Hi All,

Does anyone know how on earth you get a UK 1.1.2 iphone working with just a 02 sim? This would be fine for me at the moment as it's my sin's birthday on Thurs and i can just pop along to 02 and buy one for him and use a 02 sim. I'm sure i seen a post the other day but i have done a search and cannot find it again and i have no idea what the title was.
There is one for sale on ebay as you can see with item number 230191387367.

He has confirmed it is a UK model and works only with a 02 sim so not unlocked

Thanks

http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=15322

Credit to Cleggy from ipHone Elite forum
URL: http://rdgaccess.com/iphone-elite/vi...t=207&start=15

UNLOCK iPhone 1.1.2 Firmware - Activating with any o2 sim using a Mac

1. Downgrade firmware to 1.1.1

To do this you will need to get iPHUC - http://code.google.com/p/iphuc/

Connect the iPhone to your mac, close iTunes and then run iPHUC and enter the command: enterrecovery

Now exit iPHUC

This puts the phone into restore mode.

Now you will need to get the 1.1.1 firmware from Apple. I have noticed posts saying that they have closed the tiff exploit in the 1.1.1 firmware. This doesn't seem to be the case, I got my copy on Friday evening and it exploited fine. Note: Safari extracted this file on my mac, use Firefox instead to keep the file as an archive.

1.1.1 Firmware link:

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite....a_Restore.ipsw

In iTunes restore your phone by pressing and holding the alt key and then clicking restore. Now find the firmware file that you just downloaded and start the restore. The restore should install but will error at the end with error 1015. This is expected. However the file will still be in restore (DFU) mode.

To get around the restore mode problem I used independence which pulls the phone out of DFU mode when launched.

http://code.google.com/p/independence/

Note: You need iTunes 7.4.2 for independence to work but 7.5 for UK iPhone Luckily I had a spare mac with 7.4.2 on.


2. Jailbreak the 1.1.1 firmware

Use the solution at this site:
http://modmyifone.com/wiki/index.php...out_of_the_box

You should now have a jailbroken uk iPhone with installer.app but no gsm connection.


3. Install things you will need on iPhone

Use independence to set up the ssh server on the iPhone.

Set the root password using independence.

Install the BSD Subsystem via installer.app - System - (Note: nullriver.com appears to be down at the moment so you may have to use an alternative method to install the BSD subsystem)


4. Activation Hack to allow any o2 sim card

Locate a copy of lockdownd from the 1.0.2 firmware.

Searching for "lockdownd 1.0.2" in Google should get you it at gofilego.com

Rename the 1.0.2 lockdownd to lockdownd.102

Copy lockdownd.102 to the iphone:

scp lockdownd.102 root@<iphone ip address>:

eg scp lockdownd.102 root@192.168.1.5:

This will put the new lockdownd.102 file into the root users home folder.

Get the iPhoneActivation.pem file from the 1.1.1 jailbreak file which I found at:

http://modmyifone.com/forums/downloa...o=file&id=1048

Upload iPhoneActivation.pem to the phone:

scp iPhoneActivation.pem root@<iphone ip address>:/System/Library/Lockdown/

ssh onto the iPhone:

ssh root@<iphone ip address>

Back up v1.1.1's lockdownd:

cp /usr/libexec/lockdownd /var/root/lockdownd.1.1.1

Now overwrite the iPhone's copy with your old v1.0.2 copy:

cp /var/root/lockdownd.1.0.2 /usr/libexec/lockdownd

Now you need to restart lockdownd with the 1.0.2 binary, run:

killall lockdownd

This will restart lockdownd with v1.0.2's version


Download IAsign: http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/IASign

cd iASign/bin


Overwrite iASign's iPhoneActivation.pem with the one from the 1.1.1 jailbreak file downloaded above.

cp /path/to/1.1.1-jailbreak/iPhoneActivation.pem /path/to/iASign/bin/

Now run: ./iASign.mac --automatic iPhoneActivation_private.pem

After a while, it should complete and say "New State: Activated"

At this point your phone should connect to the o2 network. However if you reboot your phone you will be unable to sync with iTunes or Charge your phone because afcd will not start with the lockdownd from 1.0.2.

To get around the issue you need to be able to switch lockdownd binaries before restarting and then again when you are back up.

I'm tired now so I'll post the rest of this tomorrow. If you can make it this far then you should have an activated uk iphone running 1.1.1 firmware connecting to the o2 network with any sim card that will sync with iTunes and charge as long as you don't reboot

Enjoy

I know there is no anysim 1.2 i didn't ask that. I asked how this person selling them on ebay has managed to get them activated and working on just 02 pay and go.

If anyone might have a clue then it would be good to know.
Thanks

Thanks metalflux, I knew i had seen that somewhere.

But it's for a MAC and i have a PC... Never mind

Just because somebody is selling something on eBay doesn't mean it works or is real.

I could advertise an iPhone running Google's Android but doesn't mean you would see it anytime soon.

A lot of these resellers are waiting like you and I for a solution, some are just trying to fleece you by suggesting they have 1.1.2 UK phones unlocked.

I didn't once suggest that he or anyone is or was selling a iphone Uk 1.1.2 that was unlocked i just simply asked if anyone knew the 'solution' not unlock to get a UK 1.1.2 iphone working with just a 02 sim as that would be fine for the purpose i would require it. I now have the answer so that was all i needed.

Thanks

anyone can verify that this method works?

Stop Posting This Bullsh*t
The Uk Iphone Has A Different Baseband And Bootloader.

You Can Not Unlock The Phone. You Can Jail Break It, But Then All You Have Is A Really Nice Itouch.

Try This Method If You Want To Throw Your Money Away.

This Does Not Work. You Can Not Unlock The Uk Iphone.

You Will Brick Your Phone.

Wait A Week For A Official Dev Team Release

but it doesnt touches the baseband firmware... ??!