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iPhone Hacked to Work with Prepaid SIMs
July 19, 2007 |
The iPhone developer wiki announced that a new hack allows the iPhone to work with prepaid cards, specifically, those bought at 7-11s:
Update: we got confirmation that prepaid cards using the AT&T network worked. At least it has been confirmed for 7-11 cards
We wanted to get some confirmations before announcing it, but it seems nearly impossible to find people to try what we wanted to try.
So, as many people already noticed, using iASign, you’ll be able to activate existing AT&T and Cingular Sims without signing a new contract. We think it should work with virtual AT&T operators as well (i.e. the ones using the same network code), but we couldn’t find someone to actually confirm it yet. You can get a list of those virtual operators at http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/usa.html. Please note that TracFone and Net10 won’t work due to some technical details. If anyone could try it out on one of those prepaid cards, that would be great.
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It doesn’t work, i just bought a tracfone and won’t work in my iphone i have this iphone deactivated and was working in mexico, now i’m using a prepaid simcard from at&t, been back and switched to mexico’s ph sim card and work well today i buy this tracfone and doesn’t work, any suggestion? can i do something to the simcard?