Iphone 3gs HELP!! PLEASE

Outrider · Dec 20, 2011

Hi folks, this is my last try at this unlocking business. 3 days and many hours spent with no success.

First thing I did
Used Redsnow 0.9.9b9d to jailbreak with stock ispw5.0.1. 3gs old bootrom (s/n 83941) BB ipad 6.15. I now have a working ipad touch so to speak. Boots up fine on its own and GPS works.
I live in canada and have a working Bell Sim card
Now I use ultrasnow through Cyndia to unlock but still "no service"

With Bootrom week 41 2009 I assume it's the old one. F0recast v1.3 says Jailbreakable "no" Unlockable "yes" use unltrasnow. Bootloader 6.4_M3S2

Did I do anything wrong so far?

Jmills87 · Dec 20, 2011

If you updated to a stock iOS5 firmware you corrupted your baseband and you will have to reinstall it. In the future, whenever you restore you MUST use a custom firmware to restore. Restoring a factory firmware with the 06.15.00 baseband will corrupt your baseband every time.

Outrider · Dec 21, 2011

Ok, so with redsn0w I used the "custom ipsw" button then "pwned dfu" to restore via Itunes with the custom ipsw which is supposed to preserve baseband. My problem from this is that I can't get past sim card activation. Same problem if I go with snowbreeze. Stupid sim card screen!
Any suggestions?

Jmills87 · Dec 21, 2011

To hacktivate with redsn0w you just have to jailbreak the phone. In sn0wbreeze you have to use expert mode and under "general" there is a setting for activating. Otherwise if you know anyone with AT&T you can just use their SIM to activate it.

Outrider · Dec 21, 2011

Anytime I use a custom firmware I get an error message a few minutes into the process. Whether it's with snowbreeze or redsnow.

Jmills87 · Dec 21, 2011

Would help if you told us what the error message was.... if its 1600 that means you aren't in Pwned-DFU mode.

Outrider · Dec 22, 2011

After a number of tries and making another custom ispw and rebooting my computer finally it worked. Phone is jailbroken now. Only thing is ultrasn0w is not working. I get nothing from repo.ultrasn0w server.
Is everyone else having this issue with ultrasn0w?
If I ever get through this process of unlocking my 3gs I will create a step by step turorial on how to unlock a 3gs using BB6.15 with 5.0.1 for all those who are lost like I am.

Outrider · Dec 22, 2011

I Finally did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Found ultrasn0w and phone is jailbroken and unlocked.
Thanks you so much JMills87 for taking the time to point me in the right direction.

nikstar · Dec 22, 2011

Glad that you finally got it working. Make sure you do that turtorial!

visha · Jan 25, 2012

A little good news..
I am able to unlock my phone and i can access cydia and other apps.

Bad news:-
Still, I am getting "No Service"
I am observing in Settings->General->About

Network - Not Available
Carrier - Not Available

After going to Cydia as "User" , I clicked on manage-sources-edit-add and typed repo666.ultrasn0w.com in the small http:// box that opens up and hit "add".

I have installed ultrasn0w 1.2.5 on my iphone.
But, still no luck with the carrier issue.It's saying "No service"

Please help