George Hotz (aka geohot), the kid who was the first to unlock the original iPhone back in 2007 and then iPhone 3GS in July of this year is back! This time he is the first one to release jailbreaking solution for the new iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware for all devices through his new tool called blackra1n. blackra1n is a software tool which can jailbreak (not unlock) all iPhone’s (iPhone (Edge), iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS) and iPod touch's (iPod touch 2G and 3G) running on firmware version 3.1.2.
The following step-by-step tutorial/guide will help you in running fully unlocked and jailbroken iPhone 3GS with iPhone firmware 3.1 on a Windows PC without having to wait for Windows version of PwnageTool or redsn0w.
Jay Freeman (Saurik), the developer behind the infamous Cydia store for iPhone has found a way to downgrade iPhone 3GS from firmware 3.1 to firmware 3.0. This process will only work for those who have saved their SHSH to Cydia Server, for more on SHSH, read the complete detail blog post by Saurik here. Also to note here is that while this method will help you downgrade your firmware from 3.1 to 3.0, your baseband will not be downgraded which means you cant unlock it for now.
iPhone OS 3.0.1 has been released to fix SMS exploit which could remotely control the victim’s iPhone. This guide will help you update to the latest iPhone firmware 3.0.1 while keeping your jailbreak and unlock intact. This guide applies to all the iPhone’s – iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.
redsn0w 0.8 is out and it can jailbreak iPhone 3GS running on firmware 3.0. Just follow the step by step guide below to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS with redsn0w. You will need to first update/restore to the original iPhone OS firmware 3.0 on your iPhone 3GS by using iTunes 8.2 before proceeding with the following steps.
The Dev-Team has finally released the complete jailbreaking and unlocking solution for iPhone 3GS. The JUST released redsn0w (version 0.8) is now available for all the platforms. This includes Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Remember the kid who first unlocked the original iPhone back in 2007? Well he is back again! and this time he is the first one to release unlock for iPhone 3GS running on firmware 3.0. The unlock that Hotz released is currently for Windows only (minus Windows 7) and he mentions that the jailbreak for Mac is coming soon. Follow the steps below to unlock and jailbreak iPhone 3GS to make it work with any carrier.
Dev-Team has just posted a brief teaser video which demonstrates a jailbroken and unlocked iPhone 3GS running on firmware 3.0. Do not update/restore to firmware 3.1 now if you really want to unlock your iPhone 3GS with the upcoming tools as shown in the video.
The infamous iPhone Dev-Team strikes again! They have found an old exploit(24Kpwn) which is still present in the bootrom of iPhone 3GS and can be used to jailbreak and unlock iPhone 3GS. So those of you with the latest Apple hardware wont have to wait for too long before you can jailbreak and unlock iPhone 3GS by using ultrasn0w.
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