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