How to Unlock Your iPhone 3GS OS 3.0 With UltraSn0w

3 July 2009 by Vinay 12 Comments

These are instructions on how to software unlock the iPhone 3GS with OS 3.0 for use with any GSM cell phone carrier. Before you can follow these instructions you must have a jailbroken iPhone if you haven’t jailbreaked your iPhone 3G then follow our Guide Guide to Jailbreak your iPhone 3GS with Purplera1n For unlocking your iPhone UltraSn0w, a soft unlock payload from iPhone Dev Team is using. UltraSn0w is a small daemon that is launched on boot. It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset. You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. Once you have a Jailbreaked iPhone then you can use these easy steps to Unlock your iPhone.

Before getting started make sure your iPhone is jailbreaked with PurpleRa1n and Cydia is installed on your iPhone. The procedure and repo of Ultrasn0w is same as iPhone 3G.

Disclaimer : I am not responsible for any damage during the jailbreak and unlock process. Planetbeing already demonstrated iPhone 3GS Unlock With Ultrasn0w Successful. Also Purplera1n is in beta form and there are some bugs. T mobile users make sure to turn off 3G in settings before applying Ultrasn0w. 80% results are positive but most of them complaints about no WiFi. So if you prefer unlock over WiFi only then use this guide.

Step One : Press to launch Cydia Installer from your SpringBoard.

Step Two : Press to select the Manage tab at the bottom of the screen.

Step Three : Press to select the large Sources button

Step Four : Press the Edit button at the top right of the screen.

Step Five : Press the Add button at the top left of the screen.

Step Six : Enter http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com/ as the source url and press the Add Source button.

Step Seven : Once the source has been added press the large Return to Cydia button.

Step Eight : Press the Done button at the top right of the screen.

Step Nine : Press to select http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com/ from the list of user entered sources.

Step Ten : Press to select ultrasn0w from the list of packages.

Step Eleven : Press the Install button at the top right of the screen.

Step Twelve : Press the Confirm button at the top right of the screen.

Step Thirteen : After installation completes successfully press the large Return to Cydia button.

Step Fourteen : Now press the Home button then power off and power on the iPhone. You do this by holding down the power button for 3 seconds then moving the power slider that appears to the right. Press the power button again to turn on the phone.

Step Fifteen : You should now be able to insert the SIM of your choice!

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12 Comments »

lucky said:

Many thanks! It’s working!!!

# 4 July 2009 at 5:10 am

Eddie said:

I am going to order my 3Gs tonight and use with my Tmobile To go prepaid card, thanks.

# 5 July 2009 at 5:34 am

Zeus said:

everything worked great.. the jailbreak and unlock… but the service keeps going in and out, like every 5mins… i am able to use edge network from tmobile on the phone but i can not make phone calls. any ideas why this could be happening?? thanks

# 5 July 2009 at 7:20 am

Sheldon Rogers said:

Everything worked great.. the jailbreak and unlock… but the service keeps going in and out, like every 5mins… i am able to use edge network from tmobile on the phone but i can not make phone calls. any ideas why this could be happening?? thanks

# 5 July 2009 at 8:39 pm

iUsr said:

Does anyone know what the today released 0.8 Version of ultrasn0w changes? Is it safe to install? I have it as an update in Cydia and don’t know if i should install it. Because everything works now on my 3GS…

# 7 July 2009 at 4:09 pm

Vinay (author) said:

@ iUsr if your phone is running well then you don’t have any need to re Ultrasn0w your phone again.

# 7 July 2009 at 5:37 pm

Vinay (author) said:

@ Sheldon Rogers Reset your Network Settings Once.

# 8 July 2009 at 2:41 pm

Getschi said:

Did the unlock with my 3GS but afterwards my Wifi didnt work…

I uninstalled the package and it works…

So I will wait for a update..

# 10 July 2009 at 8:10 pm

AJ said:

Hey,
I’ve got an iPhone 3G 16GB running Version3.0 but I’ve done all the above steps using cydia and ultrasnow but after rebooting and entering a sim I get an activation screen which says this may take a few moments. I don’t understand why and also after turning the airplane mode on and off I get no bars of signal or recognised network. How do I overcome this and get the iPhone working please? Thanks guy.

# 1 August 2009 at 8:10 pm