This post is about the unlocking process of a iPhone 3G from Telia in Denmark. It's about the legal unlocking process that you have the right to in Denmark after 6 months. The post will be in danish.

UPDATE: Der skete en fejl på min server her sidst på dagen, faktisk en fejl-40 :(. Det resulterede desværre i at alle kommentarer på mit nyeste indlæg, dvs. det her er væk. Jeg beklager.

Så kom 6 måneders dagen for den aften/nat vi var nogle der lå i kø på Strøget i København for at få en sort plastik dims kaldet en iPhone 3G.

Jeg ringede igår (12.01.2009) til Telia for at høre om jeg kunne få min iPhone unlocked da jeg mente det måtte være ved at være tid. Han oplyste at det "idag" (12.01.2009) var dagen hvor bindingen udløb, hvilket gjorde at jeg ville kunne få min mobil låst op, gratis, imorgen(13.01.2009). Så jeg måtte vente. Begrundelsen for hvorfor d. først kunne låses op fra d. 13.01.2009, var at bindingen udløb d. 12.01.2009 og jeg derfor kunne få den låst op dagen efter.

Idag ringede jeg så der ind igen. Jeg skulle oplyse mit IMEI nummer, som findes ved at gå ind i Indstillinger -> Generelt -> Om. Personen i kunde service fortalte mig at jeg skulle gå hjem og gendanne min iPhone via iTunes og så skulle det fungere. Hun gjorde opmærksom på at alle data ville gå tabt, disse kan dog genskabes med den indbyggede backup i iTunes. Derudover fortalte hun at det først ville virke om et par timer. Jeg var alligevel på arbejde så det passede mig fint, da jeg alligevel først var hjemme om aftenen.

Et par minutter efter jeg havde snakket med kunde service fik jeg følgende SMS.

Da jeg kom hjem satte jeg iPhonen til iTunes og gjorde som der stod i SMS'en og som hun havde sagt i kunde service. Her er lidt screens.

Jeg har pin kode på mit SIM kort, så denne var reel nok, selvom jeg dog lige hurtigt tænkte "F***!!!" da jeg så "error" billedet. Det er det sidste man har lyst til at se når man gendanner/firmware updatere. Jeg tog stikket ud, skrev min pin kode og satte mobilen til iTunes igen.

Efter lidt tid kom følgende billede frem.

Så bliver man glad når man ser dette :)

Efterfølgende skulle jeg gendanne fra den indbyggede backup, som nævnt tidligere. Det er meget nemt, jeg trykkede bare fortsæt på nedenståenden billede.

Efter ret langtid var den dog og alt var synkroniseret så min telefon var som før. I hvert fald ser alt ud til at være som det var før, undtaget at mine apps er rykket lidt rundt, men det er til at leve med. Mine kontakter, SMS, kalender, billeder osv. er der præcis som før. Jeg har dog ikke afprøvet den særlig meget efterfølgende, da jeg kun lige har låst den op, men det ser ud til at være iorden.

Jeg har efterfølgende prøvet at sætte min kærestes SIM kort(Telmore) i min iPhone og det ser ud til at virke umiddelbart.

Dog undre det mig lidt at der står TDC Mobil, troede egentlig der skulle stå Telmore? Men lige meget hvad, så står der ikke Telia og det er det vigtigeste lige pt.

Men altså alt i alt, en meget nem og smerte fri oplåstning, dog stadigvæk meget mere besværlig end den normale process som bare klares med at indtaste en kode og en genstart at telefonen. Men så'n vil Steve Jobs åbentbart ikke have det.

Enjoy :)

I have heard about podcast for a long time and of cause knew what it was, but if you should be in doubt here goes:

According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, a podcast is "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player," but the generally accepted definition has expanded to include video as well as audio. Originally derived from a combination of "broadcasting" and "iPod ™," the word was declared "word of the year" when it was added to the dictionary at the end of 2005.

I have never owned an Ipod untill I brought my iPhone 3G this summer. At that point I, sadly, HAD to install iTunes. As you all know iTunes is a virus on a PC, but if I wanted my iPhone 3G to work at all, I had no choice. Therefore iTunes got installed.

As I now were the owner of an “ipod”, formed as an iPhone, I could start look more into podcast. Actually it all started when I found the Sparkling Client – Silverlight podcast by searching for “silverlight” inside iTunes Store. I subscribed for the podcast and got them all on my iPhone 3G. On my way to work the next day, on my bike cycle, I started the first podcast. When I arrived at work 15 minutes later, I realized that I had actually learned something while doing something simple as riding my bike, which I do 25-30 min. two times a day(to and from work).

This is were it started to get very interesting for me. Instead of listening to Ozzy, Metallica, Plain White T’s etc. to and from work, I could now learn something real, while doing something trivial as riding my bike. When I say real, I mean something I can actually use at my job or on my hobby projects, and not just the “lastest news” and “weather” in the normal FM radio (which the iphone 3G actually don’t have :P).

So at this point I became wiser, times two. I learned that listening to podcast could actually give me some knowledge, while I’m doing other trivial things. I also learned something about templating in silverlight as Jesse Liberty were on this podcast :) 

Nothing new

Yes, your right, this is nothing new and you all knew it all along. I know. I just learned that now and are now listening to podcast when I do the dishes, the laundry etc. Generally task that I don’t need to think to much about is great for listening to podcasts.

Great podcasts I enjoy at the moment

As already stated, I listen to the Sparkling Client – Silverlight podcast. This is the only podcast I have been able to find which is only about Silverlight. If you know others, please let me know.

Hanselsminutes Podcast is also a podcast I enjoy alot at the moment. It not only about silverlight, but generally interesting stuff for a developer. Besides that, these podcasts is actually very funny. It’s seems that Scott Hanselman is a funny guy by nature, which just makes it all much better. See for instance his BabeSmash session at PDC2008 which shows his own “Babysmash application” but also gives an overview of the .NET framework.

I know I normally blog about Silverlight, .NET, Game development etc. Much of this is Microsoft related as I'm a Microsoft user and developer. When that is said, I have to say that I think I am going to by the new iPhone 3G!

When I first heard about it some weeks ago, I wasn't really that impressed. I knew about the old iPhone and I have seen it briefly as one of my colleagues had one. I haven't ever thought of it as a phone for me. All I saw was a fancy looking phone.

But then some weeks ago I heard about the new iPhone 3G and the new 2.0 OS it's running on. Actually I don't know why, but after that I started doing alittle researh on it. Now I have to say that I'm absolutely sold to that phone! I need to have one July 11th 2008!

Again, I'm 100% Microsoft man normally, but this phone just seems to have everything I need and a new way of thinking the interface. So I have to have one!