How To: Jailbreak iPhone 2.2.1 – Mac OS X QuickPWN Edition
Disclaimer – Neither TiPb nor I take any responsibility for any problems/issues/bricking/etc. that may occur while using this software to modify your iPhone. Please be aware of what you are doing.
IMPORTANT: If you have a iPhone 3G that you want to unlock you must use the preserving baseband method – only available on Macs.
There has been a lot of buzz going on in the forums regarding jailbreaking the iPhone 2.2.1 firmware lately, and a lot of questions to go along with i t!. Today we’re going to take a deeper look at the exact steps you have to take to get your iPhone jailbroken on your Mac.
Let’s get started, after the jump!
1. Get the Tools
First and foremost make sure your iPhone is updated to the 2.2.1 firmware. If you’re not yet running 2.2.1, update via iTunes. We’ll wait. Honest.All good? Okay, next make sure your iPhone is not connected to your Mac. Then create a new folder on your desktop and name it “Pwnage”. Next you will need to download the following tools:
[BE SURE TO SELECT THE PROPER FIRMWARE VERSION, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT]
2. Install the Tools
Now double click on the firmware file you just download to mount QuickPwn. Once mounted click and drag the QuickPwn application into the Pwnage folder you created on your desktop.
3. Launch QuickPwn
Simply double click the QuickPwn icon to get started, click ok to accept the copyright notice and we are ready to begin.4. Connect your iPhone
You will be asked to connect your iPhone to your Mac, do this now and then click ok.
5. Begin Pwnage!
QuickPwn will now detect whether you have connected an original iPhone (2G) or iPhone 3G.
Now the software will search for the 2.2.1 ipsw firmware file you downloaded a few minutes ago.
6. Customize Your iPwn
Next you will be asked if you would like to replace the original boot and recovery logos on your iPhone. Select Yes or No to continue. [If you select yes, you will have the nifty little pineapple logo at startup instead of a apple.]
Now QuickPwn will create your custom IPSW file.
Once that process is complete you must enter in your OS X system password to continue. (Just like when you update certain applications).
7. PAY ATTENTION: Here’s the Tricky Part
This next part can be a bit tricky but as long as you pay attention to exactly what the software tells you, you should have zero issues. You have to put your iPhone into DFU mode.First turn off your device.
Next, you will be prompted to hold down both the home and power button for 10 seconds.
Lastly, you will release the power button while you continue to hold down the home button for another 10 seconds.
8. Sit Back and Wait
QuickPwn will now begin to work it’s magic.
Be patient while QuickPwn is modifying your iPhone. It will take a few minutes.
[Do NOT do anything to your computer or iPhone while this process is taking place]
Your phone will the reboot and once it starts back up you will see the Installer app along with Cydia, and you are done!
9. We Have Jailbreak!
You have just jailbroken your iPhone!Now wasn’t that simple?
We’ll be back soon with our Windows PC edition, and in the meantime if you want more information or help troubleshooting please head over to our section of the forums dedicated to jailbreaking. There are plenty of members of our community that can help you out!
September 25th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Will this keep all your txt’s, contacts etc intact?
September 25th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
What if you install the wrong Firmware ISPW? (for example using the 3G jailbreak software with my iPhone 2G)
My 2G phone has been lagging since jailbreaking and I’m wondering id this is why…
September 25th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
@ Martin
Yup they won’t be affected.
It is finally nice to see quickpwn screen shots on the mac. It looks way more polished. However I’m am so glad it’s out for pc.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Funnily enough, I had to jailbreak my original iPhone to unlock it for use outside the US. Now that iPhone 3G is available locally, I’ve yet to find a compelling enough reason to jailbreak.
Now if they ever figure out how to unlock the 3G…
September 26th, 2008 at 9:12 am
My iphone 3G won’t reboot after step 8. When i put it in DFU mode itunes switches on automatically, i close it as quick as i can but maybe that’s why it won’t reboot after?
September 26th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
The steps described here do not mirror the prompts one gets when using the software…this is a confusing tutorial for that reason. Would suggest updating it to reflect what actually occurs on screen
September 26th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Perhaps you are on a windows machine? This follows the Mac version only. Step by step. No step has been left out.
