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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last week, GeoHotz’d released his latest iPhone jailbreaking tool called blackra1n and I’d managed to show how you can jailbreak your iPhone 3.1.2 using blackra1n on Windows. If you have problem on jailbreaking your iPhone 3G 3.1.2 on Windows Vista, you can try my method to fix it.
Once you’ve successfully jailbroke your iPhone, you’ll see [...]
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.
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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 – [...]
Pwnagetool 3.1.4 had been released by iPhone dev team and this version support the latest iPhone OS 3.1.2 jailbreak for all iPhone generations. And again, there is no updates on unlocking the baseband 05.11.07 for iPhone 3G and 3GS. But, the good news is that iPhone dev team is continue working on the carrier unlock [...]
