Most of you must be itching to try out the new 3.0 OS for iPhone. But if you were holding it just because there was no pwnage available for it, then wait no further.
Jailbreak and Unlock for your iPhone 1gen ,2gen and iPhone 3G is out.
Ultrasn0w for iPhone 3G and redSn0w for other iPhone’s except iPhone 3Gs. Check out the Dev Team Blog and let the 3.0 OS glory begin .
As new iPhone 2.2.1 firmware was out, everyone was waiting for to update their jailbreaked iPhone’s to the latest firmware. And it didn’t take much time for the Dev Team to release the QuickPwn(windows) and Pwnage(Mac), which will jailbreak the 2.2.1 firmware.
This is the low down on our tools for use with the 2.2.1 firmare from Apple, read the whole post in full before attempting anything. Please note that the Windows version of QuickPwn has been updated to version 2.2.5-2
1. GOLDEN RULE: If you have a 3G iPhone running 2.2 firmware and you want to keep your ability to use yellowns0w (or the option to use it in the future) do NOT use QuickPwn, and do not use the official ipsw or the iTunes update process without using PwnageTool.
2. Yellowsn0w will NOT work with the baseband version (02.30.03) that is present in the recent 2.2.1 update. If you want to use Yellownsn0w you will need to create and restore using a custom .ipsw that will allow you to update safely to 2.2.1 without applying the 02.30.03 baseband update. You’ll then have a 3G iPhone running 2.2.1 with an older baseband version that is still vulnerable to yellowsn0w, following these steps ensures that yellowsn0w will still operate.
3. Please read all parts of this post before downloading and using these tools.
4. Read items 1, 2 and 3 again and again.
5. At the bottom of this post are the bittorrent files for the latest versions of PwnageTool and QuickPwn.
6. These apps are suitable for the recent 2.2.1 release.
7. The Yellowsn0w version has been updated to 0.9.7. Yellowsn0w is available from Cydia or Installer – this version allows compatibility with pwned 2.2.1 system (not baseband). Again„ remember 0.9.7 yellowsn0w DOES NOT WORK WITH 2.2.1 (02.30.03) directly – you need to be running a ‘pwned’ version of 2.2.1 which didn’t upgrade the baseband during the restore/upgrade.
8. Users of OS X 10.5.6 will be unable to use DFU mode correctly, please see the note towards the end of this post to easily fix this issue.
So head out to the post by dev team and follow the steps given to update your iPhone.
So, people in India who were looking to run their iPhone 3G on Idea or Spice or BSNL simcards, here is your dream come true.
Just a piece of advice, before jumping to unlock your iPhone 3G’s please go through the comments in both the posts given above to see what all problems people faced while doing the unlocking and how they were able to resolve it.
As we already covered that iPhone-dev team is done with the iPhone 3g unlock and will be releasing it in December 08 end. And to add to the excitement they released a video, which shows iPhone 3G getting unlocked. So till the unlock is out enjoy the video and see the magic work
Finally, its done, people who have waited so long to get their iPhone 3G unlocked are in for a treat. iPhone dev team finally completed the task and they are now in the process of packaging the unlocking in user friendly apps PwnageTool and QuickPwn
Here are the few major part of the post done by iPhone Dev Team
The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier.
If you updated your iPhone with the latest firmware 2.2, and wondering how to jailbreak it, then sweat no more, guys at iPhone-Dev released the QuickPwn and PwnageTool 2.2 version, which will work for your iPhone 2.2.
But before jailbreaking, please read the note by the iPhone-Dev Team :
If you have a 3G iPhone and want potential soft unlock in the near future do NOT use QuickPwn, and do not use the official ipsw or the iTunes update process without using PwnageTool.
While iphone-dev team is working out on a software solution to unlock iPhone 3g, there are plenty of hardware unlock kits floating around in the market. Here is one more iPhone 3g hardware unlock reviewed by theAppleblog.com , in which they talk about unlocking the iPhone3g using the proxy sims.