September 26th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Hey Jeremy, no on Mac.
First of all, should you quit iTunes before starting? I didn’t and I think that messed with the install process. Also there were questions about my iTunes account that are not in your tutorial. And should I be in Expert or Simple mode to follow your instructions?
Also, when I download the firmware I get a folder with many different files in it – unclear which is the firmware file I am supposed to click on to launch the tool…
September 26th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Yeah, close your iTunes out. Questions about your iTunes account? As for more than one file, sounds like you are not downloading the file correctly. Should download to a single file. (just tried it myself. It is indeed a single file) Sorry I can’t be of more help at the moment, I’m still at work.
September 26th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
The process went perfect but the phono does not detect any carrier (no telephone), the rest is ok. I first used ctrl restore from iTunes to install 2.1 software. Thanks
September 27th, 2008 at 1:19 am
@Carlos, sounds like you are trying to unlock your phone as well? If you are on a first gen iPhone and are trying to unlock it you need to use Bootnueter from the Installer to unlock. The directions I gave here is for a jailbreak only. Hope this helps.
September 27th, 2008 at 5:08 am
does it work if you are using turbo sim?
September 27th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I was recently given a “new” iPhone 2G which I successfully unlocked using QuickPwn as described above. Everything seemed to work perfectly….EXCEPT FOR ONE PROBLEM: I have the SIM card from my existing 3G AT&T phone (an HTC) in my iPhone but it doesn’t seem to be getting a signal and I can’t make a call. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
September 28th, 2008 at 12:49 am
@BadDrumr
Does it say insert correct sim or anything like that?
September 28th, 2008 at 9:21 am
@ Jeremy – No, there is no message. If I turning it on without the SIM, I get the “No SIM Card Installed” message. But with my AT&T SIM (from my HTC) installed, no message whatsoever and no connection to the network.
September 28th, 2008 at 9:30 am
@ Jeremy – The iphone knows my cell # and everytime I try making a call I get the “Call Failed” message.
September 28th, 2008 at 9:58 am
@BadDrumr, I just re-read your comments. You do know the above is simply for jailbreaking only and not unlocking correct? In order to unlock your phone you need to download bootnueter from Installer, run that from your home screen. It was then flash your baseband for unlocking. Hope this clears up your issue. If not, I am out of ideas.
September 28th, 2008 at 9:59 am
And you are using a AT&T sim… so disregard my last comment then. Sorry.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:03 am
I just found more people having similar issues as you and a restore/then re-jailbreak did the trick. I’d say give that a try. Also be sure not to be using a backup file after the jailbreak. Good luck!
September 28th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Ok, for those who don’t get signal after the jailbreak just restore to 2.1 using itunes 8 and after activating the Sim continue from step 3 onwards…
(This has been verified to work if you have the issue of no signal)
September 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Thanks Jeremy. As per your recomendation I dowloaded from Cydia Bootneuter 2.1 solved the problem. So update to 2.1 2G iphones is a bliss with this procedure.
September 29th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Can i update i-tunes after using this jail break ?
September 29th, 2008 at 7:34 am
September 29th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Can i use this tool also for iphone 2G, and to update my iphone with 2.1v??? if yes what are the differences in the manual, nobody explain exactly the tricks about the iPhone 2G, WHY?WHY?WHY?
September 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Vinnie, I also have an iPhone 2G. The procedure that I used and worked is as follows: 1)Update it in iTunes (Version
to 2.1.
2)With quickpwn 1.1 (Mac) make the jailbreak.
3) Once jailbreaked, from Cydia, download Bootneuter 2.1 to get the phone baseband working. Thats´s all!
Regards
September 29th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I don’t get any signal after doing the jailbrake. I tried doing it all over again and even from step 3 on and still no signal. HELP!
September 30th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I did that but.. The carrier settngs are not there.
October 1st, 2008 at 6:38 am
Can someone please tell me where can i get the Cydia Bootneuter 2.1 because i too am not getting a signal.
