Jan9
Once again I am in the debt of someone for a fantastic guide to moving from my anysim 1.02 unlocked iphone, to a fully functional unlocked 1.1.1 phone (with the added bonus of ridding myself of the nasty mess that was the original anysim unlock).
The guide is copied in large parts here and full credit must be given, but there were a few things not mentioned that mean I feel I can repeat the guide with some extra detail and give a full idiots guide of the process.
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Sep19
It’s a fantastic achievement by the anySim team to create the GUI, ‘one click’ solution to unlocking the iPhone, but to be honest things are getting very confusing with so many versions flying around, so many contradictory guides, and so many relative success / failure stories. So what I hope to achieve in this little guide is a simple step by step guide that takes you from an iPhone in a selophane sealed box, to an unlocked iPhone using any SIM card and with as many features as I can figure out 
So with the phone finally in my hands, I will lay out the basic steps and update as I progress. If you see anything wrong or have a correction /comment to make please let me know in the comments below.
Pre-Requisites:
- Windows PC (I don’t own a MAC and am running Windows Vista so that is what I will base the guide on).
- Install iTunes 7.3.x (Any 7.3 version of iTunes, I hear 7.4 versions have added complexities)
- Download & extract iBrickr v0.8 to C:\ibrickr
- Download anySIM v1.1 (NOT v1.0 as that had a few issues)
The Unlock Process
- Rip open iPhone box excitedly
- Pop-out that AT&T SIM card and put it your GSM SIM card
- Hook the
cradle cable up to your PC and set the iphone charging for at least 10-20 minutes so there is some juice (or at least as long as your patience lasts…. I have had bad experience with flashing hardware with low battery 
)
- iTunes will probably launch and start the AT&T activation process (depending on your iTunes settings) or if you get an ‘Invalid SIM’ message Cancel it and close iTunes again
- Run iBrickr and follow the onscreen instructions to ‘Free Your Phone’ Once all complete close iBrickr. One very important step of this should be that it ensures you are running the 1.02 version of the iPhone firmware which is required for a successful unlock.
- Download and extract PACAY.rar Then run the activate.bat Follow the instructions including the restart
- Open iTunes and close it again
- Run iBrickr again and install the PXL service… more phone reboots
- Download the PXL v1.1 version of the AnySim utility
- Click Applications in iBrickr and install the anysim.pxl file you downloaded earlier
- Go to Settings > General > AutoLock on the iPhone and choose ‘never’ (you can always change it back later)
- Tap the Home button on the iPhone and then run the AnySim application you just installed
- Wait 10 minutes and then laugh or cry depending on the results. If the unlock is successful then you may be on the network of choice almost immediately, or in some cases I have read you may need to restart the iPhone before it will work.
UPDATE: Mine apparently failed with the message "the flash operation succeeded but the unlock commands failed" but I rebooted the phone and it worked!!!
If you have any issues then refer to http://iphonegoboom.com where a lot of this guide was stolen from and they maintain a great FAQ on common issues.
In order that you can choose whether or not to install later updates to iTunes and/or the iPhone firmware (i.e. avoid updates that may break the unlock) make sure you disable all options in iTunes that check for / install updates automatically!
Post Installation
Add your EDGE settings for your network/carrier. Everything you need to know right here
Make the voicemail button ring your voicemail. Taken from the iphone dev wiki: 1. First, take note of what your voicemail number is with your current provider (for example, in Spain the Vodafone voicemail number is 177). 2. Click on the phone button in your iPhone. 3. Click on the keypad tab. 4. Tap the following code: *5005*86*xxx# The xxx is the voicemail number, in our example it will read: *5005*86*177# 5. Tap call. 6. After a second, the code will have been set. 7. Tap now on the voicemail button and it will automatically call your usual voicemail service. Fix YouTube. Coming Soon Overall I am delighted with the phone and have had a great evening playing with all its features on the Telia network in Sweden