iPhone Won't Unlock

gadgetguy · Oct 2nd, 2008, 09:28 PM

I just received the iPhone 1st gen (FW 2.0) I bought on eBay a couple of weeks ago. I went 1st gen because a) I would HATE to be locked in to an expensive contract on Rogers to get the 3G and b) I got a good deal on this one.

Anyhoo, when I bought it NOT unlocked, it thought hey, I'm pretty computer savvy and everybody does it. WELL, the $50 to take it to a guy to do it locally is beginning to look pretty nice!

I got the phone (turns out the guy included his ATT SIM card) and started to unlocking. I downloaded PwnageTool 2.0 and the two bootloaders. It goes through that process just fine until I get to the iTunes part. I option-click Restore and choose my custom FW file, it starts working away then comes up with an error saying the iPhone can't be restored because of error 1600. Tried this in both iTunes 7.7.1 and 8. It can be restored to the original 2.0 firmware only in iTunes 8 and works just fine as an iPod Touch.

I'm a little scared to update anything but I'm really not sure what to do. Tried multiple computers, cables, iTunes versions (read somewhere that I will definitely get that error in iTunes 8) and I'm at a loss.

Ideas?

TIA!

neesh0 · Oct 2nd, 2008, 10:34 PM

Get the official 2.1 firmware and itunes itunes 8 and restore. after that you will have a locked, unactivated iphone. Get quickpwn and run the program (make sure you check unlock and use the right bootloaders) after it has finished running it should work.

gadgetguy · Oct 2nd, 2008, 10:46 PM

Finally got it working. Thank God, considering I should be studying and wouldn't have stop trying until I got it working.

I downloaded PwnageTool 2.1 from here and used iTunes 8 for the FW update.

Thanks!

neesh0 · Oct 2nd, 2008, 11:01 PM

I guess you were one of the lucky ones, some people can't get it to work and go crazy over not being able to fix it

gadgetguy · Oct 2nd, 2008, 11:04 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by neesh0
	I guess you were one of the lucky ones, some people can't get it to work and go crazy over not being able to fix it

~Knock on wood!~ I can tell you I'll never be updating! I would be one of those going crazy... :P