Thanks!
October 1st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
SSJ, after the jailbreak process is completed, connect via Wi Fi to Cydia and search for Bootneuter. Then dowload it to your phone anf flash the baseband. Regards
October 1st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Is a feature post on using QuickPwn really necessary? The tool is so simple to use, it’s self-explanatory.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:42 pm
@WyldKard, just because you ~think~ you know everything does not mean there are not people out there who appreciate a guide or how to. Being a bit selfish no?
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Can some one just tell my why I should consider jailbreaking my phone? I understand it allows you to bypass the programming on the phone that restricts you to using Apple-made only apps n stuff like that, but what can you do with it really? What are some of the things people have downloaded that they normally wouldn’t be able to obtain that are really worth it? I’ve looked up screen shots of jailbroken phones, so far all i see is a colorful background and when you charge the phone the battery looks on fire.
Whats makes it worth the taking the risk of having a jail broken phone malfunction, taking it to the mac store, and having a mac genius turn you away after they discovered the phone is hacked???
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Also, what is the chance of Apple creating an iPhone update that overwrites the jailbreak? Could an overwrite cause the phone to not work properly? If so, how long will we have to wait until an updated jailbreak is created?
<~~ worried
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Hey, I have the iphone 3g and I absolutely need to have it unlocked in order to use my sim card from ZAIN. My older phone has just died on me and I need to unlock my Iphone to work. HELP”"”"”
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
I have to agree with MizCTp. I fail to see the real advantages of jailbreaking my iPhone 3G. There are thousands of apps on the App Store. I can see if you really needed to tether and you didn’t get to buy NetShare or you want a colorful Springboard but other than that, you take a chance of having problems with your phone, from what I can see.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:42 am
Fantastic!
I thought I had destroyed my iPhone but this completely fixed it. Thouroughly recommend.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
As far as I know, jailbreaking isn’t permanent. You can always restore from iTunes, so if you screw something up, it won’t be too huge a deal. I did mine just so I could use the tether because I’m not always in a place where I have access to the internet. Other than that, there are quite a few neat apps on Cydia that you aren’t ever going to see on the App Store.
So, is it required or needed? No, of course not. The iphone does almost everything the normal user could ever want. Does it add functionality that you otherwise wouldn’t have? Yes, it does.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
barndotcom is right, when I do click the above mentioned link, a zip file (iPhone1,12.15F136_Restore.ipsw.zip) is downloaded. When unzipped, a folder appears with different file names in it: 018-3946-43.dmg, 018-4108-7.dmg, 018-4118-1.dmg, a firmware folder, kernelcache… and a restore.plist? When I double click one of the .dmg files the application asks for a password to get access (and this password is not my OSX password)! Please tell me what to do…
I would like to update from 1.1.3 to 2.1 does that mean that I would need the cydia software?
October 5th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Hi, thank you for the perfect step by step. Everything seemed to work, but after step 8 the phone does not reboot correctly and Cydia is nowhere to find on the phone. After then inserting my carries SIM card, I am first asked to enter the code, that is no problem and everything seems to work. But then I have to connect the phone to the computer, which then opens up itunes and I am being told that the SIM card is not recognized.
Why don’t I have cydia? How come the SIM card not work?
I appreciate any help. Thank you.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Just checked everything again, no cydia and no other installer can be found on the phone.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
okay..jailbroke my 3G everything works great lots of fun new stuff.BUT my dialer doesn’t work now,I mean i can’t make calls except for my favorites list,or check voice mail or received calls…anybody know what has happened? someone told me to uninstall KATE but that didn’t work so i will use the backup app from cydia and then restore on itunes?or what?
October 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Hi,
I just jailbreaked my 3G Iphone version 2.1.
After jailbreak, everything is fine, except that the phone has no more network (no Edge, no 3 G) (this seems to be linked to the provider?). Does anybody know what I can do? Thx
October 7th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
@mompes, try restoring you phone in iTunes. Should do the trick.
