‘Tis the Season to be Jolly!

Now that you guys have got used to the sunburn and blindness caused by the glare of the Dev Taems new blog template, we can get back to normal business. We’ll give you some updates and also tell you our schedule for the festive season.

Over the Christmas break some of the Dev Team members will be talking at the Chaos Computer Club’s 25C3 Congress. This talk will be a juicy technical talk relating to iPhone platform and their previous exploits. You can see more information about the talk “Hacking the iPhone”. There is even a super-cool TeamPwnapple T-Shirt

The Dev Team have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.

* The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
* This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, they did warn you.
* The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone.

DFU Problems

Lots of users have been experiencing problems with the use of DFU mode after applying yesterday’s 10.5.6 system update.

The Dev’s believe this behavior is due to a kernel bug not a specific countermeasure by Apple. Possible fixes are (try at your own risk!) -

1. Replace the following plugin kexts from within IOUSBFamily.kext with the ones from 10.5.5 and then rebuild kextcache (if you don’t understand this, then you shouldn’t attempt it!)

/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBHub.kext

/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext

2. Use a USB hub in-between the DFU device and the Mac and insert/reinsert the iPhone’s USB cable.

3. Use a PwnageTool created .ipsw on Windows! Oh the irony!

iPod touch 2G

Currently the Dev Team are not investigating the iPod touch 2G. Other people outside the Dev-Team are looking into this, but they are not at the moment. Please don’t hassle them with comments and requests about this, they’ll just be deleted and ignored. If they do look at this device it will be sometime in the New Year and they’ll inform you guys if and when they commence this work.

The Dev Team would like to reiterate that this is not because -

1. They are mean
2. They are turning our back on the iPod touch community
3. They have been paid off by JFK, Princess Diana or Elvis

This is because -

1. They have been busy with the 3G unlock.
2. They have been busy with the CCC talk.
3. Only one of them has a iPod touch 2G (but we’ll see what Santa brings)
4. Their employers don’t get as excited as us about hacking expensive pretty devices
5. Unfortunately their partners, parents and pets need occasional attention too.

Great news!!

[via DevTeamBlog]

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Here is an interview that I found on iPhoneHellas.gr with a Hungarian member of the iPhone Dev Team, as published by the Hungarian Appleblog.blog.hu. Some great insight into the inner workings of the Dev Team, how they share the work load, who they are, where they are from and when/if/how will they unlock the iPhone 3G:

First of all congrats for the job you did so far, but I think you already know that half of the world is supporting you!

Thanks! Me and my wife read your blog, and after you wrote about the Dev Team, we thought it would be a good idea to find you. Your blog is the first hungarian language blog or newsportal we communicate to directly. Read more…

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The iPhone Dev Team have wasted no time in updating their iPhone unlocking, jailbreaking and hactivating tool to work with firmware 2.2 released last week Friday. The latest post on their blog outlines allot of useful info and I would suggest that you head over there and read the latest post. Here is the summary.

1. Don’t Update your 3G via iTunes if you want an unlock in the future.
2. The latest PWNAGE and QuickPWN can NOT unlock your iPhone 3G.
3. The latest PWNAGE Tool and QuickPWN can NOT work on the 2G iPod Touch.
4. The ‘late 2008’ MacBook/air/pro line of computers have an issue with DFU mode, it is possible to go from Pwned 2.1 -> 2.2 but going from stock to Pwned does not work, if in any doubt use a different machine. - Be careful.
5. Simple Mode’ in PwnageTool currently only works for the iPod Touch.
6. To use PwnageTool for iPhones you will need to use ‘Expert mode’.
7. You will also need to change the partition size to about 1000MB (type in the value or use the slider).

Mac PwnageTool

• http://i.omerc.net/PwnageTool_2.2.dmg
• http://www.theiphoneguru.org/wp-content/uploads/PwnageTool_2.2.dmg
• http://forty2blog.de/PwnageTool_2.2.dmg

Mac QuickPwn

• http://i.omerc.net/QuickPwn_2.2.dmg
• http://forty2blog.de/QuickPwn_2.2.dmg

Windows QuickPwn

• http://i.omerc.net/QuickPwn22.zip
• http://www.theiphoneguru.org/wp-content/uploads/QuickPwn22.zip
• http://imodzone.net/QuickPwn22.zip
• http://forty2blog.de/QuickPwn22.zip

Regarding the unlocking of the iPhone 3G here is the latest  notes from the Dev Team about updating to 2.2 via iTunes and how it may affect a software unlock int eh future:

Locked iPhone 3G - Preserve Baseband

This applies if you have a locked iPhone 3G and you wish to update to 2.2 but preserve the iPhone’s current baseband software. Preserving the baseband will give you the maximum chance for any upcoming software unlock. To upgrade your phone to 2.2 and preserve the state of the
baseband you need to create a custom .ipsw with PwnageTool. This custom .ipsw will not contain the baseband update but of course will still allow all the cool new stuff from 2.2.

There are plenty of tutorials about this process on the web, but PwnageTool contains intuitive graphics and easy to follow prompts that should have you up and running in no time at all

For more information, please head over to the iPhone Dev Team’s Blog.

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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:

1. They’re continuing with their ski-resort theme;  Version 2.2 is nicknamed TImberline.
2. 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.
3. 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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The iPhone Dev Team have managed to get a hold of a photo showing Stephen Gary “Woz” Wozniak (Co-Founder of Apple) proudly showing off that his iPhone is PWNED. Nice product endorsment shot Dev’s

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Here are my custom Start Up Screen and Recovery Screen for my iPhone (2G). I’ll be posting my 3G version soon as well as a couple unbranded ones in the forum thread for this post. This is honestly my first attempt at making custom boot and restore images. Much more to come. Hope you like them.

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PwnageTool 2.0.3 is now available either as a update in PWNAGE (courtesy Sparkle) on your Mac or you can download it directly from here. (Dev Team Server Link)

This new version of PwnageTool supports iPhone/iPod firmware 2.0.2 5C1. It also comes with a new updated Installer Beta vb6 and Cydia of course. The application must be downloaded as a .tbz file from the Dev Team Servers (above) and must NOT be decompressed using “the unarchiver”, use OS X’s built in ‘Archive Utility’ to decompress the file.

PWNAGE Tool 2.03 will create a custom iPhone/Touch firmware that you can choose to Jailbreak and Activate your device, install Cydia and/or Installer.app and run BootNeuter to unlock your First Gen iPhone on firmware 2.0.2 build 5C1. Unfortunately it will NOT unlock your/my iPhone 3G baseband, but it will jailbreak it and allow you to run great apps like Cycorder and Winterboard.

Update 2 - I have added some fixes for some errors with cydia and passwords in the forum please check here

Update: I am having problems with passwords being saved for email, wifi and other things. I will try to chenge permissions of var/keychain to 0777 and see if that helps.

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With no iPhone 3G software unlock in sight and the best of the Dev Teams baseband unlockers hard at work trying to crack it, the other members of the iPhone Dev Team have not been sitting idle. The Dev Team today released QuickPWN. It’s a tool to jailbreak an iPhone quicker and easier, without requiring a full restore. Currently QuickPwn requires your device to be running version 2.0.1 of the iPhone/iPod firmware.

As jailbreaking only deals with the S5L (application processor) side of the device, so it’s impossible for this to permanently damage your device. It’s more convenient because you do not need to make a full custom IPSW and use iTunes to restore your device with it, but your phone still ends up pwned and jailbroken. A funky UI is planned and this release is for PC users for now. I’ll be checking it out, but if you have tested us let us know in the forum.

You can get it here.

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