Locked iPhone 4 not set up.

Akio · 12 Jun 2015 at 16:01

I have an iPhone 4 that I got and used a few years ago when I lived in Spain. I just got it out of the box because my samsung galaxy died. It is locked to Vodafone ES though, and I cannot contact them to unlock it (nor can I afford to have it unlocked by them, most likely). I asked Vodafone UK but they say they cannot unlock it for me.

I want to unlock the phone myself, but the phone is currently not set up. It has been reset, and I cannot set up the phone unless it has a Vodafone ES sim card. I tried setting up via iTunes, and I get a message on iTunes saying the SIM card is not from a supported carrier, even if there is no SIM in the phone.

Some different software I have tried for unlocking the phone cannot find the phone unless it is set up, and they all want to know the phones OS version, or something like that, which I cannot find out.

Does anyone know of a way, or particular software that I can use to get the phone unlocked to put a UK SIM in, or at least set the phone up without a SIM?

MrMoonX · 12 Jun 2015 at 17:37

You can't unlock it yourself you need the carrier to do it end of

NoobCannon · 12 Jun 2015 at 18:39

if u *hack* it then you can unlock it,

N17 dizzi · 14 Jun 2015 at 21:16

I sort out the lost property at a relatives place of work before it goes to auction. No less than 5 iphones this quarter; a 4, 4s, 5 and 5s.

So far 2 of them are "find my iphone" locked.

Sickening waste.

formby · 14 Jun 2015 at 22:53

You can only unlock if you have these basebands
04.26.08
05.11.07
05.12.01
05.13.04
01.59.00
06.15.00

Jailbreaking has nothing to do with unlocking.

N17 dizzi · 14 Jun 2015 at 23:08

formby said:
You can only unlock if you have these basebands
04.26.08
05.11.07
05.12.01
05.13.04
01.59.00
06.15.00

Jailbreaking has nothing to do with unlocking.

So presumably that rules out a 5s?

formby · 15 Jun 2015 at 20:27

Yes basebands have been locked down since i4.

N17 dizzi · 15 Jun 2015 at 22:33

Thanks for the info. I have just had to post 3 top end iPhones as expensive paperweights. Damn you Apple.

formby · 16 Jun 2015 at 06:56

I'm talking about network locking not security locking.
If the phones are security locked ie: if you start the phone in DFU mode and reinstall firmware,when finished and the phone reboots it will require setting up.
If during the setting up stage it asks you to log into your icloud then the phone is a brick you can not get by this without the original owners icloud account details. If you are just pin locked out just reinstall firmware in DFU this will kill the pin but you may still have the icloud log in problem if the phone was tied to its icloud account.

The find my phone locked phones are bricked until the original owner logs into their icloud account and removes the device.
All security locked phones may become unbricked if the original owner removes the device from their accounts.

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N17 dizzi · 16 Jun 2015 at 07:39

These phones have all been handed in at the lost property office and kept for a number of months without being claimed. The original owner's details will not be found, so they may get sold for parts only. They go into an auction for charity.

Thanks for the information.