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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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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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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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The Dev Teams latest blog post shows that they have successfully modified the 3G’s baseband. This is yet one step closer to the 3G Unlock!

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There is news that the wonderful people of the official iPhone Dev team are yet one step closer to a 3G unlock. Their latest post entitled “Two steps forward…” shows that they are facing some difficulties.

We’ve been exploring different ideas with the 3G unlock, but this past weekend one of us hit a big snag. For whatever reason, all of our poking and prodding of the 3G baseband caused it to finally have a breakdown. After one specific exploit run, all of a sudden our baseband stopped responding to the OS. Even after multiple restore attempts, we were plagued with errors.

Rest assured iPhone (and iPod Touch) fanatics, if anyone can accomplish this task it is the Dev Team.

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While we continue working on the two current remaining challenges from Apple (the iPhone 3G soft unlock and iPod Touch 2G jailbreak…see the end of this post), we’re also watching the latest beta releases from Apple.

The first beta 2.2 from Apple reveals a few things:

• They’re continuing with their ski-resort theme;  Version 2.2 is nicknamed Timberline.
• They’ve gone back to using expiry dates.  The first 2.2 beta is due to expire on November 30, 2008.  They stopped using expiry dates about halfway through the 2.1 betas, but for some reason they’ve started using them again.
• Version 2.2 is still vulnerable to pwnage and quickpwn on everything but iPod Touch 2G.

To demonstrate point #3, here’s the non-AppStore application Terminal.app running on 2.2, showing the kernel build information.

Regarding the two current challenges:  the 3G iPhone soft unlock and iPod Touch 2G jailbreak are still relatively new challenges (compare them with the timeframe of the iPhone challenges last year). We’re making slow advances on both fronts, but it’s not the sort of thing that can be easily described in a blog like this.

But, to maybe show how interlinked these challenges are, this weekend we’ll be trying some hardware based ideas on the iPod Touch 2G jailbreak

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