In January, iPhone Dev Team had announced that the unlock for iPhone 4 will be released after iOS 4.3 is released.
If you’ve been waiting for iPhone Dev team to release a new version of Ultrasn0w to unlock iOS 4.3, which was released today then we have some bad news for you.
Based on the series of tweets by MuscleNerd, member of the iPhone Dev Team things are not looking too good on the iPhone unlocking front. He writes:
Sorry, there's no news on the i4 unlock for those who lost 01.59 (or never had it). It's taking longer than we wanted :(
If you’re wondering what happened to the unlock method that Dev team talked about in January then looks like it was SIM dependent:
there's no way for us to know. We were making great headway with one version til we realized it was SIM dependent (!)
I mean dependent on particular SIM :) I have two T-Mobile SIMs, and it behaved different on each (we understand why too)
As for the jailbreaking scene, there is some hope. MuscleNerd has hinted that a untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3 could come from many sources:
The 4.3 untether JB could come from many sources.. @i0n1c, the pwn2own contestants, @comex are 3 possible (maybe more?)
Comex has previously released popular jailbreaking tools like Spirit and JailbreakMe. So iPhone jailbreakers and unlockers have been advised to avoid upgrading to iOS 4.3 until the updated jailbreaking tools for iOS 4.3.
Apple is currently winning the cat and mouse game with the dev teams, especially when it comes to unlocking iPhone. Though there have been jailbreaking tools like greenpois0n, PwnageTool, Sn0wbreeze and Redsn0w released to jailbreak the last iOS software update - iOS 4.2.1, there has been no software solution to unlock iPhone 4 basebands - 02.10.04 (bundled with iOS 4.1), 03.10.01 (bundled with iOS 4.2.1), 04.10.01 (bundled with iOS 4.3) or iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS basebands - 05.14.02 (bundled with iOS 4.1), baseband 05.15.04 (bundled with iOS 4.2.1) and baseband 05.16.00 (bundled with iOS 4.3). Note: You can find your iPhone’s baseband by going to Settings –> About –> Modem Firmware
Dev team had released a method to unlock iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS by upgrading baseband to 06.15.00 (bundled with iOS 3.2.2 for iPad) but had its share of issues.
So if want the freedom to use your iPhone on any carrier then it probably makes sense to buy a factory unlocked iPhone as Apple will keep making it more and more difficult, if not impossible to unlock iPhone.
Update:
Untethered Jailbreak For iOS 4.3 In Alpha; Seas0nPass To Jailbreak Apple TV 4.2 (iOS 4.3) Released
What do you think? Please share your views in the comments section below.
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I’m some glad I live in Canada…any carrier i want lol
And thats why your canadian…lol
Yo how much cost iphone 4 in CANADA
Truly the DUMBS question asked..REAllii
I’m glad I live in Norway. Use any carrier I want…
I am an American living in Brazil. I believe the solution is for someone with a lot of money and a love of the iPhone to take Apple to court with a class-action lawsuit. Why is it that I can purchase an unlocked iPhone down here, but I am still subject to restrictions in the United States? It seems blatantly clear that Apple needs their clock cleaned.
Unlock is not that important any way.
Most people have unlock phones or can unlock via network.
It’s better time is spent jail breaking then unlock.
If you need unlock buy an unlock phone
lo que pasa es que se vendieron, como es posible que no puedan encontrar algo que ellos mismos saben, hablan el mismo idioma, si apple les paga 2 millones de dolares a cada uno, no perderia nada, en comparacion de las perdidas de la appstore, y el devteam y otros se hacen millonarios, es un juego de ajedrez, gana el que tiene el dinero (en este caso)
If you read the story in English, please comment in English or you risk looking kinda stupid.
Hey man leave him alone, he can talk however he wants.
hey mac, shut the fuck up. While this may be America, people need to learn our language if they visit American websites. I speak several other languages because I travel. Others can do the same.
Thats funny. When people visit the US, Americans expect them to speak English. But when Americans travel to different places, they expect other people to speak to them in English.
This website can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Let the world speak their language you ignorant prick.
Look at U! A selfish cunt. Y don’t u take my Auzz dick and shav it up your Amercian Ass. Bitch.!!!
Eres tan pendejo.
Oh wait, you can only speak English. Let me kindly translate that for you.
You are such a dumbass.
Esto es lo que me gusta de saber mas que un lenguaje. Te puedo insultar mas de una ves.
That’s the joy of knowing more than one language. I can insult you more than once.