October 8th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Hi all My brother gave me his standard UK iphone 2g with 2.1 software and I want to use my vodafone PAYG simm in UK. I have read TONS and am building up nerve to do the pwning process, but have a query: When the phone is pwned people seem to find the new simm is not recognised – solution is deleting some internal files using iphone browser, that seems to be a PC only app. What do you need on a Mac?
October 8th, 2008 at 5:39 am
Has anyone tried this on a 3G iphone running 2.1 on the o2 network in the UK?
October 8th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Wao! i think this is the best tutorial of all!!! no problems at all. made a mistake deleting a wrong file and neither cydia nor installer were not working. Followed this instructions and everything is back to normal, just had to do some upgrading once in cydia…Thanks Jeremy.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I jailbroke my iphone, followed all the steps, found I had no signal, followed some more steps, visited cydia downloaded bootneuter 2.1 and gave it a tap. On verifying the previous settings it kept crashing. I grew impatient and went back to the old system. Anything to stop bootneuter from crashing? Anyone else getting the same feeling?
October 9th, 2008 at 7:13 am
I have tried several times to install this on my iphone 1st generation and when I get to step #7 I get the dfu mode code correct it says it was a success then itunes opens up and it says that there is an error 1621 or something like that. And my phone doesnt restore or turn back on. I have 2.1 and itunes 8 any help would be grateful and i have a mac. THANKS
October 9th, 2008 at 7:45 am
This hasn’t done anything to my phone. No Cydia, No Installer, nothing. My phone looks and behaves as it did before I started despite everything happening as describe in the tutorial : (
On a Mac too!
October 9th, 2008 at 9:03 am
why it’s so hard or me to success the DU mode it’s always failed, i did the instruction correctly and i tried so many times but still failed.. after i release the POWER button and i keep holdng the HOME button but suddenly my iphone3g automatically turn on then its failed.. im getting tired of this!!!! somedbody helpp
October 9th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Hi… I have first generation jailbreaked, unlocked Iphone on 1.4.. i am thinking of upgrading to ver 2.1… after jailbreak will iphone have installer and cydia…. it will again lock itself… meaning willl not be able to use any sim…..will bootneuter from cydia solve the problem… As i cant afford a brick…u know what i mean and i am using mac os x….Has is worked gr8 it anyone…please put me out of misery
October 9th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hi,
Tried it all, works neat etc. Except for one thing: After step 8, Quick Pwnage says: ihaz Succes! with this kitteh on the backround. Now, fine, but my iPhone does NOT reboot. The screen is just blank. Maybe its relevant: iTunes won’t stop opening after almost every step. I tried it several times, pwning, no effect.
Some help anyone?
October 9th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
give me a feedback plz asap
October 9th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
HEY Dumbkapf Im having a similar issues w/ my ATT 3G (16GB) after my pwntool 2.1 jailbreak…When I click the dialer the “CALL” button is just Green no words, I cant hit any buttons and w/ in 10secs it returns to the HOME screen…CAN SOME1 HELP US PLZ…Incoming calls, Text , & Signal work Normal
“okay..jailbroke my 3G everything works great lots of fun new stuff.BUT my dialer doesn’t work now,I mean i can’t make calls except for my favorites list,or check voice mail or received calls…anybody know what has happened? someone told me to uninstall KATE but that didn’t work so i will use the backup app from cydia and then restore on itunes?or what?”
October 11th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Hi.. I also have a problem after step 8. As soon as the iPhone reboots, iTunes turns on by itself (I didnt have iTunes on when I started step 1) and gave some error. Then the phone just gets stuck at the boot logo. It will not reboot. Ive read a few other comments on this post that expresses the same problem but noone seems to be offering a solution. Any help please?
October 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Oh, and im encountering this problem on a mac. If the problem is iTunes. Is there a way to stop it from auto turning on when the iPhone reboots?
October 11th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
should I let my iphone 3g syync to my itunes after jailbreak?
October 12th, 2008 at 5:06 am
prab, I’m having the very same problem. Tried 3 times, everytime it hangs on boot after the last step. I’m thinking of archiving iTunes so it can’t boot accidentally. After my iPhone finishes restoring itself, I’ll try this, and if it doesn’t help – screw this jailbreaking.
