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Hello all and good day/evening to you. I was hoping I could get some advice/help from some people here that well.....are smarter than me frankly. Hahaha I am not sure if I really screwed up or not here. =/ I bought an Iphone 3g off of ebay really cheap. It was running version 3.1.3 I think and was unlocked. It also had cydia on it which also indicates that it had been jail broken as well. Anyways, I have been using it for the past few days etc listening to music, safari etc using my home wirless. Today on iTunes I noticed that there was an update for 4.2.1 I knew I would have to re jail break and unlock again. I had the program Green Poison ready for that. Anyways I receive 4.2.1 and begin to try to put the phone into dfu mode. For some reason it went into recovery mode instead...>.< ehh... I guess I didn't hold something down long enough or something =/ I went back on iTunes, recovered the phone back to factory settings which I guess is 3.1.3. Now it just tells me No SIM card installed. Insert a valid sim with no PIN lock to activate iPhone. The only other screen I have besides that is the emergency call screen. So it seems I have to jailbreak/unlock this thing myself here. I have been reading countless pages and just can't find anything solid and easy on how to do this for this phone/version. Pffff This thing is supposed to be a gift for someone this Christmas....and now I am dead in the water. I have never done a jailbreak/unlock but I pretty much get the idea. Can you guys please help me out here? I haven't the slightest idea as to what I am supposed to do now.....I thank you so much in advance for all of your help.

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