15 Aug
Posted by iPhoneManiac as iPhone Description, iPhone News, iPhone Reviews, iPhone Rumors
Only 7 days ago all Internet was impressed with the news of iPhone unlocking, but today smart guys have made the second strike on Apple iPhone defence. This time they have forced to work iPhone, without using programmers and Multi SIM-cards. All has begun on a forum of company-manufacturerof SIM-cards, where somebody has bragged, that has forced to work iPhone in a network of another carrier, which uses V2 SIM-cards (like Megaphone in Russia).

The basic story is about Turbo SIM - a small SIm-card, which is inserted into phone together with the basic SIM-card. For this purpose in your own SIM-card you have to make a special hole.

This is how this hole looks like:

Turbo SIM costs about 80$, but in Russia this is very rare animal. Officially it is not present at all, therefore the price will be higher. The principle of job of a this SIM-card is fully described in Bladox press release (PDF, 70 Kb).
For unlocking of your iPhone, first, you should download two utilities:
- Bladox (Turbo-SIM) Utilities
Description: Bladox Utilities ported to the iPhone. Manipulate your Turbo-SIM card directly from the iPhone. Used for a 100 % unlock.
- AppleSaft 0.92
Description: AppleSaft iPhone baseband SIM lock. You require the «applesaft.trb» file for a complete iPhone unlock using a Turbo-SIM.
And then, use step-by-step manual from Hackint0sh.org forum:
First, your phone must be activated (with the AT&T SIM), jailbreaked, and with SSH and vim. Refer to previous tutorials to do that
— Download the port of Bladox utilities on your computer, extract it on your computer (you need the binary file turbo-app)
— Download AppleSaft 0.92 from Bladox, extract it on your computer (you need the . trb file)
— Turn on your phone with Turbo SIM + AT&T subscription
— Disable CommCenter — ssh to your phone, vim /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
com. apple. CommCenter.plist add
Code:
Disabled
for example add it just after these lines, already present in the file
Code:
OnDemand
If you don? t like vim, you can do this modification on your desktop computer (iPhuc/iPhoneInterface getfile, modify the file, and putfile)
vim ultra light survival kit
i : insert mode
ESC : command mode (from insert mode)
dd : delete the current line (in command mode)
: w! : save (in command mode)
: q! : quit (in command mode)
— Reboot
— Copy turbo-app to your phone (for example in /opt/bladox)
— Copy applesaft. trb to your phone (for example in /tmp)
— ssh to your phone, set the executable permission to turbo-app (chmod
a+x /opt/bladox/turbo-app) and run it with /opt/bladox/turbo-app /tmp/applesaft. trb. It should take approximately 30 seconds and you shouldn? t see any error. Please panic if you see one
— Reenable CommCenter — ssh to your phone, vim /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
com. apple. CommCenter. plist and delete the lines you added previously
— Reboot
— Go into Settings/Phone/SIM Applications/Apple Saft and choose Set
— Turn off your phone
— Turn on your phone with Turbo SIM + your subscription and test
Check back for a full report (and cleaner tutorial) once my Turbo-SIM arrives. Mad props to everyone responsible for achieving this unlock!
Thanks to iPhones.ru
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