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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Freeeeeeeeee!!!

Freeeeeeeeee!!!


Why didn't I post yesterday?  It's because I was busy unlocking my iPhone.  Yes!!!

I used to have AT&T and an iPhone that someone gave to me.  I eventually dropped my AT&T service, but continued to use the phone as a glorified iPod.  It has been working great for a long time.  I have T-Mobile, now, which the iPhone can be unlocked for, but I never tried to unlock my iPhone because I didn't want to jack it up.  (After all, it was making perfectly good music while I wrote Dry Humor Daily.  Why would I want to?)  

Anyway, I was updating the firmware on the iPhone in order to use some wireless headphones I purchased.  Bad move!  iTunes forgot to mention that when you restore your iPhone in order to update the firmware, you have to reactivate it with AT&T!  (In other words, I couldn't even use it to play music any more...)  My reaction was something like this:

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Son of a . . . . ."

"Gah!"

*Long sigh*

Then it occurred to me that I officially had nothing to lose by risking jailbreaking my device.  So I did some extensive reading and decided on a method on how to do it and got to work.  And voila!  Music and the ability to text like white lightning!  I'm in a happy place, now.  :)

7 comments:

Rease said...

My boss sent me to a giant phone store to get his already unlocked iPhone activated. It's even more annoying/difficult here in Argentina. Congratulations on your win!

Cole Garrett said...

Why not just do it online? I couldn't believe how easy it was.

Leigh said...

My cousin jailbroke her iPhone, and she keeps telling me I should do it to mine, but I'm too much of a chicken. Like the iPhone police are going to come arrest me for messing with my phone....

I'm such a loser.

Jon said...

I am SO glad we can't get cell phone service up here (other than near town). Internet is via satellite.

the Tsaritsa said...

Nice!! Glad you were able to break it free.

AmberLaShell said...

I have never had anything as fancy as an I-Phone, and honestly wouldn't want to get at&t service to get one! Good just breaking it out of jail though!

Anonymous said...

AT&T has a "lock" on all iPhones in the United States. (If you buy it in another country, it comes already unlocked. Most other countries use it on T-Mobile.)

It being "locked" to AT&T was in agreement laid out in the contract with Apple for the iPhone.

Apple owns iTunes, therefore, they are legally obligated to "lock" your phone back to AT&T during updates/restores. (It definitely does SUCK though.)

There's speculation that Apple will be expanding their horizons to other networks. (Brings a smile to many faces, I'm sure.)

Anyway, that's why iTunes does that. Even though it doesn't "warn" you...it's in the "Term & Conditions." I found out the same way you did. However, I called Apple and they (very nicely) pointed me to where in the T's & C's to look. HAHAHA!

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