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Originally Posted by sziklassy
If people care enogh about this write congress. Make it illegal to lock phones in the US. Make cell phone companies compete in ways other than cell phone exclusivity.
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There is a class action suit against apple and at&t set for trial next month that will hopefully put an end to locked iphones in the US.
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Originally Posted by lillewis51
is it possable that apple locked out the unlock feature by hardware. and the iphones that are being sold unlocked dont have the chip that is keeping them from being unlocked? this just seems possable because with that new error they found it could be that they unlocked it but the chip detected it and shut down the baseband... just my random string of thoughts
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All iPhones are the same. There is a lock/unlocked token saved to the phone and sent via itunes to the phone. The baseband checks for that token to see if the phone should be unlocked or locked. The token generated is unique to each phone and is impossible to fake or reproduce.
The original iphones baseband was modded to except all tokens as unlocked and is probably what they are trying to recreate with the 3G baseband.
I think those errors had something to do with the baseband not matching the FW. But who knows. It could have been anything.