Dev Team PWN iPhone 2.2 Beta - No 3G Unlock - No iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak

This entry was posted on Friday, September 26th, 2008 by Aaron Besson
Category: 3G iPhone, Apple News, Jailbreak/Activate, Software Unlock - YES!, What's New, iPhone, iPhone Unlock Updates, iPod Touch News.

The Dev Team have posted on their blog that they have successfully PWNED iPhone firmware 2.2 Beta on first gen iPhone and iPod Touch devicees. Firmware 2.2 was only seeded to developers earlier this week. The Dev’s are still hard at work at trying to Jailbreak the new iPod Touch 2G and unlock the iPhone 3G. With the iPhone 3G now officially available from the Apple (Hong Kong) Website and Stores and the fact that is is also available from certain carriers in some countries unlocked, the need for a hacked software unlock has decreased somewhat compared to the first gen iPhone. That still doesn’t mean that a software unlock is still not priority number one when it comes to millions of iPhone 3G owners.

But as the Dev team point out, comparing the time taken to unlocking the first gen iPhone and the hardware/software improvements found in the iPhone 3G and new 2G Touch, we should sit back and let them work their magic, it may be sometime before they make any significant progress.

Timber!!!

While we continue working on the two current remaining challenges from Apple (the iPhone 3G soft unlock and iPod Touch 2G jailbreak…see the end of this post), we’re also watching the latest beta releases from Apple.

The first beta 2.2 from Apple reveals a few things:

They’re continuing with their ski-resort theme; Version 2.2 is nicknamed TImberline.

They’ve gone back to using expiry dates. The first 2.2 beta is due to expire on November 30, 2008. They stopped using expiry dates about halfway through the 2.1 betas, but for some reason they’ve started using them again.

Version 2.2 is still vulnerable to pwnage and quickpwn on everything but iPod Touch 2G.

To demonstrate point #3, here’s the non-AppStore application Terminal.app running on 2.2, showing the kernel build information.

Hardware already vulnerable to pwnage remains vulnerable in version 2.2.

Regarding the two current challenges: the 3G iPhone soft unlock and iPod Touch 2G jailbreak are still relatively new challenges (compare them with the timeframe of the iPhone challenges last year). We’re making slow advances on both fronts, but it’s not the sort of thing that can be easily described in a blog like this.

But, to maybe show how interlinked these challenges are, this weekend we’ll be trying some hardware based ideas on the iPod Touch 2G jailbreak

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Comments to “Dev Team PWN iPhone 2.2 Beta - No 3G Unlock - No iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak”

jeet
November 21st, 2008 at 4:31 am

my iPhone is stuck in the recovery mode from the past one week.
it is on the screen that shows the iTunes logo and the usb connecting to it . i am in india therefore i use gsm ,, my network is seen but the locked symbol is on the top above the time. please help . i tried pwnage , quickpwn but my phone doesnt enter DFU FUCKING MODE!@please i need help

Aaron Besson
November 21st, 2008 at 10:31 am

HI jeet. Sorry to hear bout your troubles..

this is what you need to do.

leave the phone in recovery mode and restore it in itunes, but press shift/alt on your PC keyboard and click restore in iTUnes and select the ipsw you want to use..

Itunes 8 doesnt allow pwning from DFU..

hope this helps, if not let me know.

Holly
November 26th, 2008 at 1:27 am

I was able to jailbreak my 2g iphone, and i chose the “unlock” option but it is still not unlocked. It will not work with my t-mobile sim card. I was told to search under Cydia for T-mobile and install it so I did but still no luck. I went through the jailbreak process again thinking I did something wrong last time and now the internet won’t work. What do I need to do?

Aaron Besson
November 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am

Hi Holly

when using PWNED you need to go into expert mode and after browsing for your iPSW you select BootNeuter (the boot icon) and make sure “unlock Baseband” is selected

You can do what others are suggesting, by downloading BootNeuter via Cydia and running it on your iPhone, select Unlock Baseband and allow it to do its thing, (there are two parts, it will reboot after, just leave it till its done)

hope that helps..

let me know

- aaron

Holly
November 27th, 2008 at 1:20 am

Thanks for the advice. I was actually able to unlock it last night before I saw this comment. I had read on another forum that I should insert my t-mobile sim card, go into itunes while pressing the home key, this allowed me to restore through itunes. After I did this I went through the jailbreak process again and it worked fine! Not sure if that was the simplest way but it was pretty quick. I was selling the phone so I sent it out today and I now have the 3g iphone. I’m debating over whether or not to jailbreak it. It is currently on the 2.1 firmware, I have not yet updated to 2.2…..I mainly want to be able to record videos and stuff so that would be my main reason for jailbreaking it. I am not concerned with unlocking it though because I will be using my AT&T sim card. Do I go through the same jailbreak process with the 3g as I did with my 2g? I still have quickpwn downloaded and saved to my desktop so……can’t decide!

Holly
November 27th, 2008 at 1:26 am

Oh and also when I was trying to unlock my older 2g, I had to go into the folder that contained all my restore files and delete them……Just incase anybody has the same problem I had reads this, that was part of it also.