iPhone 1.1.2 SIM-lock Bypassed [Sketchy Alert]
We’re not saying that this possibly-sketchy Chinese online retailer is trying to swindle you, but you can be sure that we won’t be ordered any of these ourselves. One-stop-china.com is claiming their X-Sim II hardware solution will spoof newer iPhones shipped with the new bootloader and 1.1.2 preinstalled. X-Sim II won’t unlock your phone, but according to the site it will cause the iPhone to bypass the SIM-check stage of the booting process and allow it to work on any network. Re-he-heally? The process as described is simple enough: Jailbreak your iPhone, pop your SIM into the X-Sim II adapter, pop the combo into the iPhone’s SIM tray and slide it on in. One-stop-china.com also claims that the device will work with AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodaphone, ORANGE, Mobile , o2, Tesco, CosmOTE, Tim and Virgin. Rock on. If you do have the marbles to even consider ordering one, take particular note of the warning at the bottom of their page. "We can’t guarantee that X-SIM, and we can’t offer any refund about it". Translation: "If this thing turns out to be nothing more than a useless plastic chip, enjoy your $45 guitar pick because we don’t want to hear about it". On the other hand, we could be way off and this thing might work perfectly. For $45 it might be worth checking out, but don’t come crying to us when your identity is stolen and you have to turn tricks to make ends meet…
[Via JAMPB]
Some guy is selling these exact chips on Craigslist here in Denver. Calling these Sonic Sim. $80 and he unlocks them right in front of you, I was skeptical to but he claims it works with the brand new boot loader version. So ehhh…
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Your very late, these have been around for ages. They are called *sim on most sites because there are so many models. StealthSim is one for example, they do work but are very expensive for what they are and the sim card needs to be cut to fit onto the *sim.
http://www.modmyifone.com
http://www.hackintosh.org
You should prob have a perusal of one of those sites.
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Kingsim, Stealthsim, XSim, etc are basically the same thing. There are different generations/versions of the same concept. The original one was the TurboSim made by Bladox that is a programmable PIC that interfaces with the SIM and the phone.
These cheaper models are not upgradeable but they do work. $45 is cheap, they were around $100 a couple of weeks ago. I bought some of these (they look the same) and they work fine with most SIM cards. The main problem with some is aligning them with some SIM cards. If it moves the phone will say “No SIM” and you need to re-position the whole thing.
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late in the game. This is old news. Tell me exciting things about the new BB 8XXX series.
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Yupp.. these have been around for a long while…
They seem to work quite well from the info i have seen on hackint0sh. I will consider purchasing some sort of *sim when 1.1.3 comes out. That is if this solution still works with that firmware..
I gotta get me some of that triangulation love…
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Wow, the flaming hoops people flay themselves with in order to get sugar into their eyes.
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Can you say identity theft?
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Check Hackint0sh.org before you go purchasing these.
There are much…much better solutions out there.
May not be as cheap as 45.00, but you will get something that works.
N41
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i work for a wireless company and i had a customer come in with an iphone with this chip. it does work his works perfectly fine with it.
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