Complete Guide: Jailbreak & Unlock iPhone 2.2 (2G) using QuickPwn (For Windows) [Updated for firmware 2.2.1]

,,,,and thanks to you Simon

Thank you so very much Simon !!

Hi there,

Followed your guide and all worked very well. Started to use cydia and the installer and generally working out how it all works. Afetr a day I could no longer access my phonebook or make any calls. I managed to restore my iphone and go through the jailbreak process again but I wanted to know if there was any reason for this and maybe a quick way to fix the problem without having to restore the whole phone?

hey i just have a question.i didnt everythin tht yu said up der n im still gettin the same msg. the msg say “different sim detected” please connent to itunes. y does is keep saying that…

Absolutely Fantastic
it took me no less than 9 minutes to finish the whole thing, including restoring my old contacts, songs and apps.
This is by far the best Jailbreaking and unlocking tutorial I’ve seen on the net!
Thank you so much.. and if you could include a Paypal donation button, I’d love to donate. You deserve it!

Have a great day, and happy holidays.

Hi Simon,
I used your jailbreak guide to upgrade to 2.1 a few months back and my phone works great! Now I want to upgrade to the new 2.2.
Do you know if/how I can keep my current Apps during the process… is this achieved through the iphone backup in itunes?
Thanks for your hard work!

GREAT!!!! it took me less than 9 minutes. THNXS a lot

Please help.
When i run quickpwn, it says “application failed to initialize properly”. it doesnt open for me. i have all the files needed.
i already upgraded to 2.2 USING ITUNES. will it work for me?
please reply,
thanks!

ok dude!
thanks a lot!
it worked perfectly, man!
but there is another problem
i ran cydia.. then it said its “preparing” something
then it took too long so i restarted my iphone
now i see only 2 icons on the whole iphone! please help!

Problem solved. Since my Iphone was already locked, I went into DFU mode before step 3 and it worked out for me. I could click on Restore button now. Thanks anyway

Just updated to 2.2 from 2.1, worked perfectly! Thanks again Simon!

alright everything worked great, however according to my iphone and itunes i’m currently on version: 2.0.2 but everytime i get on itunes it says update available to 2.2??????????
i thought 2.0.2 = 2.2 am i missing something????????

just tried on unlocked phone. surprised even myself. thx.

I’m just wondering, can i put a different sim card AFTER I unlocked it? I’m going out of the country and just wondering if I can use my iphone using different sim card?
Thanks for your help!!

wow… thank you soooooo much. ive had soo much trouble with this until i found ur website…. thank you

Does QuickPwn works for Mac OSX Tiger 10.4.11?
Thanks for the hard work dude!!

HAHAHA You guys rock!!! It works. If you ever come to Slovenia i’ll buy you as many beers as you want Tnx guys.

Too bad, the restore process took me more than half hours and I guess there is something wrong somewhere. I do not how to fix it, the jailbreak and unlock seems to be correct, but why the Restore process take so long time?
Is the jailbreak and unlock using Quickpwn must have the itune open all the time? I accidentally closed it during the jailbreak processes. Would it affect the device jailbreak process?
Simon, please advice, thank you.

Hi Simon,

Ok already….The restore took long time, which was not expected based on my past experiences. Anyway, thanks for the guide! I really appreciate your effort!
Bravo!!!

Regards,
KT

Simon i have acted very foolishly and just upgraded to 2.2. now i dont have .IPSW file from which upgarde happened… now wat should i do i am in serious trouble as this phone belongs to my dad pls tell me wat to do??
bail me out of this mess pls!!!! waiting ….

Hola Dev! You make me very happy now, I make new try, and it all work very good. I have to say, I love you site, and talk to me friends with iPhone, if they have same problem.

Hello Simon,
After following your steps, I was able to successfully upgrade my phone – BUT the only issue is that it does not ask me for the passcode after I slide its springboard. I have tried turning “passcode lock” to “on” – but it is not letting me do it and it stays to “off”.

Can you help?

Dude you rock!!!! its awesome!!! you are a life saver!!! i have not started earning yet but as soon as i would … i would be ready to help you financially in any of your endeavours … you can count on me dude!!! you are legendary!!!! Thanks a tons!!!

HELP…
The jail breaking did work smoothly. Now, the problem is that I have credit on my fone to make calls, but I can’t??? I tried my SIM on another fone and it worked , WAT CAN I DO?

Hi. Before firmware i had installed 2.1 and i was able to download apps for free with programs appshare and installous. Now with 2.2 the icons of installed programs from installous are not shown. Why?

Yes I have Cydia icon. But in Cydia there is less applications available. I installed BossPrefs and checked the hidden icons. There were all applications that I installed with installous but even if I set them on unhide the icons don’t appear.

Will it work if I do the same thing with firmware 2.1?

i know someone who wants to sell me his iphone but it is locked and says to activate iphone, it has 2.2, so can this fix it and activate it and also steps please, he saod he already tried quick pwn and i didnt work, if i can fix it i wanna buy it, its the first iphone, thanks

many thanks Simon … under processing >>>>

I have aproblem with quick pwn 2.2. though everything is loaded properly, i am not able to see the logo(pineapple) on the screen.. please help me out. Thanks in advance

this was sooo easy and simple, i had no probs at all, thanks alot!!!!!

…To Everyone using T-Mobile… asked if this process work.?? Let me Tell You that, WORK AS A CHARM. I fallowed the whole , process , and worked well step by step. I used to have the iphone jailbroken 2.1, but for some reason the dialing stop working, and i had to do it again… Downgrade to 1.1.4 ( with ILiberty ) to 2.0.2 (with winpwn 2.5 beta) and finally with this process very well explained to 2.2 firmware.

Many Thanks to Simon for this explanation about firmwar 2.2

Peace , Live long & prosper

Hiya Simon

thanks so much. It worked like a charm. Excellent. No loss of contacts, notes, email and wifi settings, calendar entries, youtube bookmarks and photos.

The only things lost, are: Movies, Songs and Games, but I can re-add those.

