iPhone Hacking
On Friday we arrived in San Francisco. We dumped our baggage in our hotel-room and walked to the Apple store to buy 2 iPhones. Within 30 minutes we were back in our room hacking away at our shiny new gadgets.
Now it is 48 hours later and we are still in the same hotel-room surrounded by empty coca cola bottles and Twix wrappers. The iPhones STILL don’t work with our european SIM cards.
Numerous experts have tried to help us but no luck so far. Every time we try another solution something goes wrong which screws the whole process up.
Right now we are trying the latest ‘anySIM’ solution from the famous ‘Dev Team’ who did the actual hacking.
Unlocking the iPhone is really simple if you:
- know your way around Terminal
- have a good Wi-Fi connection you can tweak
- know the difference between SSH, RSS and BSD
- you follow the instructions REALLY careful
In other words: it isn’t THAT simple. And if, according to some comments over at Engadget and Gizmodo, one of the above conditions are a problem for you then you shouldn’t try it and are unworthy of their attention.
I’m currently trying the whole 23 step process all over again because the last time I had one little problem in step 21 which screwed up everything. If it will work this time I’m afraid I won’t be able to control my emotions…
7 Responses to “iPhone Hacking”
Leave a Reply
Subscribe to my Feed!
Powered by
That really sucks! I’m ordering an iPhone to, im only waiting till 18 sept. because of the event in Londen.
Maybe it’s better for you to wait till 18 sept, and if apple launches an european iphone , you can return het US iPhone..
Good luck!
A friend of me unlocked his last friday, he wrote everything down and mailed it to me (including all the files you’ll need)… so if you’re interested let me know.
You have to have a wireless network to work with, you’re probably using the hotel’s now, but it might be a solution to create a wifi network directly from you’re Mac?
wow, how sad- you came all the way to this city and just sat in your hotel rooms. so lame. did you at least go out for dinner? or did you try to order takeaway from your new iphones instead of exploring the city and actually meeting people who live here?
Hi Eltejano, thanks for worrying about us! Didn’t think you would take it so literally.
We did get to see a lot of the city actually. We had dinner at a someone’s house on Friday night and walked all around the city during the day. We ended up for drinks at Zeit Geist on saturday and met some people there too.
I was just trying to illustrate how much frustration the iPhone has caused us.
hacking iPhones in you hotel room.
rehab time!
Hey Boris.
Just fyi , I came across that picture on marktplaats.nl ( http://tinyurl.com/38sbcx
) - thought that was strange… you might wanted to know.
http://macwereld.nl/nieuws/200.....zij_anysim