The journey into the world of iOS began in June 2010. The first obstacle was in acquiring the iPhone. The cost was round Rs. 38,000 in India then. Since m brother was in the States during that time, I wanted to figure out an economical way to get an iPhone. Hence, the intense search began – the web, iPhone owners in India who managed to get it from foreign and the grey market. Finally, I found chicago.craigslist.org wherein one could buy/sell goods. My brother bought a pre-owned iPhone 3GS 16GB model which was 3 weeks old for $270!
But, Alas! When he handed it over India, I found it wouldn’t work with my SIM card here. Then again – storming browse sessions began for a few days. I gathered all the information about jailbreaking and unlocking. Now, it is the time to experiment. I downloaded the ipsw firmware file of iOS 4.0.1, installed Hackintosh on my laptop and created a custom ipsw file. After that I needed to do a restore from iTunes. After many futile attempts, I managed to find a fix for the “hosts” file and installed my first jailbroken iOS! Luckily, the modem firmware version was not upgraded and I was able to unlock my iPhone via Ultrasn0w.
I upgraded to iOS 4.3.3 without any issues. I was always kept myself updated about the latest releases to check if there were “unthetered” jailbreaks available. Since iOS 4.3.5 didn’t have an unthetered jailbreak, I waited for iOS 5.0.1. In the awe of the new features I upgraded my iPhone.
Oops! My battery drained recklessly! After comparing the features of iOS 4.3.3 and iOS 5 I found that not many apps require iOS 5. I decided to downgrade to iOS 4.3.3. This was the biggest mistake committed. My baseband got upgraded to 05.16.02!
Frantically storming through the web, I found that I had to install iPad baseband(06.15.00). After reinstalling iOS 4.3.3 with iPad baseband, Ultrasn0w still didn’t work. And whoop I go again – I found a Commcenter patch, but this time for iOS 5.0.1.
And here I am; with an iPhone 3gs on iOS 5.0.1 with iPad baseband, jailbroken using sn0breeze, unlocked by ultrasn0w!
