Most probably, the much awaited 2.2 firmware upgrade for iPhone would be hitting iTunes by Friday.
PLEASE DO NOT UPGRADE IF YOU ARE RUNNING UNLOCKED OR JAILBROKEN IPHONES. You will keep cursing yourself for a week or two. Wait for the iPhone Dev Team to jailbreak and unlock 2.2 and then get a confirmation from this website blog.iphone-dev.org. Only then you should hit the upgrade button in iTunes.
But if you one those lucky ones who haven’t yet unlocked or jailbroken your iPhone (Just like me ;>)), there is nothing worry. As soon as you get the upgrade message in your iTunes, HIT it HARD.. haha.. And you will end up getting these brand new 2.2 firmware features:
Changes to the Safari interface and a new location for Google search
A new Apple Store app with an interface for categories and the ability to “report a problem”
Auto-correction toggle
Japanese Emoji icons
Google Street View, walking, and transit directions
iPhoneDevTeam, the only team working on iPhone 3G’s unlocking method via breaking into some loophole in iPhone OS has got one step closer actually doing it. This team had already jailbroked iPhone 3G, which means that you can start adding unlocked apps and games using Cydia. But the SIM is still not opened. You will still have to be on legal ISP which has partnered with Apple to provide cellular services with iPhone. But if you jailbreak, your warranty is broken and Apple will not support your iPhone. This is the only reason, I haven’t yet jailbroken my iPhone 3G.
Anyways, let me now get to iPhoneDevTeam’s latest accomplishments:
This looks greek to me This is what the blog has to say:
We made some significant 3G progress this week.
Here’s a screenshot of a 3G iPhone whose baseband has been modified. And even though it’s modified — and fails the integrity check — it’s still running. Can you guess where the patch was made?
And this week, further progress has been made. I think the ultimate unlocking method is very close now.
I have been waiting to find a reliable step-by-step approach to unlock iPhone 1st gen which has been knowingly/unknowingly upgraded to 2.1 by users. Since I have been getting quite a few mails of late asking for help on either downgrading 2.1 firmware to 1.1.4 or 1.1.3 or unlock/jailbreak2.1 firmware. Let me remind you that “you cannot unlock iPhone 3G yet” - iphonedevteam is the only team working towards finding a software unlocking methodthat would unlock iPhone 3G. There are turbo sims which promises iPhone 3G unlocking, but they are highly unreliable and follow hardware unlocking methods.
Anyways, coming to a Dummies Guide to JailBreak iPhone 1st Gen which has been upgraded to 2.1 firmware. BigBoss, the developer behind sleepers.net has found a way to do this. Please follow this link if you would like to follow the complete info. I will pull up the exceprts from his blog.
Note - If you have never jailbroken, you don’t need to worry about this guide. Just hook your iPhone up to your computer and tap the “upgrade” button and wait. That’s it! Now proceed to the jailbreak guide of your choice.
Steps:
Before starting, upgrade your iTunes first. If you are moving to 2.1, you need iTunes 8. Upgrade that now. Download any version of iTunes from - FileHippo.com
Install aptbackup from cydia and run it to backup your apps.
Sync with iTunes. Do not get impatient and interrupt the backup. If you do, it will be corrupted and useless. You would lose everything on your restore. It might take hours in few cases.
Restore your firmware.
At this point, if you are a contract subscriber (AT&T or such) you need to activate your device in iTunes. Just hook it up and wait, it should auto activate allowing you to slide to unlock to icons. If you are unlocking, you probably see “slide for emergency” only. Do not do anything else in iTunes at this point. Disconnect your device from your computer. Do not restore your backup, do not set up as a new phone, just remove the device.
Do not restore your backup in iTunes yet. Instead, jailbreak your device now. I suggest using quickpwn. You can follow bigboss’s guide here.
Using Cydia, install aptbackup. This is the most important part, do not skip any of it. The rest of this step will allow you to correct any problems you encounter in the next steps.
a) Install open SSH.
b) If you had 5 icon dock installed before the upgrade, install that now also.
c) Install BossPrefs
Restore your backup from iTunes.
iTunes will restore your settings, contacts, notes, pictures, and all your apps. Now to restore the rest of your Cydia installs. Open aptbackup and hit restore. It should reinstall all your packages from Cydia.
