How to Unlock a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 Upgraded iPhone Using Windows
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Posted November 22, 2007 at 7:27pm by iClarified
These are instructions are on how to unlock a 1.1.1 iPhone or an iPhone that has been upgraded to 1.1.2 firmware. These instructions do not work for a 1.1.2 iPhone new from the store.
If your firmware is 1.1.1 please use iTunes to update to latest firmware(1.1.2) before starting this tutorial! You need to do this otherwise the unlocker used in this tutorial won't work.
DOWNGRADE TO 1.1.1
For this you will need iBrickr 0.91, iTunes 7.5, and iPhone Firmware 1.1.1
- Update iTunes to get the latest version. - Download iBrickr 0.91 from: here - Download iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 from: here
Step One Connect your iPhone to your PC and launch iTunes
Step Two Press and hold Home and Power button of your iPhone at the same time. Once the screen turns black, release the power button but keep on holding the Home button until Apple logo changes to the restore screen. Note: The screen may also just stay black. This is normal. Just hold the home button till iTunes detects the iPhone.
Step Three iTunes will then detect an iPhone in restore mode.
Hold down the Shift key and click Restore.
A dialog window will appear asking you to select the firmware to restore to. Select the 1.1.1 firmware we downloaded earlier (iPhone1,1_1.1.1_3A109a_Restore.ipsw)
At the end of the restore you will get Error 1015. This is okay. Simply click the Ok button.
Another popup will appear telling you your iPhone is in recovery mode. Click the Ok button.
Step Four Exit iTunes by selecting Exit from the File menu. Press Control+Alt+Delete on the keyboard. Select to Start Task Manager.
Click to select the Processes tab from the Windows Task Manager window.
Select iTunesHelper.exe from the list of processes and then click the End Process button. A popup will appear asking you to confirm the end process. Click the End Process button from the popup.
You can now close Windows Task Manager by click the X at the top right of the window.
Step Five You will notice your iPhone is still in recovery mode. To exit recovery mode launch iBrickr.exe which you downloaded earlier.
Click the Boot the phone link.
iBrickr will say Please wait while iBrickr tries to fix your phone.
The iPhone will reboot and display the Activate screen again!
You can now close iBrickr.
JAILBREAK 1.1.1
Step One At the "Activate iPhone" screen move the slider to the right for emergency calling.
Step Two Dial "*#307#" then press the Call button.
Step Three You will hear the phone call itself. Use the back arrow to clear the number you just enter. Now dial "0" then press the Call button.
Step Four Now you will be able to see the incoming call. Press the Accept button.
Step Five Now press the Hold button to put the call on hold.
Step Six The phone will call itself again. This time press the Decline button.
Step Seven We now are shown the keypad again. Click the contacts tab at the bottom. We are now presented with an empty contacts menu. Click the plus(+) button to add a new contact.
Step Eight Press Add New URL.
Step Nine Input prefs: as the url then press the Save button.
Step Ten Press Add New URL again.
Step Eleven Input http://jailbreakme.com as the url then press the Save button.
Step Twelve Now in the contact view you will see the 2 urls. Press the prefs: url.
Step Thirteen This will bring up the iPhone's Settings Menu. Select your wireless network from the Wi-Fi category. Press the Settings button at the top left to go back to the Settings Menu.
Step Fourteen Select the General category from the Settings Menu. Then select the Auto-Lock subcategory.
Press to select Never from the list of Auto-Lock times.
Press the Settings button at the top left to return to the settings window.
Step Fifteen Press the Home button. At the "Activate iPhone" screen move the slider to the right for emergency calling.
Step Sixteen Now dial "0" then press the Call button.
Step Seventeen Now you will be able to see the incoming call. Press the Accept button.
Step Eighteen Now press the Hold button to put the call on hold.
Step Nineteen The phone will call itself again. This time press the Decline button.
Step Twenty We now are presented with our contacts menu. Press to select the contact we added.
Step Twenty One Press the http://jailbreakme.com url. This will open Safari and take you to jailbreakme.com
Step Twenty Two Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press Install AppSnapp.
Phone will return to activation screen, but don't panic, just wait. iPhone should automaticly restart after almost a minute. When the phone starts again, it should no longer say Slide to emergency, but rather Slide to Unlock. This means it was successfull!
UNLOCK 1.1.1 Step One Press to select Settings from your springboard.
Step Two Press to select General from the list of categories.
Step Three Press to select Auto-Lock from the General menu.
Step Four Press to select Never from the list of Auto-Lock times.
Step Five Press the Home button to return to your springboard.
Step Six Press to select Installer from your springboard.
Step Seven Press Donate Later to continue into the Installer app. Note: Come back later and donate as this app is helping you out a ton!
