Hi

Back in those days where you had to open your iphone to perform the hardware unlock ; I screwed up mine and got the dreaded 1011 error when trying to flash the iPhone.

So I had this dead iphone on a shelf for over 3 months.
I ordered a radio communication board from ipaqrepair.co.uk.

It arrived a week later and I replaced the communication board with the new one ; resoldered the battery. Started it ; all worked.

Then flashed the iphone to 1.1.1 ; no error ! very happy.

Then using Independence I unlocked the iPhone... And what a big surprise ; my Telstra SIM card worked first go ; I did not unlock this phone !!

Has anyone any experiences with the folks at ipaqrepair ?
The communication board looked slightly different (the pca itself is blue rather than green).
Could it be possible that this communication board is unlock ; always ? I thought that it would depend on the firmware loaded to it no ?

Anyhow, quite happy, I now have an unlocked phone that I did not unlock
Cheers
Jean-Yves

Is it this one ?

iPhone Communications Board
Product code: 1183
This is the iPhone communication or comms board, if you have a corrupted baseband or have in any way damaged your iPhones comms board this spare part will allow you to restore the phone functionallity to your unit.

* Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900MHz)

Suitable for the 4GB iPhone and 8GB iPhone.
http://ipaqrepair.co.uk/view_product.php?product=1183

Originally Posted by jyavenard

Hi

Back in those days where you had to open your iphone to perform the hardware unlock ; I screwed up mine and got the dreaded 1011 error when trying to flash the iPhone.

So I had this dead iphone on a shelf for over 3 months.
I ordered a radio communication board from ipaqrepair.co.uk.

It arrived a week later and I replaced the communication board with the new one ; resoldered the battery. Started it ; all worked.

Then flashed the iphone to 1.1.1 ; no error ! very happy.

Then using Independence I unlocked the iPhone... And what a big surprise ; my Telstra SIM card worked first go ; I did not unlock this phone !!

Has anyone any experiences with the folks at ipaqrepair ?
The communication board looked slightly different (the pca itself is blue rather than green).
Could it be possible that this communication board is unlock ; always ? I thought that it would depend on the firmware loaded to it no ?

Anyhow, quite happy, I now have an unlocked phone that I did not unlock
Cheers
Jean-Yves

Wow sounds promising. Do you think this would work for a new OTB 1.1.2 iphone with the new bootloader?? If yes I think it would be recommended to write up a hardware unlock guide via swapping of Comm boards

It does sound promising, but wouldn't it be the same cost as buying a TurboSim?

Originally Posted by HarryP

Is it this one ?

iPhone Communications Board

yes it is ...

I first thought that they could have simply sold me the radio board from an iphone that had been sim unlocked before.

However, my phone had 1.0.2 until then ; and I flashed it with 1.1.1 ; I should have lost the unlock isn't it ?

Originally Posted by isom3tric

It does sound promising, but wouldn't it be the same cost as buying a TurboSim?

probably more expensive. And much hard to do than putting a TurboSIM.
changing the radio communication board requires to open the iPhone ; unsolder the battery , put the new comm board in etc...
not easy ...

How can I check which baseband the comm board is running ?

use bbupdater -v

Originally Posted by jyavenard

probably more expensive. And much hard to do than putting a TurboSIM.
changing the radio communication board requires to open the iPhone ; unsolder the battery , put the new comm board in etc...
not easy ...

If this was a cheap solution, I would've done it. I can solder pretty well and have done a lot of Wii and 360 modchips in the past. Arr I'll wait for a software unlock

Originally Posted by HarryP

use bbupdater -v

this is what I got:
firmware: DEV_ICE_MODEM_04.01.13_G
eep version: EEP_VERSION:207
eep revision: EEP_REVISION:8
bootloader: BOOTLOADER_VERSION:3.9_M3S2
Done

I haven't followed the iphone scene for a while ; but has this firmware been made locked-free ?