A few weeks ago we told you about a trick to activate an iPhone without the original SIM card. This was used by jailbreakers and unlockers who didn’t have the original SIM card to activate their iPhone. It worked well for a while but it seems Apple caught up to it and put an end to it all by hooking the activation wildcard ticket to the ICCID of the used SIM. Fortunately, an alternative method was found to go around the “Different SIM Detected” message you might get.
Step 1: Download iFunBox from here.
Step 2: Download the patched LockDown folder from here.
Step 3: Run iFunBox and sync it with your iPhone.
Step 4: Go to /private/var/root/Library/ and replace the Lockdown folder with the one you downloaded in step 2.
Step 5: Reboot your iPhone.
I haven’t tried this myself but it seems to work well. If you do try it, please let us know how it went by leaving a comment below.
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We’ve been tipped this morning (and have now been able to confirm, thanks to our own Myriam Joire braving the lines) that if you buy an iPhone 4 in a Canadian carrier’s store today, you leave with it locked to that carrier — despite Apple’s trumpeting that you can buy it SIM-free. It appears as though the activation process might be responsible for causing the carrier lock — either that, or the carriers’ subsidized models are shipped locked, unlike the full-price devices you can buy directly from Apple. Either way, it’s a bummer, and it’s certainly something to take into consideration before you buy.
[Thanks, Chris]
Update: We’ve now confirmed that the lock is happening at the time the phone is activated — in other words, it begins life carrier-agnostic. Pretty wild stuff.
Buying an iPhone 4 from a Canadian carrier? It’s locked originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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