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SIM Unlock Methods and Utilities

As you already know, users unlock their iPhones when they want to choose their network carrier on their own. There are 2 popular methods to unlock iPhone, and users unlock their devices by one they find the easiest. If you want to unlock your iPhone, you should know these two methods - hardware and software. Let’s take a closer look at each method to understand the whole process of unlocking iPhone.

The first method to unlock iPhone is using Bladox TurboSim. This method is hardware method. It allows you spoofing your phone and making it think that inside is a valid AT&T SIM card. Still you are using your operator SIM card. You don’t have to disassemble the iPhone. All you have to do is jailbreak your device and installing the SSH. Also you you must physically cut both your AT&T and personal SIM card to fit the TurboSIM. A special code will run on your iPhone and TurboSim adaptor. There is one problem in this method. It’s almost impossible to find TurboSim units. Bladox just can’t develop their products quickly enough to keep up with the huge customers demand. There is other cheap TurboSim units which you can find in any iphone Store.

 

iPhone Unlock Software and Utilities

The second method to unlock iPhone is based on JTAGs. It’s most common today. It requires you disassembling the iPhone and working on the circuits. This method is pretty advanced. You need to jailbreak your iPhone before unlock it. You’ll need hacking firmware and different parts of software, and of course, useful information on how to use it. All of this staff you can easily find on our website. Digital Unlocking made simple step by step tutorials just for you.

iPhone Jailbreak Tools

Include: QuickPwn, Pwnage, Redsn0w, Blackra1n

Every time Apple updates its iPhone firmware, hackers create new jailbreak methods. Hackers allow iPhone users to get wanted ringtones before Apple releases them on the App Store, cool pictures, new videos, games and other third party applications. Those who are new to iPhone jailbreak might wonder what tools exist to free your device from the App Store. Most common terms referred to iPhone Jailbreak are QuickPwn, Pwnage Tool, Redsn0w, and Blackra1n. All tools except for Blackra1n are developed by iPhone Dev team.
  • QuickPwn is a jailbreak tool developed for iPhone 2G and 3G. With its help you can jailbreak your iPhone up to 2.2.1 firmware. Today you can find both Mac and Windows versions and download them from iPhone Dev team. This utility is replaced by Redsn0w nowadays.
  • Pwnage Tool is designed for Mac only. With its help you can jailbreak iPhones 2G, 3G and 3GS up to 3.1.2 firmware. Both QuickPwn and Pwnage Tool provide you build-in options to unlock the iPhone 2G. How does Pwnage Tool work? It creates a custom firmware (like IPSW) to jailbreak your iPhone. This is a flexible jailbreak tool that directly modifies the firmware file.
  • Redsn0w has replaced Yellowsn0w and Ultrasn0w. It helps to jailbreak iPhone 3.0 Firmware. This utility is developed for all iPhone models. Today you can download both Windows and Mac versions of this tool.
  • Blackra1n is developed by George Hotz as an alternative jailbreak utility. It can be applied to iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and 3GS to Unlock iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware only. Blackra1n tool is designed for both Mac and Windows.

iPhone Unlock Tools

Include: Yellowsn0w, Ultrasn0w and Blacksn0w.

  • The first generation of unlock tool yellowsn0w can be freely downloaded via Cydia.  Yellowsnow was developed by Dev Team, famous hacker group. Before installing this software you have to jailbreak your iPhone. Because of jailbreaking, Cydia will appear automatically on your iPhone.
  • The second generation (also developed by iPhone Dev team) replaces yellowsn0w. Ultrasn0w helps to unlock iPhone  3G and 2G once it’s jailbroken. It’s also free. And you can download it from Cydia, which will be right on your iPhone after jailbreaking.
  • Blacksn0w is developed by George Hotz. Also he is known as Geohot. This is an alternative tool to Ultrasn0w. Before you can install Blacksn0w on your iPhone, you have to jailbreak it with Blackra1n. This unlock tool supports also iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware.

So, now you are ready to choose one method to unlock your iPhone. Good luck!

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