Re: Cellular Unlocking
just read an interesting article on unlocking IPhone 3GS. I hope it works,
"George Hortz posts about Purple Sn0w on his blog along with the instructions and advantages. Purple Sn0w is a light-weight and soft unlock as explained by George
It’s a soft unlock for your 3GS that I’d actually use day to day. It’s not a daemon that takes any resources, and it doesn’t add a task to your baseband. It’s very close to a true unlock. All it does is patch three files, CommCenter, lockdownd, and your wildcard activation plist(which you need, activate w at&t sim first, no hacktivation support yet). That’s it, no other files are installed.
George also provides us with 6 simple steps to hackify the phone. Make sure to back-up before you proceed.
- Be sure to have legit activated 3GS.
- Disable 3G if you don’t have it.
- Add apt.geohot.com to Cydia.
- Install com.geohot.purplesn0w.
- Watch for success output in Cydia.
- Reboot, and enjoy your unlocked iPhone.
Please support George by visiting his blog and by following him on twitter. I am sure he has a lot more updates coming our way."