Jailbreak & Unlock

Blacksn0w Unlock for iPhone Baseband 05.11.07 is Finally Released!

November 4, 2009
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Today is not 25th December, why is it snowing inside the iPhone community? Today is the day GeoHotz make it “snow” by releasing his blacksn0w, a software unlock solution for iPhone baseband 05.11.07 and blackra1n RC3 update, which is 15 seconds faster to jailbreak the iPhone. Blacksn0w was released one day earlier that GeoHotz had [...]

Blacksn0w to Unlock iPhone 3G/3GS Baseband 05.11.07

November 3, 2009
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After GeoHotz had released his latest jailbreaking tool blackra1n RC2 that supports all iPhone generations jailbreak including iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS, soon he’s going to release blacksn0w, which unlocks iPhone 3.1.2 baseband 05.11.07. This will be the good news for iPhone 3G and 3GS users who have updated their iPhone baseband by accidentally and [...]

How to Update and Jailbreak your iPhone 3G Firmware 2.2.1

October 28, 2009

This guide will not only show you how to update your iPhone 3G firmware 2.2.1 to 3.1.2 through iTunes. But, it will also show how to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone 3G on firmware 3.1.2 using redsn0w, pwnagetool and ultrasn0w. If your iPhone 3G is a non-official carrier set, this will be the guide for [...]

Blackra1n RC2′d Fixed iPhone 3G 3.1.2 Jailbreak Issue

October 26, 2009
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If your iPhone 3G 3.1.2 was not successfully jailbroken using blackra1n rc1 the initial release, GeoHotz’d released blackra1n rc2, which fixes the iPhone 3G hang at the iTunes with USB cable logo during the jailbreak is on progress issue. I’d also personally experienced this problems when I was trying to jailbreak my iPhone 3G using [...]

How I Restore and Jailbreak my iPhone 3GS 3.1.2 Again

October 23, 2009

Early morning, I saw my iPhone 3GS is displaying “Mobile Substrate Safe Mode” on the screen and I guess I must have installed too many apps last night thus getting this alert. If I can recall, the last app I’ve installed is Action Menu, which is used to customize the call out with more actions. [...]

How to Downgrade Baseband 05.11.07 using Fuzzyband Downgrader

October 22, 2009
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If you’ve updated your iPhone baseband to version 05.11.07, you will lose the carrier unlock probably permanent. How do I know if it’s being updated? On the iPhone, navigate to Settings, General, about and check the baseband firmware. And if you perform the iPhone restore or update directly with 3.1/3.1.2 original firmware from Apple through [...]

How to Use Multiple Carrier Sim Cards on iPhone 3G and 3GS 3.1.2

October 20, 2009
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iPhone in certain regions is locked to Apple authorized network carriers and if you’ve sign-up the iPhone with the network carrier, you can only use its sim card on your iPhone and other carrier sim cards inserted will not be able to make or receive calls and use the 3G connection. To use multiple carrier [...]

How Not to Lock your iPhone 3G and 3GS 3.1.2

October 19, 2009
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If your iPhone 3G or 3GS is depend on the ultrasn0w unlock, then you should not update your iPhone directly to a newer version of iPhone firmware through iTunes as the baseband will also be updated. Since the ultrasn0w unlock only works on the iPhone baseband 04.26.08 that is on firmware 3.0/3.0.1, you should avoid [...]

iTunes Gives you Error Code 1600

October 16, 2009
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Why am I getting this iTunes error code 1600 every time I’m trying to restore or update my iPhone? The possibilities that iTunes will prompt you “The iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1600)” are restoring your iPhone with the custom firmware and the iTunes installed is not the latest version. [...]

GeoHotz Finally Released Blackra1n Mac Version

October 15, 2009
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Blackra1n is now available in Mac version, head over to blackra1n.com to download and if you appreciate GeoHotz’s works, please consider a donation to show your supports. Hopefully, he will work on the carrier unlock for the latest baseband 05.11.07. On top of that, iPhone dev team commented on GeoHotz’s latest iPhone jailbreaking tool – [...]