October 12th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Didn’t work even after zipping up iTunes, so it wasn’t that. I have no idea what it was. But switching to PwnageTool did the job, and wasn’t much slower (yeah, after 3 tries and 3 restores you kind of don’t care about couple of minutes) or harder and after jailbreaking I have a .ispw -file that I can backup in case I’ll need to jailbreak again sometime later.
Recommended. http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1558
October 12th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
For anyone still having issues, please check out the TiPb forums, myself or someone else would be more than willing to help you out. Thanks.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Thanks fall!
I will try it out
October 13th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Is there a way to jailbreak your phone if your power button does not work? I know there are apps for this after your phone is jailbroke but what about before?
October 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
hey can u send me the downloading link 4 unlocking the iphone(first gen)..or jus explain me hw to unlock it after jailbreakin it…
October 15th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Please PLEASE help me, when i download the firmware from this link after about a second it turns into a zip file? when i try to locate the firmware it cant find anything its been a whole day and its doing my head in!! can someone please tell me how to download it properly so pwnage can find the firmware, or how to extract what i need from the zip folder? PLEASE!!
October 16th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I live in France. Nothing works. My iphone 2g 2.1 will not jailbreak.
I hate france
October 16th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
my dialer wont work. jailbreaked my phone about two weeks ago & it was working fine, just all of a sudden i can’t dial a phone#
October 17th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
i did all that my phone is now working,,,but it wont read my sim card…why?
October 18th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Hey, I’m confused about the second step… how do mount the firmware file to Quickpwn??? (I’m on the latest mac) Do I need to download a program to do that? Thanks guys.
October 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Wow… I would NEVER do this, I wonder how many Jail Break Devotees ultimately bricked their iPhones. I wonder how the Apple stores deal with the ‘it just stopped working‘ routine.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Hi, I have jailbroken my Iphone 3G 2.1 using by following the instuctions above. All is well, other than i cannot see my old apps (ones bought from itunes) now. Please can someone help? Thanks in advance
October 19th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Hi I jailbroke at 1.14. Then I went legit at 2.1. If I jailbreak again now, how can I get VideoRecorder back without having to pay for it again? Thanks!!
October 20th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Hi Jeremy! Nice step by step tutorial but I’m having some problem on downloading the PWANAGE & QUIKPAWN programs I’m not a bit familiar to bittorent and when I tried clicking on the direct download its says something like webpage just time out. Is there any other site where I can download the files much easier. Thanks.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I got it already! It’s working like a charm! I had experience also loss of WIFI signal what I did was I tried to set-up again my WIFI connection on the iPhone and it works great!
October 20th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
i unlocked my 3g noproblem and like other users my dialer was working and all of a sudden it stoped is there a way to fix this please help
October 21st, 2008 at 1:39 am
OK so i downloaded Pwnage tool 2.1 but instead of creating a new application when i try to open it, it just trys to open iTunes, that is not what i want right?
its like the program i just downloaded doesnt exist
any thoughts?
October 21st, 2008 at 9:15 am
Hi Jeremy!
many thanks for all advice.
I have Jailbroken my iPhone 2G to 2.1 using QuickPwn. Installed Bootneuter 2.1 to unlock SIM. working fine.
However, there seems to be no sound coming out of the headphones and built-in speakers of the iPhone—> the device cannot be used as an iPod.
any suggestions?
thanks
October 21st, 2008 at 9:57 am
@BBI – try turning the volume up? Ok, bad joke… honestly I’ve never seen anyone run into that issue, at least due to a jailbreak. You may want to restore in iTunes and try again. If it happens again it may be a actual issue with the phone itself. Sorry I can’t be of more help on that one.
October 21st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hi Jeremy! One question, I have jailbroken my 3G 2.1 and its all working fine. My question is how will I delete some of the applications I have installed? It seems theres no X on the icons like the typical program that came from Apple if you want to delete them. Thanks.
