It’s been released folks.  Check out the officially unofficial iphone-dev team blog for more information.

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

“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

Just recently, the iphone-dev team announced that they jailbroke the iPod Touch 2G - but didn’t completely get it to work for everyday use.  It’s a tethered jailbreak, which means if you don’t know what it means, don’t do it.

I am however in the process of getting ahold of a iPod Touch 2G so I can write a decent easy to follow walkthrough for it.  For now, if you want to try it yourself, check http://redsn0w.com

The redsn0w readme can be found here.
The tethered jailbreak can be downloaded here.

Please comment with your findings and success/failure.  From what I remember, everytime you boot your iPod, it needs to be plugged in and use this tool.  Let us know!

And blazing fast this time. The underlying method is pretty much the same, so following our QuickPwn guide will take you through the way.  All of the downloads have been updated with the correct links to QuickPwn 2.2.5 2.2.5-2 and PwnageTool 2.2.5.  yellowsn0w 0.9.7 was also released.  For those of you that have been wondering why there isn’t a Mac guide yet - it’s coming.  Shortly, actually.

Here’s some tips and pointers before you venture off and start playing with your iToy…

Which process should I use?

iPhone 3G - PwnageTool.  If you are trying to unlock, you must use PwnageTool to create a custom firmware.  This will preserve your baseband and allow you to use the yellowsn0w injection method.  If you’re not trying to unlock and never will, you can use QuickPwn.

iPhone 2G - QuickPwn.  This is what I reccomend for a quick and easy jailbreak & unlock.  The baseband is still unchanged and it is most likely that Apple has accepted defeat and will not update the baseband.

Is it worth it?

In all honesty, I’m not going to upgrade just yet.  In our previous post, you found that there was a fix for Safari and some kind of bug regarding e-mailing photos (which I never encountered).  The BigBoss says if you’re running 2.1 or later, you should be fine. 2.0-2.0.2 have tons of bugs which we all know - crashing issues and for the love of god, if you’re running below 2.0, you’re slacking! Get a move on and pwn that bitch!

Windows users

QuickPwn will be ready soon, so if you’re looking to upgrade and don’t have a Mac, just wait a bit.

QuickPwn for Windows has been released.  Grab it here!

I’m pretty sure they’ve done it.  You guys have been waiting for it and they’ve done it.  As you can see from their original post at iphone-dev blog, this is the “riddle” as we like to call it:

Thermonuclear pop!

* Well it isn’t a British Thermonuclear Device.
* It isn’t an episode from “The Twilight Zone”
* And it certainly isn’t iPhone 3G related (right now)
* There is one other device…
* It fits in your pocket..
* What can it be?

iPod Touch 2G jailbreak. Coming to a software suite near you.

The only thing we know for sure is that it belongs to the iphone-dev team.

theiphoneproject:~# nslookup yellowsn0w.com
Server:	66.98.240.131
Address:	66.98.240.131#53

theiphoneproject:~# nslookup redsn0w.com
Server:	66.98.240.131
Address:	66.98.240.131#53

We can all speculate, though. Some think it’s the holy grail of iPhone unlocking.  The bootloader exploit for a permanent unlock as opposed to the baseband injection. Some think it’s the iPod 2G jailbreak.

Who knows? We shall wait and see!

We’ll try to keep you updated.  I’m pretty sure theres going to be people buying up <color>sn0w.com now just to feed peoples’ wandering finger tips. They tweet once in awhile, I would check it out.

Great news everyone. yellowsn0w 0.9.6 was just released. It works much better, and in the words of planetbeing:

Well, the new yellowsn0w works on all the SIMs we have around to test it on, at least.

Update from Cydia now!  I’ve gotten tons of e-mails from T-Mobile USA users that stated that my previous post wasn’t working for them.  The Airplane mode toggle would just make the “Searching” flash - like it wasn’t searching at all for a network.  My iPhone 3G is still working perfect, and I just got a new T-Mo SIM today.

Don’t forget to submit feedback to the iphone-dev team about your yellowsn0w experience.

update:

Do not forget:

Toggle 3G off by going to Settings > Network > Enable 3G [off]

My phone still worked with 3G on, but I didn’t test data.  I have the T-Mobile $19.99 total internet plan.