Cheers

Stef

hey Simon! pls. help me. My I Phone is stuck while i was doing the first step (the recovery step). Well the steps here are the same as in 2.1 I followed the steps in your 2.1 blog and it’s good but what seems to be the problem here in 2.2? I am using Iphone 2nd gen with 2.1 version and uses iTunes 8.0.2 for the recovery and now I’m stuck.. Please help me.. Hope to hear from you, you can e-mail your suggestions..thank you..

Pierre, did you try to restart the computer and run the whole procedures again? Sometimes, a second trial may resolve the issue, especially for Windows platform.

can smbody tell me tat wat mean by error occurred 13？please、thks

Hi Simon..!

This is the most awesome site i could log onto for my iphone.
your step by step guidlines are exceptional and amazing. Thank you very much.

thnks sir

Hey Simon,
Thank for all your effort in this, worked like a charm!
Cheers.
Chris

Yeah!Thank you very much Simon for your hardworks!

Thanks! Worked flawlessly on the first time. Upgraded my jailbroken 1.1.4 phone to 2.2.

My original 2G that was never under AT&T contract and unlocked from the beginning, started to develop touch screen problems. After much persistence, I got Apple store to give me a replacement phone without trying to activate it at their store. Now that I’m at home and trying to unlock it, I can’t get iTunes 8.02.02 to recognize my phone to get to the “restore” button. Instead, it is asking my to activate my phone, first. I’ve downloaded all your files, but how do I get iTunes home page where the I can hold down the “shift” button while selecting “restore” in iTunes and perform step 3?

im am trying to unlock a 1st gen iphone…i am currently on 1.1.1 and ive been using my phone like that since but i want to update it……

kris….what you talking about

I just received a new (out of the box) replacement 2G, first generation, iPhone from my local Apple store that is not activated and I don’t know how to get to the “summary” page of iTunes where the “restore” button is located. Instead, it is trying to force me to activate the phone, first. I don’t have a contract with AT&T, so how do I get iTunes to recognize my phone on the “summary” page without going through the activation process? I don’t want to activate the phone with AT&T. Thanks in advance for your help, Simon.

SIMON THANX…..I WAS TOLD ON ANOTHER LINK WHAT TO DO

Thanks, you are the best, Simon. I try and i get it works at 100%. Sorry my english im portuguese.

using 2.1 version. want to use t mobile sim card. I have done this process everything seemed to work fine the only problem is I get no carrier settings and when I insert my sim it says please connect to I tunes different sim detected.

Hi Simon,
My phone was bricked and I was giving up until I read your blog. Worked first time without any issues. Big thanks to the Dev Team and to yourself – keep up the good work – all the best..

Thanks Simon. Your blog has always been helpful in jail breaking and unlocking. Mine is working like and charm. Keep up the good work.

Hi,

I have a iphone 2g with 2.2 software. Currently I have AT&T connection and the iphone is unlocked. I want to unlock the iphone mainly because I want to use different carriers when travelling abroad, but in US I want to use ATT. Please let me know if ATT can be used with unlocked iphone?
Also the post here have steps to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 and followed by Jailbreaking and unlocking. Will it work if i start from step 6 to unlock my iphone and still use ATT sim card?

Thanks,

I just purchased a 2G iphone with 2.2 already installed. So I skipped the first 2 steps 3,4 and 5. But after running the jailbreak I’m getting an error message that ” It could not be done. Iphone was connected in a wrong mode. ”
please help me.

Hey everyone,

My phone is currrently jailbroken with 2.02 firmware and I am going to upgrade to 2.2. Does anyone know about contacts being removed? When I plug my phone into Itunes it says it’s backing it up, does that mean when I plug it in after ugrading that it will re-sync all of my contacts currently on my phone?

ok so everything went fine with the jailbreak, but not when i put my t-mobile simcard in it says different sim detected please connect to to iTunes. i have tried unlocking it again with QuickPwn 3 now and i still have the same problem. can any one help me please?

thnks sir,,
my new ver is 2.2 now from 1.1.4,,
but plz help me to know ,is my iphone still 2g or 3g..????
and if it is still 2g how can i convert it to 3g??
is it is possible to convert it?????
and wht are the diffrencer between 2.2 2G iphone to 2.2 3G iphone???

will be very gr8ful for ur help..

i unlock my iphone using quickpwn and its unlock sucessfully But my sim is not working still. No network coverage. Cant make calls. Cant sms. Why is this.
please help me resolve this issue:(
After I upgraded to 2.2, my iPhone has no Carrier in the Settings. There is also No Service showing at the top left corner. Pls help.

Hi i want to try this on ver 1.1.2 , anyone tried it yet ,
do let me know if it works ,
Thank you .

@vicky, you can still use AT&T sim card after jailbreak. As you’re already using firmware 2.2, you may probably start from step 6. But make sure you download all the required files in step 2.

Do you lose contacts when you jailbreak and even re-sync with itunes? Or do they go back into your phone when you re-sync it after jailbreaking and unlocking it?

simon sir plz solve my prob also,,
abt the ver and gen…..

my new ver is 2.2 now from 1.1.4,,
but plz help me to know ,is my iphone still 2g or 3g..????
and if it is still 2g how can i convert it to 3g??
is it is possible to convert it?????
and wht are the diffrencer between 2.2 2G iphone to 2.2 3G iphone???

will be very gr8ful for ur help

2nd time for me this tool works great i took a 1.1.4 iphone used itunes to update it to 2.2 for me then ran this tool unlocked/jailbroken for tmoblie!
thanks guys

Hey guys, so I just tried to update from 2.0.2 to 2.2 using the pwange tool on my friends mac and ran into a few errors. Wondering if anyone knows what they mean. First was error 1600 when trying to load custom IPSW. Second was error 6 when trying to load the IPSW. Both of the IPSW’s were custom made. Does anyone know if windows has had better success with jailbreaking 2.2?

i messed up agghh… i had a 1.1.4 with tmobile instead of holding shift and restoring it to 2.2 i updated it and now it wont even show on itunes because i need a damn att sim card wtf man…..now i wt do i do

ommaaaa GAHHHHDDD thank you so much.. it toook me a while but i finally got it..
i was holding my breath steps 13 to 15 hoping it would work
haha thanks so much homie.

i can help out with any1 who has a prob with the edge service after upgrading to 2.2 you simply go cellular data network and type in wap.voicestream.com for your apn settings and that should do it…leave feedback if it was helpful..

