 JackarinoPremium
join:2006-12-28
Allendale, NJ
kudos:1 | reply to Daemon
Re: [Hurray!] AT&T to unlock iPhones starting 4/8 What is happening over at ATT? lol |
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 acadielPress fire to beginPremium
join:2002-06-22
61705
kudos:1 | reply to h8VZW
Called tech support on Sunday, and got my unlock this morning (mid-morning). Yay! |
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I used chat on Monday and still have not received the unlock email. I was told 24 - 48 hours so I checked back today, but they just told me it could take up to a week now ... :-( |
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Did you receive your unlock yet? I also used chat on Monday, but have not received anything yet. I am now told by AT&T it could take up to a week. |
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I just saw where anyone in the military can get there's unlocked regardless of contract status. Here's the actual quote..
"If you are in the Military, and own an Iphone of any kind including 4s, call ATT and get it unlocked, all they do is check if you are on the DOD website..and send you the instructions..I did it 5 min ago, from afghanistan - matt"
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said by AlexNYC:Did you receive your unlock yet? I also used chat on Monday, but have not received anything yet. I am now told by AT&T it could take up to a week.
Can't say I didn't see this coming...it does not take that long. AT&T is giving you the run around. |
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 grendalMmm DonutsPremium
join:2001-10-10
Fremont, CA | reply to Daemon
i called in to get the unlock. Do you have to do backup and restore for the unlock to occur or will just simple connecting to itunes perform the unlock? |
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 ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:6 | You have to do a backup and restore. |
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grendalMmm DonutsPremium
join:2001-10-10
Fremont, CA | said by Thinkdiff:You have to do a backup and restore.
after backup/restore, how do you know if it's unlocked? will there be a message or is there some setting you can check? |
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:6 | There will be a message in iTunes such as this one:
»www.flickr.com/photos/33134305@N···9309806/
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grendalMmm DonutsPremium
join:2001-10-10
Fremont, CA | When I called this morning, CS rep said it would take a few hours and I got the email instructions within 10 min of the call. I tried restoring a few times after 2-3 hours but I still don't see the confirmation in iTunes yet. Might have to just wait a while longer... |
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grendalMmm DonutsPremium
join:2001-10-10
Fremont, CA | said by grendal:When I called this morning, CS rep said it would take a few hours and I got the email instructions within 10 min of the call. I tried restoring a few times after 2-3 hours but I still don't see the confirmation in iTunes yet. Might have to just wait a while longer... nevermind, got it to work. I kept on select "restore from backup" instead of doing the regular restore. |
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 grcoreChallenge Accepted
join:2003-12-06
usa | reply to Daemon
if you are jailbroken, you can deactivate with redsn0w and reactivate with itunes and get the unlock.
no need to restore. |
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100% Incorrect.
All you have to do is sync with iTunes when you have a active internet connection. |
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 DavisPhotogFlyingphotogPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-26
Rohnert Park, CA | reply to Pirate515
said by Pirate515:said by banditws6:Jailbreaking yes, but I thought unlocking was a lot harder if your phone had a certain baseband version or newer. If I remember it correctly, basebands on everything up to i3GS sold on or close to launch date were pretty easy to unlock. Then several months after 3GS was released, Apple made some tweaks to baseband that made unlocking next to impossible. Obviously, this trend continued with i4 and i4S. said by banditws6:At some point I thought the only way to unlock a phone in that state was to use an iPad baseband, but that this would render the GPS inoperable. Has this changed? Never heard of flashing iPad baseband onto iPhones, but logically speaking, wouldn't doing so break the phone functionality since iPads don't have it, before breaking anything else? No, flashing the iPad baseband was standard protocol in the repair/unlocking shop I worked in. It worked well and did not disable the GPS to my knowledge.
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:6 | reply to IhatemyISP
said by IhatemyISP:100% Incorrect.
All you have to do is sync with iTunes when you have a active internet connection.
I guess AT&T and Apple are 100% incorrect, too?
»www.appleinsider.com/articles/12···nes.html
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DaemonPremium
join:2003-06-29
San Francisco, CA Reviews:
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| said by Thinkdiff: I guess AT&T and Apple are 100% incorrect, too?
No, just AT&T (nothing new there): »support.apple.com/kb/TS3198?view···le=en_US
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grendalMmm DonutsPremium
join:2001-10-10
Fremont, CA | The key thing for the unlock to occur is to have the iphone back into a state where it registers the device. This occurs after you restore an iphone or could work with the jailbroken steps indicated above. syncing by itself won't work (i've tried it). |
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| reply to Thinkdiff
As stated above me, all you have to do is swap out the SIM card with another one.
I put in my Softbank sim card after my unlock was processed and got the unlocked screen in iTunes in around 30 seconds. |
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grendalMmm DonutsPremium
join:2001-10-10
Fremont, CA
1 edit | said by IhatemyISP:As stated above me, all you have to do is swap out the SIM card with another one.
I put in my Softbank sim card after my unlock was processed and got the unlocked screen in iTunes in around 30 seconds.
That is correct assuming you have a non-ATT sim card, which I don't. To summarize there's 3 ways,
1) If you have it jailbroken, you can deactivate and reactivate with itunes sync, no restore required.
2) If you have a non-ATT sim card, swap out the ATT card and reactivate with itunes sync, no restore required.
3) If you only have ATT sim card and not jailbroken, backup and restore is the only way to get into reactivate state. I fall into this category. If you don't care about your data, you can reset from iphone using "erase all content and settings" assuming you have ios 5.0 or higher which allows activating a iphone without having to sync to a computer. |
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