Unlocking an iPhone

On New Year's Day the iphone Dev Team released version 0.9.5 BETA of their yellowsn0w unlocking software. Just had a nose at it and the interesting part is that it's a soft unlock that you install on a jailbroken iPhone. You add an apt source in Cydia and away you go.

It's been coded as a daemon that runs at boot time which means that it doesn't have to exploit holes in early versions of the baseband code and it'll work on the 2.2 software that is available from Apple (after you quickpwn it).

The application is a small daemon that is launched on boot. It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset. You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. It’s a small program and unobtrusive...


More info here:

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/67797811/dont-eat-yellowsn0w