The official 3.0 Upgrade/Jailbreak/unlock thread

Tom Dunne

I think a single thread for all the 3.0 upgrade/jailbreak/unlock posts would be a good idea.

I plan on upgrading my 1st Gen iPhone to 3.0 at some stage today/tomorrow, pending details on an unlock being available.

So, if you are performing any of the above, let us know what model of phone you have, what version you went from, and how you got on.

nedd

I am hoping to update my Jailborken 3G firmware 2.2 today and then jailbreak again.

I have read on-line that your better off taking a backup of your data and then restore the iphone using 3.0. If you dont do the restore aparently you lose 500MB's through Cydia files that dont get cleaned up.

so my questions are this:
1. Do i just use itunes to back up everything? Or because I am jailbroken should i use Aptbackup?
2. If I do a restore will i lose all my settings and text messages and stuff like that?

Cheers

phill106

Did it in 16gig 3g last night with no issues. Any questions?

smasherplan9

phill106 wrote: »

Did it in 16gig 3g last night with no issues. Any questions?

Would appreciate a step by step of the process phill106

Victor_M

Me too if that isn't too much trouble.
Thanks

phill106

smasherplan9 wrote: »

Would appreciate a step by step of the process phill106

Warning: Do this at your own risk. I got this from another site, and added a few bits.

It will work for 1st generation iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch users.

Here's how you do it:

1. Download the torrent Go to any famous torrent site, and search for the following:

- 1st generation iPhone users: iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw
- iPhone 3G users: iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw (One i used)
- iPod Touch users: iPod2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw

If these search results don't give you any results (because torrents are always changing) search "iPhone OS 3.0" or "iPhone OS 3.0 Golden Master". You'll see "7A341" in the title. It should be about 230 MB.

2. Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes

3. Sync and back-up your iPhone This is incredibly important. If you don't do this, you will lose all the stuff on your phone. Also, if something goes wrong, this way you can always safely go back.

4. If you are already jailbroken, i dont know a way to backup apps properly, so i took a screen shot of each page of my iphone, so if i couldnt remember the apps i had, i could just redownload them!

5. If you have cycorder installed, or any other kind of video recorder, make sure to save the videos seperately. I did, and used diskaid to connect to my phone. Its quite easy to use, and you can get it here. Good idea to browse your phone with this, make sure there isnt any other pics or anything you have forgotten
6. SHIFT+ Restore (ALT + Update for Mac) Hold down shift or alt (PC/Mac) and press "Update" in iTunes after your iPhone is connected. A browser window will pop up. Select the file with the picture of the disk that you have just downlodaed via torrent. It should be called "iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw" or the variations of it seen above.
NOTE
I did restore instead of update, this was more by accident then choice but worked fine as i was jailbroke and knew i would be basically wiping the applications on the phone. Things like contacts texts etc are saved, so dont worry!

7. Let it work iTunes will verify the software, and then it will automatically start restoring and updating the phone (but now with the 3.0 firmware). Allow iTunes to install all your data and sync your stuff (contacts, music, apps, etc...)

Remember, if your iPhone is unlocked (aka if you're using it with meteor or vodafone) then updating the firmware will undo the unlock because it upgrades the baseband. Do not do this if you are using an unlocked iPhone. If your iPhone is jailbroken, updating to 3.0 will undo the jailbreak (until the Dev guys figure out how to jailbreak 3.0, which shouldn't take long), so it's your decision based on what you prefer - 3.0 or a jailbroken phone. The process is safe, easy, and quick.

8. Wait for jailbreak sometime tomorrow morning

Zascar

http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/ says free 3.0 software update available June 17th - but I cannot see anywhere to download? Is it just not out yes as US is behind time wise etc?

Also, is it really worth Jailbreaking? I tried when I got it but always got errors and could never do it, what do you get with jailbreak 3.0?

anoble66

I would imagine it would be 3 or 4pm our time before you can download 3.0 from apple

Dades

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/17/stop-hitting-f5-iphone-os-3-0-release-still-hours-away/

Could be between 5 - 7:30pm if this is to be believed.
Crap.

Necronomicon

Ah balls I won't be able to do it later

anoble66

I have to hold off until Friday anyway when they release ultrasn0w....cant be locking up the phone :rolleyes:

Tom Dunne

Anyone care to share their experiences with upgrading in this thread?

Specifically, what version you were on (e.g. 2.1, 2.2.1, 1.3 :eek:) and what model of phone you have (i.e. 1st Gen/2nd Gen).

godskitchen

phill106 wrote: »

4. If you are already jailbroken, i dont know a way to backup apps properly, so i took a screen shot of each page of my iphone, so if i couldnt remember the apps i had, i could just redownload them!

