O2 will allow customers to unlock their iPhones once Orange begins selling the iPhone on November 10th. 

Matthew Key, head of O2, told Times Online, “Once the iPhone becomes available on other UK networks, we will allow O2 customers to unlock their iPhones, although of course they will still need to honour any outstanding contract period they have. At the end of their contract period, they are entirely free to move to another operator — though naturally we hope they won’t want to! “ 

When asked why O2’s 3G network was struggling, Key made these comments. 

“The O2 network has seen an 18-fold increase in data carried over the network in the last year and traffic continues to double every three months…” 

…”We are investing more than £30 million to address capacity issues in London alone between now and Christmas and I’m confident that we’ll see much improved levels of service as a result.” 

(via iClarified.com)

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Geohot has released his BlackSn0w unlock for the iPhone 3G and 3GS.

“blacksn0w is the unlock for the latest 05.11.07 baseband, and will also enable official tethering. blackra1n, a jailbreak for 3.1.2, has been updated to RC3, with hacktivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app.”

You can find instructions on how to use blacksn0w to unlock your iPhone here: Windows, Mac.

If you have already jailbroken using blackra1n, run the application again. You will see Icy replaced by an option “ra1n”. Install this to upgrade your blackra1n application. Run the blackra1n application again. This time you will see “sn0w”. Install sn0w to unlock your device.

(via iClarified.com)

Here’s what the iPhone Dev Team had to say concerning BlackSn0w

iPhone 3G/3GS owners who found themselves stuck with version 05.11 of the baseband (either by accident or because they bought it that way) are now in luck!  geohot was able to turn the already-public at+xemn crash into an injection vector, which can be used to inject his version of the unlock.  The blacksn0w unlock is available for free via Cydia by adding the repository http://blackra1n.com in the Manage->Sources panel.  Congratulations, geohot!

Those of you who are already unlocked at 3.1.2 because you kept your 04.26 baseband now have an extra cushion of comfort, and more choices: ultrasn0w, purplesn0w, and now blacksn0w (and of course the original yellowsn0w too if you’re still back at FW 2.x).   Whether or not you choose to update your baseband solely to use the new unlock is a personal choice, but so far there are no advantages to doing so (and remember you can’t come back to 04.26 after you’ve gone to 05.11).

As with all the unlocks, it will probably very soon be re-sold through scam sites that charge you money for what is offered to the community for free.  Please stay vigilant for these scam sites and steer your friends away from them.

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GeoHot has posted a video demonstrating the first iPhone unlock being performed with BlackSn0w. 

The unlock has an expected release date of November 4th, 2009.

Geohot has declined a $10,000* reward for the iPhone unlock and blasts those reselling the unlock calling them scum. 

The BlackSn0w unlock will be released November 4th, 2009 and will work with the latest iPhone baseband (05.11.07). 

Geohot implores users to get the truth out. The iPhone unlock is free. “Let’s shut all these a**holes down”

*Jody Sanders, a person notorious for selling the Dev-Team’s unlock, had offered Geohot $10,000 for releasing a new unlock.

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The iPhone Dev Team has released their PwnageTool version 3.1.4 which supports the recently released iPhone OS 3.1.2.

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Apple on Thursday released an update to the iPhone OS, bringing it to version 3.1.2. The minor update reportedly fixes a handful of issues with the software. 

According to Apple, the update — which applies to the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS — has the following improvements: 

• Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
• Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
• Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming

The update, which weighs in at over 200MB, can be downloaded through iTunes. A corresponding update for the iPod touch was also released. 

A month ago, Apple released iPhone OS 3.1, which debuted a number of new features, including a Genius recommendation system for software in the App Store. It also added ringtones from record labels, directly into the iTunes application on the phone. 

Of course the iPhone Dev Team has to have their say on 3.1.2…

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Sn0wBreeze is a new project aiming to bring PwnageTool functionality to Windows computers by October 12th. 

iH8sn0w tweeted some details about the upcoming software… 

The new project that we are working on is sn0wbreeze. It is basically PwnageTool for Windows. Our ETA is October 12. 

We will ask for Beta Testers as soon as we have a stable build ready! 

It will be pretty much everything the the Mac version of PwnageTool can do atm.

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GeoHot has posted picture evidence of a jailbroken third generation iPod Touch to his blog. 

For those waiting eagerly to jailbreak their iPhones and iPods, GeoHot plans to release the jailbreak tool within the next day or so. 

The exploit should work for every version of iPhone OS including OS 3.1. 

10 seconds. and may work for every version of software *ever*, based on the prettiness of the exploit

The soon to be released jailbreak tool by GeoHot has been named BlackRa1n and will be found at http://www.blackra1n.com.

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The iPhone Dev-Team has successfully completed the upgrade of a jailbroken iPhone 3GS from 3.0 to 3.1 without losing the jailbreak. 

CPICH confirmed the news from his twitter account. 

