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iPhone 3.0 Firmware Jailbreaked - Not officially released or supported by Dev Team

April 2nd, 2009
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Originally posted on the Official iPhone Dev Team Blog

Well, the cat is out of the bag.  The 3.0 firmware from Apple can be jailbroken, and there are now sites out there giving you that jailbreak (after you sort through various ads and browser popups, etc).

Of course it’s not really a surprise that it can be jailbroken.  One of the nicest things about the jailbreaking iPhones and iPod Touches nowadays is that once a given device can be jailbroken, it can always be jailbroken.  The exploits we’re forced to resort to are down at the hardware level, where nothing can be done about them via software.   That’s why within a day or two of 3.0 beta1’s release we were able to snap this screenshot of a jailbroken system:

jailbroken 3.0b1

(we also captured the date of the SHA1 of the above image for historical purposes here and here)

Why did we not release the jailbreak two weeks ago when the above image was captured and hashed?  There are many reasons, mostly resource-related:

  1. We don’t want to have to release a new version of PwnageTool and QuickPwn for every beta release.  Last time around during the 2.0 beta period, there were nine (9!) Apple releases, spaced within a few weeks of each other.
  2. There are unresolved problems that we’re still working on.  It’s currently impossible to get the 3.0 firmware to talk to baseband 02.28 where yellowsn0w lives, for instance.
  3. We don’t want to have to support everyone who wants to back down from the betas…because the betas are, well, buggy.
  4. It’s silly to play cat&mouse with Apple during a beta period, when relatively few people are willing to actually use the beta software in their everyday lives.  There are ways Apple can tighten the screws, and we’d rather not burn methods just for a beta release.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THE UNOFFICIAL QUICKPWN RELEASES IS THAT IF YOU USE THEM, YOU WILL KILL YELLOWSN0W, POSSIBLY FOREVER. That’s because QuickPwn, by its very nature, requires you to already have accepted Apple’s official IPSW, along with its baseband update.  If you do that, you will (possibly forever) lose your ability to software-unlock your iPhone 3G.

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and so perhaps we should be flattered that so many ad-supported sites are now using our own tools to create unofficial jailbreaks (QuickPwn in particular is so easily adapted from one release to the next that it’s reduced to a handful of binary pattern searches in a good hex editor). But please don’t expect support for them on this blog, because we’re actually busy with the hard part of the 3.0 jailbreak (the 02.28 incompatibility and the new compressed ramdisk they’re using).

Oh, and also the unlock :)


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Light 1.2 and QuickPwn for Windows 2.2.5-2

February 1st, 2009
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Digital Film Tools has released Light 1.2, an iPhone application that can add realistic lighting and shadow to photos.

Light and shadow is introduced using digital versions of the gobo library created by Gamproducts. Gobos (patterns) are widely used by lighting designers in theatre, film/TV and photography to enhance the visual impact of their lighting. Normally used in front of lights during photography, gobos can be applied to the entire image or inside a selected area using Light. Gobos from the Gamproducts collection are arranged into the following categories: Breakups, Foliage, Lights, Sky and Windows.

Features: 
- Control light brightness, blurring, and displacement for light wrapping effects 
- Adjust light position, rotation and size with on-screen controls 
- Isolate light using the selection screen 
- Position slider determines where to put the light 
- Range slider selects the amount of light 
- Lum (Luminance), Hue, or Sat (Saturation) buttons change the selection method 
- Shake on the Gobo screens to choose a random gobo 
- Shake on the image editing screen to reset controls 
- Edit in portrait or landscape mode


(via iClarified.com)

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QuickPwn for Windows (version 2.2.5-2) has been updated to work with the latest 2.2.1 firmware.

You can dowload the official torrent here.

It offers support for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G, and the iPod Touch 1G.


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QuickPWN for Windows patched by Russian Hacker Vortex for 2.2.1 - Not Dev Team Supported, please wait

January 29th, 2009
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QuickPwn.com (no relation to the iPhone Dev Team) is reporting that a Russian hacker that goes by the alias Vortex has patched the iPhone Dev Team’s QuickPwn software to jailbreak 2.2.1 devices. When I asked dev team member MuscleNerd on Twitter about the rumors of a QuickPwn for 2.2.1 being available he replied:

@MyTriniPhone we’re putting final touches on a new feature, it’ll be out soon

So I am urging readers to please be patient, if there is a problem using Vortex’s patched QuickPWN, no one but Vortex will be able to help if the simple solution of restoring doesn’t work. One benefit of holding off a bit is that MuscleNerd has said that a new feature will be added that will surely be worth the wait.