October 21st, 2008 at 10:03 pm
How long does it take to reboot after step 8
October 21st, 2008 at 10:05 pm
It says Success but my phone is still off
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 am
I don’t know or care what jailbreak means. my iphone really stopped working. i only got it 3 days ago. I did hold down the home and power buttons, and the screen shows a usb plug going into itunes. why? what do I do now? I don’t care about itunes or jailbreak. I just want my phone to work.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 am
can visiting any certain site via safari make your iphone break?
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 am
hi there, I have installed BootNeuter v2.1 but unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be working. when I launch the app it crashes immediately. I rebboted the iphone more times and I also uninstalled and reinstalled the app: as soon as it launchs it crashes. I have a 3G Iphone, with firmware 2.1 any idea?
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I’ve been following all the steps as described.
But at step 8 the QuickPwn seems to hang.
the i’m writing this at 10:10 and the last activity on the QuickPwn log was: 2008-10-22 21:43:21 – Successfully built Quickpwn Ramdisk file.
please help.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
by the way the phone is a 8g 2g
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 am
Hey all, GREAT tutorial! Just worked perfectly with my iPhone 3G, firmware 2.1, phone calls and SMSs working as expected. Phew! Now to tether it to my laptop…
THANKYOU!
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 am
hi, i have a problem with my iphone and would like to knnow if anyone can help me. I can NOT press the “M” letter, and the “K” and “I” letters either on the keyboard. an this is also for the numeric keyboard so I can´t press the “8″ either. PLEASE HELP!!! I will apreciate. Jailbreak works fine, by the way! thanx
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 am
Brilliant Tutorial, i followed it step by step and had a jailbroken iphone in 10 minutes(maybe less)… Thanks to all involved. Keep up the good work
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 am
Sorry btw i have an unlocked(from South Africa) 8g 3g running 2.1 firmware…
October 24th, 2008 at 1:11 am
I did everything as shown everything went fine until i tried going to my contact and it always automtically shuts down i cant make calls using contacts
any help is much appreciated
October 24th, 2008 at 2:19 am
macdripper – about removing unwanted apps
Assuming that you used cydia to install the apps.
Go into cydia and then “manage” – you will see “packages” and “sources”. Go into “packages” which will list all of your installed apps. You can click on the apps and can remove them from there….
October 24th, 2008 at 7:31 am
I have just jailbroken into my G2 and am very chuffed with myself but the same problem as JTeCH I can’t make a call using my either the key pad or contacts it is coming up as no service? I was using this phone on another carrier with no problems until I mistakenly tried to upgrade software the carrier Virgin Mobile supports iphone?? any tips
October 24th, 2008 at 8:48 am
I have just upgraded my iphone (2G) to firmware 2.1 (used to have 2.02 also Pwned). Now, when I dial a number and press the speaker button (to talk hands-free) the call is lost (signal loss). Then the signal comes up again. Anybody with the same problem? Thanks
Iphone 2g firmware 2.1 Pwaned
October 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am
After entering DFU mode and completing jailbreak successfully according to PwnageTool, seemed like I had to hold power and home button for 10 secs again to restart(?) but therre’s no installer, cydia or sign of any other apps… ? Am I missing something (I’m trying to figure out how to unluck the phone next…) Thanks
October 24th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
BTW – did I forget to say thanks for the tuorial and this has always been the best iphone blog!
October 25th, 2008 at 12:26 am
shoot – now I’m screwed. Restored in iToons and now it’s locked into wanting me to register the darned thing. Tried re Pwning, but same thing happens – says success, phone stays off, itoons doesn’t see it unless I power up by holding both buttons for 10 secs again and same story. What am I missing?? Anyone? Cheers
October 25th, 2008 at 6:35 am
My earlier problem was fixed after a random sync..
hooray to the micro-chip god..
October 25th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
It seems this step was missing from the tutorial “In iTunes, hold the Alt/Option button and click Restore” – therefore, as nothing happened after jailbreak, I hit the default restore given no other options and am now screwed. But I guess there ain’t nobody here but us chickens anyway… thanks all the same
October 25th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
i keep downloading a folder with many files inside and not an ipsw file. any comments on what should i do???
