> Pris says:
> June 21, 2009 at 10:34 AM

>> Ok so how or what steps does a not so tech savvy person take to jailbreak
>> only my iPhone 3g with the 3.0 update already installed??
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Was in the same situation… just bought a friend’s 2 week old 3G & she’d kept the SIM for her new phone. So figuring that since the wireless apps all worked fine w/out the card, I’d go ahead & update the OS to 3.0 before putting it on the T-Mobile system…

Everything was going fine til the phone reboot & that’s when I found out that No Valid SIM card = No Phone Activation. Great. So I called up the T-Mobile store by my house & they sent me over to a Multi-carrier cell dealer to get it jailbroken & unlocked. Dropped it off Friday night & they said hopefully Monday it’ll be ready. (if the unlocking software update arrives over the weekend…)

After spending the last 6 days heavily researching how to do this for myself–and I’m no stranger to unlocking secure-cards, having taught myself how to ‘pop’ & reprogram the card in my satellite tv reciever a few years back (not for profit, just wanted to see if I could do it…)—anyway, what I’ve learned is that there’s so many more ways to screw this up by doing it wrong & the $35 I’m paying to have it done is well worth the amount of time & frustration I’d be looking at if I did it my self.
I say leave it to the Pro’s unless you’re absolutely sure you know what you’re doing & are 100% confident in the program that your using. Otherwise, it can easily be a very expensive learning experience, when u permanently brick your phone…

Just my opinion, though…
and there’s a whoooooole lot more people on here that are better qualifed for you to listen to than me…. seriously.