Another iPhone Jailbreak/Unlock
My little 4GB 1st Gen iPhone has gone through a few upgrades, jailbreaks and unlocks, and tonight I did another.The iPhone Dev Team released their tool, and it works. It’s not as nice and simple as the last tool I used, but it does the job. It just required a little more footwork.First up, you need to upgrade to iTunes 7.7, download the 2.0 firmware from Apple (but don’t install it yet), and do a sync to backup your phone.You’ll also need a couple of Bootloader files, and you can find links in the comments on the above link.The steps are pretty much then:
- Close iTunes
- Open the Pwnage tool
- Select your phone (mine’s a first gen).
- Select the downloaded firmware
- Say no to searching the web for a bootloader, and yes to browsing
- Do it again for the next bootloader
- It’ll ask to continue, and ask if you’re a legit iPhone user. My understanding is it’s asking if you’re an AT&T user or not. I’m not, so I said “No”.
- It’ll churn, get an admin authentication, and finally ask if you’ve used their tool on the phone before. I hadn’t, so I said “no”.
- At this point the tool failed, but research tells me all it does is try to put your phone into DFU (factory restore) mode. That’s okay, I know how to do that (power down, hold power and home until apple logo appears, then release power until factory restore screen appears).
- Fire up iTunes. It’ll say it needs to restore your phone. That’s fine, just hold down option while clicking “Restore”.
- Browse to the .ipsw on your desktop, and select it.
- Then the phone goes through some machinations and sits on a pineapple screen for a few minutes.
- The phone will reboot – the pineapple replaces the apple logo.
- After reboot, it says (on the phone) it’s flashing the bootloader and “DO NOT INTERRUPT!!!” So, don’t interrupt it.
- After bootloader, it’ll flash the baseband (again, on-screen phone message). Takes up to 2 minutes according to the screen, and that’s accurate.
- The phone reboots. And, voila, I’ve got a T-Mobile 2.0 iPhone (minus all my apps, natch).
I’m actually planning to get a 3G iPhone when I don’t have to stand in a line to do it, so this is mostly to tide me over and let me try the new features before then. This tool won’t SIM unlock a 3G iPhone either, but since T-Mobile has no 3G here, I was planning to switch to AT&T then anyway.So far, I’ve been having much fun with the App Store. At some point over the next few days I’ll try to get as many of the old apps I loved so much back onto my phone, assuming they work with 2.0.
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