IPhone - Please someone try this.

kydee6039 said:

Please don't kill me if this doesn't work on a rogers/fido sim card but it does work with cingular/att sim cards in the US.

Can someone try this and post back. My phone hasn't arrived yet and I'm very interested in knowing if it works.

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I'm willing to bet that it won't work. The reason:

hacktheiphone.com said:

This does NOT unlock the iPhone after doing this, it still remains carrier dependent. But you can now use any existing AT&T or Cingular pre-paid account

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Cingular has been bought and rebranded as AT&T in the US. So therefore Cingular and AT&T phones (except the iPhone) at pretty much the same thing in the US. This would be the equivalent of taking a Rogers phone and using it on FIDO (or vice versa). Not unlocking it for any carrier, but merely allowing all variations of the same service to access the phone.

It's also noticeable because they don't say that they can get T-Mobile SIM cards working - if they could, it would be a full unlock.

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There is one guy on another forum who said he will try it with his T-Mobile sim and post back. It does seem like progress which means were one step closer to the ultimate goal - the iphone being unlcoked.

Rogers SIM does not work. Someone in the dev channel said they just tried it.

The SIM card has to have the same network code for it to work. This is not a full unlock, this just allows company users/prepaid on AT&T's network to use the iPhone.

Flipstar said:

Rogers SIM does not work. Someone in the dev channel said they just tried it.

The SIM card has to have the same network code for it to work. This is not a full unlock, this just allows company users/prepaid on AT&T's network to use the iPhone.

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Damn I was thinking you could just change Step 17 to suit the number on the rogers/fido sim card and it would possibly work.

If it did, I'm sure they would have posted that.

Tried it and it failed while locking my iPhone back. I had to remove the unbrick and restore on itunes and unbrick from scratch. I used an original Rogers/ATT SIM. It scared me enough to not retry it for a while.

Guy