Apple released an update to the iPhone OS today. The 3.1 iPhone update brings lots of little improvements. Don’t let iTunes tempt you with them if you have an unlocked iPhone. The new firmware will upgrade your baseband firmware, relocking your iPhone and, potentially, making it impossible to unlock again.
The good news is that your iPhone can still have that 3.1 iPhonee goodness and your unlocked iPhone. You just need to trust in the iPhone Dev team, because their tools provide a way to install the update without updating the baseband and breaking the unlock.
If you update to Apple’s new software using the normal iTunes process, you will lose your ultrasn0w unlock. In fact you may lose it permanently, because for most people the baseband firmware cannot be reverted to a previous version (unlike the main application CPU firmware).
But don’t worry…our PwnageTool program lets you update your main firmware without touching your baseband firmware, so you can still have the best of both worlds. But you must be diligent about saying “no” to your iTunes request this week to update your firmware.
As always, eliminate the middle-men and get the PwnageTool and all your iPhone accessories direct from the source.
Redsnow is a sort of a jailbreaking and unlocking swiss-army knife for older iPhones.
Redsn0w is an easy to use, multi-platform, multi-device jailbreaking and unlocking (iPhone 2G only) tool for theiPhone 2G (original iPhone), the iPhone 3G (but not the 3GS) and also the iPod touch (first and second generation). Currently it is available for Windows and Mac OS X
Please note this will not unlock the iPhone 3G or 3GS. If you have an unlocked iPhone 3G, don’t use this until you’ve obtained an updated version of the YellowSn0w unlock.
For more info, including download locations, check the original announcement.
Last week Apple pushed out an update to iTunes. Â The update brings it up to version 8.2. Â If you are an unlocker or a jailbreaker you probably want to avoid this update until the dev team figures out the hitches. Â
It’s already clear that it breaks the unlocking and jailbreaking apps like QuickPwn and PwnageTool. Â The “iPhone Dev Team” behind most of the jailbreaking and unlocking work doesn’t think this was a deliberate move on Apple’s part, so they expect to be able to address the issue and get things working again soon. Â You can read more on their blog.
Someone has released a jailbreak for one of the betas of the iPhone 3.0 firmware.  The iPhone dev team, who are responsible for the 3G unlock released a few months ago, hurried to get a post up explaining why they weren’t the ones to release  this latest exploit. Â
They offer proof that they had a jailbreak a few weeks ago, but they kept it to themselves because they’d rather work towards a carrier unlock of 3.0, than try to keep up with a stream of beta releases from Apple.
Before you decide you want to be all cutting edge, a few things to keep in mind before trying to install one of the 3.0 betas, much less jailbreak it.
- The new firmware doesn’t work with the baseband 02.28 firmware unlocked by yellowsn0w.
- Apple is just going to release a new version.
- You may render it impossible to ever unlock your iPhone 3G
- You may not be able to roll back to the released firmware
- Its a knock off of the hard work of the iPhone dev team.
If you still want to go ahead and do it, you can find it here.
Good news! I finally do a post about progress on an 2nd gen iPod Touch jailbreak, and the Dev Team anounces another big step forward.
The iPod Touch 2G is now another member of the “pwned for life†family. It has a fatal flaw in its bootrom that means you will always be able to pwn these devices no matter what firmware updates come along. This is the full, untethered jailbreak, something that iPod Touch 2G users have not had before today.
It’ll be a little bit before this is packaged for easy installation
via Dev-Team Blog – iPod Touch 2G: Hi, welcome to the jailbreak family.
