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9:51 pm
21/01/10
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Maja
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By mistake I pushed the "Restore" button on itunes when trying to set up the telecom XT settings for my iphone and since itunes tells me that my SIM card does not appear to be supported (Mac 10.5.8, itunes 9,iphone 3GS 32 GB, version 3.1.2 (7D11),not jailbroken) – any suggestions what I could do?
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11:32 pm
21/01/10
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Maja
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just want to add, after having read some topics with the same problem from July last year that my iphone at first
worked fine with my sim card and only stopped doing so after I clicked that restore button on itunes. 3GS is enabled
on my iphone and the sim card is tested on another telecom cell phone where it continues to work fine. any suggestions?
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2:31 pm
22/01/10
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Steve Lawrence
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Hi Maja — was the iPhone bought in NZ? As far as we know you would only get that message if the phone was locked to a particular network. Did you perhaps buy it overseas or somewhere like Parallel Imported and it was previously software unlocked as restoring would undo that unlock.
Cheers
Steve
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8:36 pm
22/01/10
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Maja
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Hi Steve – the phone was bought second hand in germany. It had a lot of stuff on it which didn't suit my needs – that's why I thought restoring it would be a good idea. I got it going now again with the help of the Kool Zone people in Chch and it allowed me to install the XT carrier bundle setting as recommended on your website (I had to do it on a different computer than previously tried though). All seems to work at the moment….. :) Thanks for your support and very helpful website anyway!
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9:10 pm
22/01/10
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Mak
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12:44 pm
26/01/10
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Maja
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me too – but I have found blackra!n on my phone and i didn't know what that was, now after having read a bit more about tethering and other issues i assume it means my phone is jailbroken now…..this feels not right and unfair that pushing the restore button on itunes practically turns a good phone (not jailbroken) into a bad phone (needed obviously jailbreaking to get it going again). What sort of restore button is that??? Now I am not meant to discuss my issues in this forum anymore cause they are probably a result of its jailbroken state….
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2:29 pm
26/01/10
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Mak
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You obviously haven't done something right.
Restoring to firmware in iTunes removes a jailbreak from the device.
Using the blackra1n application adds the jailbreak to the device.
The person you got it from in Germany most likely already used Blackra1n.
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11:31 am
27/01/10
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Steve Lawrence
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Maja said:
me too – but I have found blackra!n on my phone and i didn't know what that was, now after having read a bit more about tethering and other issues i assume it means my phone is jailbroken now…..this feels not right and unfair that pushing the restore button on itunes practically turns a good phone (not jailbroken) into a bad phone (needed obviously jailbreaking to get it going again). What sort of restore button is that??? Now I am not meant to discuss my issues in this forum anymore cause they are probably a result of its jailbroken state….
Maja let me address some of the points you make there — yes, if you've found something called 'blackra!n' on your iPhone then it means it's been 'jailbroken'. Jailbreaking is the act of modifying or hacking the firmware of your iPhone to make it do things that have not been authorised by Apple and are outside of the end user agreement for the device. 'Restoring' your iPhone means that you are restoring it back to its factory condition, so yes it is naturally going to 'delete' the jailbreak which is not part of the factory-installed firmware that Apple supplies. The 'restore' function is available because sometimes, just like with a regular computer, you need to start things afresh. If you reformat your hard drive on your computer and reinstall Windows or Mac OSX afresh on it, it is not going to also re-install all the third-party stuff you had on there. It's the same thing here. Good luck with getting it sorted but we can't help with jailbreak stuff I'm afraid.
Thanks
Steve
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1:47 am
28/01/10
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Maja
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Hi Steve – yeah I definitely learned a lot with this. My misunderstanding was that the iphone is available unlocked everywhere since it is available with free choice of carrier through the nz apple online store. Therefore I thought I am getting such an unlocked iphone as well from Germany, but I learned today that it already was jailbroken when I got it – as you suggested – which I was not aware of. Maybe apple allowed the sales of the free choice carrier iphones only for NZ so far because the NZ market is so small that it really doesn't matter on a world scale?
I have waited meanwhile for almost 2 years for telecom nz to officially sell the iphone….this is really frustrating: there is the iphone, available with all the services I want, there is the carrier telecom covering most of the country really well and
still I have to use a jailbroken phone to be able to use all functions and it did cost me an awful lot of time to find out about all these things. I am not a geek or something, I am just a user who wants the device to really do what it can do and get support with it. That phone is expensive enough that one should be able to expect that. I am not prepared to pay over NZ $ 1300 for a phone which doesn't offer tethering with my carrier. Obviously I made the wrong decision at this point in time, cause I heard today that apple is considering a new 4.0 version which will allow the freedom of carrier choice worldwide?
Cheers anyway
Maja
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10:21 pm
28/01/10
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Chris.
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Apple does not officially comment on upcoming iPhone OS releases until they are officially announced. What you heard was probably just speculation.
I don't think that Apple will end their carrier exclusive iPhone deals all at once. However, they may allow another US carrier (other than AT&T) to officially support iPhones sometime in the near future.
New Zealand is not the only country where unlocked iPhones are for sale. Australia, among others, also sells unlocked iPhones.
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11:24 am
30/01/10
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TheNZguru
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Next time be more careful on eBay…
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