FOR THE PEOPLE HAVING “NO SIGNAL” ISSUES AFTER JAILBREAK (3G, 2nd gen, 2.2, Windows, Quickpwn 2.2)
Lots of people seem to be having the “no signal” problem after jailbreaking their iPhones. I also had this problem after jailbreaking the first time.
This solution worked for me, and according to everything else I’ve read this should work for other versions of the iPhone and using the Pwnage Tool for Mac.

Connect your iPhone to iTunes and do a restore. Just click the “Restore” button in the iPhone window of iTunes and it will take care of restoring your iPhone (if you want to preserve your contacts, calendar, etc. then iTunes will prompt you to back up that data). Allow your iPhone time to restore to factory settings.

After the restore, you can go ahead and add back those contacts and calendar dates. DO NOT ADD BACK ANY APPS YET. I believe this is the cause of the problem.

Now use Quickpwn (Windows) or Pwnage Tool (Mac) to jailbreak your iPhone. Afterwards everything should be fine.

The idea here is that Quickpwn/Pwnage Tool can’t do their work properly with all the apps/other crap that people put on their iPhones over time, and the interference from those things causes issues with service/rebooting after jailbreaking. After doing all that my iPhone is jailbroken and working perfectly. Props to Simon for this blog post, and I hope this helps others to avoid a service loss like mine.

So i when and got the old 2.0.2 and the winpwn did all of that. Get the data working by downloading the tmobile hacks but because of the version half of the apps i have now don’t work. Is the wap.voicestream.com idea for people in the US with a full plan sim? Because there was no place in my settings to put in cellular data service. Oh and why are the winpwn screens always hard to read? they are never centered?

Thank you thank you thank you!

I was on an unlocked US AT&T 1.1.3 on UK Ornage and ‘accidently’ updated to 2.2 and locked it out. Been trying other unlockers for a day now with no success and am happy to say this one worked.
Thanks again x

Wow was i being dumb. Okay to anyone else that has had problems with data after the unlock and JB, do not i repeat DO NOT install the tmobile hacks from Cydia. I started over and went step by step and what do you know? It worked. In 2.0.2 i needed the Hacks to make data work and just expected that i would need it but once i checked after running QuickPwN it all worked and seems faster. You people are GOD’s. Dev team and all involved, really your money. Oh and Buuf2 is a sick theme check it out.

My God, the process run very smooth and easy, i can use it now with no problem!! thanks a lot bro

thanks simon… it was very easy and thanks to u.. now my iphone is v2.2 from v1.1.4 now it feel like iphone.. thanks

Hi Simon

Thanks a ton for posting all this here..
I successfully upgraded my firmware from 1.1.4 to 2.2 and itunes to 8.0
I am successfully able to make calls but I am unable to sync data back into iphone.

Infact I cannot see any arrow besides iphone which could be expanded to see the phone contents. There is no option as such to “Sync iphone” in file menu! So my iphone is all blank without any previous contents! And I am also getting error “itunes was unable to load provider data from sync services”

Waiting your inputs on this!
Amry

thnx bro my iphone`s been locked nw for three months nd in less than three mins it opened

I too am having the problem where my iPhone hangs after the prompt “Wait for your iPhone to connect in recovery mode…” at the start of step 13. I am running Vista Business and have tried the unlock process a number of times. I’ve tried it with my original back up as well as by first backing up with the blank-slate version of the firmware. Can somebody please help me???

As an aside, I originaly managed to unlock my phone on a computer running XP and when I got to the UK I inserted the new SIM card but I got the error telling me that it isn’t a valid SIM card so I tried to re-run the unlocking process on my Vista machine but now I can’t get past the 13th step. The problem is that I only have this laptop with me so I’m in a bit of a bind.

I am Having exactly the same problem as EVAN

Great guide. I followed all the steps, It worked like a charm.It is working with T-mobile.I propose to reset iphone to factory setting before you start..

Everything worked out fine 4 me. Except that the Phone doesn’t work… I mean I cannot call nobody because when I tap the Phone app, it appears for 2-3 sec and then disappears (can’t tap into it). So I go into Contacts to call somebody (or use Fring to call via cellular), but I can’t interrupt the conversation (the other part has to do it). There is a bar at the top of the screen saying “Touch to return to call” but nothing happens when I touch it (it disappears and appears again). Any suggestion? Thanks in advance, greets from Croatia!

I’m new to all this stuff, but I’m sure I didn’t installed any theme, so I think the problem is somewhere else (maybe some package from Installer or Cydia). Thanks anyway…

Great stuff! Took me 4 tries at step 13 and 1 switch of USB port.
I was sweating a bit the first time it’s stuck, but now I’m smiling very wide.
Thanks Simon! Great blog.

By the way it’s a 1gen iPhone not 3g

Hello all,
I am working from my compaq laptop, and quickpwn is not detecting my iphone.
I didnt follow the steps however to restore my iphone to firmware 2.2 because i thought that it was already running on that. Please let me know what i should do. Should i restore the firmware as described, or can quickpwn detect my iphone without restoring the firmware.

Thanks

Yes i am getting the message, but i am positive that i have updated it to 2.2
My question is:
Quickpwn is not detecting my device, and is this due to the fact that i skipped the restore firmware steps?

If not then tell me how quickpwn can detect my device, when i plug it into the USB port.

@Raj

Please cross check the version on iTunes. It should auto detect if it is a supported version.
If it does not, then I think you should restore the firmwire to the the one given here.

Qdawg, I had the same problem. I think it was because befor i would even check to see if edge worked, i installed the tzones and tmobile hacks. But I still re did everything. Took the links at the top for Gen1 iphones put it all in one folder. Updated itunes. Restarted my computer and went from there. The final try at 3am took less than 20mins and worked.

