Posted: July 3rd, 2009 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: General | 2 Comments »
I recently updated my iPhone 3G to the new 3.0 firmware.
The process went very smoothly involving the following steps.
- I synced my iPhone to iTunes in order to preserve my contacts and App Store installed apps;
- I updated the iPhone to the 3.0 firmware using iTunes;
- At this point my iPhone got locked and I had to activate it using an Orange SIM card (the Jailbreak process should fix this step for you, but it didn’t work for me; it’s a safe bet to have an appropriate SIM card around);
- Jailbreak using PwnageTool 3.0 for Mac; first I tried using expert mode and toying around with the settings… that didn’t seem to work and iTunes gave me the infamous 1600 error; I restarted the PwnageTool process using the default settings, putting my iPhone into DFU mode and uploading the custom firmware through iTunes;
- Bingo, my iPhone was now Jailbroken but not unlocked; I added the repo666.ultrasn0w.com into Cydia, searched for and installed UltraSn0w and rebooted the iPhone;
- I now had a running jailbroken and unlocked 3.0 iPhone 3G !
You can see the official iPhone 3G and UltraSn0w tutorial on iPhone Dev Team’s blog.
Please share your Jailbreak experience with us in the comments section !
Posted: January 15th, 2009 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Gadgets & Tech, iphone | No Comments »
How to get root level acces on your iPhone, you may ask !?
Well it’s preety simple. You have to have your iPhone jailbroken in order to install MobileTerminal and Sudo.
Go to MobileTerminal;
Type in "su";
Enter "alpine" which is the default password for root access on the iPhone;
You should now have complete access to your iPhone’s every corner !
Happy bricking ! :))
Posted: January 4th, 2009 | Author: Mihai Bojin | Filed under: Gadgets & Tech, General, Tools, iphone | 15 Comments »
This tutorial is now obsolete ! Read about Jailbreaking and unlocking the iPhone 3G with the new 3.0 firmware !
Wondering what the "Iphone 3G Jailbreak/Unlocking" is and how to do it !? Read on…
I recently bought an Apple iPhone 3G with the sole intention of jailbreaking it because in my country it is only available through Orange and I am not one of their subscribers.
First of all, you will find lots of interesting information at the iPhone Dev-Team’s official blog.
A little dictionary first:
- jailbreak / jailbreaking: the process of cracking your iPhone’s firmware with the purpose of allowing third party apps to be installed;
- pwn / pwning: slang for "own/owning"; it’s the same thing as "jailbreaking";
- Cydia / Installer: two third-party installers used for updating your iPhone with your favorite third-party app;
- unlocking: the process of cracking your iPhone’s baseband in order to allow any SIM card to be installed (usually the iPhone’s come locked into AT/T or in my country’s case Orange);
- baseband: the iPhone modem’s firmware;
- firmware: a software which runs on devices (in our case on the iPhone) that is similar to an operating system for personal computers (Windows, MacOs, Linux, BSD etc)
There are a few tools available out there, most of them for Mac, but Windows versions are emerging as I am writing this:
- PwnageTool: used for upgrading the iPhone’s firmware while preserving the original installed baseband (the baseband is the iPhone modem’s firmware); you have to use this instead of iTunes if you have a jailbroken phone, if you want to be able to use the iPhone in the future;
- QuickPwn: if you have a running iPhone but you want to install third party apps, this is the tool for you; it will jailbreak your iPhone and install Cydia and Installer onto it;
- YellowSn0w: used for unlocking the iPhone 3G (this first came out on January 1st 2009); it will make any SIM card work with the iPhone; it is a new application (it is still in beta phase) and still has some bugs - I succeeded in using it to unlock my iPhone for Vodafone Romania;
This is all you need to know in short for jailbreaking your iPhone 3G.
Now let me detail a few steps which you have to take in order to jailbreak a locked original iPhone 3G:
- If your iPhone is not activated (you get a "Emergency calls only" message), you have to insert a valid SIM card into it and connect it with iTunes; follow the steps there and your iPhone will become activated;
- Check out your iPhone’s firmware and baseband: go to Settings->General->About; you have to see there Version 2.2 and Modem Firmware 2.28.00; at the time of this writing the unlock tool (YellowSn0w) only works with this baseband version);
- If your versions are not 2.2 / 2.28.00 you have to Update your iPhone through iTunes (connect the iPhone 3G to your Mac or PC, wait until it appears left on the Devices menu, click on it and click Update in the middle of the screen - right now the latest firmware is 2.2, but this will change; if this is the case when you are reading this post, then you will have to update to 2.2 through PwnageTool; you can read more about this on iClarified);
- use QuickPwn to jailbreak your iPhone 3G; you will find a tutorial for QuickPwn(Windows) on iClarified and the process is similar on the Mac
- You will now have a jailbroken but locked iPhone; put your SIM card into the iPhone 3G, if you have network signal (your carrier shows up at the top left of the screen and you can make calls) stop here!… it means you either had an unlocked iPhone or you are using the original carrier your iPhone was locked onto;
- On your iPhone, go to Cydia->Manage->Sources and add "apt9.yellowsn0w.com"; click on "Search" and type in "yellowsn0w" (the last o is a zero!); Install it !
- Now install MobileTerminal and BossPrefs, if you haven’t already done so (also available through Cydia, you can search for them there)
- Fire up Mobile Terminal and type in "yellowsn0w -h"; it will show you all the different parameters you can give to YellowSn0w; depending on your iPhone 3G version/ GSM carrier / SIM card, one of the options there will do the job (I’d go with "yellowsn0w" first and then "yellowsn0w -q", "yellowsn0w -a", "yellowsn0w -s" and other options that might be there (it is possible the Dev-Team will add more options in the future);
- After you find the option the gives no error (you can expect the usual "Resource busy" error) you will have to go to BossPrefs->Power button at the bottom of the screen->Restart; if after the restart, your network carrier isn’t showing up, try taking out your SIM, waiting around 30 seconds then reinserting it (this works for SIM cards that have carrier menu’s/services on them); more info about YellowSn0w on the Dev-Team blog and on this Hackintosh thread)
This should do it for your iPhone 3G ! If you still have problems, drop me a comment and I will help you as much as I know and can !
