Comments on: Workaround to Unlock & Jailbreak an iPhone 2G to 2.1

By: estherine

estherine — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:09:58 +0000

hi
my bro gave me his old iphone cause he got one of the 3g
i wanted to take off his information to i went to settings and selected factory reset. now the phone won’t come on. all i’m seeing is the apple logo and the spinning white wheel, then it sorta blinks and goes badck to the spinning wheel i’m not in the US right now i’m in guyana (south america) and am supposed to get it open tomorrow so that i can use it here.

can you please tell me what i did wrong and why the phone won’t come on. i hooked it up to the computer but itunes is not recognising it anymore.

HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: rav

rav — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:26:44 +0000

i have Activated + Jailbreaked my iphone 3g with firmware 2.2
will my bsnl or idea sim work in it ???????

By: Nancy Gupta

Nancy Gupta — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:47:01 +0000

I have iphone 1G 1.1.4 version. I bought the unlocked phone with T-mobile connection in US. Now in India, while trying to use Airtel Sim, I’m not able to use phone services on my iphone. The keypad just goes away while trying to dial any number.

I think iphone is not unlocked properly.

Can you please guide me how to procees.

Nancy

By: j520

j520 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:38:49 +0000

no not true….well kinda.
you must choose the unlock option in QuickPWN to activate iPhone, unless you have a legit iphone plan with at&t.
just yesterday i did a 1.1.4 to 2.1 with no problems whatso ever. easiest upgrade ever under 30 minutes!!!

but you tell you the truth i miss my customized 1.1.4 iphone. 2.1 doesn’t give you really anything on the 2G iPhone except for app store.

this is my second day now on 2.1 and I miss my 1.1.4 iPhone =(

By: vnt

vnt — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:19:08 +0000

updated my phone 2G from 1.1.2 to 2.1 using QuickPwn 2.1. update went on successfully, I made sure that iselected unlock phone option.
After the successful update I still dont have any signel with my SIM, I am not in a postion to make any phone calls. Please help me out

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:05:29 +0000

I have used the method that iclarified explained in their article and it work flawlessly for my iphone 2G.

By: dannyslice

dannyslice — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:40:50 +0000

thank you, I used quickpwn in the end to reflash the restore firmware on this thread and as if by magic the iPhone came out of it’s coma once the process completed!
In my case ignorance isn’t always bliss!!!!!!

By: Gmu

Gmu — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:03:58 +0000

Try to put the phone in DFU mode and restore a fresh 2.1 FW.

By: dannyslice

dannyslice — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:12:59 +0000

i know this isn’t the right place to post this but i need help…
after unlocking and jailbreaking my iphone with this method, i’ve been playing happily until i tried installing mivtones to my 1st gen v2.1 iphone, cydia asked me to restart springboard, i pressed restart but got the spinning wheel of death!!
after 10 mins i held the power and home buttons to power off the phone but it just stays on the apple boot screen and won’t start springboard.
after about an hour i connected to itunes and itunes trys to back up the phone, it gets most of the way then the phone reboots and the process starts again.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
i don’t have SSH installed and apart from re running QuickPWN i don’t know what to do.
thanks in advance, dan

By: dannyslice

dannyslice — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:24:51 +0000

thanks but I must have been lucky, i clicked restore and everything works perfectly with all previous phone settings restored, even messages and web pages being viewed.