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GeoHot, the person who originally found the exploit in the iPhone 3GS system, has released a jailbreaking utility codenamed “PurpleRa1n”. He released it even after the Dev Team clearly stated that they were planning on waiting until iPhoneOS 3.1 to reveal the exploit.

Update: GeoHot has released a newer version of his PurpleRa1n, you can download it at his site.

Update: The Dev Team has just released updates to RedSn0w and PwnageTool to now work with the iPhone 3GS, since the exploit is now out in the open.

So, use RedSn0w or PurpleRa1n? Well, I would suggest RedSn0w, but you never know. Anyone who has yet to purchase a iPhone 3GS and plans on jailbreaking, should do so soon, the anticipated iPhoneOS 3.0.1 is supposed to bring a patch to block this exploit, but once you jailbreak, your set for life.

Of course, you could always wait for the Dev Team, or GeoHot, to find another hole in the iPhone 3GS, its just a matter of time, but who likes waiting?

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The iPhone Dev Team has yet again beaten Apple and cracked firmware 3.0. The jailbreak used to unlock the current devices happens to be Redsn0w, the old iPod 2G jailbreak. Redsn0w can now be used to jailbreak firmware 3.0 on all devices other then the recently released iPhone 3GS.

Ultrasn0w, is, however, the new Yellowsn0w. It will be able to unlock your iPhone running firmware 3.0 no matter the baseband. The Dev Team said Ultrasn0w will also unlock the iPhone 3GS, once a jailbreak is found for it.

You can download Redsn0w for Windows, here, and for Mac, here. Ultrasn0w has not been released yet, but the Dev Team said it should not be long.

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The Dev Team has released a patch that converts the tethered jailbreak into an untethered one! You can find the patch here.

The patch needs to be applied directly to the LLB without decrypting it first, using “bspatch” or equivalent. The resulting IMG3 should have this SHA1:

SHA1(LLB.n72ap.RELEASE.img3) = 82734c7cdf945ba5421b83962aab3ab91e4fb23a

This is all we have until the Dev Team releases new updates to PwnageTool and QuickPwn. If you would like to read up on the exploit go here. You can find a tutorial on how to jailbreak your iPod by searching Google, there are even many GUI’s out now that promise easy jailbreaking, although I haven’t tested any.

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The forums at Steffwiz.com are now completely setup and active. Find them here.

When you make an account you are agreeing to the terms and rules. Any violation of these rules will be treated with the proper action. We have already banned over 300 accounts for spamming.

Please help us start up the forum by posting, if you have a suggestion or question be sure to place it in the “Suggestion” area. And most importantly, have fun!

Huge thanks to flammable_sheep for helping me set it up!

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Apple has released a new update for the iPhone and iPhone 3G, the Dev Team has made it very clear to not update.

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The Dev Team has confirmed that redsn0w is in fact the iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak. They said, “Right now the jailbreak process is far too manual to be useful to most people”, and didn’t provide any way for advanced users to get a hold of it.

Update: MuscleNerd broadcasted a live demo of redsn0w jailbreaking the iPod Touch 2G (like what they did for yellowsn0w), via Qik. See the video here.

Here is a screenshot of the iPod Touch 2G successfully jailbroken:

When we announced yellowsn0w, we made the mistake of giving an ETA for its release…and that really clobbered the last day of 2008 for us. So we won’t be issuing a formal ETA for the ipt2G jailbreak. But we are putting a lot of energy into it.

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The iPhone Dev Team has posted some clues to something new codenamed “redsn0w”:

• Well it isn’t a British Thermonuclear Device.
• It isn’t an episode from “The Twilight Zone”
• And it certainly isn’t iPhone 3G related (right now)
• There is one other device…
• It fits in your pocket..
• What can it be

The circle in the middle of the image is a section of the iPod Touch 2G Processor. On the far right hand side of the image, the small picture of a girl with a clown is taken from the BBC’s test-card, and could either mean wait for a release or that redsn0w is currently in testing. And apparently that code at the top of the image is, as MuscleNerd says, “an ‘escrow’ hash of the decrypted iBoot for the iPod Touch 2G (length=0×29000). Not otherwise obtainable except via an exploit (afaict).”

So now all we have to do is wait.

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Yellowsn0w has been released! The Dev Team created a site for it here so check it out!

Here’s some notes they left us:

• The unlock works exclusively with baseband 02.28.00. This baseband is provided by the latest firmware update (2.2) from Apple. You’ll need to upgrade to this release using iTunes and then use QuickPwn to activate etc. There are plenty of tutorials about this on iclarified, bigboss, modmi and other established tutorial sites. Because it works on 02.28.00, it is available to everyone on the planet. This means we don’t need to unnecessarily expose holes in earlier basebands, which is an important concern.
• The application is a small daemon that is launched on boot. It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset. You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. It’s a small program and unobtrusive. There is no GUI (this is by design).
• You can add the application using the sources outlined below. There are Cydia and Installer sources
• yellowsn0w is completely removable through Cydia, the command line, and iTunes.
• There is a known issue with SIM cards that have STK (SIM Toolkit) application menus. These menus are usually items such as “top up” “get credit” “lotto numbers” etc. These menu items confuse the application sometimes. Removing and reinserting the SIM once after reboot (give it about 10 secs 60 seconds (with v0.9.1) after you see the slide to unlock widget) fixes this issue. We’re working on a better fix. Update: version 0.9.4 fixes this for many (but probably not all) users who previously had to wait a minute and then replug the sim.
• For those of you using SIM cards without STK menus, the application has some optional arguments that will make the unlock much faster for you. So either experiment on your own (use “yellowsn0w -h” for usage) or wait for a customization writeup.
• After you install yellowsn0w via Cydia, you should return to the Cydia main menu then reboot your iPhone with the 3rd party SIM installed. Wait for the slide to unlock screen, then wait 10 or 15 secs more. If you don’t see your carrier name pop up, then remove your SIM, reinsert it, and wait 10 secs more. This is the step we’ll be working on eliminating next.
• The application is still in beta, you use it at your own risk. You know the score.

Yellowsn0w can be downloaded from:

• Cydia source: http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/
• Installer repo: http://i.yellowsn0w.com/

The Dev Team would like that anyone trying this unlock report there success or failure here. Read up on the full post here. And yes, its open source, download the source code here.

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According to the iPhone Dev Team, their work on the 3G unlock is done.

We 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, we did warn you.
• You can tell what version baseband you have by going to Settings->General->About->Modem Firmware
• The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone. It’ll be installable via Cydia and so it doesn’t matter if you have a Mac or PC.
• Please refrain from updating your baseband, regardless of what version you’re at. We’ll have complete directions on New Year’s Eve.

…and with that, today MuscleNerd (from the Dev Team) used Qik to broadcast a live demo of the first ever iPhone 3G Soft Unlock. You can see the video here.

So now all we have to do is wait for New Year’s Eve!

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This week’s funday is today! Planetbeing of the iPhone Dev Team has done a great job reverse engineering Apple’s hardware drivers and now for the first time ever, linux is available on the iPhone and first-gen iPods!

Check out this Comic!
Dont forget to Digg!

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