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George Hotz says, “yes i make it ra1n”, (or was that Fat Joe and Lil Wayne?)

I do not have a 3GS to currently test out, but looks like a simple plug, click, and jailbreak.  Again, do not upgrade to 3.1 if you plan on jailbreaking or even unlocking.

Working on a step by step guide right now for y’all.

CONFIRMED: Does NOT work with VMing to Bootcamp partition

In the meantime for those of you who figured it out and have it working, gpSPhone and psx4iphone will be available in Cydia very shortly.  I would highly recommend, if not strongly suggest that you try them.  You will see the full power of the 3GS with psx4iphone, I promise.

Read the full article here:  geohot’s blog

Looks like our old friend George Hots (geohotz) is up to a lot of good!  The 24kpwn exploit present in the iPod Touch 2G is still present in the iPhone 3GS. Check out his full blog post here!  Looks like an iPhone 3GS jailbreak is right around the corner.  And from what I can see, the unlock as well.  Please read George’s blog as it has some information you all will want to know about being able to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS.

Alright folks. I’m going to try and break it down simply as I possibly can - and I’m not sure if even that’s good enough. For starters, I’m going to split each section by phone. You should probably read about your phone if you want to jailbreak and unlock it.

First, here are some terms.  After reviewing these, skip down to your phone to find out more information and firmware links.

PwnageTool

A Mac tool to jailbreak iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch 1G.  This will also unlock iPhone 2G.  This tool will create custom IPSW to flash your device with.  To use it, you must download the firmware to be able to modify it.  This post has all of the latest firmware links in their respective sections.

download mac (sha1 2e19d39398233f88ae0782fd82462a9223791f7f)

redsn0w

A Mac and PC tool enabling you to jailbreak iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 1G, and iPod Touch 2G.  This also unlocks the iPhone 2G.  You can use this after an official update or restore (through iTunes), which means not using a custom built firmware.  This is the quickest method of jailbreaking your device - previously known as QuickPwn.

Update:  redsn0w is was just updated to 0.7.2.  Fixed are for PPC and Icy.  New links are posted below along with new sha1 sums

download mac (sha1 0d58ff133461f3487a80200fe924741dd393b724)

download pc (sha1 444a3120b6bfd98838df74d598d3799cf656dfff)

Just a note for Windows users - if you’re having a problem extracting the files on Vista or Windows 7, I would suggest using a third party archive tool such as 7zip.

ultrasn0w

The latest development from the iphone-dev team.  This is the soft unlock for 3.0 (baseband 04.26.08).  This is not released as of this posting.  It will be available (as far as I know) via Cydia, just like yellowsn0w)

iPhone 2G

Current jailbreakable & unlockable firmware:  3.0 (iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw)

The iPhone 2G remains unlocked.  It will always remain unlocked.  Pretty self explanatory.  You can update at any time and jailbreak - your phone will remain unlocked.

iPhone 3G

If you rely on yellowsn0w for cellular service, DO NOT UPGRADE TO 3.0!  You must be patient.  ultrasn0w is coming and once it’s out, you’ll be able to upgrade and have an unlocked 3.0 iPhone 3G.  And yes, this will work for ALL iPhone 3G!

Current jailbreakable firmware:  3.0 (Phone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw)

As for providing the links, these are for reference.  You are going to need the firmware file in an accessible place if you plan to use the dev-team tools, as all of them require you to select the firmware.  Again, iPhone 3G is 3.0 jailbroken, but NOT unlocked!

iPhone 3GS

Current firmware: 3.0 (iPhone 2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw)

Easy:  not jailbroken, not unlocked.  However, the iPhone 3GS has the same baseband (04.26.08) as the iPhone 3G 3.0 firmware.  I believe if and when the iphone-dev team jailbrake the 3GS, it wll be an instant unlock because the exploit is already found.  Well done, Apple - and thanks @Oranav!

Is here! Thanks to the iphone-dev team the Mac PwnageTool is ready and available!

MuscleNerd via Twitter, “In other words, 3.0 and its jailbreak will be useable by 3G yellowsn0w users once ultrasn0w is out but not before then.”

I would recommend reading the iphone-dev team blog, here is an excerpt: “This is the low down on our tools for use with the 3.0 firmware from Apple, read the whole post in full before attempting anything. Because of some bugs and unexpected changes this will be a multipart release, starting with the release of PwnageTool for Mac OS X. QuickPwn for Mac OS X and Windows will follow sometime soon, please don’t bug us about it, we are working flat out to get everything finished to release them”.

If you rely on yellowsn0w to use your phone features, DO NOT UPGRADE yet.  yellowsn0w does not work with the 3.0 baseband.  Just read their article because they have a LOT of information that relates to everyone that jailbreaks and unlocks.

