Unlock iPhone 4s

Every iPhone user knows that unlocking your iPhone is great and has many advantages but you also that those advantages won’t mean anything if your iPhone can’t properly function with all of the standard features if the unlock process itself breaks any of your phone’s normal functions. In the early days many of the various unlocking solutions available for the iPhone had a tendency to break or corrupt at least 1 feature, usually either the GPS feature or MMS and Picture/video text messaging.  The problem with these early unlocks were that the native iPhone code and the software behind it was largely unknown and most importantly untested in real world conditions.

Unlocking a single iPhone, running a certain baseband, with certain firmware, and for a certain carrier isn’t actually all that hard if you know what you’re doing, but bringing that unlocking process to the masses where everyone has a slightly different iPhone with different features and different carriers can be a little bit tricky, especially if you want to have a 1 click process. This is where the early unlocks failed because they didn’t take all of these variables into account and they didn’t have as many different phones to test the unlocks on before they were made available. Today broken and half baked unlocks aren’t really a problem but if you use faulty unlocks from untrusted sources you can run into some problems.

Usually the first thing that is fractured and the one that gets the most complaints from iPhone users who use a bad or outdated iPhone unlock is that their GPS no longer works properly or it’s giving them completely wrong info. This is mostly due to poorly coded unlocks re-routing operations through the unlocked baseband which then screws up the data and the iPhone presents you with the wrong information. Another major complaint from bad unlocks is broken text messaging that doesn’t properly thread or doesn’t get sent at all, again this is due to the software of the unlocked baseband getting in the way of the iPhone’s normal functions.

You can avoid these problems by simply using a credible and most importantly tested unlocking solution that has actually been tested on as many iPhones as possible.

If you’re on the fence about unlocking your iPhone 4s and you’re not entirely sure if it’s the right thing to do then maybe you should take some time to think about all of the advantages that unlocking your device can bring you. The first thing that you should keep in mind is that when you unlock your iPhone you’ll be able to use whatever carrier you want from anywhere in the world. Chances are that if you have an iPhone 4s then it’s currently locked down in a 2 year contract with a major carrier and they are probably charging you a lot more than you should be paying, that’s because in order to make a profit off of the phone the carriers have to lock you into expensive contracts in order to subsidize the phone.

Sure this makes the iPhone cheaper in the short term but in the long term you could be overpaying by as much as $600 per year through your contract, for example the average unlocked iPhone user only pays an average of $40 per month for 1500 minutes, unlimited texting, and unlimited data/3g, how much are you currently paying for that level of service? Chances are you’re paying at least $100 per month so on a 24 month contract you could end up paying an extra $1440, not so much of a great deal is it? But saving money on your cell phone carrier is just one part, the other part is having the total and absolute freedom to use whatever carrier you want.

If you feel that a certain service provider is too slow or has too many dropped calls *cough AT&T cough* then you can simply go to a new provider and test out their service for a month to see if they are better for you. The same could be said for travelers, sure most carriers *say* they can do a temporary unlock on your iPhone while you travel overseas but actually getting them to do it can be almost as big a pain as getting your teeth pulled out. Not to mention that when they say “temporary unlock” what they really mean is temporary international roaming which can end up costing you a lot of money depending on where you’re going for your vacation. I don’t know about you but when I’m on vacation I’d rather not worry about roaming minutes or wondering if I’ll get charged with a $30 data fee just for checking in with my friends on facebook.

Another advantage of unlocking is all the benefits that come from jailbreaking your iPhone which will allow you to do things such as free wifi hotspotting with any carrier and no extra fees as well as using the wifi only apps with your 3g connection. Both of these features as well as laptop and netbook tethering will be available on your new service provider as well so you get the full iPhone experience without the limits, charges, and fees of those annoying contract carriers.

It seems like everyday we get more and more people interested in unlocking their iPhone but we also hear more and more concerns about some common myths related to unlocking an iPhone so I think it’s important to address them. We would like to state that unlocking your iPhone is completely 100% safe when using a quality unlocking tutorial that has been tested and even if you do somehow mess up the unlocking process restoring your iPhone to it’s previous settings before you unlocked is as easy as plugging your iPhone into your computer and selecting the “restore” function inside of iTunes which will load up all your previously saved settings and restart/reboot your iPhone with all functions working.