物の言えない馬鹿である。 英国のウェブサイトに英語を時投稿話しなさい。
Hahaha bien dicho mi chavo, stupid white people, go back to school, america is a continent! not just United States…
but you don’t even know your language so shut the f***k up. Pendejo as “dumbass” is retarded mexican SLANG. The true meaning of pendejo is a pubic har, you moron.
First of all Pedro, just because you speak a language affiliated with poverty and crime does not make you smarter than me. Secondly, I assume you and yours were forced to learn English, the language of the greatest county in the world when you swam and or climbed your way into this land. Thirdly, since anyone outside of Mexico, Americans in particular have no reason to learn your third world mud people language unless they are looking to score some low priced narcotics or over sized stolen chrome wheels, please post your comments in English on this English web site. Retard. Retard roughly translated is English for Mexican.
He said something like:
What happens is that they were sold, as it is possible that they can not find something that they themselves know, speak the same language, if apple paid 2 million of dollars each, not would lose nothing, compared the loss of the appstore, and the devteam and others become millionaires, it is a game of chess, wins the one who has the money (in this case)
Thanks Google ( and i live in Denmark)
Habla en Ingles, estupido! No comprendamos Espanol aqui!!!
rather than bitch at our spanish friend here what he said (i think with my bad spanish)
“what happens is that sold as is possible who can not find something they know, speak the same language, if Apple paid $ 2 million each, will not lose anything compared to the losses of the appstore and the DevTeam and others become millionaires, is a game of chess, wins with the money (in this case)
I think he’s wrong as i don’t really see how the devteam can make millions out of a jailbreak and unlock.
The only reason I can think of that Apple continues to enforce a lock is that it wants along with its partners in ATT and Verizon, to keep people buying the new iphone, under contract and/or preventing a second hand market developing in older phones with the current OS which for most people will do the job.
this is what Google Translate translated your gibberish to… LOL
what happens is that sold as is possible who can not find something they know, speak the same language, if Apple paid $ 2 million each, will not lose anything compared to the losses of the appstore And the DevTeam and others become millionaires, is a game of chess, wins with the money (in this case)
dont hate on hispanics you racist bitch, all you (americans white americans since i was born here too) arent even fully americans so stfu.
If you are going to post on a predominantly English written website and want you opinion to be recognized then you should post in English. Just like if your going to live in America you should speak the newly adopted native language (which is English as of 235 years ago.)
Why does Apple care so much if we jailbreak our phones. We bought the goddamn things. They should be happy. Why do they care what we do with them. They should get over it.
Well clearly you havent been following the geohots vs Sony law suit
Once the iPhone is in several markets in the US besides Verizon and at&t then Apple should have no choice but to sell them factory unlocked.
Hell, I wish they would do that now!
i hve had enough of this craaaappppp y switched to sprint htc evo 4g its awesome fast and no drop calls paying 80 bucks with 4g network bye bye apple
Dev Tem you are a bunch of liars. Just say we can´t do it.
Don´t make people wait in vain.
This is some BS!!!!!!! What the Fu$# do I need this damn paperweight for!!!!!!! I waited all of this damn time so that I can find out that empty promises were made. Anyone want to buy a brand new iPhone 4 still in box!!!!!!!!!!!!
How much?
Can u ship to Nepal? Would love a new phone. But re: this somewhat bogus article above, it’s not hard nor problematic to update the baseband to 06.15.00. I just did it on a 3G and it works great. What firmware update has NOT been problematic. And it’s Apple’s fault for sure, they could have made this much easier for all involved, but I guess the iPhone overlords had other things planned then ease of updating / using / owning.
I’m happy with my iPhone 4 on 4.2.1, untethered jailbreak, I have it just how I want it. There was nothing in 4.3 that’s worth updating for. I’m on o2(uk) and paying for it at £50 a month, so why would I unlock it to another network, then I’d be paying for something I’m not using!
It’s obviously getting harder to find flaws in apples programming to jailbreak and unlock, but the devs always manage in the end, I couldn’t even begin to try! Hopefully there’s a jailbreak, tethered or untethered, by the time iPad 2 is released here on 25th march.
I agree…I’m staying put! I have everything I need. 4.3′s features are not essential for me! Not to mention if a jailbreak/unlock does come for it, I can pretty much guarantee it will mess up winterboard themes as they are ever changing the format of these .pngs.
