Software unlocking iPhone 3G

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Hi all,

Following this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17941051 it looks like I'm off to Sydney for 1 year + come Feb/March next year.
I'm currently 6 months into my 18 month iPhone contract with O2 and love it to bits - and obviously, I don't want to leave it behind.
I don't care for the contract, I will probably leave this running as I can't get out of it but I want to take the iPhone with me and put an Oz sim card in it.

Does anyone know what the score is with regards to unlocking these things? I thought they announced that they had finally come up with a software sim unlock a few months back - Are there any good guides? I've got a new Macbook which probably doesn't help things as my iPhone is NOT jailbroken and it seems like the new Macbook block PwnageTool's ability to freshly jailbreak the iPhone :(.

Any help would be great - I've tried googling but I got mixed results - even the dev-team's blog seems like it's not up to date.

Thanks!
 
The iPhone Dev Team is releasing their unlock tool for the 3G on the 31st of december. It won't work for firmware 2.2, so you need to install 2.0 or 2.1 on the iPhone.
 
Speedy said:
The iPhone Dev Team is releasing their unlock tool for the 3G on the 31st of december. It won't work for firmware 2.2, so you need to install 2.0 or 2.1 on the iPhone.
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Are we sure this will work? The dev-team kept telling people not to update the firmware without removing the baseband updates first. This behaviour would seem to imply to me that installing and older iPhone firmware will not revert the baseband to the older version.
 
csmager said:
Are we sure this will work? The dev-team kept telling people not to update the firmware without removing the baseband updates first. This behaviour would seem to imply to me that installing and older iPhone firmware will not revert the baseband to the older version.
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I'm not sure about the baseband. If the dev-team keeps telling that the baseband won't be reverted when installing an older firmware, then you need to have your fingers crossed and hope that iPhone hasn't got 2.2 pre-installed already...
 
It got released and they've gotten around the latest baseband stuff so you can software unlock with yellowsn0w a 3G iPhone with the latest iTunes update (meaning it is available to ANYONE!)

And there was me thinking I'd royally screwed my chances of ever unlocking it since I had the latest 2.28 baseband

Woohoo!!
 
Its released and you have to have latest firmware/baseband versions. Not tried it myself as I don't need to and I have just restored my iPhone to un-jailbroken because the utter slowness of the phone was irritating the hell out of me everytime I used it!
 
Cheers - I had a play tonight and have now jailbroken my phone - will have to see about the performance issues.

Hopefully when I can test it on another SIM card it'll work!
 
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