Dong Ngo, one of the editors over at CNET, has confirmed that Tuan Anh Do, a 29 year old Vietnamese iPhone hacker, has successfully unlocked the iPhone 3G. Now this isn’t any easy to use free software unlock; you know, what the iPhone dev team have been striving to accomplish, instead we have a complicated hardware unlock requiring removal of the iPhone’s baseband chip. Yeah, this unlock ain’t no joke.
A technician opens up a brand new iPhone 3G in one of Tuan Anh’s Hanoi shops.
The phone’s motherboard with the baseband chip at the bottom and marked with a red X for viewing’s sake.
The baseband chip (which I marked with a red X to make it more visible) has been extracted from the motherboard.
…the unlock Devil-God is summoned…
…baseband is now unlocked…
The chip gets glued back onto the motherboard.
- source: CNET
wow amazing… the problem is the warranty of iphone… i’ll wait after a year when my iphone is out of warranty…
thanks men…
Apple should hire him :)
does anyone know what kind glue to use to put the chip back on?
uh…just use a hot glue gun
Seems utterly too easy….
what happens when the next update wants to update the baseband chip
or apple adds code into itunes to look for baseband chip
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or is this how a unlocked iphone actually is (without a baseband chip)
i just got a new phone, so im gonna wait a bit
…if you read /through/ the article, you’d see that he puts the chip back in after.
He takes it out, dumps the info on the chip into a file on a computer, edits said file with a hex editor – taking out the code that locks it to a specific carrier, then writes the data back to the baseband chip, and puts it all back together.
too difficult to do on your own. I would buy a pre-unlocked one done by a pro.
+1 for vietnam :)
or you buy your iphone 3g (16GB) for about EUR 600.- at http://www.digitec.ch. Unlocked – legally! They import their iphones from poland where the iPhone is sold without any lock… have fun.
they are still some privite unlocking software aroung…
for 3g google it :)
mmm like rapidshare ;)
would you still be able to upgrade it once, you, uhm, do that thing?
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Wow, this seems like way too much scary work for me, I’d just rather unlock it with software!