Their official torrent page can be found here: http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4963802/PwnageTool_3.0.dmg.4963802.TPB.torrent

We also have our own mirrors, so if you’re not a torrent person or just want it now and fast, you can grab it from here or here

• SHA12e19d39398233f88ae0782fd82462a9223791f7f PwnageTool_3.0.dmg

An exploit found by @Oranav is greatly appreciated by the whole community. Instead of reporting it to Apple some kind of compensation, he gave the heads up to the iphone-dev team. The world will be able to enjoy a fully software unlocked iPhone 3G - no matter what firmware, bootloader, or baseband you have, ultrasn0w will unlock it as long as you have the 3.0 firmware. From the looks of it, this may work for the iPhone 3GS, but we will know soon enough.

Skip to the 2:00 minute mark to see the demo.

this video is by the iphone-dev team (MuscleNerd)

Glad to see this happening - full unlock for the iPhone 3G!

This will be released Friday indefinitely!  Check out the official iphone-dev team blog here!

Released only to developers, 3.0 GM is the final beta release. In the words of the wisest, BigBoss, “Do not yet upgrade”.  Plain and simple - if you plan to jailbreak (which you will need to stay unlocked and activated in most cases), don’t upgrade.

For the iPhone 3G - modem firmware 2.30 has yet to be unlocked.  From the looks of it, the dev-team has something up their sleeve, but not to “compromise any potential unlock”, which everyone should understand - they are not releasing anything just yet.

Excerpt from the iphone-dev team blog, “About the unlock (the real yellowsn0w): you all paid lots of money for your iPhones, and so we know that if you are depending on a software unlock, this is a sensitive issue.  It’s a very sensitive issue to us too, which is why we can’t say or release anything prematurely that could potentially compromise any 3.0 software unlock.  The commenters on this blog that have high ratings (20 or above) understand this intimately so please listen to them when they try to assist those waiting for any unlock :)” (read the full article here)

The iPhone 3GS will be released this week.  Looks exciting.. new camera.  Sweet.  That is all

Good news folks.  pH, BigBoss, and EvilPenguin have created a tool to downgrade your baseband from 02.30.03 to 02.28.00.  What does this mean for you?  Well, if you upgraded (on purpose or accidentally) to 2.2.1 - then you have 2.30.03, which is not supported by yellowsn0w.

The only downside to this:  the iPhone 3G has two bootloaders:  5.8 and 5.9.  According to http://thebigboss.org, “if your iPhone was manufactured before September (2008), you are 5.8. Otherwise, you are 5.9 (that can’t be downgraded)”.

A quick and easy way to tell when your phone was manufactured is by looking at the 11 digit serial number located on the lower back of the phone.  The first two digits are the factory ID (where it came from), and the next three are date information.  The rest of the numbers are irrelevant for our purposes of downgrading

It’s digits 3-4-5 of your 11-digit serial number. The first two are the factory ID of which it was made in, and the next three are date info. I don’t know what the rest of the numbers are for.

Example:  xx832xxxxxx.  The 8 represents the year 2008.  This is the first good sign for your iPhone 3G.  The next two numbers is the week it was created.

From what I’ve come up with - if you have lower than week 36, you should be okay.  Week 36 is the end of September.  Can we get some comments to confirm this?

So to install this beautiful piece of work, you can find it on TheBigBoss repository on Cydia.  It’s called “3GBBD” (3G Baseband Downgrader).  Just download and click go - and you should be on your way!

These notes are DIRECTLY from the http://thebigboss.org post:

WARNING: This tool is NOT a toy. Just use it if you can’t use Yellowsn0w on your 2.2.1 iPhone 3G. Otherwise, DO NOT INSTALL IT JUST TO TEST! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Edit: if you have bootloader 5.9, this should not cause any harm. It should simply fail. You will then have to reboot your iPhone and should be back up to where you were before running the tool.

Big thanks to pH, EvilPenguin, and BigBoss http://thebigboss.org for this wonderful tool!

“redsn0w is currently in beta as it relies on the user running it from the command line, but this new redsn0w functionality is being added into our GUI applications.” - iphone-dev

I took a gander, and what do ya know, redsn0w beta is live for Linux, Windows, and Mac!  I am currently torrenting the files - when they’re done, I’ll upload them and post the links here.  Let us know your results:  success, fail, or what have you.

theiphoneproject mirrors

redsn0w for Windows is here or here SHA1 sum - ee20e5879bcc00b9e7ce29da85fd168eec479d1b 4002959182759d3d18482671e62d7a3799670c5a

* the iphone-dev team accidentally released the windows version with a few linux binaries, so they had to repack and rerelease.  You’ll need to redownload.

redsn0w for Mac OS X is here or here SHA1 sum - 04edb5465526afc00508d18125094725a76dd91c

redsn0w for Linux is here or here SHA1 sum - d775291a7624c44d3b46fc5ff8595d18b05c3de9

On March 17th, Apple will be having a preview of the new iPhone OS 3.0.  As of now, features, bug fixes, etc were not were announced.  We’ll have to wait and see (sound familiar?).  Oh, and don’t count on the new firmware to be out anytime soon.  This seems like a special preview, kind of like what they did with 2.o - and brought it months later.  Atleast we can speculate, Apple loves that.

What kinds of features are you guys hoping for?  Maybe the Cydia Store built in?