The Hassle of Unlocking iPhone!
I by no means believed that unlocking iPhone would be a hassle. Becoming in the US, the home of iPhone, I thought that is an simple factor to do. Go to an apple shop and buy an unlocked iPhone. Simple? NO!
As I discussed with the lady at the shop, even though I can buy the iPhone with out a contract, I still would not be in a position to use it on a network other than AT&T. That was a issue to me as I am mostly overseas in some nations exactly where AT&T does not exist or barely have any partners.
Don't get me wrong, I like AT&T and I have a contract with them on an additional iPhone that I am not planning to unlock. Nevertheless I was nonetheless determined to unlock one for my usage overseas. My buddies overseas made it sound an easy factor to do. Get an iPhone and you can pay someone that will unlock it for you.
So, in brief, my iPhone traveled with me in its unlocking trip. The charge to unlock it was 30 USD but the guy told me he can't do it now and that I required to wait. Because I am impatient, I decided to research it on the internet instead. Hundreds of options had been there on line for totally free but none of them worked because I had the latest iPhone software program version. I decided to go into a paying site rather and that is when I believed everything is solved!
Needless to say it wasn't! My phone nonetheless did not recognize the new SIM card I inserted. I concluded that I got tricked into a fake site, so I decided to research further. For a newbie, it was like opening a can of warms. Jailbreaking, unlocking, firmware, software, baseband, and all those words that meant absolutely nothing to me and seemed so complex had been in my face!
Being me, I did not give up. I researched, read and re-read the information. The most complex problem is that many software developers (or hackers) assume that the end user understands their terminology. Guess what? We don't!
I don't want an illegal iPhone, I just want to be in a position to use the iPhone that I paid for anyplace I want especially when the solutions of 1 carrier or another are not accessible. I travel between developing country markets and roaming solutions are too costly if they had been available to begin with!
To make a lengthy story short, I continued to research and discovered many dependable and totally free sources to unlock my iPhone on the internet. My phone is unlocked yet but I did unlock my friend's (it appears that I have a newer firmware), and hopefully a solution for mine is on its way.
So my advice to you, read, read and read some more before you venture into unlocking. Much better yet, if you don't Need your iPhone unlocked (like using it overseas with carriers who are not in partnership with apple) then don't do it, and just stick with your carrier.