Update via MuscleNerd:

iphone users in particular (even 2G) can do permanent damage running “untrusted” bundles




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Windows Users Regoice! - Jailbird for the 2.0+ iPhone is coming - Finally Create Custom 2.2 Firmwares

January 14th, 2009
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Jailbird, a new windows jailbreaking application for the iPhone (2G & 3G) and iPod touch, is currently under development. Unfortunately Jailbird will not unlock your iPhone (2G) like PWNAGE Tool from the Dev Team (by installing BootNeuter) but if your 2G iPhone is already unlocked, you can use this on your windows PC to create custom 2.0-2.2 firmwares with the ability to adjust the partition size, then if you must install BootNeuter via Cydia.

Here is a sneak peek

Anyhooo - This will be great for quick restores back to a custom firmware (quicker than restoring then using quickpwn). Jailbird will as stated jailbreak the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch which will allow you to install non AppStore software from Installer and Cydia. There is currently no iPod Touch 2G jailbreak, and no redsn0wisn’t the 2GTouch jailbreak either. but it looks like I was wrong and redsn0w IS the iPod 2G Touch jailbreak, stay tuned for more info.

Anyway back on point, lets hope Jailbird is released soon and works well and makes life a little easier for our friends out there with PC’s.

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iPhone 3G Unlock Officially Announced - Code Name: Yellowsn0w - Release Date: News Years Eve

December 16th, 2008
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‘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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New Mac OS X 10.5.6 update doesnt recognize iPhones in DFU Mode - Fix on the way

December 15th, 2008
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Apple released an Mac OS X update 10.5.6 that seems to disable your Mac from detecting your iPhone or iPod Touch in DFU mode. Unfortunately this is critical if you are using PWNAGE or QuickPWN on your Mac to unlock your iPhone or jailbreak your iPhone 3G and Touch. This is also bad news if the new iPhone 3G method will require DFU mode to load a custom unlocked ipsw via iTunes.

MuscleNerd from the Dev Team has stated that one work around is the following:

The simplest workaround I’ve heard of for the DFU issue is to copy one or two of the 10.5.5 frameworks files over the newer ones.

Seeing that I have already updated my Mac Mini and my new MacBook Aluminum probably already has OS X 10.5.6 I will be faced with this problem myself and will be sure to post a fix as soon as I find one. Stay tuned for more info.

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iPhone Dev Team Release PWNAGE Tool and QuickPWN for Firmware 2.2 - No 3G Unlock, Yet.

November 22nd, 2008
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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

Mac QuickPwn

Windows QuickPwn

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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How to update your iPhone to 2.1 on Windows without WinPWN

September 15th, 2008
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Here is a tutorial posted in the forum by SARC originally posted on iPhoneHacks.com and Sleepers.net by a user named geeb. This will allow windows users to update to 2.1 and then jailbreak 2.1 with an older version of quickpwn that has been patched.

2G/3G iPhone 2.1 jailbreak tutorial -by geeb

DISCLAIMER: May break thingz…here be dragonz. Blame phi|o

AT THE MOMENT ANY 3rd PARTY APPS WILL NOT SHOW ON SPRINGBOARD UNTIL YOU DELETE THE CACHE AGAIN AND RESPRING WITH BOSSPREFS OR REBOOT (SEE LAST STEP OF TUTORIAL)

  1. Download the 2.1 firmware: for 3g:  or for 2g
  2. install iTunes 8
  3. Update the iPhone with iTunes and make sure it is activated!
  4. Uninstall iTunes v8 Uninstall Apple Mobile Device Support (From Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel)
  5. Install iTunes v7.7.*
  6. Download quickpwn with the correct 2.1 bundle inside it: http://xpwn.co.uk/quickpwn-2.1-2g-3g.rar
  7. Run quickpwn…select your iPhone1,2_2.1_5F136_Restore.ipsw or iPhone1,1_2.1_5F136_Restore.ipsw
    - you can select cydia and installer and logos if you wish
  8. When it is finished the phone will reboot…Cydia and Installer will NOT be visible yet
  9. Download TotalCommander <– http://xpwn.co.uk/tcmd704a.exe
  10. Download t-pot addon <– http://xpwn.co.uk/T-PoT.1.1.zip
  11. Install TotalCommander and in the left pane navigate to T-PoT.1.1.zip and click on it. - It will install t-pot automatically.
  12. Download the mobileinstallation patch <– http://www.sendspace.com/file/pcrxy6
  13. Use Totalcommander to install patched mobileinstallation to /System/Library/PrivateFrameWorks/MobileInstallation.framework…
  14. click on the dropdown box [-\-] top left and select network neighbourhood then t-pot.
  15. Remeber to back up your original mobileinstallation first!
  16. Drag the file from the right pane to the left, not from windows explorer to TotalCOmmander!
  17. Still in TotalCommander delete /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist
  18. Reboot the phone and all is good!

Thanks to the #xpwn crew…


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