Originally Posted by Muaitai

Can an iPhone activated with AT&T but never unlocked use this method?
What needs to be done in this case?

TIA

Originally Posted by rambod

i know that i am very close to getting this to work i just need a bit of help. I did my virgin restore and my itunes restore i ran throught the anysim software and got the error "the flash operation succeded but the unlock failed" which seem to be normal from what i am reading I put my sim card in and it says "incorrect sim". I have restarted several time and still same message. When i put att sim in on the settings page it gives an option for carrier and lists my countries carrier but when i put my own sim in ther carrier option is gone. Please help cause i know i am very close to getting it. Thanks

Originally Posted by telecommando

Unlocking using INdependence and AnySIM on Mac OS X


Get your iPhone. When you start it up it wants you to activate with AT&T. I am in Canada so I can't do that.

I went to Rogers and got a new sim card and they put a new phone number on it and $100.00 of credits - I am going to use Pay as you Go for a while.

With the original sim card inside, you want to get yourself organized a bit.

Download the 1.0.2 firmware - there are links for it somewhere.
Download AnySIM using Safari - it will extract the AnySIM - the icon has a white crossed out circle thingy - (like a white no smoking sign). You can't do anything with this file on the Mac - we have to get it inside the iPhone.

Make sure you have the 1.0.2 firmware - you can't really check easily if your phone came straight out of the box, so there is a trick I saw somewhere to get iTunes to update your firmware even if you have not selected to set up and activate on AT&T. I think you hold the top right button on the iPhone (sleep button?) together with the round button near the bottom "home" button? Then the yellow triangle is going to come up and iTunes is automatically going to update you to 1.0.2. This applies for Sept 18th, 2007 - I dunno about the future.

You also are going to download that 1.0.2 firmware separately from somewhere. I'll look for the link - but if you search the iphone threads you'll find it. Get that firmware extracted to a folder and you'll be selecting the main folder from INdependence - my folder got named automatically as "iPhone1,1_1" - that's what you select in INdependence when it asks - not the "Firmware" one inside - OK? ok.

Download INdependence - Good Software! I used 1.2.1.

Read all about INdependence on that wiki thing - INdependence recommends that you disable the "iTunesHelper" - this is a must do, and it's temporary too. It will come back next time your reboot your mac. I did this on a Macbook Pro BTW.

iTuneshelper basically senses when the iPhone is plugged in, and it interferes with the stuff the INdependence needs to do. There are directions on this simple task, but to save you time, go to your Utilities folder and run "Activity Monitor". "Quit" the iTunesHelper process, and when the popup thing comes, click on "Force Quit" for that process. Yay - now iTunes is not going to bug you.

Next

My iTunes was 7.3.2 - I did not yet update to the latest. Maybe that matters? Dunno - doubt it very much.

OK, so with the original sim card in the phone, you are going to run INdependence to activate your iPhone first. This basically gets rid of the AT&T screen at the start and allows you to use your iPhone as a wifi device, which was good for me for 2 days until I saw that AnySIM came out.

So I activated. INdependence is going to ask for that firmware location - navigate to that folder I mentioned above "iPhone1,1_1" and it will find all the firmware stuff it needs. It will restart the iPhone a few times and in 3 minutes or so you should have a message that says "success". If it fails take note - maybe it failed because iTunes became activated and interrupted? Make sure you quit that iTunes Helper process! If it fails it doesn't matter - just let iTunes do an automatic repair thingy. It will actually put the 1.0.2 on the iPhone too that way.

OK, so if you are activated, you can go play for a while if you want. Get a wifi connection and check out weather and Youtube and Email and whatever if you want. Load up music if you want. No harm.

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Originally Posted by Terror

Just got my phone from the store. I've used ibrickr to jaibreak my iphone and to upload the anysim app on it. However at the next step where I have to run the app I can't do that since the "Activate iPhone - connect to iTunes" screen is almost the only thing I can do with my iPhone. The other thing is an emergency call.
I am doing all these from Windows. What can I do to get pass that screen and to run the anySim app from the springboard as the instructions say?
Basically I think I need a windows version of the INdependence software

Originally Posted by telecommando

you need to activate dude

If you activate and it unjailbreaks you then you also have to rejailbreak

Get it?

Keep In mind - I only know mac

Ymmv
Again typing from the iPhone! Getting faster

Originally Posted by telecommando

you need to activate dude

If you activate and it unjailbreaks you then you also have to rejailbreak

Get it?

Keep In mind - I only know mac

Ymmv
Again typing from the iPhone! Getting faster