Step Eight Press to select the Install tab at the bottom of the screen.
Step Nine Press to select the System category.
Step Ten Press to select BSD Subsystem from the list of packages.
Step Eleven Press to select the Install button at the top right.
Step Twelve Press the Install button to confirm installation.
Step Thirteen Once installation is complete press to select the Sources tab at the bottom right of the screen.
Step Fourteen Press to select the Edit button at the top right hand corner.
Step Fifteen Press to select the Add button at the top left hand corner.
Step Sixteen Enter http://installer.iClarified.com as the source url and press the Ok button.
Step Seventeen Press the Done button at the top right of the screen.
Step Eighteen Press the Install tab at the bottom of the screen.
Step Nineteen Press to select iClarified from the list of categories.
Step Twenty From the list of packages press to select anySIM 1.2u.
Step Twenty One Press the Install button at the top right of the screen.
Step Twenty Two Press to select the red Install button that appears.
Step Twenty Three Once install is complete return to the springboard by pressing the Home button.
Step Twenty Four Press the anySIM icon to begin the unlock.
Step Twenty Five Make sure your authorized SIM is in the phone and press the Ok button.
Step Twenty Six Slide to slider to right to begin unlocking
Step Twenty Seven Scroll down and press Unlock my phone
Step Twenty Eight Once its done click the Ok button. and you will be returned to your springboard.
UPGRADE TO 1.1.2 - Download the Jailbreak 1.1.2 package from: 1.1.2-jailbreak.zip - Download the new ipetools from: ipetools.zip - Download the 1.1.2 Firmware from: here
At this point normally we would have installed OktoPrep from Installer (Tweaks 1.1.1 Category). The new jailbreakme.com is supposed to do this for you now. I've heard a couple reports of the site not doing it so I've left this in the tutorial for now!
Step One Reboot your phone by holding down the Sleep/Wake button for three seconds. Move the power slider to right to power down. Then press the Sleep/Wake button again to power back on.
Step Two Launch iTunes.
Name your iPhone if it asks then click the Done button.
Step Three If you get a dialog window asking you to update to 1.1.3 click the Don't Install button. (NOTE*: The image says 1.1.2 in this example because i don't have the new image yet).
Hold down Shift and click the Update button to update to 1.1.3
A dialog window will appear asking you to select the firmware to restore to. Select the 1.1.2 firmware we downloaded earlier (iPhone1,1_1.1.2_3B48b_Restore.ipsw)
Once complete a dialog box will appear letting you know you have updated successfully.
When it finishes updating, the iPhone will have been restarted. The new emergency slider and connect to iTunes image will be on the iPhone.
Step Four Close iTunes then extract the 1.1.2-jailbreak.jar we downloaded earlier. A folder will be extracted called 1.1.2-jailbreak.
Double click windows.bat from within this folder to start the jailbreak.
Step Five A popup will appear asking you to enter the desired password and whether or not to enable SSH. Make sure you check to enable SSH and then press Jailbreak!
Whens it done a popup will appear letting you know the jailbreak has been successful! During this process the phone may be rebooted a few times.
Step Six From your springboard press to run the Installer application.
Press to select the Install tab at the bottom.
Press to open the System category.
From the System Category press to select BSD Subsystem.
Then press the Install button at the top right of the screen. When prompted select Install again to begin the installation.
Once the install has finished you will be placed back at the Category list.
Step Seven Extract ipetools.zip that we downloaded earlier. You will extract a folder called ipetools. Inside this folder is "ipe-lockdownd-tools.tgz". We need to copy this to the iPhone.
Go back to WinSCP. Log back into your iPhone using the same procedure as before.
On the left navigate to the folder that contains "ipe-lockdownd-tools.tgz" and on the right navigate to your root directory. Copy "ipe-lockdownd-tools.tgz" to your root directory.
Step Eight Select Open Terminal from the Commands menu.
You may be asked to Confirm. Click Ok.
Step Nine Enter the following commands then press the Execute button after each line: cd / cp /usr/libexec/lockdownd /usr/libexec/lockdownd.bak tar -xvzf ipe-lockdownd-tools.tgz cd ipetools ./ipatcher -a
Step Ten Reboot your phone by holding down the Sleep/Wake button for three seconds. Move the power slider to right to power down. Then press the Sleep/Wake button again to power back on.
Step Eleven Go back to WinSCP. Log back into your iPhone using the same procedure as before.
Step Twelve Select Open Terminal from the Commands menu.
You may be asked to Confirm. Click Ok.