Simon: Now im having a problem after jail breaking I could no longer access my phonebook or make any calls. What should i do, should i do the whole process again or restore to factory setting through itunes

HI EVERYONE!!

well i finally got both phones working fine… i did had the latest version of itunes installed.. i knew that was not the problem because with the first iphone it happen with the last quickpwn, and using the 2.1 firmware…

i did the firmware installation whit no sim on the phone. and then put the sim in and then plug it to itunes, and then the QUICKPWN, and i did turn off my firewall all the way true… because my firewall also control the creation of applications (McAffe desktop firewall 8.5).

well all the iphones are working great now… i just had the battery problem in one it didnt last one day on stand by… i just did a full 10 hours charge and unpluged it. will see how long it last.. i remove sim card

thank you to all for all the help…

thanks its working fine with me what agreat job thanks again
best regards

this program works perfect it work on my iphone
thanx thanx

I was sucessful in using QuickPwn 2.2 to unlock and jailbreak my 1st gen phone. Everything appears to be correct, except the “No Service” in the top left corner. I did the process twice and still get the same message. I even did another phone for a friend and it reads the SIM on that unit. Can someone please advise as what I can try to get service and SIM recognized.

Hello Simon

My phone is JailBroken, but it still says it’s locked .I checked the box in quickpwn? You mention we should try the bootnueter in Cydia, but I can’t find it.

Hi guys, I have a jailbreaked Iphone 2G with 1.1.4 software version and I’m trying to update it to 2.2. My problem appears at step 4: I can’t locate the file “iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw”. I have downloaded twice the files simon mentioned, and still there is no file with this name.
Can you tell my what am I doing wrong? I am running Windows XP on my computer. Could this be the problem? Maybe it cannot read .ipsw files?

I have a problem; I think the jail break was successful, but not the unlock. I had 2.2 version before i started this process. I followed all the steps and i think jail break was done, not unlock. I did not have another carrier sim, so i put my friend’s att sim, it did not recognize, “different sim detected, connect to itunes”. I tried the procedure again. this time while restoring in the first step I took the original sim off the phone (as evan suggested) and restored it and put it back in and followed all the steps. again, I guess yes for jail break and no for unlock. I did not have any problems in any of the steps. i went through as describes in the above steps. As I said, I had 2.2 already on my 2g iphone. does it have anything to do with and I have another att sim to test if its unlocked or not. Please help/suggest me. Simon, I appreaciate your page as it seems many benefitted from this content.

Thanks.

For any one having problem with the message after jail break, “different sim detected, connect to itunes”, try this. I did it and worked for me:

restored without original att sim on 2.2 and then closed/disconnected itunes. and then put external sim which i planned to use (another att sim in my case) and followed the same procedure. It works great, no problem. I have to try it other carrier’s sim to check it works or not.

Thanks a lot guys.

Simon,this is the jailbreak guide for iphone 2g,is there any for iphone3g?

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP….2nd attemp at help

was sucessful in using QuickPwn 2.2 to unlock and jailbreak my 1st gen phone. Everything appears to be correct, except the “No Service” in the top left corner. I did the process twice and still get the same message. I even did another phone for a friend and it reads the SIM on that unit. Can someone please advise as what I can try to get service and SIM recognized.

Update….
I just used winpwn 2.5 beta with iphone1.1_2.0.2_5C1_Restore and it still shows “No Service”. It appears that the jailbreak and everything else worked, just the “No Service”. The SIM works in another phone.

SOMEONE PLEASE RESPOND……Thanks

also another question. does anyone know if google maps street view will work on a first generation iphone with the 2.2 firmware upgrade? if not i dont need 2.2. thats the only thing i would like

sweet sweet. any suggestions on how to get it to jailbreak?

word. i’ll keep you posted. thanks for the help.

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP….2nd attemp at help

was sucessful in using QuickPwn 2.2 to unlock and jailbreak my 1st gen phone. Everything appears to be correct, except the “No Service” in the top left corner. I did the process twice and still get the same message. I even did another phone for a friend and it reads the SIM on that unit. Can someone please advise as what I can try to get service and SIM recognized.

Update….
I just used winpwn 2.5 beta with iphone1.1_2.0.2_5C1_Restore and it still shows “No Service”. It appears that the jailbreak and everything else worked, just the “No Service”. The SIM works in another phone.

SOMEONE PLEASE RESPOND……Thanks

i tried to jailbreak my iphone once and it worked perfectly, but while i was jailbreaking another one, the program quickpwn freezes and says it encountered a problem and closes, this happens right when it is about to connect in recovery mode, i’ve tried all your solutions but no luck, if you know why this is happening, i would appreciate it.

@ Simon, I have a jailborken & unlocked 2G iPhone v2.2. The phone works fine for few hours and then hangs/ freezes. Every time it freezes/hangs I need to power it off and then power it on.
I have restored the phone’s firmware a no of times. using different versions of itunes on different PCs, followed by pwning it using Quickpwn 22, even changed the USB ports a no of times. Reset the phone to factory settings without any success. I have even tried not loading Cidia & Installer. nothing seems to be working. can anyone help.

Thanks in advance

Hi,
after upgrading to 2.2, all my previously installed games are not installed. Only the free ones from app stores are installed. The others which are free dl from 3rd party website are not installed. According to the error log it states that its could not be verified.

Hi guys!!! You’re amazing!!! I can’t believe it’s happening to me… my goodness!!! It would be the best birthday gift i could ever have on my birthday this coming 18 Jan!!! I was sweating like hell and praying to come out as all the successful iphone holders… e voilla!!! I did it!!!! You guys made me almost cry to see my iphone working after it’s been blocked for a month now and i was almost losing my hope not to use it again but your site helped me bring back my “new baby iphone”!!! I will love it as more as i did before… Saying thank you is not enough for such a wonderful birthday gift you have given me… I can now sleep tighter tonight and wake up each day with my new iphone!!! I love u all… Wish you all the best…

I’m having problems when using QuickPwn to unlock and jailbreak. After sometime holding down de power button with the home button pressed, the iphone turn off so it loses the USB connection. I already tried to stay continually pushing the power button during that 10 seconds so it doesn’t turn off, but I got the same error in the end of all that seconds couting. Can you help me? Tks

Hi!