October 26th, 2008 at 1:52 am
My problem/solution – I got to DFU mode but got message “Itunes must check the ipod software update server to identify this device.” – allow iTunes to check for updates and if it finds any just make sure you only allow it to DOWNLOAD Only and not to choose “Download and Install”.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Hey Guys, I have Jailbroken my iPhone 2G to 2.1 using QuickPwn. Installed Bootneuter 2.1 to unlock SIM. working fine. But I also cant hear no sound either with headphone or speaker… so no ipod and no phone calls.. It cant be a hardware issue as it worked before jailbreaking and unlocking it…. any suggestions ???
October 27th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
it is asking me for a password for mounting the firmware???
October 27th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
yer i cant mount image am i just being stupid???
October 28th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I recently Jailbroke my new iPhone 3G. All my applications work and I’m quiet impressed with Dev Team. So what’s my problem? Well …I can’t make phone calls. I can see my dailer, but it closes after 3secs and it won’t let me touch anything. Not sure what caused it. Can someone help? I’ve read around this forums and several people have the same issue, but no reply. The only way I can make phone calls is with the “Who” application which lets me voice dail. I still need the dialer, any help? Thanks in advanced
October 28th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
There seems to be a problem after I jailbroke my phone. (1st gen iphone w/ 2.1 update, AT&T activated) I can’t open any apps i download with the app store or installer. Can anyone help? I tried restarting the phone but to no avail.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I also wanted to ask, is there a way to UNbreak your jailbroken phone? as ridiculous as that sounds! Thanks for any help!
October 29th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
i have jailbroken and unlocked my 2g iphone 3x today using this guide along with bootneuter. after every time i unlock it, i put the new sim card in and, while i get full bars and can connect to the new carrier, my iphone says that “different sim detected, connect to itunes” and when i do connect to itunes it says the new sim is not for this phone. what do i do?!? also when i reconnect my iphone sans sim to my computer, i am asked whether i want to set up a new iphone or restore from a backup…
October 29th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Thanks! Works perfect on a brand new iphone 3g, didn’t even loss any contacts or other data!
October 29th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
ok look,i have cydia cuz i jailbreaked my iphone and i also have installer.. but the problem is that my installer is “legal”! Evrytime i try to add a source it tells me that it is an illegal source.. wtf do i do? is there a way to get installer without having do evrything alll over again with another program??
October 30th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Worked perfectly for me on a Dutch 3G/16 Mb T-Mobile iPhone with loads of apps installed. Ten minutes, if that.
Thanks for the tutorial!
October 30th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Anna Says: October 27th, 2008 at 10:30 am Hey Guys, I have Jailbroken my iPhone 2G to 2.1 using QuickPwn. Installed Bootneuter 2.1 to unlock SIM. working fine. But I also cant hear no sound either with headphone or speaker… so no ipod and no phone calls.. It cant be a hardware issue as it worked before jailbreaking and unlocking it…. any suggestions ???*
What I did with exactly the same problem (iPhone 2G, 2.1 firmware, QuickPwn and Bootneuter 2.1) was to “restore”my iphone directly from iTunes, It says “If you are experimenting some troubles…stuff” note that I said DIRECTLY, without DFU Mode or any other thing. When it had finished my home screen appeared as a regular LOCKED iPhone but this time with my carrier name on it. I did again de QuickPwn process and THAT´S ALL. I got my iPhone with my carrier (”******* Thieves” Telcel, here in Mexico) and sound.
Good Luck
October 30th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
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October 31st, 2008 at 11:27 am
Did mine today and no real problems!!! its all good so far! this post is good but does not go into any real detail, so for those about to break check out this step video for those working on a mac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qISyMLGVFf4
also something i encountered, when phone in DFU and itunes pops up, close down pwnage – itunes said it there was an iphone in recovery but that it could not be recognised (or something similar) and the phone did not appear in itunes DO NOT PANIC! just click ok to itunes and dissconnect phone USB and then replug in, now it appears as a recovery iphone in itunes, and just hold down alt key while clicking restore and you will be able to locate you ispw file on your mac to restore from. it seems worth it so far!!
