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To unlock an iPhone first you have to jailbreak it. You need to make sure exactly what you want to do, when unlocking a phone  you will have to change the baseband from whatever it is to 06.15.00 the ipad baseband. Apple does know about this glitch and does not let you update regularly through itunes, if you do and have the0 6.15.00 baseband and you try to update you will get an error.  If you just want to jailbreak it you don’t need to update to ipad baseband and can update regularly through itunes.

Necessary software:

RedSn0w

IPSW for the specific OS version I am on 4.2.1 but this tutorial should be good  up to atleast 4.3.3

iphone about screen

iPhone 3G and 3GS use different IPSW make sure to download the right one.

This is where I get my IPSW from http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=750

if it says iphone1,2 = iphone 3g  iphone 2,1= iphone 3gs. Make sure to download the right one.

Grab redsnow from the internet and make sure to put it all in the same folder or atleast where you know where it is at.

jailbreaking iphone folder

1.  Once you got everything in order click on redsnow, browse to your corresponding IPSW (should be the same version as your OS).

Once RedSn0w identifies it  you should see this

Jailbreaking unlocking iphone 1

2. Once RedSn0w  successfully identifies the IPSW click next for the 3G you should see this screen, the 3GS gives you same screen with much less options but the ones that matter are “install Cydia” and “install iPad Baseband”. Install cydia is just for jailbreaking, if you need to unlock it to use your phone with any GSM Carrier you need to update the baseband too.  This tutorial were going all the way make sure to check both.  And turn your phone off. By holding power button(top right hand corner).

3.You will be told  to turn off your device, it should be off already on this part you need to make sure you know a bit  of phone anatomy. Power button is top right, the home button is the button on the bottom center of the screen.  Once you know this continue, it should tell you to  hold powerbutton 3seconds, then click and hold the home button for about 10seconds and finally release powerbutton and keep holding the home button until it goes into dfu mode.

jailbreaking unlocking iphone 3

4. During DFU mode, you should see the pineapple and computer loading into the phone screen just wait until the phone finishes downloading and installing cydia. Dont disconnect until it says done, but even then i keep it connected.  It should restart by itself and when you go to settings about should be able to see your  baseband updated to ipad baseband.

jailbroken iphone 3gs 3g about screen

On your home Screen you should see Cydia already installed

cydia installed on 3g 3gs iphone

Congratulations you have just jailbroken your iPhone with the possibility of unlocking it which is what we will do next.

I”ve had a  few issues while jailbreaking my iPhone. One that I just kept on ignoring for a while was that Youtube wouln’t work on a jailbroken phone. I ignored it because I really didn’t care, the device is mainly used as a phone.

Not connecting to youtube is one thing another one is not being able to connect to a server when jailbreaking my device. So I noticed that it wouldn’t download the necessary files in cydia after cydia was already installed. Without those files  you cannot unlock your phone or put in third party apps. Wondering what was going on I tried the standard trick  used on all electronics that is restarting it. I restarted it and tried to connect to the cydia server and youtube again to see if it would actually connect and it didn’t. I was wondering what was wrong, when i noticed at the top center of the screen the time was out of sync.

cannot connect ot youtube iphone

I remembered that I had a  smartphone that somehow the time wasn’t syncronized  and I couldn’t use online banking because the timezone and the time on the phone were off. Once the timezone and the phone matched I was allowed to use online banking on that particular phone.Once I remembered that I knew that could of been the issue all along. Obviously this issue lasted a few hours, kind of hard to have a normal life with the wrong time on your phone especially if its also used as  a watch.

Back to the iphone this is how you fix it. Either sync it with iTunes  or Go to settings/general/Date& Time and put set automatically off  and manually fixed the time on the iphone. Once the time was fixed  I was able to watch youtube videos not that it matters but more importantly able to download the necessary files from the cydia server to unlock and use third party apps on my phone. Fixing the time (hour and year)  should fix the youtube error and cydia server connection issues.

I just got back from Albuquerque when a friend called me up that his phone was messed up more specifically a blackberry curve 8530, was showing up app error 523 on the sprint network/carrier. I’ve only played with iphones  jailbreaking unlocking and all sorts of stuff, just recently opened one up and saw the actual inside of one but thats a different story.

This is for : blackberry curve 8530, carrier sprint and computer os used is  windows more specific windows 7

After looking up for solutions I found out that we just needed to reload the OS.

Reloading the OS ( read atleast twice  so you dont waste time)

All you do to fix this error is go to the carriers website and download the Operating system for the phone.

This is the website to go and download the os  https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=FC3CF452D3DA8402BEBB765225CE8C0E

Install the software downloaded, and go here C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader

To start make sure your blackberry is NOT connected, and also take off the battery.

click on the Apploader

the app loader wizard will come up

click next connect blackberry immediately

connection will go from comm to USB-PIN:UNKNOWN

Immediately click next this will stop your blackberry from the constant reboot/restart phase.

Now reconnect your battery to blackberry because it will reload but stop connecting to the computer, if not connected you will get an error and will have to do everything again so make sure you follow this instructions read atleast twice.

If done correctly this is what you will see , blackberry reinstalling the software itself.

fixing app error 523 on blackberry

After a few minutes it could take up to ten who knows just be patient you should have your black berry fixed

fixed blackberry curve from app error 523

Anyone know when starcraft phase 2 is coming out? Kind of boring having to sit here in the computer just coding and having nothing fun to relax.   I know the game is coming out in July, but I also heard and read that there is a phase two. If anyone knows whats up let me know. Appreciate it over and out…

Just wanted to say happy new years to all my readers. I am finishing up my main site, will probably be ready in a week from now.

Welcome to my blog, I am hector a web designer in austin texas, I just started to put all my knowledge to use to help people around the area with their website related needs. Currently I feel capable of making website, maintaining websites and re-designing websites. I also feel comfortable promoting websites to get a high ranking on search engines,  I am getting really good results with this website right now. I am currently redesigning and redeveloping a site for a local architect.  Once I am finish with it I will post some really nice tricks, I found out about IE that will help people deal with it better.  We’ll I am off to christmas related stuff. Have a nice day.