help with iphone please

[Canker_Canison]

So its not imei blocked and is locked to orange. Now you could either live with an orange phone or unlock to any network with the ipad (6.15) baseband. Bear in mind it CAN take up to three months from the phone being reported missing to actually being blacklisted.

Just to clear this up. If reported to Orange as lost/stolen the blacklisting is immediate, within 10 mins, for both the SIM & handset.

The blacklist data is shared with all UK networks...but this can take 3 months to be picked up.
The network that applied the blacklisting is the only one that can remove it.

But any network can blacklist a UK phone, no matter where it came from. As long as the IMEI is shown as being used with the account holders SIM it can be blocked if reported as lost/stolen. It cannot be blocked for non payment of a contract, if it's not the original handset or direct replacement. Or, if it does not show as being used with the account holders SIM.


Getting back to the thread.... The phone is working with an Orange SIM, so it is not blacklisted & won't be in the future as enough time has passed for the owner to report it.

[Freezzby]

Why would a lost iphone with an orange sim card installed on that baseband (not unlocked) be an O2 phone? Do you have model numbers for orange versions, because I cant find any? I would appreciate your information if you have all uk carrier model numbers.
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The phone haved a code on it when he found it.
On previous version you were able to unlock the phone without changing the baseband.What tell you that the phone was not jailbreaked and sim unlocked with redsnow ultrasn0w ?

Yes the blacklisting is immediate .

[billy2]

ok guys the old Orange sim card (in the phone when found is working) no info on the card , got new sim card today also from Orange (payg) and that is working (looking at the sim cards the chips are Chips of Different dont know it that will do anything, anyone know if Limera1n can be used on this phone been reading on some forums it can and others are saying no it cant ????

[markieg]

Read the thread pal. ! Can't be arsed to answer ,yet if the phone is blacklisted then it would only work abroad anyway.....blah blah blah

Read my post pal, that's what I said

[markieg]

ok guys the old Orange sim card (in the phone when found is working) no info on the card , got new sim card today also from Orange (payg) and that is working (looking at the sim cards the chips are Chips of Different dont know it that will do anything, anyone know if Limera1n can be used on this phone been reading on some forums it can and others are saying no it cant ????

Billy2, limera1n can only jailbreak the phone. To unlock to any network you have to jailbreak then ultrasn0w with an ipad baseband 6.15 as many have advised already.

[markieg]

The phone haved a code on it when he found it.
On previous version you were able to unlock the phone without changing the baseband.What tell you that the phone was not jailbreaked and sim unlocked with redsnow ultrasn0w ?

Yes the blacklisting is immediate .

Yes I agree that imei blacklisting is immediate, it can take other networks up to 3 months to blacklist also.
Not sure what your on about when you mention code? Do you mean itunes error codes? Then this is normal and can be booted by Tinyumbrella / ireb etc.
It was impossible to unlock the OP baseband with the details he supplied, thats how I could tell.

[markieg]

Yes I have a list but some time there are refurbished phones that circule and can came from one operator and after repair will be given to another.
There are list on the web also :
Country: UK
Carrier: O2 MB489B/A
MB496B/A
MB500B/A
MC131B/A
MC132B/A
MC133B/A
MC134B/A

This is very basic info that can be found just by typing iphone carrier for o2 in google. What about Vodafone, Orange etc

[billy2]

Billy2, limera1n can only jailbreak the phone. To unlock to any network you have to jailbreak then ultrasn0w with an ipad baseband 6.15 as many have advised already.

yes m8 i know what mickydibble and others have said, i have alos seeing all the posts on dev-team blog saying there is a lot of probs updating to the 6.15 baseband with the lose of wifi ,battery life or no signal from network,and gps probs so iam trying to find out is is it better to hold of on the untethered jailbreak or just go and do it ??? has anyone done it are you having any probs after it

[markieg]

yes m8 i know what mickydibble and others have said, i have alos seeing all the posts on dev-team blog saying there is a lot of probs updating to the 6.15 baseband with the lose of wifi ,battery life or no signal from network,and gps probs so iam trying to find out is is it better to hold of on the untethered jailbreak or just go and do it ??? has anyone done it are you having any probs after it

Billy2, what do you want to happen to your phone, do you want to keep it for yourself orange (ir) or do you want to unlock to any network and then sell it? I have done six maybe seven iphones to the 6.15 baseband and the only notable effect is loss of gps which is almost definate, battery drain is due to hacktivating phone and not inserting original sim card via itunes, wifi problems I have never encountered from jailbreaking. I have a couple of phones pre/post whatever, that have wifi issues that is down to bad solder joints from factory. There is info to be found in google on that subject as well.