There is an App in Cydia or installer called AptBackup, worked perfectly for me when I moved to 2.2.

Attached is a screen shot.

Zascar

Hmm, picture messages are not sending for me, but i can receive them ok
Any idea how to fix this?

AntoSRFC

Update on iphone dev team blog.
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/124232620/big-week

Quazzie

Zascar wrote: »

Hmm, picture messages are not sending for me, but i can receive them ok
Any idea how to fix this?

All Appl devices are now fitted with a variant of face detection software called "kiddie safe" which is a software that prevents you sending pictures of your genitalia.*

Try sending something clean ya dirty fecker.







*

contains no truth whatsoever

CivilEx

The cat and mouse game is still going on - still no jailbreak. I wonder if the Dev Team are waiting to get their hands on a 3GS to see if it can be jailbroken out of the box?

anoble66

reckon so, Musclenerd just put on his site that the 3GS is confirmed to be shipping with the vulnerable bootloader....my guess is they will be trying to jailbreak it and then release everything together.

AntoSRFC

anoble66 wrote: »

reckon so, Musclenerd just put on his site that the 3GS is confirmed to be shipping with the vulnerable bootloader....my guess is they will be trying to jailbreak it and then release everything together.

Ah here me patience is running thin. Make sense though you think they would have released them both together from the start. So what time do people think it will be out? Cant see it being out before 6 our time.

anoble66

yeah, only so much page refreshing I can take too :pac:

Probably best to just try and do something for the day and check again this evening....god we really are like a bunch of kids

CivilEx

Move along now....nothing to see here.....:D

Skidmcmarx

Pwnage is available to download.

Check the official blog -> Official torrents

Woooohoooo

anoble66

great if you have a MAC.....hopefully the rest will follow soon

Skidmcmarx

But i do have a Mac....:D

anoble66

I hate you

Skidmcmarx

I would too. If you're in the Limk area i'd gladly help you out tho.

anoble66

thanks for the offer! Actually only 15mins out of Limerick....but I am sure they will release QuickPWN this evening......hopefully :rolleyes:

anoble66

QuickPWN is to be released in 1hr according to dev-team blog

Frankmagnet

anoble66 wrote: »

QuickPWN is to be released in 1hr according to dev-team blog

Is that expected to work with the 3GS? I see that the Pwnage one wont.

Dman001

Is there a reason Pwnage didn't release it for the 3GS? The hardware in the 3GS is near identical to the 3G so I didn't think there would be anything stopping it from working on the 3GS.

anoble66

yeah, because they have not been able to jail brake it yet..even though a lot of the hardware is the same and the baseband it has a different CPU which means they have not been able to jailbreak it yet.

phill106

silly mac people...sniff...

Dave!

Ahh sh*t...

I've a 1st Gen iPhone, decided to update it to 3.0, and naively didn't realise I'd have to unlock/jailbreak/whatever it afterwards Downloading that 7A341 thing at the moment... let's hope those instructions posted work

I'm on a PC, so any help would be appreciated... Will that QuickPWN thing work for me?

I'm fairly sh*t at all this iPhone business, so be gentle with me


edit

I've a mac laptop, will pwnage Tool work for that NOW?

Samsung

Dave! wrote: »

Ahh sh*t...

I've a 1st Gen iPhone, decided to update it to 3.0, and naively didn't realise I'd have to unlock/jailbreak/whatever it afterwards Downloading that 7A341 thing at the moment... let's hope those instructions posted work

I'm on a PC, so any help would be appreciated... Will that QuickPWN thing work for me?

I'm fairly sh*t at all this iPhone business, so be gentle with me

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

I think its just for Mac's at the moment.. Might have to wait a few hours/days for the windows release..


If you go here and enter your email they will mail you when the jailbreak drops..

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

anoble66

Hang on, if your on a 2G Iphone you dont need to unlock, you can just restore with the jailbroken file. Go on to the iphone-dev.org site and scroll down you will see people seeding the file you need....then just do a shift+restore in itunes and select the file you have downloaded.

Dave! wrote: »

Ahh sh*t...

I've a 1st Gen iPhone, decided to update it to 3.0, and naively didn't realise I'd have to unlock/jailbreak/whatever it afterwards Downloading that 7A341 thing at the moment... let's hope those instructions posted work

I'm on a PC, so any help would be appreciated... Will that QuickPWN thing work for me?

I'm fairly sh*t at all this iPhone business, so be gentle with me


edit

I've a mac laptop, will pwnage Tool work for that NOW?

Dave!

anoble66 wrote: »

Hang on, if your on a 2G Iphone you dont need to unlock, you can just restore with the jailbroken file. Go on to the iphone-dev.org site and scroll down you will see people seeding the file you need....then just do a shift+restore in itunes and select the file you have downloaded.

