iphone Unlocking - Turbosim - Step by step Procedure

2008-01-27T18:41:00.000-08:00

THESE TUTORIALS ARE JUST AND ONLY MEANT FOR THE ORIGINAL TURBOSIM Purchased from my Store. NOT for any other xxxSIM-solutions.

IF YOU CAME HERE BY A LINK POSTED IN AN EBAY AUTION OR ON THE WEBSITE OF SOME SELLERS OF NEXTSIM OR SIMILAR: they might tell on their sites or in their auctions that the following tutorial is the valid one for the product they are selling (e.g. NEXTSIM), but it IS NOT! Any problems that might occur to you trying to use STEP 3 of this tutorial, especially "SIM Applications" not showing up on your phone in the end are probably a result of you NOT using an Original TurboSIM but any other!

TurboSim Unlock - Only way to unlock your Iphone click on this link To buy one.

THESE TUTORIALS ARE JUST AND ONLY MEANT FOR THE ORIGINAL TURBOSIM Purchased from my Store. NOT for any other xxxSIM-solutions.

IF YOU CAME HERE BY A LINK POSTED IN AN EBAY AUTION OR ON THE WEBSITE OF SOME SELLERS OF NEXTSIM OR SIMILAR: they might tell on their sites or in their auctions that the following tutorial is the valid one for the product they are selling (e.g. NEXTSIM), but it IS NOT! Any problems that might occur to you trying to use STEP 3 of this tutorial, especially "SIM Applications" not showing up on your phone in the end are probably a result of you NOT using an Original TurboSIM but any other!

ANOTHER WARNING! This tutorial is NOT for OTB 1.1.3 iPhones and NOT suitable for iPhones intentionally or acidentally upgraded to 1.1.3!

So do this first to check if you can unlock your iphone or not. Open the iphone from the box and press the start button then slide it will give you access to phone dial pad. place emergency call, entering *3001#12345#* then pressing "Call" and then check the version of your firmware. Under Versions you will find what revision firmware is on the phone out of the box.

04.02.13_G Means it has firmware version 1.1.2
04.02.04_G Means it has firmware version 1.1.1
04.01.13_G Means it has firmware version 1.1.1
03.14.08_G Means it has firmware 1.0.1 and 1.02
03.12.06_G is firmware 1.0.0

Turbo sim Unlocking procedure simple easy to use 6 steps

Downgrade to firmware 1.1.1
Install "oktoprep"
Use itunes to re-update to 1.1.2
Run jailbreak.gar
Install iworld, and select your SIM provider location
Cut a corner on your SIM and stick together with the unlock SIM card, insert to the iPhone
Done, you are free.

Detailed Instructions:

STEP 1 - DOWNGRADE YOUR 1.1.2 OTB to 1.1.1

1. download 1.1.1 firmware here:

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite....a_Restore.ipsw

2. Connect your iPhone to your PC and do the following: press both, sleep and home button for 10 seconds, around the 8th second the screen will turn black, still hold the two buttons and the iPhone will turn back on. When it turns on, release the sleep button but still hold the home button until you see a screen with the cable. You are now in restore-mode. DO NOT unplug the iPhone

3. start iTunes 7.5; iTunes will report that it found an iPhone in recovery mode; press the restore button WHILE holding the SHIFT-key; in the upcoming filechooser just choose the 1.1.1-firmware-file (iPhone1,1_1.1.1_3A109a_Restore.ipsw) you just downloaded; iTunes will now downgrade the iPhone to 1.1.1 (which may take a while) and then report the errorcode 1015 or 1011, which is not important and can be dismissed.

4. shut down iTunes

STEP 1 - DONE!

STEP 2 - JAILBREAK and ACTIVATION

1. download iBrickr from here

http://ibrickr.com/downloads/ibrickr_v0.91.zip

2. Unzip it to a folder of your choice on your PC

3. start iBrickr it will prompt you on how to get your phone out of recovery mode.

4. Assuming that you got the "activate" screen slide to unlock to the emergency keypad, dial *#307#, the phone will ring, then press backspace to clear the numbers, then press 1, then dial, the phone will ring again, press answer, then press hold, the phone will ring again, press dismiss, then go to contacts, add 2 contacts, one is: name p and url prefs://1F and the other is name j and url http://jailbreakme.com, save them and go to contact p and click on prefs://1F, this will take to set up your Wi-Fi, make sure you are connected to Wi-Fi and press home button, this will take you to the "activate" screen, slide to unlock, then dial 1, the phone will ring, answer and then press hold, it will ring again, then press dismiss, that will take you to contacts again....

