Unlock iphone 4s

gazzaman22

Anybody know how i can unlock a brand new phone i got from three as an upgrade as i wish to sell it? Three wont unlock it unless i pay my 12 month contract upfront.... Is there a way to get around this?

Thanks in advance

pbarr

You could try a Gevey Ultra sim. It worked for me on a 4s on Meteor. The only thing about it is the personal hotspot won't work but other than that it worked fine.

Dublinstiofán

Theres no way to permanently unlock them unless three do it for you. You'll have to just sell them locked to the Three network

Nemeses2050

You can't unlock, you can get it Jail breaked but that's different. That's one of the reasons I haven't used my upgrade from Three for 5S and thinking of moving from them.

TriStar6

Nemeses2050 wrote: »

You can't unlock, you can get it Jail breaked but that's different. That's one of the reasons I haven't used my upgrade from Three for 5S and thinking of moving from them.

No problem at all unlocking iPhones.
I bought this: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/iPHONE-4-4S-3GS-PERMANENT-UNLOCKING-SERVICE-VODAFONE-IRELAND-FACTORY-UNLOCK-/200739938369?pt=UK_Phones_Software_RL&hash=item2ebd086041

For my Vodafone locked iPhone, they unlock on Apples servers/Databases and you follow instructions and connect phone to Itunes and it gets officially unlocked!!! €30 but well worth it for official unlocking and no messing about!

pbarr

TriStar6 wrote: »

No problem at all unlocking iPhones.
I bought this: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/iPHONE-4-4S-3GS-PERMANENT-UNLOCKING-SERVICE-VODAFONE-IRELAND-FACTORY-UNLOCK-/200739938369?pt=UK_Phones_Software_RL&hash=item2ebd086041

For my Vodafone locked iPhone, they unlock on Apples servers/Databases and you follow instructions and connect phone to Itunes and it gets officially unlocked!!! €30 but well worth it for official unlocking and no messing about!

Is that not just for Iphones locked to Vodafone?

Gadge

pbarr wrote: »

Is that not just for Iphones locked to Vodafone?

That is correct, there is no way to get a proper unlock unless it's sanctioned by 3, from my experience.

Those Gevey's are useless, when I had one for my iPhone 4, you couldn't use 3G on my 3 network, the battery ran down more quickly, and when I did an IOS update, it knocked it out completely.

Waste of money. Same goes for all chip-based solutions.

pbarr

Gadge wrote: »

That is correct, there is no way to get a proper unlock unless it's sanctioned by 3, from my experience.

Those Gevey's are useless, when I had one for my iPhone 4, you couldn't use 3G on my 3 network, the battery ran down more quickly, and when I did an IOS update, it knocked it out completely.

Waste of money. Same goes for all chip-based solutions.

I had no problems like that at all. My 4s was locked on Meteor and I wanted to change to Tesco Mobile and it worked perfectly.

pbarr

You could also jailbreak and try this. I haven't tried it but I intend to.

Gadge

pbarr wrote: »

I had no problems like that at all. My 4s was locked on Meteor and I wanted to change to Tesco Mobile and it worked perfectly.

At the time I checked, it worked fine on Meteor and 48, but not on 3, regarding the 3G internet. I brought it up because the OP's iPhone is locked to 3.

Gadge

pbarr wrote: »

You could also jailbreak and try this. I haven't tried it but I intend to.

Unfortunately that was patched up pretty quickly by Apple.

http://www.ijailbreak.com/iphone/sam-iphone-ios-5-unlock-no-longer-works/