Interesting what u said about pngs. I just upgraded my 3G to 4.2.1 so I could read iBooks, but noticed that editing the themes is not so easy – all the related pngs look empty in Preview on OSX 10.6.6. Huh? Anyway, I would like to use my phone as a wifi hotspot in an emergency (up in the hills of Nepal) and it would be nice to know that would work. So I for one looking for Dev-Team’s fix for that. Btw, what’s all that hatred about…those guys do a great job, and it’s free!
unlock is available for UK O2 customers, fill out a form online, u get a text, plug into Itunes and sync and voila unlocked, free on pay monthly, £15 on pay as you go
i wish all those asshol.. that have the apple sticker in their car realize that they are promoting the most monopolistic company in the whole disgusting world
Former iPhone 4 Lover; how much u want for the phone?
He probably never had an iphone before and is just here trolling. How lame. Every iphone related article or blog I’ve come across, there always seems to be some android fanboy who comes along and posts how great their phone is.
Why is it that apple users don’t troll android forums and post about iphones? Because we don’t care. We’re happy with our device and don’t have a need to go trolling. There are better things to do.
Selling an Iphone 4 great condition. IOS 4.1 BB 02.10.04. Any interested?
It depends on the price. Nowadays, people seem to want retail prices for their used products. Check craigslist, I see people selling stuff there for the same price as Walmart. It’s ridiculous. I’ll pay $150 for it.
We have factory unlocked iPhone here in Brazil.
Come on guys!be positive I think this unlock will be soon! we have bee waiting for months! what is now a couple of weeks more waiting!!
just relax!
ROFL I SAID THIS LAST POST TOO
DEV TEAM = ATTENTION WHORE
DONT TWEET WHAT YOU DONT HAVE!!!
LOOOOL @ YOU GUYS WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING ON THESE DB’S
THEY TWEET BS FOR THE LAST 6 MONTHS NOW EVERY NEW POST KEEPS SAYING THAT THEY FOUND NEW EXPLOITS AND SUCH AND IT “WORKS” PROMISING US 4.3 NOW ITS OUT AND THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT F….U DEVTEAM
Guys iPhones are designed to be sold to AVERAGE CONSUMERS not nerds like us who want to mess and tweak with the phones. They are locked down because most people are not interested in messing with them, they jusy want them to work right out of the box. AND if messed with 99% of people will mess it up. If you wanna mess with your phone, get an Andriod and you can mess with it all you want..sooner or later its gonna be impossible to jailbreak the phone, they arent stupid, they make the damn thing they can figure out how to lock it and it seems they have been making it more and more difficult.
Nope it isn’t for jailbreaking.
Untethered maybe, but jailbreaking is for life at moment as current relies on hardware for jailbreak and not software, so unless there is new hardware that changes things, your jailbreak is almost guaranteed for life.
Unlock on other hand relies on the software still
so thats a different story…
lol ya jus wait it out ill be up soon so much negative comment lol
If 4.3 unlock is hard then you guys should release 2.15 and 3.10 I think that’s the bb of the 4.2.1 or below
We need a jailbreak for dis firmware…
I hav i4 with4.1, sibce there is no unlock , this could be my last iphone… Dropped off buying iphone5,…
Bye bye Apple …sucks
Be patient, did everyone forget about the
True god of jailbreaking/unlocking? Am sure
Geohot will release something after he is done
With Sony, just to show Dev Team who the
True Master is..
si! un jailbreak!!
i been thinking of an windows phone!!! but then again i been with apple since 3g days
whos wining????
Charle sheen or Warner Bro!
this unlock thing is so fucking up!!!
my wife will never talks to me again.
Those of you losers whining about the unlock come up with one yourself. Dev team thanks for all your work. You losers need to drink some Tifer Blood from a sippy cup while standing on your waving a machetes wildly in the air screaming I’m a winner I’m a winner then get it Ratliff on your wwrist
go f**k urself
stfek simone CUZ U AINT GETTING SHYT FROM THEM ANYMORE
OMG>> This is Taking more than expected BUllsh**
Geohot has more talent and skill than the whole
Dev Team put together! Just a matter of time
Till he proves it once again. Screw 4.3 and the
Unlock, wait for the true master to return..
This bites like battery acid on ya nuts, dam greasy sasauge like fiddly fingers, cant unlock iPhone or jb it, this just bites.ahhhhhhhh I am so glad I bought my iPhone from an apple store in Australia factory unlocked…. Got to love holidays,,)
I think this unlock will be soon,
i hope and thrust Dev Team do it… i’m waiting for a couple days
Some lawyers need to make it illegal to lock a phone to a certain provider. Other countrys like Hong Kong, all phones sold in that country is sim unlocked. Where are the lawyers that made jail break legal?
i think the problem is the money
JB bring money but unlock don’t.
with all this application and that’s why the don’t make hard work on unlock.
so how about pay to unlock your phone and then you will see how many application and method will discovered ,
i hope dev team if you will make more hard work on it, then make it unfree, may be this will motivate you guys.
