With Jason Madigan’s helpful guide and a very generous donation of a spare TurboSIM (which are as rare as hen teeth thanks to the demand) I’ve hacked my work iPhone and it is now running on the O2 Ireland network. Voice calls, SMS, GPRS/EDGE and all of that good stuff. Thank you Jason.
I first used Macworld’s jailbreak guide, then iActivator and finally Jason’s guide to the TurboSIM.
I also got the GPRS/EDGE settings for O2 Ireland off of here. I should mention that my SIM is a bog standard O2 Pre-Pay SIM. GPRS works fine on it though, just pricey. Jason has the O2 3G flat-rate data package and that works too. Now that I have a mobile device that actually merits using the web I’ll finally upgrade to a decent mobile package.
If you follow the instructions it should work fine. I had to jiggle my O2 SIM around a few times to get it to work but other than that it was pretty easy. It helps to be on Mac OS X and know the terminal (any *nix user will be fine.)
It did take about 2 and a half hours though and much to my amusement Jason tells me there is likely a full software-only hack coming out tonight in a weeks time.
Anyway. I can finally use the phone bits on my work iPhone. Brilliant.
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