American Iphone 3GS

[Inky1980]

Howzit all,

I know there is a million posts about jail broken iPhones and so on, but none really give me an answer. My brother is sending me his old iPhone 3GS from America, he has done the jailbreak and he has removed the network lock. I haven't received the phone yet, but I have a few questions.

1. Is it possible to successfully jailbreak and unlock American Iphones (3GS in particular) for South African use? (This isn't an AT&T handset)

2. He has upgraded to iOS 5 for me. Let say the phone works with my Vodacom sim, will I have to jailbreak it after every update?

Thank you in advance!

 

[mercurial]

You should speak to fxit_man

 

[Lounger]

The latest firmware is quite slow on the 3GS. Maybe not such a great idea to use it. Battery life is also limited, esp if it's old.

 

[Inky1980]

Thanks I'll Pm him!

 

[Synaesthesia]

Howzit all,

I know there is a million posts about jail broken iPhones and so on, but none really give me an answer. My brother is sending me his old iPhone 3GS from America, he has done the jailbreak and he has removed the network lock. I haven't received the phone yet, but I have a few questions.

1. Is it possible to successfully jailbreak and unlock American Iphones (3GS in particular) for South African use? (This isn't an AT&T handset)

2. He has upgraded to iOS 5 for me. Let say the phone works with my Vodacom sim, will I have to jailbreak it after every update?

Thank you in advance!

1. Yes, in fact your brother may already have done it for you.
2. Yes, you will have to.

 

[mercurial]

1. Yes, in fact your brother may already have done it for you.
2. Yes, you will have to.

Sorry, I forgot about you

 

[Inky1980]

1. Yes, in fact your brother may already have done it for you.
2. Yes, you will have to.

Thanks for the info!

I guess I'll have to do that myself once the next update is out. I hope its not too difficult...

 

[sand_man]

1. Is it possible to successfully jailbreak and unlock American Iphones (3GS in particular) for South African use? (This isn't an AT&T handset)

2. He has upgraded to iOS 5 for me. Let say the phone works with my Vodacom sim, will I have to jailbreak it after every update?

Thank you in advance!

A network locked iPhone running iOS 5 would inevitably be running the latest baseband which can only be unlocked by the network that implemented the lock in the 1st place. If the 3GS is not network locked you need not worry but if it is network locked and running 5.0.1 chances are it won't work on our local networks.

Updating the phones firmware wipes all traces of the jailbreak so yes, after every update one would have to re-jailbreak depending of course on the availability of a jailbreak.