I really.. REALLY!! just want to unlock my iPhone 4 with 02.10.04 Baseband! AHHHHHHH!!!! !
I don’t understand.
They said they will release the tool after iOS 4.3 is released (which i understood that they had already got the unlock for 4.2.1 for 02. or 0.3 basebands)
but now they say it’s difficult.
Can’t you guys just release the unlock for earlier baseband and firmware?
or it was just a empty promises for a while?
Got me a 3GS, running 4.2, 06.15.00 bb. Jailbroken thru GP-RC6, unlock via ultrasn0w… I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO THOSE WHO MADE IT HAPPEN, Dev Team, Chronic Team, GeoHot and those other names I can’t even spell… When you’re iPhone is working after a succesful jailbreak, be happy with what you have and stop getting into Apple’s update/upgrade to IOS trap. This is no trivia that whenever Apple comes up with new update, they’ll do something about the unlock and/or jailbreak. There is nothing on 4.3 that’ll make choose it over my jailbreak… That’s all I got to say about that.
Geohot said he could be the first unlocker for iphone 4 on 2.10 or 3.10 BB even He did not start to work on unlock his own iphone 4 yet. He knew Dev Team got nothing yet on unlocking code for iphone 4 and that’s what he said from a video he got interviewed on TV sometimes last week. You can check out by searching on youtube recently.
Sorry you guys, “no unlock” for iPhone 4 (I got 2 waiting for unlock?
i hate the dev team, u guys can’t unlock anything
they can unlock and jailbreak they are pretty good doing this but the were bought by apple this is my respectful opinion!!!
i just sold my iphone 4. i got it in november and still no unlock to this day. i rather take my money and wait for iphone 5
well the hacker community has been doing this for a long time and for FREE!!! so stop getting so angry before they charge you triple for being an asshole and 2nd America is a free country people can talk how ever they want we as Americans should have respect for everyone to please god and for people bashing apple remember they made the world first smart phone so everyone went from stupid phone to smart phone thanks to apple and its currently the only phone that has cydia and more hacks then any other phone out there and instead of bashing on them just stop buying there product but apple has my respect for the simple reason that they are inventors and they create something always that usually blows are mind away and technology is advancing because of them and other companies as well are helping too like Microsoft,Google,Linux, these also are great inventors so dont bash on android and Microsoft phones too cuz there great phones i love my windows 7 phone i have netflix and my kickstand to watch my movies and youtube looks better and facebook looks better there style is different and customizing is better cuz u make your app tiles on google images i have my puerto rican flag with Scarface on my homescreen and i dont need cydia to customize its part of the phone you can put peoples faces on the phone where ever u want now thats creative and andriod got that video wallpaper too thats very nice watching goldfishes and stuff moving.on the iphone vwallpaper crashes springboard cuz it is cydia lol i own an iphone 3gs very nice phone too but cydia unstable on most things crash like my video wallpaper and sure i try porting stuff to be like another phone on my 3gs like the htc flip clock but the clock doesn’t flip and no animation of clouds the only thing apple has is more apps and majority of them are really stupid the only thing that apple has i like so much is installous for having the apple store for free
WTF, Dev Team is such an arse, they keep promising soon soon soon. 3 iPhone 4s with me waiting for unlock.
Just a request from my side to each and everyone who is not happy with the update.
First stop following dev team on twitter.
Secondly can’t we file a legal case against Apple and AT&T, my argument is when I am paying the penalty for breaking the contract and buying the product legally and clearing all my dues with AT&T, then why can’t I use the product the way I want, and use the service provider of my choice. I think this is my fundamental right to use the product the way I want when I have payed for it.
I can’t understand the logic of paying the penalty to cancel my contract with AT & T and still can’t use it with the other service provider. I think few people should file a lawsuit against this.
Please update me if there is a case already going against Apple and AT&T, and if its going on then whats taking it so long to get a result, until and unless Apple and AT&T is paying the big shots out there. Then the citizens of USA are not living in a free society.
