Hardware Unlock (Sim Hacks)

Unlocked iPhone 3G Scam in India

Seems like some unlucky people are being tricked into buying what they think are legally unlocked iPhone 3G’s when in fact they are getting locked iPhone 3G’s that have been opened up and have a Sim Hack like RebelSim etc hardwired into the phone. Upon Opening one of these phones after a restore with iTunes [...]

Any-Network Sim Tested on iPhone 3G - Epic Fail, No Sim Error, Got Stuck - Do Not buy!

Well take one sweet brand new looking iPhone, insert one shabby looking Any-Network.com Sim, what do you get. Angry.
I was warned, and should have known better. The Any-Network Sim arrived with a spare sim tray, I immediately know something was up. Looked like they anticipated a problem and were attempting to fix it before I [...]

RebelSim Tested on iPhone 3G - Calls/SMS Working - No Data

I received the RebelSims I ordered a few weeks ago today and finally got a chance to test it out. I recorded the entire thing, from putting on the two sided tape to inserting and making a call.
Check out the video below.

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FuriouSim Tests on the iPhone 3G - It Works - Video

Well I ordered a FuriouSim a couple weeks ago, and after a couple emails asking the whereabouts of my package, I finally received it this morning via DHL. One FuriouSim and one USB Sim reader/writer. It also came with three 3M two sided tape pieces that were cut to fit the FuriouSim and Sim card [...]

Any-Network.com Claims their Sim Chip unlocks iPhone 3G with data

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Any-Network.com has claimed to be the first company to unlock the iphone 3g via a Sim Hack that allows 3G data to be used. They boldly state that:
“Other companies like yes sim, rebel simcard and turbo sim also claim to unlock the phone however you can’t use 3g data and have to keep swapping your [...]

TA_Mobile extracts bootloader 5.8 from iPhone 3G - Unlock Soon?

TA_Mobile is a Vietnamese iPhone hacker and has been hard at work taking apart his new 16Gb white iPhone 3G and has managed extract bootloader 5.8 from the hardware. Although this itself is not a unlock, it does give dev’s like ta_mobile, the Dev Team, GeoHot and others one step closer to unlocking the iPhone 3G baseband.
The bootloader [...]

X-Sim spoofs iPhone 3G - Confirmed

Ta Mobile, one of the Vietnamese hackers responsible for the 1.1.2 hardware unlock, has confirmed that the X-Sim can be used to unlock spoof the iPhone 3G into thinking it’s being used with a legit sim card (thanks for reminding me Z00L).
This comes merely days after a Brazilian group claimed that they had successfully unlocked made calls on the [...]

Rumor - iPhone 3G TurboSim and Universal Sim Unlocking

Since yesterday I saw a YouTube video of a Brazilian bunch of hackers who claim that they have managed to get a iPhone 3G workin on an unauthorized network by using a programmable TurboSim from Bladox.
Here is a little info on the TurboSim if you are unfamiliar:
“The Turbo SIM (also known as TurboSIM) is considered [...]