How to Backup Your iPhone Unlock Ticket

Posted April 22, 2012 at 4:48pm by iClarified | Please help us and submit a translation by clicking here | 105323 views

These are instructions on how to backup your iPhone unlock ticket after unlocking with SAM. It's very important you do this to ensure continued unlock of your SIM in the future.

If you haven't already unlocked using SAM, you can follow this unlock tutorial.

Step One
Launch Cydia from your SpringBoard.

Step Two
Choose Sections from the tabs at the bottom of the screen.

Step Three
Select System from the list of sections.

Step Four
Press to select iFile from the list of packages.

Step Five
Press the Install button at the top right of the screen.

Step Six
Press Confirm to begin installation.

Step Seven
Once the installation has completed successfully, press the large Return to Cydia button.

Step Eight
Press the Home button then launch iFile from your SpringBoard.

Step Nine
Press the Back button at the top left of your screen to navigate to /var.

Step Ten
Choose root from the list of folders in /var.

Step Eleven
Tap to select Library from the list of folders in /var/root.

Step Twelve
Press the Edit button at the top right of the screen.

Step Thirteen
Choose Lockdown from the list of folders. Then press the zip icon in the tab bar. It's the second from the left.

Step Fourteen
Name your archive so you know what SIM card its for. Then press the Create button.

Step Fifteen
Choose the archive we created from the list of files. Then press the mail icon in the tab bar. It's the third from the right.

Step Sixteen
Email yourself the archive. Be sure to keep it in a safe place!

IMPORTANT:
You should perform the unlock procedure and this backup procedure for every SIM you want to use with your iPhone.

Alternatively, if you do not want to use iFile, you can simply SSH into the directory above and copy that file over to your computer. Be sure to save it in a safe place! If you are not sure on how to SSH, we have a [Windows] tutorial and a [Mac] tutorial.

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Itaym - March 18, 2013 at 6:54pm

http://www.rapidunlockers.com/ try this one, I unlocked my phone on very fast (about 6 hours total) and cheap, now i can update to any version without having to worry that my phone will be locked ever again, it was the cheapest price that i found on the net only 9$ !!!

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nick - November 29, 2012 at 5:56am

if i forget my password... i already purchase this, can this be used???

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Fred - September 1, 2012 at 2:23pm

For activating each sim card the iPhone uses the folder ( LOCKDOWN ) so once you unlock the sim rename the folder lockdown to that sim. If you don't rename the lockdown folder it gets written over. After your done the same process to each sim there should be folders with the names of each sim, which ever sim you want to use you have to rename that folder back to lockdown for the iPhone to read it. You can only have one folder at a time called lockdown. This is the reason for saving the tickets so you can easily switch sims and they are activated.

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Adrian2b4u - April 23, 2012 at 9:04am

Hy I have a QUESTION,last friday I was playing with my IPHONE 4S IOS 5.1 and I have reverted all my setting to stock,and I lost my ACTIVATION....... So after pluging in and out my GEVEY sim with my not original carrier sim and than the non-orig sim without the gevey I HAVE MANAGED TO UNLOCK MY IPHONE 4S From carrier 3 SWEDEN to ORANGE ROMANIA!!!!!!!! . IS THERE A WAY TO SAVE MY UNLOCK TICKET??? IN CASE APPLE FINDS A WAY TO F>>K MY LUCK

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Ahmed Osama - April 23, 2012 at 9:35am

u didn't get a ticket to save, the GIEVEY ULTRA S works in a way that it had to be set once, and after that, u don't have to redo the settings again, I guess that what happened is that the settings is already saved on ur iPhone so that u didn't need the GIEVEY chip again, because it has already done it's job and saved it to ur iPhone. That's my guessing :)

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Adrian2b4u - April 23, 2012 at 10:02am

Thats not the case!!! Tha iPhone was completely restored to factory, it was asking for activation I have tried like 6 times to activate it with and without Gevey then out of nowhere it said IPhone activated with the non- orig Sim inside. And I pretty that I got the unlock/ lock problem from the Apple server because my iPhone works only with this particular non-original sin from this carrier and only this one ,another Sim from the same carrier does not work on the iPhone it asks for activation again.

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Ahmed Osama - April 23, 2012 at 10:13am

actually that's what GIEVEY does, it activates your iPhone to a particular SIM card, and I guess that's what happened, so if you used another SIM card with GIEVEY and then took out the GIEVEY, you will have the same result. Again, assumption only :)

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Tom - April 22, 2012 at 8:03pm

Yeah this should be called a semi unlock cause its only an unlock for one specific sim card. I honestly would prefer a gevey or more ideally the sending your imei in way to unlock it.

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Ahmed Osama - April 23, 2012 at 12:36am

This is free dude :)

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Tom - April 23, 2012 at 4:14am

yeah and i appreciate the dude for finding about this but still... it would be nice to have a full unlock instead. also the at&t way is free.

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Ahmed Osama - April 23, 2012 at 4:25am

AT&T's solution has some restrictions, not all subscribers are eligible. If you wanted to be free, u should have a factory unlocked iPhone from the beginning ;) That's what I always do :)

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Tom - April 23, 2012 at 7:55am

Too bad factory unlocks are like $400 upfront. Haha. If only we all had that much money to spend :).

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