5. start iTunes, so that it can "see" your iPhone, but don´t let iTunes do anything with the phone, this will help performing the jailbreak now to follow in step 2/6

6. now select contact j and click on url http://jailbreakme.com. this will open the browser to AppSnapp Webapp site, just choose "Install AppSnapp" at the bottom of the site, safari wil crash and then you will have to wait about 2 minutes, the phone will restart and you should have a jailbroken 1.1.1. Close iTunes.

7. on your iPhone click Installer (blue icon) and check if you are prompted to update the installer / if an update is available; if yes, just do so (after it is done click the home button and wait for the iPhone to do a soft reset then slide to unlock.); if no, proceed to next step.

8. (on your phone click Installer (blue icon) and) install Oktoprep, it is under Tweaks 1.1.1., and wait for it to say it is ok blah blah blah, then press home button and wait for a soft reset. (( do not restart phone ))

9. download 1.1.2 firmware here:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite....b_Restore.ipsw

10. start iTunes, it should prompt if you wish to update to the latest firmware version (!!! which is 1.1.3 as of January 15th !!!!!!) - DO NOT DO THAT !!!! but press the SHIFT-key AND while holding the SHIFT-key click on UPDATE. In the upcoming filechooser you should choose the just downloaded 1.1.2-firmware-file ("iPhone1,1_1.1.2_3B48b_Restore"); iTunes will now update your iPhone back to 1.1.2

11. shut down iTunes

12. download and unpack this:
http://conceitedsoftware.com/iphone/1.1.2-jailbreak.zip

13. open "jailbreak.jar" (latest JAVA has to be installed) and wait til the process is finished, iPhone will reboot twice during this. - (if jailbreak.jar does not work, try windows.bat)

STEP 2 - DONE! Your iPhone is now jailbroken and activated running 1.1.2

STEP 3 - PREPARING and INSTALLING THE TURBOSIM

1. on your iPhone, go to Settings -> General -> Auto Lock -> Never

2. connect your iPhone to your WLAN (write down the IP your iPhone will have in your WLAN!) IMPORTANT: Only proceed further on in a WLAN-environment that will insure that the phone will retrieve the SAME IP via DHCP AGAIN AFTER THE NEXT REBOOT! Otherwise you will get stuck at STEP 3/15, cause the IP might have changed, e.g. in huge WLANs. If you are unsure then do this: on your iphone, after it acquires its IP address through DHCP, change the mode from DHCP to Static before you go on with the tutorial.

3. on your iPhone, start the Installer and install the following: BSD Subsystem / CommunitySources / openSSH

4. download and unzip this to your PC:

http://rapid_share.com/files/7197445..._rev2.zip.html

(maybe in the domainname there is a _ which needs to be removed....)

5. download and open WinSCP (if you don´t have it already) here:

http://winscp.net/download/winscp405setup.exe

6. with WinSCP connect to your iPhone; Protocol: SFTP / Port:22 / Server: your iPhones´ IP (see above) / Username: root / Password: alpine

7. use WinSCP to copy the file "applesaft.trb" (from the folder turbosim_rev2) to the iPhone-folder /private/var/root

8. use WinSCP to copy all OTHER files (except "applesaft.trb") (from the folder turbosim_rev2) to the iPhone-folder /bin

9. mark the copied files in the folder /bin, right-click them, select "Properties" (or similar) and give them 0755-rights (owner: RWX / group: RX / others: RX)

10. close WinSCP, then download PuTTy here:

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/.../x86/putty.exe

11. cut out both SIMs, the original one supplied with the phone and your own, so they will fit perfectly into the TurboSim - do it carefully!

12. put the original SIM supplied with the iPhone (not your own!) onto the TurboSim and carefully insert it into your iPhone

13. start PuTTy and connect using your iPhone IP address as the host name.

14. PuTTy should ask for a username, so type "root", then it asks for the root-password, which is "alpine" - so type "alpine" and hit Enter

15. type "launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist"

16. type "turbo-info" and hit Enter - some numbers should appear (also maybe some "error" blah blah), but in the end finally followed by an "OK. no errors"

17. type "turbo-app /private/var/root/applesaft.trb" ; after that an "OK" should appear!
IF instead "BAD FILE" will be reported please try again but this time type "turbo-app -b57600 -v /private/var/root/applesaft.trb"
IF that still wont work, meaning you get no "OK" in the end, please PM me! I am searching for a solution for this problem right now!

18. type "launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist"

19. restart your iPhone (BUT only if that last commandline got NO bad response!)

20. on your iPhone go to Settings -> Phone -> SIM Applications -> Apple Saft -> Set -> Accept

21. remove TurboSim and original SIM from the iPhone (carefully!)

22. replace the original SIM with your own and put TurboSIM and your own SIM back into the iPhone (carefully!)

23. restart your iPhone

STEP 3 - DONE! Your iPhone should now be fully operational,

Instructions to install TURBO SIM.

