Purplesn0w iPhone 3GS Unlock
George Hotz the guy who brought us the purplera1n iPhone jailbreak software has now revealed a new unlocking solution for the iPhone 3GS called Purplesn0w, which does sound very similar to the iPhone Dev Teams solution Redsn0w.
It seems that George wasn’t happy with the latest version of the iPhone Dev Teams unlock tool so he decided to release his own.
First off, what is purplesn0w? It’s a soft unlock for your 3GS that I’d actually use day to day. It’s not a daemon that takes any resources, and it doesn’t add a task to your baseband. It’s very close to a true unlock. All it does is patch three files, CommCenter, lockdownd, and your wildcard activation plist (which you need, activate w at&t sim first, no hacktivation support yet). That’s it, no other files are installed.
Head on over to George’s website for more details on Purplesn0w.
via The iPhone Blog
Update 16th July 2009
The iPhone Dev Team has released a new version of Ultrasn0w, you will need to jailbreak your iPhone or iPhone 3GS with Redsn0w first.
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August 19th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Ok people help me out here!
You unlock your iphone so you can use other SIM cards right? Is that the only reason? I presume you owners are under a contract since the 3Gs is pretty new…
Because I don’t understand….why do you want to bother and unlock your iphone (ex. 3G S) when you are more or less still bound to a contract with ex. AT&T and you have to pay those (for ex.) 24 months anyway, and still you wanna put in another SIM which you have to pay for as well…am I totally wrong here?? What am I missing??
To jailbreak it…that I can understand!!! but not the unlock…