Any chance you could give me a bit more detail on that mate?

I'm not sure what file I should be downloading from the iphone-dev.org site, or what to do with it And what's the shift+restore? I'm not given the option to restore, it just says "the sim card inserted... does not appear to be supported", etc.

Thanks for the help guys, I always panic when I have to mess around with this feckin phone

rc28

Dave! wrote: »

Any chance you could give me a bit more detail on that mate?

I'm not sure what file I should be downloading from the iphone-dev.org site, or what to do with it And what's the shift+restore? I'm not given the option to restore, it just says "the sim card inserted... does not appear to be supported", etc.

Thanks for the help guys, I always panic when I have to mess around with this feckin phone

Same here, I'm on a 1st gen 1.1.4 iphone (unlocked and jailbroken) and really don't know whether I should bother updating to 3.0

Dave!

My phone is now f*cked, I can't do anything with it!!! So f*cking frustrated right now, I wanna kill someone

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leek

wait let me get this right?

if i have the 2g iphone unlocked and jailbroken i can update to 3.0 tru itunes and it will still be unlocked but have lost the jailbreak?


is it possible to use the phone without the jailbreak then? cos if it was working wit just the unlock i wudnt be bothered with the jailbreak anyway!

dez_warlock

Yeah that's right but only if it was previously unlocked with the pwnage tool or winpwn.

leek

im pretty sure i used quickpwn!

so its prob i best wait for the release!

dez_warlock

Yeah I'm the same.

CivilEx

No ultrasn0w till Monday methinks. Musclenerd twittering of a delay due to YouTube bug.

anoble66

Yeah, although they may still release quickpwn over the weekend, not sure.....meh I don't care anymore

Zascar

When I got my 3G iPhone about 6 months ago, I tried 3 different programs but just could not jaulbreak it. Errors or crashing, it just would not work.

I hope this one does. When it comes out could someone please provide a link to a good walkthrough of exactly how to do it for us noobs?

anoble66

Hi Zascar - here is a very good site for a walkthrough on jailbreaking and unlocking etc. It will probably be updated over the coming days for the new jailbrake but it should be the exact same steps..

www.iclarified.com

anoble66

Ok - redsn0w is now released....this is the new QuickPWN:-

download @ http://thepiratebay.org/user/iphonedev/



Saturday, 20th June 2009, 05:06 am

The iPhone Dev-Team has released the RedSn0w jailbreak for iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and iPod touches. RedSn0w replaces QuickPwn for these devices.

redsn0w is an easy to use, multi-platform, multi-device jailbreaking and unlocking tool for the iPhone 2G (original iPhone), the iPhone 3G (but not the 3GS) and also the iPod touch (first and second generation). Currently it is available for Windows and Mac OS X (there are some issues using redsn0w with OS X PPC, please use an Intel Mac until we have this problem resolved).

REDSN0W PROVIDES SIMILAR FUNCTIONALITY TO QUICKPW

mad muffin

So I have a jailbroken 3G on 2.2.1. DO I restore in Itunes then run redsnow or do I just run redsnow?

akadesign

Okay, I have an 3G iPhone with O2, Im lost with all this YellowSn0w, RedSn0w, Pwnage talk :rolleyes:

If I want to Unlock my iPhone to use with any carrier such as Vodafone etc. what should I do?

P.S my iPhone has never been unlocked before so this will be the first time, and I'm on a Mac.

Zascar

"Unlocking" is different to "Jaulbreaking"

Unlocking only lets you use your phone on other networks. The easiest way to do this is to call 02, tell them you are going to live in e.g. Spain for 3 months and want to be able to use your phone when you are over there with a local sim - they will unlock it for you.

Jailbreaking is totally different - it is removing apple's restrictions allowing you to install 3rd party apps and all sorts of different stuff.

I am also confused with yellowsnow and pwnage - so I'm going to wait a few days untill all is released and there is a simple one best way to jaulbreak.

akadesign

Zascar wrote: »

"Unlocking" is different to "Jaulbreaking"

Unlocking only lets you use your phone on other networks. The easiest way to do this is to call 02, tell them you are going to live in e.g. Spain for 3 months and want to be able to use your phone when you are over there with a local sim - they will unlock it for you.

Jailbreaking is totally different - it is removing apple's restrictions allowing you to install 3rd party apps and all sorts of different stuff.

I am also confused with yellowsnow and pwnage - so I'm going to wait a few days untill all is released and there is a simple one best way to jaulbreak.

Ah I see, so If I jailbreak that also unlocks the I phone for other carriers, right? Have no problem using the YellowSn0w, RedSn0w, Pwnage etc. but want to know which is the right method?