Am a new user of 2.2! Being a heavy SMS user I’m really missing the iSMS programme from 1.1.4 Tried MySMS from Cydia as suggested to someone by Simon in the blog but that programme is not free besides being not half as good and requires registration. Would appreciate it if someone could suggest other alternatives!

Hey guys, no idea what happened but I will do my best to explain my dilema and solution so if anyone else has this probem they don’t have to do what I did and lose their mind and almost throw up. When I launched quickpwn it told me that .>=2.0 firmware is not supported. So what you can do to bypass that stupid error message is simple. unplug your iphone once you put the 2.2 firmware from above onto your phone. Then launch QuickPwn and click ok to the error message and plug in your iPhone. Then follow the steps and it should work like mine did. Except you are freaking out as its working haha. And the screen will turn white for a few moments and thats ok…just relax. Also I got an error message when I first put the fimware on my phone (unknown error OxE0000435). Switch USB ports and that should sort it out… The important part is my phone is unlocked and jailbroken on firmware 2.2 from 2.0.2. Thanks for the Blog Simon! Keep up the good work. Happy jailbreaking everyone.

I upgraded my phone to 2.2 without knowing. This worked for me and I have t-mobile. It was worth the wait.

3rd Attempt at help!!!!!!!!!!
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP….
I was sucessful in using QuickPwn 2.2 to unlock and jailbreak my 1st gen phone. Everything appears to be correct, except the “No Service” in the top left corner. I did the process twice and still get the same message. I even did another phone for a friend and it reads the SIM on that unit. Can someone please advise as what I can try to get service and SIM recognized.

Update….
I just used winpwn 2.5 beta with iphone1.1_2.0.2_5C1_Restore and it still shows “No Service”. It appears that the jailbreak and everything else worked, just the “No Service”. The SIM works in another phone.

SOMEONE PLEASE RESPOND……Thanks

I also had the “different Sim detected”issue.Tried over and over but still had same problem.

Heres how i solved it..
1. I restored the iphone with the 2.2 firmware downloaded from this site(with no Sim inserted)
2. After restoration, you’ll be asked to install valid sim and connect to itunes so the phone can be activated.Close itunes and Install the DESIRED sim(in my case tmobile).
3. Follow the quickpwn process and Voila!!

hey i have the first generation iphone 16g and I have 2.2. I did everything thats instructed but the phone wont unlock it doesnt let me access the phone because it wont accept the sim card. It says “different sim detected” so I took off the sim to get access to cydia and I downloaded the bootneuter 2.1 but it freezes everytime it loads.

after much angst and worrywarting about bricking the phone , I upgraded my 2.0FW unlocked 2gen iphone to 2.2FW without a hitch using this site. I had turned off terminal and messenger in XP , and loaded .net 3.5 but I never pulled the tmobile sim out. thanks , Simon, for helping us!

worked great!

I had an unlocked iphone v. 2.1 and upgraded it to 2.2 without any problems. I did this on a pc with windows xp…

simon u r da man
i used the quickpwn to unlock ma iphone cos it ws locked after i updated to the 2.2
firmware…anyway tnx for the step by step explanation dat i got frm ur blog,it made things easy…blieve me…a lot easy

upgraded my iphone from 1.1.4 to 2.2 from this method without in problem it took only 30 min. Thanks a lot

I need some help here. After jailbreaking and unlocking everything.

I can’t get a network signal. It keeps on searching.

when i go to Settings > Carriers.

It will say “Unable to load network list”

Hey thanks alot Simon for making a clear explanation better than youtube videos and your guide is clear and pinpointing i want you inside me x_x

I what to know if a do good this steps will it brick my phone and to will it unlock my fido sim prepaid

Hi All,

This worked liked a charm for me. Simon, thanks for the great instructions.. It was perfect except at one place. It never threw an error about incorrect sim…

by the way, my iphone was upgraded from 2.0 to 2.1.

Let me know if you need any more information from my end.

All the very best!!

rvbugged

everything went smoothly but i get “no service” error then i restored and unlocked no good can someone help please…Thanks

Cool… i just did this (took me only about 40-60 minutes) and everything was on point. just go done and everything seems to work great…
THANKS!!

so i did everything and it seem to go fine and than when the phone reboot, next to the signal bar it say t-mobile and E but than on the screen it say Different Sim detected. and it wouldnt let me go to the main menu or anything, i need help. i seem to get the phone to unlock and everything, why cant i use it now?

Hey!

I have a iPhone 2G 2.2 with T-Mobile, running Vista, iTunes 7.7.
I synced my iphone because my screen stopped working.
Apple gave me a new one no questions.
It had 2.2 installed, so I jailbroke it and unlock it with this tutorial.
but iTunes still says “the sim card inserted in this iphone does not appear to be supported ”

Please help! Please! I really can’t live without my iPhone.
It’s my life!
[email protected]

I recently jailbreaked my iPhone 2.0 using this guide. So I restored it to 2.2 FW and used QuickPwn on Windows 7. So everything worked out on the QuickPwn and it was supposedly unlocked with BootNeuter. But I today just put in a T-Mobile SIM card in to see if it was unlocked and it says it was a different network and I had to connect it to iTunes. I did that and it says the network wasn’t supported. Any ideas?

I forgot to include that I had an AT&T sim card in it by accident. I saw it in my iPhone when I ejected it out. Any ideas?

I posted this in 2.1 blog too.. followed the procedure here in 2.2, same issues:

I am new to iphone .. I bought a refurbished iPhone, trying to follow the procedure described here. But I never get to the first screen in itunes that shows me a “restore” button (The picture shown after these words above: Installing iPhone Firmware 2.2 via iTunes
3. Next, connect your iPhone to your computer via USB cable and launch iTunes. Select your iPhone in iTunes.).

When I first connect my iphone to the computer, I am presented with a screen that prompts me to activate my iphone with at&t. When I cancel out of it, I get ” your activation has been cancelled” and that point I can only eject out my iphone. Any help will be appreciated!