1) Downgrade from 1.1.2 to 1.1.1 using DFU mode in iTunes (having previously downloaded 1.1.1 firmware)

2) JailBreak & ACTIVATE your iPhone

3) Install OKTOPREP via installer then update to 1.1.2 via iTunes.

4) Cut your sim card slightly allowing the black part of the turbosim to fit in the cut area.
Make sure you place your sim card with the magnetic part against the TURBOSIM.

5) Place your Sim card onto the Turbosim allowing the black part of the Turbosim to fit into the part which was cut

6) Place your sim card along with the Turbosim-like card into the iPhone slot.

7) Slide it into your iPhone

8) You are ready to go!

You can use any GSM SIM from any provider, and free to update to any Apple firmware. We've tested it in many countries with many providers. No programming and no command, for just a few steps, it is the easiest way to unlock the latest out of the box 1.1.2 iPhones.

Works with wireless carriers: * AT&T GSM * Cingular GSM * T-Mobile * Rogers Wireless * Fido * Vodaphone * Orange * O2 * any other GSM carriers in the world

Frequetly asked questions.

What service do you provide?

Currently only TURBO SIM can unlock your iphone. We provide TURBO SIM kit and and full unlock solution for your iphone and support from our technical team. No software solution can unlock your phone,

How can I check my iPhones Firmware version?

You can check what firmware is preinstalled by going to the emergency call, entering *3001#12345#* then pressing "Call". Under Versions you will find what revision firmware is on the phone out of the box.

Which iPhones do you unlock ?

At the moment out of the box/untampered iPhones running Firmware 1.02 and 1.1.1 and 1.1.2

iPhones that have been upgraded to v1.1.2 accidently from v1.1.1

We can also unlock out of the box v1.1.2 iPhones for use with an alternative AT&T sim so that you do not need to take out a new 18 month contract

How long does it take after purchase to get the solution?

As soon as payment is made you are sent an e-mail containing an order ID. You can then log in to get your solution on screen.

What features will I lose?

The only feature which won't work is Visual Voicemail - as thats a network-specific function.

Will it work with future updates to the iphone?

There's no way of knowing whether Apple will lock out unlocked phones in future iphone updates. However all iphone updates are optional to install, therefore whenever there's an update we communicate with our customers whether it is safe to update etc., or whether they should wait until we have had time to fully test with our unlocked phones here.

Is the New AT&T UK iPhones running 1.1.2 be fully unlocked ?

TURBO SIM is the only method which is a thin plastic film you attach to your sim card and slide it in. and follow the procedure to unlock and this is the only method available to unlock your iphone with bootloader upto 4.6. All previous versions can be unlocked.

Do I need my phone 'activated' with AT&T?

No, your iPhone can be activated using your own sim card!

Does it work with a fresh 'out of the box' iPhone?

Absolutely - in fact this is the best way to use our software. we tested this with IPHONE Week number which is 4th and 5th digit of your iphone serial number that is represented as week number currently Week 46, 47,48,49,50,51,52 is tested and successfully unlocks iphones

Will you charge for future updates as they become available?

No, free updates are always available to any of our customers.

If I do a restore after unlocking the phone do I need to run the unlock again?

Tested to the latest version - currently 1.1.2, As long as you do not upgrade to 1.1.3. so do not go to 1.1.3 if you want to use TURBO SIM

Is it completely unlocked for voice and data use with any alternative carrier?

We have tested both voice and data extensively in multiple countries, using various different carriers and have found no problems.

Do you unlock iPhones which upgraded to 1.1.2 by mistake and then re-blocked?

Yes, we provide this but not for iphones that came out of the box with 1.1.2.

Is it easy to install?

Unlike other methods currently available, we believe our method is the quickest and easiest to use.

Does it work with all networks worldwide?

It works for all networks in USA. If you need UK and other versions contact us.

9. Just a few reasons that you have to buy this card for your iPhone,

1. Tested and work on latest OTB (out of the box) 1.1.2 iPhones, and future versions will expect to work too. Its a hardware unlock, zero modification to the iPhones baseband firmware and hardware.

2. Very little skill and easy installation, cut your sim card corner and use it. No need for complex software command line or typing in Unix command lines for cracking the baseband. Just follow a few steps.

3, Your Apple warranty will not be voided, you can send the phone back to Apple services in case you have to, unlike other baseband firmware crack down where Apple already said you will void warranty. For this one, no modification to the iPhone at all. You may even refund your iPhone at Apple shop if you don't like it.

4. Money back guarantee for your card.
5. You only require to cut a small corner on your SIM. The SIM will still work on ordinary phones without Turbo SIM . Least damage and least changes comparing to other SIMs.

6. we are happy to deal with people around the world provided payment can be solved

Unlock iPhone with TURBO SIM turbosim

iphone Unlocking - Turbosim - Step by step Procedure