I believe if I were to purchase a used iPhone 4s that someone had used on AT&T, I would need to jailbreak it to unlock it, from the various tutorials I have read.
Kelly On 7/5/12, Joseph Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > You don't have to jailbreak first - apple do sell an unlocked iPhone for > about 800 dollars. > Cheers, > Joseph > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of jeremy > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 4:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Jail breaking > > Do you not have to jailbreak to unlock the phone though? I'd always assumed > that in order to unlock the phone, it first must be jailbroken. > Take care. > > On 7/5/2012 6:17 PM, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: >> They are very different. Unlocking means your phone is made to work >> with any provider. So, if you have an AT&T phone and you unlock it, >> you can use it with another gsm provider like T-mobile. Jailbreaking >> means you gain access to the root of the phone and can do many nice >> tweaks and add other types of apps. Jailbreaking and unlocking are not >> synonymous. >> >> -- >> Raul A. Gallegos >> Never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck >> Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com >> Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 >> Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 >> >> >> On 7/5/2012 7:09 PM, Jessica Brown wrote: >>> What is the difference between unlocking and jail breaking? I thought >>> that they were 2 separate things. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Blinkin <[email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Date sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:45:28 -0500 >>> Subject: Re: Jail breaking >>> >>> I will cover this also in my podcast. >>> I have had one or two extra bugs while using voice over on my >>> jailbroken iPhone 4 but nothing has ever moved and the bugs are >>> certainly easy to live with. >>> The two biggest I deal with occasionally are folders closing a >>> split second after I open them and I just have to re tap the screen >>> and occasionally when I press the sleep button my phone will take a >>> screen shot instead of locking. >>> to fix this I just tap the home button twice then hit the sleep >>> button and it goes right to sleep. >>> these are the only issues I have ever had with voice over. >>> Everything has worked just fine for me but I have not unlocked my phone. >>> Only jailbroken it. >>> If I am lucky I will have one of these bugs happen tonight when >>> I finish recording. >>> cheers! >>> >>> Mike M >>> On Jul 5, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Kelly Pierce wrote: >>> >>> Greetings from Chicago. I have never owned a cell phone before and >>> really learned the benefit of one when I was in a suburb and asked >>> folks for directions a few times. no one could answer my questions >>> directly. they all turned to their smart phones! I realized I could >>> have the same thing in my hand that was fully accessible. I learned >>> about the Straight Talk service and discovered that iPhone service is >>> now more affordable than high speed Internet access was when I first >>> subscribed more than 10 years ago. >>> >>> to use Straight Talk or most of the other prepaid services, it is >>> necessary to unlock the phone. Unlocking usually requires jail >>> breaking, I understand. Even if it doesn't I would eventually >>> jailbreak anyway for the added flexibility. A friend told me that >>> unlocked and jail broken phones are unstable with Voice Over. He said >>> the places where one gestures or taps to initiate actions can move or >>> change. These shifting locations he said can make it difficult for a >>> blind person to use an unlocked phone. For this reason, he urges >>> blind people to use contract service only. >>> >>> has anyone else experienced this with unlocked or jailbroken phones? >>> Is voice Over less responsive and precise in unlocked or jail broken >>> configurations than an out of the box phone from a contract provider? >>> >>> I appreciate all the contributions people have made in the few days I >>> have been on the list. I have learned so much already. 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