This means that we will likely see an update to PwnageTool which will add support for creating a custom ipsw that will be used to upgrade your iPhone 3GS. 

(via iPhone Dev Team Blog & iClarified.com)

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This is the low down on our tools for use with the 3.1 firmware from Apple, please read the whole post in full before attempting anything. Because of changes with Apple’s update techniques (that complicate the 3GS upgrade process) this will be a multipart release. This release starts with PwnageTool 3.1 for Mac OS X - this application supports the iPhone 1st Generation (2G), the iPhone 3G and the iPod touch 1G. NB: THIS DOES NOT SUPPORT THE 3GS OR 2G/3G IPOD TOUCH. redsn0w for Mac OS X and Windows will follow sometime in the near future, please don’t bug us about it - we’ll release when we have something ready. 

GOLDEN RULE: If you are using a 3G iPhone with ultrasn0w and rely on ultrasn0w to obtain cellular service, then you should only upgrade to 3.1 with a PwnageTool created .ipsw. - Stay away from Apple’s direct updates as described here and here please get up to speed on the whole subject by reading the information contained in these posts. 
If you have an original iPhone (1st generation) then 3.1 unlock works with this PwnageTool release. iPhone 3G users upgrading to 3.1 will need to continue using ultrasn0w with a PwnageTool created 3.1 .ipsw 
Please read all parts of this post before downloading and using these tools. 
Read items 1, 2 and 3 again and again. 
At the bottom of this post are the bittorrent files for the 3.1 capable version of PwnageTool.
This app is suitable for the recent 3.1 release. 
This version of PwnageTool will NOT work for the iPhone 3GS. 
PwnageTool WILL work for Original iPhone (1st Generation), Original iPod touch (1st Generation) and the iPhone 3G. 
Baseband 101 

The ‘baseband’ is the generic nickname given to the internal components of the iPhone that handle the phone calls and Internet access. This ‘baseband’ is a tiny and unique independent computer system that runs inside your iPhone, it is separate to the main system that handles the applications (such as email and google maps) and it talks to the main part of the phone over an internal communications network. Think of it like a cable modem or other peripheral that is attached to your home PC that needs occasional updates. When a software update is released and presented to you within iTunes the baseband is sometimes updated (to fix bugs or add new features). The 3.1 update for the iPhone 3G contains such an update, so running the vanilla updater straight away with iTunes will reprogram and update the baseband. 

SIM Free/SP Unlocked/Factory Unlocked iPhone 3G 

This applies if you bought your iPhone 3G for $$$$$$$. This model of iPhone 3G doesn’t have an Service Provider lock (aka factory unlocked) and you are able to put any SIM card into the phone and get service. Your phone is already unlocked so you do not need to worry about baseband updates, simply upgrade to 3.1 using iTunes and then use PwnageTool to create an ipsw and then use this to jailbreak your phone. 

iPhone 2G (1st Generation) 

Use PwnageTool to do the magic and then restore with iTunes using your newly created .ipsw ‘nuff said, you don’t need to worry about anything, the baseband will be unlocked, the phone jailbroken. 

iPod touch 1G (Original iPod Touch) 

Use PwnageTool to create a firmware image and restore with that .ipsw using iTunes. 

iPod touch 2G 

Sorry, no support at this time within PwnageTool, use Redsn0w for an earlier (pre 3.1) firmware release instead. 

iPod touch 3G (New iPod Touch) 

Sorry, no support at this time within PwnageTool 

Official Bittorrent Releases - 

PwnageTool_3.1.dmg.5089960.TPB.torrent 
SHA1 = ccc1e5db026362fc7eb9a40c76322b1fdcc90332 
Unofficial Mirrors 

The following links are unofficial download mirrors, you download these at your own risk, we accept no responsibility if your computer explodes or if it becomes part of a NASA attacking botnet or even worse if your hands fall off mid-way during the use of these files. We do not check these links or archives and we accept no responsibility with regard to the validity of the files, or with other content these links provide or with the content that is on the linked site. Always check the published SHA1 sums. We would prefer that you downloaded the official bittorrent release that is linked above, but you are welcome to try these if you really must. Mirror owners should email direct links only to blog@iphone-dev.org , please don’t place mirrors in the comments as they will be deleted. 

http://www.peltner-kfz.de/PwnageTool_3.1.dmg
http://foskarulla.com/PwnageTool_3.1.dmg
http://fosk.it/PwnageTool_3.1.dmg
http://bentkowski.com.pl/PwnageTool_3.1.dmg
http://www.iemanduitnederland.nl/PwnageTool_3.1.dmg
http://downloads2.touch-mania.com/PwnageTool_3.1.dmg
http://miphone.ca/iphone-dev/PwnageTool_3.1.dmg
http://dehek.us/PwnageTool_3.1.dmg
http://iphone.h4ck.org.il/PwnageTool_3.1.dmg

(via The iPhone Dev Team)

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