Unlocked iPhone 4S Without Jailbreak
Unlocked iPhone 4S Without Jailbreak – AT&T won't unlock your iPhone 4S, but this instructions might. Developer Daniel Scaleb found a bug in iOS 5 that allows you to unlock your AT&T iPhone 4S (GSM). It looks like a bug in iOS 5 allows you to unlock iPhone 4S without the need to jailbreak it or using hardware methods such as GEVEY SIM. The bug was discovered by Michael Capozzi. He managed to unlock his iPhone 4S to use it on T-Mobile USA's network but according to him the method should also work with any GSM carrier.This bug can unlock your iPhone 4S and use it on any other GSM carrier like T-Mobile here in the states. The best of this is that it doesn't requires you to have the iPhone jailbroken, it's done without any software or hardware modifications. Below is the 16 steps the developer posted in order to unlock the AT&T iPhone 4S; but first you'll need a GSM iPhone 4S, an AT&T SIM card, and a T-Mobile Micro SIM which can be purchased from Amazon or directly from T-Mobile; you can also cut down your SIM if you currently have a standard non-micro SIM card.
- Insert original carrier AT&T SIM card
- Dial 611 for AT&T customer service hotline and drop the call
- Turn on Airplane Mode
- Take out AT&T SIM card
- Insert T-Mobile SIM card
- Make sure WiFi is off ( also tap on ‘Forget this Network" to make sure it doesn't connect automatically later)
- Switch off Airplane Mode and iPhone will search for network. This is followed by the Apple splash screen appearing.
- Activation Required will be displayed on the screen
- EDGE network will activate automatically – notice the ‘E' on the top left corner of the screen
- Wait for about 20-30 seconds and turn off the phone
- Turn on iPhone and the same Activation Required screen will be displayed
- When you see one signal bar, tap on Use Cellular Connection
- Eject SIM card
- Activation Required screen will be displayed the second time
- Insert SIM card
- Unlocked!
Gizmodo has also confirmed that this method works.