Well I did it. Wasn’t very hard. My only problem is that I lost all my apps along with other things. I guess my iphone did not back up properly. Kinda upset because I was trying to avoid this but…. Just make sure your phone is backed up properly.

simon, can i directly upgrade my iphone frome 1.1.2 to 2.2?

hey heard great things about the dev team and decided this was the way to go.
i had t o do it like 5 times over, but once i read this it suddenly became easy. i upgraded my phone and itunes, inserted my sim card from cinci bell and after following the steps here got it to work!

thanks!

I have to be the most computer illiterate person around – but this guide managed to walk me through it like it was a piece of cake. Thanks so much!

Good stuff, finished without issue…

tmobile users tho, should follow this guide for tzone hack, works like a charm. (all credit goes to the owner, not me)

Hey simon, i have read each & every comment but i still need a nod from ur side before i actually proceed.
I have 2g iphone firmware 1.1.14 jailbroke & unlocked using ziphone done by myself.. & now i feel i have waited a long time to upgrade my iphone to 2.2

BUT i have few queries after checking all comments…
1. Should i keep sim card inside the iphone or remove it before starting the process?
2. Should i uninstall all the applications which i installed through installer before the process?
3. can i revert back to my current firmware 1.1.14 in case something didnt work out?
4. Will it improve battery life of my 2g iphone after upgrade? currently last just a day

I am just little uncertain … that’s all

- Raj

Hey Simon….
Thanks a lot… finally i have upgraded my iphone …. following your manual step by step….. it a great feeling….

Now i have a very small question: can i access app store & install apps…do i need a itunes account….???

-Raj

Hey Simon,

Last week my 2G with 2.1 Ver stopped working forced me to upgrade to 2.2. Upgrade was smooth and successful as usual.

I am getting an issue now. When I take calls, sound volume is very very low though the volume bar shows that it is max. Anything I need to do to fix this? If not can I go back to 2.1? This low sound really sucks buddy…

-Subbu

hi can you help , i have 1 version 112 , now i like to up firmware 2.2 how to do , can you show me step by step plesea thank you verymuch

Tmobile Users, this worked for me!!

Erin. Post # 76
“Everything seemed to work smoothly.”
However, after the whole process was done, I inserted my sim card and my iPhone displayed this message:”Different sim card detected, please connect to iTunes.” I connected, and iTunes told me that they did not support my t-mobile carrier. Nothing seemed to go wrong, though! What has happened?

This is exactly what happened to me the first time I went through this unlock process and I was starting to worry.
Note: I had an AT&T SIM card in the phone during this first try at unlocking the phone.

What worked for me was putting the Tmobile SIM card in before the jailbreak process, I put my Tmobile SIM card in right after step 5 where the phone is restored to 2.2 firmware and before step 7.

SO, restore the iphone to 2.2 firmware as seen up to step 5. After this process is complete stick your Tmobile SIM card in and launch Quickpwn 2.2 and follow the steps provided in this guide. It worked beautifully for me. BIG thanks to SimonBlog for putting this up and the iPhone Dev Team for developing Quickpwn.

Hopefully this will help some people and if someone has already posted something like this, then I don’t care because I didn’t read through all the comments.

@simon
i tryed the vodfone sim in the phone when unlocking it. i have signal and can make calls (when i click the emergency call button). but says connect to itunes on phone and cant acces anythink eg. menus and everythink. i connect it to itunes and it says sim caqrd in this phone not supported???? please help gurrrrr!!

hey simon. I need some serious help with my iphone 2g. I have windows vista ultimate and the newest version of itunes and quickpwn 2.2. I have done all the steps u have but I am stuck on step 13, when it goes in recovery mode. It doesnt go to the next step where u have to hold the home button for 5 seconds. I have tried this 20 times and i still cant get it. I researched a lot and even looked through youtube videos, but i still cant get it right. Please help me asap. I’ve been doing this for a few hours and it’s still get stuck at the same step. Please help me!!!!

hey simon
i need some help on my 2g iphone
i did the whole process few days ago and it unlock my iphone succesfully
however the next day it got locked again
any help?i did the process again and didnt wokr
i m using vista.
thnx a lot

Hello I have a slight problem with unlocking an iphone 2g 16gb on software version 2.2.1. I updated to 2.2.1 with itunes and followed all instructions with quickpwn 2.5. The problem I have is: Iphone shows T-Mobile sim, which is correct, but I cannot make or receive phone calls or send and receive sms. It says call forwarding active…and a voice mail. When I call the voice mail service it doesn’t work. When I add the simcard into another phone, there is no voice mail. When I go into the phone settings it says call forwarding active – forwarding to “error” and I cannot move the slider. I can’t do anything within the phone settings. Everything is greyed out. I added an orange sim into the iphone to see if it recognises it, but it shows “no service”…any other sim card doesn’t work either. I tried unlocking with a simcard in the phone and also no simcard in the phone. Both times it didn’t work. I unlocked many iphones and this is the first one that doesn’t work. This phone has been previously activated with O2 on a contract, but the owner then gave me the phone as a present. I really don’t know what else to do. Please let me know…and many thanks.
I also downgraded it to software version 2.2, and tried to unlock it, but no luck.
Cheers Stef

as we know that you are the best…

stuck at bootNeuter2.1 after auto rebootin “Please wait Determin.. current settin..”

tried many times frm step 1

Simon,

I started the process by downloading thse files and I clicked SHIFT+Restore and selected the iphone firmware file from itunes. It displayed error message “An unknown error occured (1403).”
I cannot beyond this point. However, I have tried without this step and with quickpwn, and it didnt work. Am I doing anything wrong?

Thanks for the help.

stuck at bootNeuter2.1 after auto rebootin “Please wait Determin.. current settin..”

tried many times frm step 1

anyone there to bail me out……….

