iPhone developer and hacker, Sherif Hasim had figured out an easy way to activate iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G without needing the official iPhone carrier SIM.
He had discovered that using any phonebook SIM card it was possible to activate your iPhone.
He has just reported that Apple has fixed the bug, which allowed activation using any phonebook SIM.
Apple is expected to release iOS 4.1 sometime today.
iPhone Dev Team has issued another warning to users who want to jailbreak and unlock their iPhone to stay away from iOS 4.1.
iOS 4.1 includes fix for the proximity sensor, Bluetooth and iPhone 3G performance problems and some major features such as HDR photos, HD video upload, ability to buy TV show rentals and Game Center, Apple’s social gaming network.
Steve Jobs had announced at Apple’s special event earlier in the week that iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch users will be released next week.
We had reported that even though Apple’s US site continues to say that iOS 4.1 coming soon, Apple’s Spanish site had confirmed that iOS 4.1 release date is September 8.
Developer of PushFix has released a jailbreak app on Cydia called MiTime, which activates Facetime on unlocked iPhones running on unofficial carriers such as T-Mobile US.
According to the developer, the jailbreak app should work in almost every country except for Cambodia, and Bolivia (Tigo).
U.S Copyright Office had exempted jailbreaking iPhone from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act making it legal for users in the US to jailbreak their iPhone.
At that time, we had mentioned that it wouldn’t stop Apple from making it difficult to jailbreak iOS to stay ahead in the cat and mouse with the iPhone hacking community.
Apple had also clarified that unauthorized modification of the iOS violates the warranty of the iOS-based device.
Last week, iPhone Dev Team had released Ultrasn0w 1.0-1 making it the first software solution to unlock iPhone 4.
It has been extremely popular as more than 750,000 iPhone users have already used it to unlocked their iPhone.
Dev Team have just released an updated version of Ultrasn0w – Ultrasn0w 1.1-1 to improve standby battery life.
Apple has just released iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G along with iOS 3.2.2 for iPad.
iOS 4.0.2 fixes the security vulnerability in iOS 4 and iOS 4.0.1 that was used by JailbreakMe 2.0 – the web-based to jailbreak iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Some of our readers who had jailbroken and unlocked their iPhone to use T-Mobile SIM in the US have complained that MMS doesn’t work.
We have some good news if you’re facing the issue. The iPhone hacking community has released a patch to fix the issue that can be installed from Cydia.
JailbreakMe 2.0 released by Comex is the easiest method to jailbreak iPhone but it doesn’t hactivate the iPhone, which is required if you don’t want to use the official iPhone carrier SIM.
Sherif Hasim had figured out an easy way to activate iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G without needing the official iPhone carrier SIM but looks like it doesn’t work anymore as users are reporting that they are getting “Different SIM detected” error message.
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iPhone Dev Team has released Ultrasn0w 1.0-1 to unlock iPhone 4 just as we had expected.
This makes it the world’s first free software solution to unlock iPhone 4. iPhone Dev team had already released Ultrasn0w 0.93 to unlock all basebands since iPhone OS 3.0 including baseband 05.13.04 that comes bundled with iOS 4 for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G users.
