by Simon Ng on November 1, 2009
I know many of you (esp. those who accidentally upgrade to firmware 3.1.2) are waiting for an unlock solution to unlock baseband 05.11.07, which comes with iPhone OS 3.1 or up. Here is a good news. George Hotz (aka GeoHot), the creater of blackra1n, has given some hints on his blog suggesting that there will [...]
by Simon Ng on September 24, 2009
Though it’s warned by the iPhone Dev Team not to upgrade your iPhone OS directly via iTunes. I’ve got quite a number of emails from iPhone jailbreakers telling that:
Oh! I accidentally upgraded my iPhone 3G to firmware 3.1 by iTunes. After upgrade, I lost the jailbreak and the unlock. Now, I can’t make call with [...]
by Simon Ng on September 9, 2009
In less than 24 hours, Apple will kick off the “It’s Only Rock and Roll, But We Like It” special event. Bloggers and analysts speculate the announcement of new iPods in the event. Some also guessed that Apple will debut the iPhone OS v3.1.
I’m not too sure if a new version of iPhone OS will [...]
by Simon Ng on July 26, 2009
If you’re new to iPhone jailbreak, you may be confused by all the terms such as QuickPwn, Yellowsn0w, Ultrasn0w, Blackra1n, etc. That was one of the popular questions I received for iPhone new comers. So, instead of answering the question one by one, the best is to put up a post to address this common [...]
by Simon Ng on July 21, 2009
Earlier, iPhone Dev team released the ultrasn0w 0.9 for iPhone 3G/3GS unlock. Despite the latest version of ultrasn0w fixes lots of unlock issues, some of the readers still experience hiccup during the carrier unlock process. Yesterday, iPhone Dev team posted a great post and offered a number of unlock tips:
1. The first tip is about [...]
by Simon Ng on July 17, 2009
Today, iPhone Dev team updated ultrasn0w to v0.9 with lots of bug fixes. As claimed, this version fixed numerous issues that were found on older version of the unlock software.
Same as the previous version, ultrasn0w 0.9 can unlock both iPhone 3G and 3GS. Before using ultrasn0w, the iPhone should be jailbroken via redsn0w, PwnageTool or [...]
by Simon Ng on July 8, 2009
Finally, iPhone Dev team changed their mind and released redsn0w 0.8 to jailbreak iPhone 3GS. Redsn0w 0.8 is a light-weight and easy-to-use jailbreak tool to jailbreak iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS, as well as, iPod Touch 3.0. It supports Windows, Mac OS and Linux platform.
Redsn0w should not be new to you, if you have already [...]
by Simon Ng on July 5, 2009
While GeoHot released the first-ever jailbreak solution (known as Purplera1n) for iPhone 3GS, the iPhone Dev team also posted a demo video to show off how ultrasn0w can unlock the new iPhone 3GS.
But please keep in mind that this is just a demo only. The iPhone Dev team has decided to postpone the release of [...]
by Simon Ng on June 27, 2009
I know some of you are waiting an unlock solution for the iPhone 3GS, the latest generation of iPhone. Yesterday, iPhone Dev Team has announced a good news for iPhone 3GS.
If you have kept track of iPhone 3G/3GS unlock, you probably know the jailbreak and unlock solution is only applicable to iPhone 3G. Pretty [...]