I hope you've recognized the question mark at the end of this post's title! A recent post on Dev Team's blog says "... but be prepared for some stuff from us today that is cool." So very likely will we see an updated version of PwnageTool that handles iTunes 8.0 modified ISPW detection AND firmware 2.1. I'll keep you posted and - as always - will walk you through the process of upgrading while I'm updating my devices. Tags: pwnage,iphone,iphone 3g,jailbreak,unlock,activate
I've just updated my first generation iPhone to the new Apple firmware version 2.1 available since a couple of hours. The specifics: I've used a first generation iPhone. The device has previously been pwned and was running firmware version 2.0.2. The unlock, jailbreak and activation has been done via PwnageTool 2.0.3.1. I'm running the device on Germany's Vodafone network (which offers a true flat for data and voice, as opposed to T-Mobile the official iPhone reseller over here...). I've used iTunes 8.0 on an...
So the long awaited iPhone firmware version 2.1 will be distributed this Friday (12/09). Dev Team is expected to have an updated version of PwnageTool available this weekend, too. I keep you posted. Tags: iphone,iphone 3g,pwnage,jailbreak,devteam
The Dev Team has released QuickPwn for Mac OS X. Here is the preferred and official torrent link and here is my local little mirror (23 MB download). Follow their post to get the full story.
Tags: iPhone,iPhone 3G,QuickPwn for Mac,QuickPwn,Dev Team,Jailbreak,iPhone OS 2.0.2
The Dev Team has just released the updated PwnageTool 2.0.3.1. This version is supposed to fix all of the recent permission related issues and some other minor problems. I'm giving it a try right away and keep you posted. Here is the direct link from the Dev Team blog. Here's my mirror. Please try the official link first and do only use my mirror in case Dev Team's servers experience bottlenecks. The update also comes through Sparkle if you select PwnageTool > Check for Updates... from the applications menu. Wherever you get PwnageTool please verify...
Update August 26th 2008: Dev Team has released the updated version 2.0.3.1 of PwnageTool which solves all the below issues. The remarks made in this post with respect to PwnageTool caused problems no longer apply. In case you've updated your jailbroken iPhone to Apple's firmware 2.0.2 recently and used Dev Teams PwnageTool 2.0.3 which has been released on Monday August 25th 2008 you might have encountered a couple of issues. Driven by your feedback this post summarizes in a bit more detail how to resolve these issues. Before you apply the fixes please note that the...
Update August 26th 2008: Dev Team has released the updated version 2.0.3.1 of PwnageTool which solves all the below issues. The remarks made in this post with respect to PwnageTool caused problems no longer apply.
(For a preliminary potential solution see below...)
Warning: I've received scattered reports that after upgrading to Apple firmware 2.0.2 with Dev Team's PwnageTool 2.0.3 a severe username and password issue arises in Mail.app and others. The symptoms:
iPhone displays "Cannot Get Mail" error with "username or password is incorrect" even though you definitely entered the correct credentials. This seems to happen with IMAP and...
Update August 26th 2008: Dev Team has released the updated version 2.0.3.1 of PwnageTool which solves all the below issues. The remarks made in this post with respect to PwnageTool caused problems no longer apply.
IMPORTANT: IN CASE UPDATING BREAKS YOUR EMAIL FUNCTIONALITY (INCORRECT PASSWORD ISSUE) FIND MY POTENTIAL SOLUTION HERE!
The world famous Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 2.0.3!
As always: To avoid version confusion: PwnageTool 2.0.3 supports Apple's official firmware version 2.0.2 (5c1) which as of this posting should be considered the current version of iPhone OS. Betas of version 2.1 have been made available to members of the iPhone...
Quickly after version 2.0.1 came out, Apple on Monday evening released version 2.0.2 firmware for the iPhone. The 248.7 MB update is available only through iTunes and comes just two weeks after version 2.0.1
As always - and very unfortunate - Apple does not provide detailed release notes identifying individual issues that might have been fixed and only broadly says they've fixed some bugs.
Lately many users of the 3G version reported faulty UMTS connections and occasional connection drops with firmware 2.0.1 so this might be the reason for the very quick release of this update, though Apple did not confirm any...
I've been overwhelmed by the massive feedback and response I've received related to my iPhone 2.0.2 update post.
Google.com currently ranks this post as the 1st entry even before the official Dev Team page:
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Thanks for all the positive feedback and linking back!
I'd like to encourage everybody to comment as opposed to sending me personal emails. This will contribute to everybody's knowledge. :-)
Also: I'm on the run. Attending a birthday party tonight (CET time zone). So I will be unable to answer your comments for the next couple of hours.
With the US folks waking up :-) most of...
(Note: This blog post gets constantly updated as I receive more and more feedback. Make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed to stay up-to-date!) Two hours ago the Dev Team has released the desperately awaited update Pwnage Tool 2.0.2. I highly recommend updating. While I'm not having any real numbers my personal perception is that after upgrading to 2.0.1 the overall responsiveness of my iPhone has almost doubled compared to the loss I've experienced after updating from 1.4 to 2.0. Also I've noticed a slightly weaker Wifi performance after going from 1.4 to 2.0. The known strong...
Today I've successfully updated my 1st generation iPhone to the latest firmware version 2.0.
Before I'm going to provide step-by-step instructions I'd like to clarify a bit about version numbers:
As of this writing there are two major versions of the iPhone available: The first generation which did not support 3G networks and the second generation which does support 3G networks. My post only relates to the first generation of the iPhone. So in case you want to jailbreak the 3G version of the iPhone, this post is not for you!
As always I've followed my instructions with my personal iPhone and...
I have to admit, I finally have fallen for an iPhone.
Actually, this is not entirely true. In light of a couple of business trips I had to do I found out that my not-so-often-used iPod did no longer work so I had to go for a new toy anyway. Based on discussions with good friends the video capabilities of the iPod Touch appealed a lot to me given that I quite frequently have to spend some hours in an aircraft and the idea that I could watch training videos during flights was intriguing. So initially I went looking for an...