Apple releases a new firmware for the iPhone and has expected the genius go to work, trying to figure out how to break/ unlock the phone so that any SIM card from any carrier can be used. Right after the firmware 1.1.3 was released a jailbreak method was unveiled, but “fans’ reported having problems with the “Official 1.1.3 Up-grader”, method.
Flash back, remember George Hotz…, if not, he was the first to make iPhone be usable with any SIM card, back in August 07. His method was the Hardware based unlocking method for the iPhone.
Old habits are hard to die, and if they do, they always find their way back to life; George is at it again. He just released the first software-based method to unlock the iPhone running firmware 1.1.3.
Before you proceed, I want to give you my take, this is not actually an unlock for 1.1.3 as it requires a downgrade to a previous firmware version. Its best not to try it until an actual unlock of version 1.1.3 comes out. I think George came out with this version as a statement to say that he is still the master of unlocking the iPhone because the iPhone Dev team had come up with a way to unlock ver. 1.1.3 before him. Ok, that’s me, what about you, what do you think… still interested in unlocking your phone….read on.
Word of caution! Before running this software to unlock your iPhone, it is very very very important to backup all your stuff, in iTunes so that you can be able to restore your iPhone if something goes wrong, remember -shit happens. Murphy’s Law, there is nothing that can go wrong that can’t get worse. This new unlock method is not for the technically challenged and requires modifying your iPhone’s baseband — a procedure that can genuinely brick the device, rendering it (at least temporarily) non-functional. I certainly don’t recommend it.
The steps from the maestro himself:
1. Download gunlock and the secpack from http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/ or 4.02.13 fls from http://george.zjlotto.com/index.php/baseband/
2. Downgrade your phone to 1.0.2. See all the great tutorials online to do this.
Your baseband won’t be downgraded, this is normal. This will probably work on other versions too, but 1.0.2 doesn’t lose wifi on bb access.
3. Kill CommCenter and run “gunlock secpack ICE04.02.13_G.fls”
4. Reload CommCenter. For some reason my phone was in brick mode. Use the elite team bricktool to get out.
5. You are done, your 1.1.2 OTB unlocked iPhone
You can also find more details here: step-by-step instructions
If you have trouble downloading the listed, necessary files, they are also available here.
If you need the iPhone 1.0.2 firmware (required by these instructions), here it is.
What did you find out? did it work?
