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Nothing is impossible for a determined man with Two & a half days & Google.

Have an Iphone 3G that I bought off craigslist a couple of years ago in the US. It has only been trouble since then. I have done nearly everything to get it to work such as:

• Driving to a remove place in Nagarbhavi to pick up a turbo SIM,
• Pwangetool on Mac, Redsn0w, blackra1n, sn0wbreeze on windows
• Restarting windows hundreds on times.
• Re-installing itunes a few ten times.
• Putting iphone in all modes (DFU, Recovery, hard reboot) hundreds of times,
• A folder full of IPSWs starting from ios 3.0 upto 4.2 etc.

It has always worked at varying levels, just that I have spent a truck load of my time on it. There is a sewerage that runs behind my house. I thought this iphone’s rightful place is the drain. Not anymore. everything (Except wifi) is working smoothly. The problem is not lack of information about jailbreaking & unlocking on the internet, but too much of it. It is only fair that many are confused. I was.

This is for you if you need to “jailbreak” & “unlock”. So, without adding to more confusion with another stey by step tutorial, very briefly, this is what you should keep in mind:

• If you are on a baseband that begins with 04, stay there.
• If you are on a baseband that begins with 05, Your only option is to upgrade to the ipad baseband. Kudos to folks at the iphone dev team. What a hack!
• Furthermore, dont bother with ios 4.1, you can never get into to install. Move straight to ios 4.2
• Never restore to a stock IPSW via itunes.
• Different sn0wbreeze versions work for different IPSW versions.
• Use Redsn0w if you need to jailbreak.
• The downloads for all the tools are all over the place. Exercise caution.
• Install iphonebrowser to connect & change files via usb. You may need this to enable editing APN settings.
• Use cyder2 to install Ultrasn0w for carrier unlock incase wifi doesnt work.
• All the very best.

Nothing is impossible for a determined man with Two & a half days & Google. Hence proved.

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