This is my 3rd upgrade with your step by step guide and always an happy & smooth transition. Thanks, your the best !
Eric

hey Simon its OTB 1.1 updated many times, last one was 1.1.4 (zibri’s). After jailbreak ..auto reboot stuck at apple (only jailbreak … ) n stuck at “Please wait Determin.. current settin..” if I jailbreak n unlock. Even after hard reboot(home&power ) n battery drainin.. it still stuck at apple … but can sync with itune in this state .Tried to load 2.1 firmware but same result as above

1 month ago I upgraded my iPhone 2G on firmware 2.2. Everything was OK. But now when I tried to upgrade it to 2.2.1 I get an error at step 13. I do everything like its told and still I get an error that maybe I didn’t follow the instructions or that there is a problem with USB connection. I have my iPhone on 2.2.1 but it is locked. Can I restore it on 2.2 somehow?

help pls
hey simon
i have an 8gb 2g iphone.i upgraded from 1.1.4 firmware to 2.2 few days ago as you write above. It got jailbroken and it got unlocked for only one day and then it got locked. I restore the firmware again but it still locked.what can i do?? hepl pls.
the modem firmware is 04.05.04_G.
hepl pls i want so much to unlock it.
thnx

It works! Probably the simplest methodology.

Great site. Much appreciated.

Hey,

I successfully unlocked and jail broke my iphone on a 2.1 version with QuickPwn.. just recently I reseted my phone and now I can’t seem to run QuickPwn on any of my computers. Home computer is saying this file may be unsafe so windows has blocked access (I don’t know how to allow access, it doesn’t give that option). On my work computer it says “QuickPwn has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.” I have re downloaded QuickPwn2.1 and tried 2.2 as well. In all cases I’m having the same issue.
Please help!

Hi Simon,
Thanks a lot for the great work….
I had a 1.1.3 iphone classic, and I used Itunes 7.6 to do the job, and it was great. Well, I lost my apps from the previous installer, but the upgrade was worth it. I’ll try to re-download them if I can.

Thanks a lot!!!!!
Sameer

i’ve install the itunes 8.0 it ask me to upgrade my iphone 2g to 2.2.1 firmware, by using windows vista the mission was completed & it was installed successfully, then i tried to install cydia by using quickpwn 2.2 but it stop responding & closed by windows, here my iphone was not recognised by my computer any more,
now i try to put it in dfu mode or restore mode, the quickpwn close with not responding while the itune start installing the firmware into the iphone till 15 minutes i c an error 1601 or 1604 & some times 2002

Does this work on ipod touch 2e gen firmware 2.2.1 to?

AWESOME INSTRUCTIONS!! UNLOCKED MY 2G WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS!!!

so its working perfectly until I get to step 13 where it says to hold the homebutton ect. and it doesnt go from there.. please help ive been doing this for the past 2 days.

Thank you so much. I just updated my 2.0 iphone to 2.2.1. The intruction is so esay and simple to follow. I suggest that everyone should read the whole process to know all the steps before starting it. Thxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Simon

@Simon Thanks for the reply but I’ve tried the reset solution atleast 3 times without success…I’ve even tried doing the upgrage 3 times but still no luck…any other ideas?

Nikco,
Happened to me once, turns out i forgot to check the unlock tab along with the jailbreak and the installer apps. Leave the card in it, also i always do.

hy simon thanx alot !! I upgrade my iphone 2G to 2.2.1 so easy its so simple thanx again.

at what point do i put in the sim card???

HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!

Thank you so much Guys…. And I mean all the guys that contributed to making it possible to do this….I followed the text above and it is perfect..

Thanks Dev team for your hard work

Jay

Also one more thing…should itunes be running while quickpwn is doing its job?
and i forgot to tell you…my iphone goes from emergency screen to black screen to the screen which shows usb pointing towards itunes logo…is it showing “restore mode” or “recovery mode”?…what screen will b desplayed in d iphone while at step13?…
i think u got understood my prob…waiting for ur reply eagerly…thank u

Mr. Simon

Thank you again for your hard work. I upgraded my Iphone yesterday with no hitch from 1.1.4 to 2.2.1 then to 2.2. Everything went fine. Except the my Modem firmware stays on ( 04.05.04_G ). Can you please tell / send me a guide on how to put the modem firmware to right thing to be able to use (apt9.yellowsn0w.com) in cydia.

Thank you in advance..
Jay….. Please help

Hiiii Simon…

Thanks for the tip…but i can’t do it, i dont know why!!
i put all the 3 things in enable mode, i download de .NET and i cant do it…

I dont know what going on with my iphone!

Do you have any other tip? Do you think that it maybe will work if i install the firmware 2.1??

I really don’t know what to do…
Thanks for the pacience!

Filipa

Thanks simon sir for ur post n this unlocking guide…i cud do d whole job successfullly on another computer.It just took less than 7mins to do d whole process. Thank u very very much. Ur guides r d best on d net.

What a perfect Guide!!!!!

I bought an unlocked iphone almost 2 yrs back. Since then I never tried to come out of firmware Ver 1.0.2. Though I have read hundreds of Jailbreaking & unlocking procedures on web, it never gave me the confidence to upgrade my phone.

Your guide was just perfect and worked like Magic and now I’ve upgraded my phone to 2.2.1 (thanks for your additional notes for that).

Thanks a million!!!

hi Simon & bloggers,
I upgraded 2G 1.1.4–>2.2 flawlessly, thanx to u all. However, wi-fi is now very weak or drops-out and sadly can’t SCP nor get goodies from Cydia/Installer.
If I try to update Cydia/Installer sources, I get ‘repos’ sources not contactable with POSIX: operation timed out. I’m sure Saurik, BigBoss & ModMyi repos are online.
I’ve tried disabling wi-fi; enabling but m not successful.
Any suggestions/opinions on this would b much appreciated.
cheers!
Eddie

Thanks Simon. You are a ROCK STAR!! Worked like a charm.

hi Simon do you have a mobile installation patch for firmware 2.2.1??

Thanks a lot!

Hello Simon I followed all the steps to jailbreak my phone. When I load up the quckpwn, it say please connect device via USB to continue. The device is already connected. I tried reconnecting it but it will not reconize that it is connected. I am stuck at this point I cant go any further with the process.

I have seen many guides and your’s is the best of all. Simple steps, screen shots and links to software. All in one page. Thanks

Looking forward to firmware 3.0 steps when released

Hey I got my done …. No probs whatsoever. Thanks Simon – You’re a Champ!!!!

