flop ya mac out

It’s done! Within a week of receiving his iPhone, Jason has finally unlocked it! When you live outside the US, this means the difference between a really expensive iPod touch, and an awesome working iPhone.

To unlock his iPhone for free, it all started here, thanks to the iPhone Dev Wiki. There are some other guides like this, but he found this one the easiest to understand.

In a nutshell: Use iNdependence (a much better, more refined alternative to iActivator), to jailbreak the phone with one click, pop SSI onto the baby and also activate it for use as an iPod and wi-fi ‘communicator’.

Then, install AppTapp onto your jailbroken iPhone to enable you to install SFTP (required to read/write to the file system) and a bunch of other sexy 3rd party apps. And when they say party, they mean party! AppTapp installs by itself if your iPhone from your Mac’s Finder, and then it’s just a matter of selecting the packs (SFTP in this instance) that you want to install. Very handy!

The Dev Wiki do a pretty good job of detailing the process, but essentially, once SFTP is installed you can connect to the iPhone’s filesystem by using an FTP client pointed to the phone’s IP address on your wireless network. How sneaky!

After all the fun of going through the above, Jase found this site which looks to be an even better way to happyness (1 tap to unlock!) and furthermore, the creator says ‘Don’t donate to me, pick a nice charity’!

He hasn’t yet tried it himself, but let us know in the comments if it works for you! Another set of instructions worth a geez are over at modmyiphone.com, which may help you out!

Then finally, to release the YouTube love, Jason successfully followed this guide to enable the YouTube button to work as intended. This handy converter combined with these instructions will also free you of American formatted phone numbers (not doing this can become a huge annoyance after a while)!

He is now the proud owner of a fully functioning iPhone after getting a plan with Virgin and adding a 300Mg per month data option for an extra AU$10.

Remember – we aren’t responsible for any of the content linked to on this blog, or what might happen because of it, so use this info at your own risk. Jason now just has to find a way to get rid of the “Yes Optus” that displays on the screen.

EDIT: ‘Yes Optus’ carrier logo is now off Jason’s iPhone, with an surprising performance gain to boot! How lovely!

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