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Yellowsn0w released!

UPDATES

1.- As of v 0.9.4 there’s no longer a one-minute delay step. If you don’t see your carrier when your homescreen comes up, you may still need a sim reinsert (for now).

2.- If you are in the U.S. and are trying this with T-Mobile, you must turn off the 3G switch in Settings. The -q option is now deprecated in 0.9.4+ (it’s now always in quick mode)

3.- No PIN support yet. Remember how we said this was beta? Well we’re still working out the flow for SIMs with PINs enabled. Please disable any PIN you may have on that SIM before trying yellowsn0w, for now..

4.- The unlock will silently quit on anything other than baseband 02.28.00. It detects the wrong version and just quits to avoid any damage. Please double check your Modem Firmware setting in Settings->General->About.

5.- For ankle-biters that are pointlessly reversing the application the source is here all open, but remember Jody, we are watching you.

6.- Thanks for the kind words Stephen

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Hello all,

We wish you a very happy, healthy, and hopeful 2009!

Once you have installed yellowsn0w, please report your success or failure here it’ll help us with the bug fixes.

We have released the 0.9.6 beta yellowsn0w 3G unlock application, 0.9.6 beta should fix EVEN MORE problems :-). Please remember to add feedback -> here <- as we can get useful feedback that will help us. We suggest that everyone upgrade to this version.

Please note the following:

BASICS

The unlock works exclusively with baseband 02.28.00. This baseband is provided by the latest firmware update (2.2) from Apple. You’ll need to upgrade to this release using iTunes and then use QuickPwn to activate etc. There are plenty of tutorials about this on iclarified, bigboss, and other established tutorial sites. Because it works on 02.28.00, it is available to everyone on the planet. This means we don’t need to unnecessarily expose holes in earlier basebands, which is an important concern.

The application is a small daemon that is launched on boot. It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset. You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. It’s a small program and unobtrusive. There is no GUI (this is by design).

You can add the application using the sources outlined below (coming soon). There are Cydia and Installer sources available, so use whichever you are comfortable using.

yellowsn0w is completely removable through Cydia, the command line, and iTunes.

DETAILS

There is a known issue with SIM cards that have STK (SIM Toolkit) application menus. These menus are usually items such as “top up” “get credit” “lotto numbers” etc. These menu items confuse the application sometimes. Removing and reinserting the SIM once after reboot (give it about 10 secs 60 seconds (with v0.9.1) after you see the slide to unlock widget) fixes this issue. We’re working on a better fix. Update: version 0.9.4 fixes this for many (but probably not all) users who previously had to wait a minute and then replug the sim.

For those of you using SIM cards without STK menus, the application has some optional arguments that will make the unlock much faster for you. So either experiment on your own (use “yellowsn0w -h” for usage) or wait for a customization writeup.

After you install yellowsn0w via Cydia, you should return to the Cydia main menu then reboot your iPhone with the 3rd party SIM installed. Wait for the slide to unlock screen, then wait 10 or 15 secs more. If you don’t see your carrier name pop up, then remove your SIM, reinsert it, and wait 10 secs more. This is the step we’ll be working on eliminating next.

RANDOM

The application is version 0.9.5. This is considered beta software, you use it at your own risk. You know the score.

The application is released on a non-commerical basis. Please do not accept pirates and scummy ripoffs of this software. We license this software for single use and in a non-commerical environment (meaning you can’t charge for it). The techniques and methods used are not to be used by third party companies. We are watching you Jody…we won’t be so forgiving this time.

Direct linking to the repository URLs is prohibited, please only link to this post. We will be checking referers.

Happy 2009 and enjoy!

The iPhone 3G is used all over the world with all sorts of SIM cards, and we almost certainly will see untested and unexpected situations. If the soft unlock doesn’t work for you on day 1 (literally day 1, of 2009!) then please don’t panic or be impatient. This is new territory for everyone, so enjoy the ride as much as you can

RELEASE INFO

Cydia source: http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/
Installer repo: http://i.yellowsn0w.com/

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Great news

Thanks Dev Team

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hey guys,

sorry i had to ask this. i just jailbroke for the first time so still not a good player in cydia. i seem to fail to find the yellowsn0w in both cydia and installer. how do i find them? please help.

Just check the sources, first post

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I am sure this is a very n00b question, but how can I edit the command line directly to add the switches offered in the original post.

I am on T-Mobile USA and would like to make sure 3G stays off.

Hello There!

I'm excited to see that software unlock makes hardware unlocks redundand. Great work, guys - you roll!

However this doesn't work on my 3g (Baseband - 02.28.00).
Carrier Kyivstar (Ukraine) tried 2 sim cards with sim menu and without
Sim card pin is disabled on both cards.

After sim-card re-insertion after 1 minute it falls back with "no service" message in left top corner of the screen.
In other phones both cards are working OK.

Any thoughts?

This was a comment posted over on the dev-team blog

have tried this recipe - it doesn't work