Unlocked German iPhone not working

Could you please stop your stupid rants. You might not have noticed, but the iPhone is sold unlocked in Germany, so please let people discuss their legitimate support issues here.

hi patrick,

same success for me. i tried a german sim card and it works perfectly. i try to restore the phone now.

more infos later.

bernhard

I have the exact same disfunctions too. I bough the iPhone friday at a official T-mobile store in Germany. I already had the newest software version 1.1.2 on it.

- I can't call the phone
- I can't open the SMS app after receiving SMS
- I can't open last-calls list
- I can't dial phone numbers in the dial-app.

At all these the functions the phone jumps out to the home menu.

I have already reset the iPhone via iTunes. Get a new dutch T-Mobile SIM-card today. It didn't help. I still have the problems. But like mentioned, the iPhone is brand new, officialy bough in a T-mobile store. Beside that i haven't hacked it or something. I had the problems form the start.

My iPhone is officialy unlocked by T-mobile and Apple via the EMEI-code via iTunes. My carrier is the Dutch T-Mobile.

hi,

i found out that the phone works with an german sim card. someone said, that this happens with sim cards of countries that do not offer iphones.

i dont know what to do.

sorry bad news.
it didnt help a thing.
i now found out that it depends on the sim card. if you have a sim card of a country in which the iphone is not available it doesnt work.
tmobil austria said, that you need configurations for your sim card, but they dont have one for the iphone.

sorry, but i dont give up

@ aTallMacUser @ 26-nov-2007 14:53

That seems to me very unlikely. Apple is a decent company. The suggestion that Apple might have made the phone unusable, outside the 4 current countries to be used, seems to me illogical. For two reasons:
1. The functions work until you make a call or have received a SMS.
2. Apple had ensured a normal message on the screen. This strange quick jump to the home menu is not very Apple.

In addition, it would be illegal. And once again, Apple is a decent company. Again two reasons:
1. T-mobile had to say this during the sale. In my case it was clear that I was a foreigner and that I wanted to use the iPhone in the Netherlands.
2. Such a blockade is not in accordance with European consumer law.

Unlocked, he means the Legal way.
A German court in Hamburg ruled that T-Com must sell the phones unlocked.
Therefore he had a legally purchased iPhone that was sold - legally unlocked.
Meaning the phone was not SIM locked at POS and still didn't work.

All of the described problems are occuring also on my i-phone. Bought it in Vienna at Saturn.

hi christian,

sorry for you. i am from linz. bought a phone on friday in rosenheim and try since saturday to get a solution for this ****.
it depends that we are using sim cards from austria.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/mobil/0,1518,519700,00.html

but probably you can find a solution with saturn. please let me know if you sort something out.

gruesse bernhard

Hope so, I will go there tomorrow, altough I have no idea, what they should do. I tried mine w A1 and it was activted within 1 minute. Nevertheless, number dialing, caller lists are not working, incoming calls are not ringing.... Tried it then w ONE, same problems Initialized, resetted, the full program....

I will let you know.
Best regards
Christian

guys. confirm... got one of those thingies for 999 euros from germany. now i am in swtzerland using it with a swiss carrier SIM.... first some problems... nothing work... not even activation. after that i bought a brand new SIM from my swiss provider SWISSCOM. they said it's a new format of the SIM (new in 2007) with that it surpriseingly worked... it was activated!!! so it didnt work with my 04-SIM... only 3 years old!!! guys... you just need a new SIM from you actual providers... and if they dont support this new thingie... your screwed i guess....

talk to you later if you hav any questions i can help....