If you had a bunch of category folders and moved most things into it, the iTunes backup will have made these icons disappear. You can unhide them via BossPrefs.
iPhoneDevTeam have released the windows version of QuickPwn. QuickPwn can unlock and jailbreak iPhone 1st gen devices. But if you are on 3G version, don’t install QuickPwn. You will have to wait for Pwnage to update QuickPwn and WinPwn to support unlocking of iPhone 3G. Here is what their blog has to say:
QuickPwn Supports 2.1 firmware with the unlocking and jailbreaking of iPhone 1st generation (2G) device. Your device will need to be upgraded to 2.1 (using iTunes before running this application.
iPhone Dev Team have updated their blog with this post “QuickPwn - fake sites“. As per these guys - there are lots of fake sites using the QuickPwn name, these muppets don’t know anything special, and they don’t have anything unique.
As we’ve mentioned before we don’t accept donations and we certainly don’t allow ads on our site, anyone who asks for donations in our name is lying, end of story.
This was very quick iPhoneDevTeam. This time you guys jailbroke 2.1 firmware within 24hrs. I guess this is great news for all those iPhone 1st Gen users. But still, iPhone 3G is not unlockable using this Pwnage, WinPwn or QuickPwn software. So if you are on 3G version and want to unlock it, this will be of no help. But if you are on older version, go for this. Though there are few bugs that users are facing while using this 2.1version on iPhone, there are quite a few solutions - mentioned in these comments section on iPhoneDevTeam’s blog.
Let me quickly get to the point. If you are looking to upgrade your older firmware version to 2.1, follow these steps:
Here are the new versions of PwnageTool and QuickPwn that support the 2.1 firmware. And as we just mentioned, iTunes was not harmed in the process no patching was required.
This does not address the new iPod Touch 2G device released this week. Partly because none of us even have one yet
Let me clear this, this App called “Mobfindr” only works with JailBroken iPhones. So if you have a locked iPhone with you, this wouldn’t work. Here is how this works:
This new service called Mobfindr that will let you find the location of a phone just by sending an SMS to it. To set it up, just install the latest version of Navizon and enter the passphrase that will need to be sent in order to access the location. Turn the service on… and that’s it.
I am now hoping that iPhone 3G would be finally unlocked with this most awaited WINPWN 2.5 release. This release was formally announced by the iPhone Dev Team on their blog yesterday. I am not going to unlock my iPhone 3G, but would like to help my blog members to unlock their iPhones to easily upgrade to 2.0.x firmware or fully unlock their iPhone 3G’s. Here are the details of this winpwn release.
- QuickPwn Support for 2.0/2.0.1/2.0.2
- Root partition resize support
- Installer support
- Basic / Expert modes
- Wizard style interface
- Automatic updater
- Support for WinXP and Vista 32/64bit.
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BigBoss has a exclusive review on Winpwn 2.5. Here is the brief:
Winpwn 2.5 pwns, it quickpwns, it handles all the latest firmwares. It will unlock your 2g as well. Here are a series of guides to help you.
Few TroubleShooting Tips Q) There are no images in custom images online. A) Try again later. The servers may be hammered and not responsive. This is a temporary issue.
Q) It made my custom firmware and I cannot find it. Where is it? A) You can search for .ipsw in the windows search box. It is probably in “my documents”. It starts with custom.
Q)Winpwn crashes during creating a custom firmware (just closes out) and no firmware file is made. A) Follow expert mode and up your partition size to 700mb.
The application SHOULD ONLY be downloaded as a .tbz file from our servers and should NOT be decompressed using the application called “the unarchiver” (this breaks permissions within PwnageTool) just use the standard OS X built in ‘Archive Utility’ to decompress.
Hi, I have been using this awesome invention called iPhone in Bangalore, India from November 2007 and have gone nutzzz over this.
Nuts to an extent that I have started my own blog on iPhone. I will be covering various developments happening around Apple iPhone. Will cover everything and anything which is even remotely connected to the iPhone. But will put more emphasis on iPhone news and buzz from an Indian perspective.
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This is what the blog has to say:
before running this application.
no patching was required.
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