Step Thirteen Enter the following commands then press the Execute button after each line: killall -9 lockdownd cd /ipetools ./bricktool
Step Fourteen Reboot your phone by holding down the Sleep/Wake button for three seconds. Move the power slider to right to power down. Then press the Sleep/Wake button again to power back on.
You can now put in any SIM. You have an unlocked iPhone!!!
NOTES: I'd rapidly improving the quality of my own screenshots; however, some of them have been obtained from around the net. Most notably I'd like to give thanks to Mark from HacktheiPhone.
THANKS: Well, I also really need to thank all the developers who have been working like crazy to make this tutorial even possible, the iPhone Dev Team and the ipetools creators - 79b1caf2c95695e0af0e6216216eec54 -BlaCkBirD -Zibri -b1llyb0y -kiwi66 -rdh. A big thanks to chainsawwws who helped me get through these steps successfully!
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There is a much easier way to unlock your phone . here are the steps:
1. download iTunes on your computer
2.download ibrickr on your computer
3. connect your iPhone to your computer with USB.
4.launch ibrickr from the directory you installed it to
5.in ibrickr you will see some instructions . They are to jailbreak your phone. do those then relaunch ibrickr .
6 . Click the applications tab .you will see more instructions. when you jailbroke it did not automatically install installer for you .
these instructions are to do that .do those
.7.click the browse tab
8. click the anysim tab. This will install anysim on your iPhone .
9. Disconnect your phone from the computer
10. Insert your new SIM card
11 launch anysim.
12. click the ok tab then wait for it to complete. It should take about 15 minutes.
Hey,
Ali try running the appsnap while you're connected to iTunes.
I have the same problem Nicole has, I keep getting "error package download failed". Then I downloaded anysim 1.2 from a different source. It said "anysim cannot unlock this phone. anysim will now quit".
The first time I followed this tutorial everything went smoothly, I only got problems after I restored my firmware.
Hey, is there abetter way to get or a simpler way to get iWorld the iClarified way is too hard to follow......I have a 1.1.3 iphone that has been jailbroken...... also how do I upgrade my firm ware to 4.03.13 from 4.02.13. Need detail specs for both...I'm not a technical person.....PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
I just bought a new 1.0.2 iPhone from the AT&T store. How should I unlock it with a Windows PC? Should I ugrade it to 1.1.1? Then upgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2? And then follow the tutorial "How to Unlock a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 Upgraded iPhone Using Windows"? Thank-you for the help.
hi
i am stuck at step 14
my iphone crashes as soon as i go into the wifi connections and restored it couple of time but nothing it still does the same thing ... :( plz help
Jin, I had the same problem and what i did was repeating the anySim process this time with version 1.2 instead of 1.1 (after completing the whole guide and getting the incorrect Sim message) with the ATT card in. It workd for me, just run anySIM1.2 at the end with ATT card, shut down iPhone, insert your SIM and done. Hope it helps
I followed your tutorial but when i try to install the installer from the jailbreakme.com it just goes to the activation screen without doing anything. I tryied it several times, but it jus won't work. PLS help. I have to mention that i had an unlocked 1.1.1 phone which crashed and i had to update it to 1.1.2. At which point i started following your tutorial. Tnx
hey iClarified, great work, but i was just wondering, would this method jailbreak and unlock OTB 1.1.2 (week 50) iphones? i heard there was a problem with the baseband, is this true? can this resolve the baseband too?
Okidoke, fixed the keypad issue and also crashing on sms and phone features. What I did was install the iWorld app, and that did it. Maybe you should note that too in the tutorial. Also another tip: copy and paste the commands when using the terminal tool to avoid typos. Thanks again.
Just did the whole tutorial. My phone is of the first release (bought it June 29) and was activated with AT+T with update to 1.1.2. Seems to works now with Telcel Mexico. The only issue I have right now is that the keypad aborts at the first number entered. Still works with contacts.
A couple of notes on the tutorial: Should be noted never to disconnect the iPhone from the usb. Also I needed to reinstall the OpenSSH after step 6 in the upgrade 1.1.2 process (maybe because I had updated the installler app).
Thanks and great work!!!
Jerry, make sure you completed step 7 correctly and copied the file to the right location. Use the command 'ls' in Terminal to make sure the file is there. If the file is not present then the 'tar' command will definitely not work.
thanks for great tutorial, my i phone verison is 44th week, i try to unlock it with your instruction. but after i done all the steps it still says "this iphone must be used with an approved sim" can you help me to solve the problem. thanks!
hello, u tutorial is great. but i got stuck on the step 9, when it asked me to run WinSCP to open commands,
when i entered command tar -xvzf ipe-lockdownd-tools.tgz, it fails with return code 2 and error msg. and it keep say no such file. can you please help me to fix it, i got stucked. thanks!