an iPhone on a train.  I'm hoping he meant he found a way to unlock them on the train.

[Cvstos]

First of all, even talking about doing that here would be a violation of the rules.

Assuming he did find an iPhone on a train.  I'm hoping he meant he found a way to unlock them on the train.

In that case, the original post has EXTRAORDINARILY poor wording.

In either case, jail-breaking is a violation of the iPhone EULA and is therefore probably something taboo on this forum (even if it doesn't stop people from doing it). Also, as I said, it's impossible to get a phone with only GSM (AT&T, T-Mobile) antennas to work on a CDMA network (Verizon, Sprint), no matter how what you do to it's software.

[ShadesFox]

I don't think Verizon even makes a GSM SIM card.  I'm not sure of EULA violation is quite taboo in this forum (there are artists here, legal copies of photoshop are rare).  But taking someone else's phone found on the train is rather clearly over the line.

[Tapewolf]

In that case, the original post has EXTRAORDINARILY poor wording.

What can I say?  Ever the optimist...

[bill]

seeing as there's about a 99% chance the OP is talking about something illegal, i think this can go

[Tapewolf]

seeing as there's about a 99% chance the OP is talking about something illegal, i think this can go

But then, if the OP doesn't find it, they might not mend their wicked ways...

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Nonsense, everyone knows the mine is the most viewed part of the forum.

[Darkmoon]

I don't think Verizon even makes a GSM SIM card.  I'm not sure of EULA violation is quite taboo in this forum (there are artists here, legal copies of photoshop are rare).  But taking someone else's phone found on the train is rather clearly over the line.

Everyone owns a legal copy of Photoshop. It's a violation of the rules for them to say otherwise.

As far as unlocking an iPhone is concerned, if it's a legally purchased phone, the act of unlocking it isn't actually illegal. That was ruled the case by... shit, it's not the Library of Congress, but it's a body attached to it, I want to say...

Regardless, phone unlocking is a legal activity. That said, we don't allow discussion of it here for the very grace of the fact that, as legal as it is, it treads a grey area, and discussion on this topic can easily degenerate into less grey, more black areas.

In other words, please move along, nothing to see here.

[Amber Williams]

Darkmoon Firelyte
Posts: 5,555

Nice set of numbers thar.

[superluser]

Something's been bugging me about this.  Probably the suspicion that people who discover methods for unlocking iPhones while riding on trains don't ask people if they know another way to unlock an iPhone on a train.

[Tapewolf]

Something's been bugging me about this.  Probably the suspicion that people who discover methods for unlocking iPhones while riding on trains don't ask people if they know another way to unlock an iPhone on a train.

The way I initially, incorrectly, parsed it was that the original method only worked on an older firmware version, which for people trying to get root access to the device is usually the case.  (This as opposed to opening it up to other networks - both are sometimes called 'unlocking')

[Darkmoon]

Darkmoon Firelyte
Posts: 5,555

Nice set of numbers thar.

Damn it, had I but realized I could have finally quit this place!

Now I have to wait for over another 1,000 posts.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Yeah. Like you need that many posts... ;-]

[Darkmoon]

Says the man sitting on well over 14000 posts here.

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Don't you see? The Box wants all the posts for himself! Greedy, greedy box.

[bradypodidae]

Says the man sitting on well over 14000 posts here.

That's just the ones that are counted... over 18,800 recorded on his profile, and who knows how many that's not counting.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

19914

No, wait. 19915.

[bradypodidae]

19914

No, wait. 19915.

Ah, yes, silly me, of course you would know...

So, any big plans for turning 20,000?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Nah. I'm happy with the tentacles.

[bill]

What do you plan to do with them?

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

What do you plan to do with them?

*snickers evilly*

[Turnsky]

oh i know how to unlock an iphone, you just need the right key.

[bill]

there's candy inside!

[Darkmoon]

It will blend, too.

[VSMIT]

Will it float?

[ShadesFox]

Does it go well with red whine or white?