But I can help all MAC Users to unlock and jailbreak iPhone 3G 2.2.1 (Base Band 2.30) only MAC user but me my self I’m usin’ WINDOWS

Wonderful… it was amazing man thanks a lot !! it was perfectly and strait forward

I am running software version 2.2.1 on my iphone (I found that by clicking my iphone on itunes) I hold shift and click restore. Then I click the restore (And yes im using Firmware 2.2.1 and Qwkpwn 2.2.5-2) And then it starts to do the software. However, whenever it restarts my phone I have the itunes usb imae and i start up Quickpwn and it says to hold the power and home button and i do, then i turn it back on and nothing happens. The Quickpwn just has an erroe and closes. Any ideas on how to get this working. Thank you.

Hep! I successfully got through everything that you had above…I am AT&T carrier with my iphone…but now i do not have any service and cant make any calls. Help!!

I have run this as per instruction. Finally it says, the process is successful. But When I put my TMobile SIM, it says that, not a valid SIM, but the network is showing TMobile.The Itune is also not working.

Can you suggest to do anything else.

My phone is @G with firmwire 2.2.1. After this process aloso, the firmwire is showing 2.2.1 in itune.

my iphone has the latest firmware 2.2.1 already installed, do i have to use the download one before i jailbreak with quickpwn
thanks

Simon,

Have upgraded to 2.2 some months ago…when I sync with i-tunes there appears to be some “space” that is unaccounted for….in the upgrade process are there files left on the i-phone that dont get cleaned up? – how can I get my disk space back on the upgraded i-phone?

i just upgraded my phone 2g earlier i use to fowrward sms is there anyn app throung which we send forwarded sms.
plz helf fast.:)))))))))))

Hello Simon, yesterday I upgraded my Iphone 2G, 1.1.4 to 2.2.1 through Ipwn. All else was ok except I was unable to access the internet. Earlier in 1.1.4 i was able to access internet as I was using EDGE settings from Vodafone India “WWW” and Password as blank.

But Now after 2.2.1 ” no APN settings option is there” and I am getting an error message “COULD NOT ACTIVATE CELLULAR DATA NETWOR: YOU ARE NOT SUBSCRIBED TO CELLULAR DATA SERVICE”

Please help.

Thanks in Advance

Thank you guys for your contribution. It has been a smoothest experinece so far trying to upgrade iPhone. I was able to upgrade from 2.0 to 2.2 in one shot without any trouble following your guideline above. I cant thank you enough. Thank you soooooooooooooooo much!!!!

Last time I screwed up trying to upgrade from 1.4 to 2.0 and guess what! I had to pay SGD $150.00 for the upgrade to the shop from where I bought it. Thanks again.

Hello,

Thanks a ton…

It was a smooth drive for me. I am back in action with my IPhone…

Cheers,
Tapesh

Nope it didnt work on my second time im not sure what to do

Simon,

Link to download quickpawn2.2 redirects to page not found!
It would be great if you could provide a new one. Need to update one of the testing device to 2.2.1 to test one my app.

Thanks,
AJ

Also, as the new iphone is out in market with firmware 3.0 do you suggest to wait and upgrade directly to the lastest 3.0 from 1.1.4 (for iphone 2G) or shall i go ahead and upgrade to 2.2.1 first and then later can look for upgrade to 3.0 firmware. ???? Please suggest.

Hey Simon

Are you gonna come up with a ‘How to upgrade your iPhone 2G to OS 3.0′ anytime soon?? If so, please let me know of the link. If not, please do..!!

Thanks in advance
Rishi

Love you SIMON!

I did successfully upgraded my 1.1.4 to 2.2.1 using the steps explained by you. There were two hickups which I would like to document for benefit of other users.

Note: I was skeptical about using itunes 8.x, so uninstalled it, removed the .itl file from my My Documents, and installed 7.7

I downloaded everything, restored 2.2.1 through iTunes and started quickpwn

problem 1:
Started getting error on quickpwn saying “The IPSW file you selected does not match the firmware version of your device “. I had all the right files and everything but still it did not work (as posted by other users recently on this forum).
However I restarted itunes and quickpwn 2-3 times, sometimes together, sometimes individually. Next time I used quickpwn, it could identify the file!!.
It can be either
1. Some offline/asynch process in itunes which registers the phone version on computer, which took time
2. Or may be loading a 200+ MB file on XP was not fast enough as quickpwn wanted
But it worked.

Problem2:
Quickpwn started to hang at “Wait for your iPhone to connect in Recovery Mode”, again as mentioned by some users.
Found to SIMON’s suggestion at http://www.simonblog.com/2009/01/14/iphone-jailbreak-possible-solutions-for-quickpwn-hang-issue/
Some of those services on my machine (XP) were disabled/off, started them manually.

++ It still did not work ++

I realized how overconfident I was. I did NOT have .Net framework 3.5 installed on my machine. I thought Auto-update must have done it already. It did not. So went to MS site, downloaded and installed 3.5

++ It still did not work ++

Now I realized I was not only overconfident, but was also dumb! I had to restart the machine, so all the services/processes I started in earlier step manually need to be restarted again

Did it, and cream pie, butter chicken, malai kofta!

Pawned, synchronized with older contacts and everything and I have a new phone!

by the way is this update succesful if using iTunes 8.2? get back as soon as possible please!!!!

HEY simon,
I am uprading my iphone from firmware 2.0 to 2.2 using your method…
everthing works fine, but after everything is selected in quickpwn as you said and when i click the next button after it reconfirms that whether the iphone is connected or not…it just shows “Wait for ur iphone to connect in recovery mode” in bold letters and nothing happens…the phone does not go into recovery mode….
WHAT SHOULD I DO??

great! thank you so much! you rock… god bless you!

Can you use an iphone on the sprint network. I am trying to answer this question for my son. Thanks

Hey there… Last year I used this to unlock and jailbreak my 2G but now I want to upgrade it to 3.1. Alot of the apps I have are upgraded to 3.0 and I can not use them on my iphone because it is 2.2 right now. Any suggestions? I am using Windows.

Thanks so much.
Julie