Veteran iPhone hacker and current Google employee George Hotz is back in the blogosphere, now that the 3G is in the hands of many, to address the question of an unlock for Apple’s shiny second-generation iPhone.
You’ll recall Friday’s report that the iPhone Dev Team are updating Pwnage to jailbreak and/or unlock iPhones running firmware 2.0. It looks quite promising and there are going to be a lot of excited people awaiting its release. However, the big caveat, according to Geohot, is that there is currently no way to unlock the 3G iPhone — only first-gen iPhones running 2.0. The new baseband on the iPhone 3G — the part that was exploited to allow the unlock on first-gen devices, and which has not been updated on those first-year phones — currently has no known exploits, and while there are known exploits to jailbreak it, unlocking is an entirely different matter.
Geohot poked a derisive finger at the Dev Team for “sitting on” the latest Pwnage, but the Dev Team shot back explaining that they are taking their time with the release to make sure that everything kosher and it doesn’t go bricking a bunch of nice new Jesus Phone 3Gs. Just the same, Geohot has decided to create his own jailbreak solution for OS 2.0, called YiPhone — a dig at Zibree’s ZiPhone — and has even placed a counter on his blog to count down when he will release it, which is suppose to encourage the Dev Team to hurry up and release Pwnage. George’s counter runs out at 6:00pm EST on Tuesday, the 15th.
The Dev Team are confident however that they will be able to find an exploit in the new baseband, so an unlock is inevitable. It’s just going to take some time before they can suss it out. Proud new 3G owners and hopefuls wanting to use the device on another carrier, be patient. By now, you should be used to this stuff taking its sweet time.
(via ITwire)
Written by Eric March on July 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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Could I have gone straight to 1.1.3? Possibly, but being a cautious fellow, I did both. The firmware downloads comes straight from Apple。
Zibri's site has links to download his command-line utility, along with a GUI version for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - but not earlier versions of the OS. I downloaded it and, having quit iTunes and its Helper application, ran it.
My iPhone's an older model, so I couldn't unlock it using ZiPhone, so I just selected the Activation and Jailbreak options. These allow me to use the handset essentially as an iPod and to download and run third-party apps. It did it's stuff and I had a usable iPhone in a few minutes.
Basically, if an iPhone came with 1.1.2 or 1.1.3, it can have ZiPhone activate, jailbreak and unlock it. If it came with 1.0.1, 1.0.2 or 1.1.1, you can only use ZiPhone to activate and jailbreak. You need to check your iPhone's serial number to see which of these two approaches is best - check out the tutorials linked to in this article for more details.
ZiPhone auto-installs the popular Installer app. From that, I selected and installed the BSD Subsystem option - a stack of Unix utilities - and the unlocking tool AnySIM 1.1.3. AnySIM takes a short time to run, which has to be done with the phone in Airplane mode, but when it was finished I had a working, unlocked iPhone connected - coincidentally, since I bought my iPhone in the US - to the O2 network.
Written by unlocker on March 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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The guys at iJailBreak released iJailBreak 0.5.1, an open source jailbreaking solution that allows users to allow third party applications to be run on iPhones. The new version, a 17.9 megabyte download, adds compatibility with version 1.1.4 of the iPhone/iPod touch firmware as well as eight gigabyte iPod touches.
I don’t recommend this method. For instance: †iPod Touches jailbroken appear to be having issues syncing with iTunes, therefore we don’t recommend jailbreaking them. A version for all iPod Touches should be out soon. “.
It also downgrades your boot loader from 4.6 to 3.9 JUST like ZiPhone, which i do not recommend either. I only write the guides upon request. My 10 cents on ZiPhone:
Yes, it is very easy. It is easier for an average person to now become a †hacker†but do you know that the software’s creators write this on their troubleshoot page:
OMG!!! My phone broke! what do i do??????
Expect to be ignored. No offense, but the IRC channels get a lot of traffic.
I have fixed 16 devices now. Yes, that were completely perfect before it’s owners experimented with ziphone.
Most importantly ZiPhone software have IMEI changers built into them and this BREAKS FEDERAL LAW!
Zibri, the mastermind behind this software says that it’s only illegal in some countries and that the user should be aware of the risk.
On the other hand, he is the man. All the money hungry iPhone dev team-elite team members are such MONEY HUNGRY _________ (fill in the blank yourself). He released this software, GUI free of charge for everyone. Which is noble and not many members mentioned above would do the same. Hats off to you Zibri and Geo! I’m sorry if I’m forgetting any noble contributors to the iPhone Hacking Community….but if you’re noble you know who you are!
This blog will tell you how to Unlock Jailbreak Activate and Hack your iPhone and iTouch firmware for FREE
Written by unlocker on March 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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