Update AT&T iPhone 4 to iOS 4.2.1 and maintain unlock

The AT&T iPhone 4 I purchased back on launch day is still running, despite being dropped into a puddle of water some time ago. I’ve gotten a lot of use out of it, and it’s truly a terrific phone.

Today I finally updated the phone from iOS 4.0 to iOS 4.2.1. Since I’m living in Vietnam, it’s a requirement that the phone be unlocked, and I wanted to wait until I was 100% sure I could update the phone successfully.

The other reason is that I had chosen the “Reset All Content and Settings” option in the Settings app, before learning that this process can take many hours– and still fail to work. Doing a restore using PwnageTool 4.2 was quite straightforward, provided I have the right .bundle and .ipsw files.

After restoring the phone, I needed to run Cydia and re-install ultrasn0w. That did the trick; the phone is now working perfectly, running iOS 4.2.1, and having none of my old data on it :)

2 Responses to “Update AT&T iPhone 4 to iOS 4.2.1 and maintain unlock”

  1. Angie says:

    not really perfectly :P need to work on it more. connection is not that good. Sometime it does not work that well.

  2. Rajesh says:

    How to unlock my Iphone 4 Version 4.2.1 it was been jailbreaked and send to India but now i need to unlock it. Please advise

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