Myth: Only Experienced Hackers Can Unlock An iPhone

False: In the very early versions of iPhone unlocks such as those for the original iPhone this was mostly true but thankfully today the process has become so easy that just about anyone can unlock their iPhone as long as they have a quality unlocking guide that explains the complete process. We have had many success stories and testimonials from people as young as 10 and even people with very little technical know how who couldn’t believe how easy it was use the iPhone unlocking software and when you include our unlocking tutorials with complete pictures and step by step instructions the process becomes even easier.

Myth: Unlocking Can Void Your Warranty

False: The only way unlocking can void your iPhone’s warranty is if you leave your device unlocked whenever you send it in to get checked up at the Apple store or send it in for repair. But it’s very easy to get around this simply by performing an “iPhone restore” via itunes. What this does is roll back and reverse the unlock so that when Apple takes a look at your iPhone they don’t see that you have unlocked and they will honor their warranty 100%. Then when you get your iPhone back from Apple you can simply “re-unlock” your device and continue enjoying your unlocked iPhone service.

Myth: Unlocking is Illegal

False: We don’t know where this myth comes from but it’s completely and totally false, it’s so false that even the congressional office & U.S patent office made a ruling stating that jailbreaking and unlocking any cell phone device (including the iPhone) is completely and 100% legal because YOU own the device so you are able to do whatever you want with it. This myth was probably started by the various phone carriers who managed to lock in exclusive (and as a result overpriced) contracts so that they wouldn’t lose customers to cheaper cell phone providers.

Myth: Unlocking Can Damange Your iPhone

False: this is one of the most common myths and again it really ties into the early versions of iPhone unlocks that were floating around when the first iPhone came out, back then the process wasn’t so easy and one little error could render your iPhone next to useless. But thankfully these days jailbreaking and unlocking is so much easier that the chances of messing up and ruining your iPhone are almost non-existent and if for some reason you do mess up, you can use the backup and restore feature that is available through iTunes so you can reverse and undo the unlock within a matter of minutes. There have been over 100,000 downloads for our iPhone unlocking solution and we’ve never heard of somebody damaging or ruining their iPhone so you can be sure that the entire process is 100% safe and bullet proof.

When you talk to iPhone owners one of the first things that they do when they get their new iPhone is look for the latest and working jailbreak and unlock so that they can immediately start taking advantage of everything that the iPhone has to offer. On it’s own the iPhone is a really great device but one downside is that they don’t really offer as much freedom in using the device that many customers have come to expect from their phones. These days it seems like jailbreaking & unlocking your iPhone is an absolute necessity in order to fully enjoy it, but while these 2 features are often associated with each other (the jailbreak + unlock) they are two completely different things that have completely functions.

What is Jailbreaking?

Jailbreaking is usually the most popular of the two and as we’ll go into later it’s often required in order to unlock an iPhone, what a jailbreak does is simply remove the restrictions that Apple has set on your device, these restrictions are things such as only being able to buy/download apps through the itunes store, only being able to use facetime or streaming youtube videos over wifi instead of 3g, and not allowing you to fully customize the entire look and feel of your iPhone’s interface. A jailbreak is simply a little software hack that gets around all these limitations so you can download apps from 3rd party stores (such as cydia or installous), use wifi only apps over your 3g connection, and even do things like free wifi hotspotting or internet tethering to your laptop or netbook.

What is Unlocking?

Unlocking refers to the process of removing any carrier locks that have been placed on your iPhone so that you can use it with any carrier that you want, in some countries, such as the United States, Apple has entered into exclusivity agreements with many of the major carriers and if you don’t use those carriers then you’re out of luck in terms of getting cell phone service for your iPhone. Thankfully in 2011 Apple has it’s device on 3 of the biggest cell phone carriers in the United States but there are still many other better, and of course cheaper carriers, that aren’t able to carry the iPhone because their networks are locked out. When you unlock your iPhone you’re basically getting around this carrier lockdown by modifying your iPhones baseband firmware so that it can work on any cell phone carrier your want.

Unlocking is a great feature for those who are stuck in a contract and want to switch to a cheaper provider and for those who do a lot of traveling and want to easily switch from one carrier to another without having to fork over almost $800 for the unlocked version of the iPhone. As previously stated, most of the time you’ll need to jailbreak first and then unlock since in order to free your device you need to upload 3rd party code which isn’t possible to do unless you’ve previously jailbroken the device.

The good news is that once you do jailbreak your iPhone, unlocking it is very easy and it only requires a few additional steps. That’s probably why the two are always associated with each other even though you don’t always have to perform both of them.