YouTube and Unlocked iPhones

First off, if you can’t get YouTube working on your unlocked iPhone then you’re not alone. However, there is a solution!

http://www.hacktheiphone.com/iphone_making_you_tube_work.html

Please note that we don’t particularly endorse the solutions here…all we know is that our unlock works. But you can give this a shot and it should work!

As for the unlocked-out-of-the-box iPhones, we had two of them but both sold today. We will be ordering more in the near future. We’ll post a link to the eBay auction for the phone here. Generally the way it will go is we’ll send out one iPhone to the highest bidder, then give the next-highest bidder a “second chance offer” so we can “kill two birds with one stone” so to speak.

Even More!

Send over your IMEI number to imei@freeit4less.com! We’ve got yet another 100 unlocks in today! With this amount of unlocks, everyone should be able to get their unlock right now!

Status Update…More Unlocks!

As of this morning, we got our second order in! 100 more unlocks! WHich means you should send in your IMEI so we can get your phone ready for freedom!

We’ve also ordered another 100 unlocks today, so that all our orders will be covered. And if that doesn’t do it, another order of 100 tomorrow or so should!

In short, the wait is about to be over for iPhone freedom!

Want an Unlocked iPhone?

There have been several requests for unlocked-out-of-the-box iPhones. We’re proud to announce that we’re already selling them…though at the moment the quantity is just one phone:

 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290160322660&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=019

As to payment methods, there have been requests for other methods of payment besides Google Checkout. To which our answer is that Google Checkout is currently the best option for providing great service at the lowest possible price for iPhoneSIMFree licenses. Using a different payment method would incur extra charges that would add on to the price of the unlock. However, we will consider adding other payment methods in the future.

Another Unlock Tutorial

This is form one of our competitors, iPhoneWorldWideUnlock (who looks to have more of a backlog than we do though they also have sold more licenses than we have)…might help you the few who want to unlock on a Mac…

http://iphoneworldwideunlock.com/install.html

Again, the process is similar on Windows, except you use the iBrickr app.

Sites and Servers

Just as an update, we’ve sold over two hundred licenses now…which means that after this bunch of 100 unlock licenses comes in we will be ordering a large quantity to cover everyone who has ordered unlocks so far…and then some! Naturally, those who have purchased unlocks first will get theirs first, but everyone on the aiting list will be able to get their unlock in jsut a few days.

Site-wise, you may have noticed that things have changed here at It’s Your iPhone. This site now serves to provide information about what we offer, news about what we’re doing, and a place for resellers to buylarger quantities of unlocks than our consumer-focused system might allow. If you’re looking for single or low-quantity (four or less licenses) unlocks,go to www.freeit4less.com…we’re the same people.

One more thing: freeit4less.com is now being hosted on different servers. We were running the site off of our own systems through a T1 line, and were experiencing system failures, bottlenecks and other undesirable effects for doing so. We have now moved to a shared hosting plan with a 20-gigabit pipe coming from the facility, tons of bandwidth and much higher reliability. This should translate into a faster experience at www.freeit4less.com, allowing us to provide information and the like to more customers at a time via web without our system slowing to a crawl.  Hope it helps!

More Info, More Testamonials

You asked for how to get the SIMFree app onto the iPhone. Here are the programs…one for Windows, one for Mac, and one for iPhone (the actual SIMFree app)

iBrickr (Windows)
iNdependence (Mac)
SimFree App (iPhone)

Please note that you’ll have to do these four things to get your iPhone unlocked, all but step 3 requiring the Windows or Mac apps shown above. You can find the actual unlock tutorial (once the app is on the iPhone) at www.freeit4less.com/guide

1. Fake-activate with AT&T SIM to get a functioning iPhone
2. Jailbreak (usually automatic with software) and load SIMFree app onto iPhone
3. Run SIMFree app
4. Put in your SIM and fake-activate (necessary because of the way the iPhone\iPhone service works)

Hope this helps everyone! Now for some more testamonials…

“I just want to say thank you. Works great.”
Ken

“Hi guys…its working fantastic…..thanks so much, the program is the best, everithing in your guide is good…your are the best…”
Francisco

To get YouTube working, see this post

To use your iPhone on T-Mobile, after being unlocked, you probably want to sign up for a contract plan with the more expensive data package (word has it that the $5.99 TMobileWeb package doesn’t cut it for the iPhone). However, if you don’t need internet everywhere over EDGE (WiFi works evern when the phone doesn’t have a SIM in it), you can get the contract without the data or, alternatively, go prepaid with T-Mobile To Go, with severely limited data availability, though it is still there. You wil need to go into Settings and input T-Mobile’s internet access information, but after that data will work just like on any other T-Mobile plan.

Quick, but Important, Announcement

In the past twenty-four hours we here at It’s Your iPhone have heard of something: a free, full, software unlock by the folks at the iPhone Dev team and elsewhere:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=353612

We might as well be upfront about it: you can now unlock an iPhone via software for free.

Small problem though: the unlock appears to take half an hour to an hour (as opposed to maybe 5-10 minutes with iPhoneSIMFree, the solution we sell), and requires lots of steps of typing things into commandlines and such. If you’re commandline-savvy and feel like taking the plunge with this (proven successful actually) unlock technique, go for it…but keep in mind that right now you’re walking a tightrope as the unlock has only been operational for a day or two.

Because of this, we will be continuing to offer the iPhoneSIMFree unlock at our everyday low prices and providing information about it. If you want to unlok your phone with the other method, please ask elsewhere for support. However, if you are interested in the free unlock and don’t mind sending your phone off, we can personally perform the unlock and send the phone back to you, all for a little less (because of shipping costs) than the iPhoneSIMFree unlock. If you’re interested in this service let us know.

But we’re going to keep selling iPhoneSIMFree, the fast, tried-and-true, proven, well-documented, easy-to-use software unlock solution that has made the news on several occasions now, at least until an euqally easy-to-use, equally-stable, equally foolproof solution comes out elsewhere.

Video of how it works!

Take a look at this phonedog.com video of the iPhone…unlocked…by us!

If you need proof of concept I think  this should be enough…

Status Update…Sold Out Again!

Looks like we’re sold out again, folks.

Also, iPhoneSIMFree let us know that they haven’t yet received our first wire transfer (for the 50 unlocks we’ve aready sent out). That’s why they haven’t send out the second bunch of unlocks yet. Stupid banks. But it shouldn’t take too much longer for them to get the payment, and for us to get the 100 unlocks.

As far as more unlocks go, we should be able to order more Friday or Monday. Based on demand we’ll be getting another 50 or 100 licenses. We also have an important announcement coming soon…