iPhone 3G unlock still not working – iPhone Dev Team says Pwnage Tool 2.0 will only jailbreak and activate iPhone 3G
By Will Park on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 2:00 PM PST In Announcements, Apple, Applications, Developer, iPhone, iPhone OS
Most of us out there with iPhone 3G’s in hand probably don’t have much use for an unlocking tool, having already signed that 2-year contract with AT&T (NYSE: T) and all. But, there are going to be a good lot of you itchin’ to get your iPhone 3G unlocked and ready to work with any GSM network on the planet.
For the latter group, we have some bad news. The iPhone Dev Team has announced that they are not going to release their Pwnage Tool 2.0 with iPhone 3G SIM-unlock support. While the new Pwnage Tool will unlock (as well as jailbreak and activate) original iPhones running iPhone 2.0 OS, the iPhone 3G will only be given jailbreak and activation support.
The iPhone Dev Team has run in to some issues in unlocking Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s next-generation iPhone 3G, and they don’t want to release an unlocking solution until it’s fully ready to work with any and all 3G-toting iPhones out-of-the-box. But, if/when the iPhone Dev Team gets a fully-functional iPhone 3G baseband unlock solution up and running, they’ll push an update to Pwnage Tool that will enable iPhone 3G’ers to unlock their precious handset.
For now, the video of the “World’s First Unlocked iPhone 3G” is going to be little more than a wish and a dream for anyone looking to unlock their iPhone 3G.
Stay tuned for the official release of the Pwnage Tool 2.0.
This is the “dream” mentioned above:
iPhone-Dev
You don’t need Pawnage. Whats the point in trying to unlock your iphone 3g via software when you can just simply insert a chip . If you unlock it via software you cant upgrade when apple brings out new versions.
I’ve been using the any-network device from http://www.any-network.com and it works perfectly with 3g and i can upgrade when i want without having to unlock it again.
But can u use 3G in iphone ? I have see 3G not work in iPhone ? http://www.shameonapple.com/
hey by when would the software unlock + simlock be available?
So what about the Brazilian guys that claim to have successfully unlocked an iPhone 3G with a SIM card adapter? why is that not a functional way to unlock the 3G?
Hey,
thats tru the itch part on Iphone 3g sim unlock…
i have been waiting for the soft sim unlock.
as i heard that even getting the hard sim unlock done the firmware cannot be upgraded.
please please do the spll and bring the soft sim unlock ASAP.
waiting.
regards,
Adnan
iPhone 3G is an attractive toy not more.
It seems that Apple people is trying to prove their Log which is an apple missing a bit,this is the exact situation of iPhone.
My advice that they have to go and learn from Nokia experts, how to make good software for their cell phone and not to relay on their repetition which seems that they will loose it soon.