Thanks
I’m agree with the guy talking about the dev team was bought by apple, until the ios 4.1 the dev team was releasing the jailbreaks too fast… from one moment to another they started to complain about the unlock and the jailbreak they stopped a lot of time the jailbreak for ios 4.2, i think apple gave them a good amount of money in exchange for dev team releases their stuff in a moment that apple decided, cause all the work that dev team do means no more than losses for apple, millions in the app store, millions if they release a carrier unlock cause they will not be able to sell a succesfull exclusiveness to another cellphone carriers in the future, at least they will not have the same amount of clients due to the great work of dev team.
Im not criticizing in a bad way to the dev team if they sold themselves to apple, they worked so hard for being paid or receive the acknowledge of apple expressed in money. in fact i appreciate the work they do for the people that use their stuff they are pretty good at this but i think from now on we should not wait the same from them.
Remember how musclenerd and devteam tweeted how they got two not one but two “working” exploit?? lol WHERE IS IT NOW?
Also, Vini very strong point you got there. I too stand by that logic. If you pay ATT for the phone and end up paying for the ETF why cant att/apple provide us with an unlock method.
ps
FU MUSCLEIDIOTA and devteam
Can someone update me whats the news on the law suit against Apple.
What I can understand from my research is that, jail breaking is no more illegal as per the lawmakers ruling, is there any ruling for the unlocking part also????
oh and that DB sherif too
So, anyone know when we can fix this problem (UL)??? to DEV-TEM keep it up we support u to fight wit apple . It’s not too hard too hard for u to solve this unlock code for us if u wish to do it
the bright side to this (for those who got bb 01.59.00) is…. when we go to sell our i4 on ebay… we’ll be able to buy an i5 and still have plenty of money left over!!! thanks dev team!
my guess would be that the next unlock will fall right before i5 drops or when the i5 unlock is released. just a hunch!
As I said few month ago, Apple changed their encryption algorithm and it will take years to crack it if ever.
It’s like SIM Comp2-3 encryption which no one broke since 2003!!!
So now if it depended on SIM, all you can do is dump you i4 or go back to AT&T…
here’s a question… remember one of the unlocks way back when? Someone (@comex?) said that it was low enough level that someone could create a seczone dumper and find the REAL unlock code for the phone. Why hasn’t that been done? I’m guessing that if several people were successful in retrieving their individual unlock code, then the process could be reversed and a keygen made that would need something like your IMEI (and possibly serial#) to spit out your unlock code.
That’s the ultimate unlock dream right there (because the result would be a PERMANENT unlock)
I think alot of the comments here are misguided. The problem here is with the Dev-team saying they have an unlock and then not producing that unlock.
I don’t care they do it for free, they have the choice to not do it and not say anything about what they do and don’t have. The problem with these hackers is lack of accountability. They use the fact they are doing it for free to excuse themselves form any type of persecution when they don’t deliver. It doesn’t help we make these people Gods by standing up for them against people who have genuine gripes.
In the real world, when you say you’re gonna deliver something, you better deliver or you reputation takes a hit. That is what has happened here. These hackers have lost what little respect I had for them.
They need to keep their mouths shut until they have something concrete to produce.
WoW….. Goody2312, I read from the top to the bottom, I like your comments the most, you should do something to your comments to make attention from dev-team …. First, guys be a man, when you mad at Dev-team, go fuck dev-team, DON’T fuck each other ….. second, I bought an iPhone 4 from eBay for $500 and the seller updated to 4.2.1, I’ve been waiting for a long time, but now I want to tell you this Dev-team, iPhone hacker team or whoever said will release unlock for iphone 4 after ios 4.3 out, I wanna say FUCK YOU LIAR AND FUCK YOU LIAR … I will use it as an iPod for games and music then, FUCK YOU LIAR
It’s all good as long as we got for the 3peat
Btw your arrogant, lazy, leeches sacks of shit.
You should be more than willing to wait for something that is given to you ” free of charge”. So please stop bitching
and be thankful that people who have the skills to unlock phones are so generous.
GO EF YOURSELF YOU AINT MAD CUZ YOU AINT GOT NO I4
YOU LIKE PEOPLE MAKING EMPTY PROMISES??? DONT TWEET WHAT YOU DONT HAVE PEOPLE EFFIN ATTENTION WHORES
Well, sure glad I sold my locked iPhone 4 at full price earlier this year. Still happy with the iPhone 3gs and while a great fan of Apple since my Dad worked there in the 80s, I am NOT going to pay over 1200 usd for an unlocked iPhone4 (I live in Russia and that is the official price!) Love my iPhone, but now have to seriously look at an android phone.