Unlocked iPhone 3G from Vodafone?

Thu, Jul 17, 2008

Apple iPhone 3G, Apps, News, Tips and Tricks, Unlocking, iTunes App Store

Well finally, customer care have started being quite good at their job and caring.

The lady called me 3 times this afternoon to guide me through the upgrade, and frequently put me on hold so she could speak to Apple directly.

Finally, after much hassle, this appeared when I plugged in my iPhone 3G to iTunes.

Update

 

AT LAST! An update to the carrier settings for your iPhone is available.

So I hit Update Settings and look what I got straight away.

Error

HMMM… iTunes could not update the carrier settings on your iPhone. An unknown error occured (0xE8000001).

So I’m 99% sure this is now an Apple Server issue, I’m going to try this one more time on my Mac (not XP) tonight when I get home, and I’m hoping I’ll be able to post a video of me successfully swapping SIM’s and getting a signal on both!!!

In the meantime, I would suggest waiting for the iPhone Dev Team to release their unlock software because this is turning in to a real disaster. 5 Days Later… still a useless iPhone 3G.

UPDATE 1:

no joy on the Mac…. (even thought I got a positive ending on the screen, nothing changed on the phone)

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and then

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But then no signal on the iPhone 3G.

UPDATE 2:

Vodafone have now told me (22nd July) that there ‘may’ have been a problem with the system, and they have a go date of 23rd July for all unlocks… so lets see shall we!!
UPDATE 3:
Vodafone called me, told me the previous unlock hadn’t gone through properly and to now try syncing my phone again with the new Optus SIM inside it. I did this and it unlocked perfectly, I’ve now got my iPhone running on all SIM’s in Australia.
UPDATE 4:
iPhone 2.0.1 software update has now ruining the unlock and I’m now locked out of my iPhone. Back to Square one.
UPDATE 5: 
waiting 24 hours, and synced again, seems to be working, but throws up errors every sync now.

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