The T28 Sony Ericsson service cable for unlocking my eBay’d T68i from AT&T finally arrived today. Given that it didn’t arrive with the rest of my mail lot, I knew that it would be there by the time I checked it in the afternoon, since I’d requested that it be sent Priority Mail. One might think that it’s then a simple matter of running the unlocking software and everything would sort of fall into place for actually making use of said phone, but then that person would be wrong.
Perhaps my Windows ™ operating environment had something to do with the problem. For instance, instead of using it on a IA32 platform like most of the world, I run it inside of Virtual PC on Mac OS X. Apparently, the unlocking software doesn’t support this platform and is nice enough to crash on launch. After much googling and forum digging later, I learned that not only does the software not support VPC, but it also doesn’t support most AMD processors, including their 64 bit line. It also wont launch on a machine with any sort of debugger installed. (I also had one on the VPC image, in the off chance that I might want to try out some Win32 code.)
I thought I was safe on a real windows machine using the Microsoft ™ RDP software to access it from my G4 workstation, but this apparently causes a kernel panic of some sort. Running the software on an Intel machine with the (Visual Basic?) program right in front of me seems to work just fine, so about five minutes after that I was the proud owner of a fully unlocked GSM phone.
Because in a prior life this phone was tied to AT&T, I’ve spent a good deal of time looking up the correct settings for GPRS and wap for the phone and seem to have finally arrived at the settings to make everything work correctly. I’ve now paired the phone with the Powerbook and am now able to connect to GPRS over Bluetooth, in addition to being able to do various things over Bluetooth, such as control iTunes and change out themes.
Good Times.
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