The wait is over. You can now unlock your iPhone 3G thanks to the heard work of the iPhone Dev Team. The new ‘yellowsn0w’ application has arrived today, right on cue. The first version available is a beta (0.9.1), so be warned before you try it… I’m not going to be held responsible if anything bad happens! Backup your device before you start! With this being a beta, I’m sure there are a lot of bugs to work out, but kudos to the Dev Team for their hard work on this one.
yellowsn0w works on the 02.28.00 baseband (the new, 2.2 Firmware). This is great news. First update your iPhone to the latest firmware to get started. From there you’ll need to ensure your iPhone 3G is jailbroken. You can use whatever tool you feel most comfortable with… The PwnageTool and QuickPWN are solid choices. Finally, you can use Cydia or Installer and use one of the repositories provided by the Dev Team to install and run yellowsn0w.
For more information, repository locations and full details, head on over to the iPhone Dev Team Blog.
We seem to seriously be on a Microsoft/Windows flavor here over the last few days. Microsoft has launched their new ads… PC Guy from the Mac Commercials was spotted using an iPhone… and now this… a little treat for all of those Windows-based iPhone users.
While there is still no unlocking for the iPhone 3G just yet, you can now jailbreak the 2.1 firmware with the brand-spanking new Windows Quickpwn 2.1. If you want to try her out, head on over the iPhone Dev Team’s Blog. You’ll find everything you need there. But as always, don’t blame me if things go wrong.
Note: Thanks Tim for the Heads up!
Another Note: I do know how to spell, honest… Those are the correct spellings of Pwnapple and Quickpwn 
Figured I should note that before the ‘spelling and grammar police’ arrive in the comments.
Apple has fought back at jailbreakers the only way they can at the moment, really. They’ve figured out a way to program iTunes 8 to detect and prevent the Pwnage exploit. Consider this a warning for all of you jailbreakers out there. If u’re running a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch, it’s probably a good idea to hold off on the 2.1 firmware update that was released the other day.
The iPhone Dev Team has reacted to this development already by saying:
‘The nice thing about iTunes decisions is that we can provide you with patches to counter them. We have one such patch already for Mac iTunes 8 for iPod touch. We’ll be working out the full suite of patches for all the combinations over the next week.’
Hold on to your britches jailbreakers, looks like help is on the way. You can read more at the iPhone Dev Team blog.
[via TheiPhoneBlog]
All you 1st gen-ers are in for a treat if you want to upgrade to the new 2.0 Firmware. The iPhone Dev Team have released their Pwnage Tool 2.0…and just recently, have updated it to 2.0.1 to fix some known issues. With it, you can jailbreak and unlock 1st gen iPhones running 2.0 Firmware.
The new Pwnage Tool can also jailbreak the iPhone 3G, however there is no unlocking solution for the 3G yet.
You might want to read up more or do a little research before trying this… but if you’re eager to give it a try, I’ve included 2 download links below. As always, please do BACKUP your iPhone before trying this. Things can and do go wrong, so make sure you backup first.
The Pwnage Tool v2.0 can be found on BigBoss’s repository, or at Hackint0sh.
I’ll give this a try myself over the next few days and will let you know how it goes… However I’d love to hear YOUR experiences on this too. Leave a comment, or discuss this in the forums.
[via iPhoneHacks.com]
Following some delays, the iPhone Dev Team has now published the Mac OS X edition of the PwnageTool. This tool is a hacking program for the iPhone that can unlock devices for third-party carriers and jailbreak them for native apps.
An interesting point here is that because the PwnageTool can execute unsigned code, it will apparently be able to function with any future iPhone firmware. So what does that mean you say? Well, it means you can start syncing your iPhone with the latest firmware via iTunes. The norm with iPhone hacking tools has been that once the firmware is upgraded, you can’t sync your device with iTunes unless you want your phone locked up again. I know, I’ve experienced this a few times after unlocking my iPhone with ZiPhone.
The Mac PwnageTool is a free 23MB download. Get it here. A Windows version is being tested and should be available within the next 24 hours.
[via iPodNN]
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