October 31st, 2008 at 11:28 am
PS|: also choose expert mode to select installer and cydia!
good luck
November 4th, 2008 at 6:07 am
First of all i updated my Iphone from 1.1.1 to 1.1.4 it had the same problem,but i somehow fixed it,then not long ago I updated to 2.1,and again the same problem ,so I downloaded all your programes and run it to a mac.I tryed everything in the instruction was written,but when it all finished ,i clicked the butten Itunes,and there was written restore,instead of ‘insert the old sim’,so I restored itand again there ws written insert the old sim,now I dont even know what version I have in my Iphone,so please help,Im beggin you.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:04 am
I love my 3G even more now, followed the step by step exactly and it worked first time, thank you so much
November 5th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
i also had the problem on my iphone 3g 2.1 where it wouldnt make calls and the dialer would shut after seconds i then went into setting and scrolled to the bottom where it said rip dev i pressed that then rip dev products which then came up kate i pressed that and unticked all the boxes it reset and my phone started working again i presume its a bug
November 5th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I just received an unlocked 3G 16GB iPhone that I bought on eBay. The seller also sent me a Turbo SIM card, stating that it was already unlocked. I synced all info to my iPhone, went and bought a T-Mobile SIM card, cut it and inserted it into the SIM card tray with the Turbo SIM. However, it is not working… giving a “SIM failure” or “invalid SIM” message. The seller from eBay said that I need to unlock the phone everytime I sync it from my computer/iTunes. So, my question is… do I unlock it via this jailbreak method, via “Restore” from iTunes, or via unlocking an iPhone?? Can someone please help me?? And then give me the website/instructions to use for this process?? THANKS!!
November 6th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Hello! I have tried several times using the instructions but ran into the problem at step 8 where iTunes starts up automatically, gets an error and my iPhone is then hung and the install just hangs. Not sure what else to try here. It seems that there are some steps missing in the step 8 area with regards to iTunes and an iPhone. Oh well. Great to hear at least that a good portion of the people trying are getting it to work.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:01 am
i have a problem, i updated my first gen iphone to 2.1, unlocked it using quickpwn, but then i wanted to sell it since i got the new iphone 3G so i went in the settings and clicked on erase all content and settings, and now its like the OS is gone. it just boots and restarts and it wont sync with my computer. HELP
November 7th, 2008 at 5:15 am
While jailbreaking your iPhone/iPod Touch to open it up for countless more apps, if you can’t find what you in the app store, there is a reason for it coughdodgey softwarecough
November 7th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
hi please help me!!! i have previously jailbroken my iphone 3g on my old macbook perfectly but…i broke my iphone it so i got a new one and i also got the new intel imac and i diddnt bother transferring most of the stuff onto it from my old computer so i now do not have quick pwn. i have tried re enstalling quick pwn and the ipsw and but i have been waiting nearly three hours for it to finish downloading and the safari downloads box says the ipsw will take …..9 HOURS!!!…. 9 hours is just a bit rediculous and to be honest i cant be arsed. plllleeeaase help me i have now had it for five months …unjailbroken ;(
November 8th, 2008 at 5:25 am
P Jackson, you are the man! I looked all over for the fix to the Dialer not working issue, and your answer solved it for me before I had to try to do the whole Jailbreak process all over again, thank you!
November 8th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Hi all, I have an italian iPhone with fw 2.1 and a Mac. I tried all the guides but without success. I also have a custom fw 2.1 (italian fw): is it possible to load this fw on the iphone simply use the ALT + “Restore” buttons? The DFU mode simply force the restore procedure but if I can use iTunes where is the problem? Thanks in advance and best regards.
November 8th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
i got a question…yesterday i jailbroke my iphone 3g, but when i insert a turbo sim it gives me a error “different sim detected please connect to itunes” what does that mean??? if any1 knows the fix email me jusmejose323@gmail.com
November 9th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I jailbroke my phone before the 2.1 upgrade. I can’t download certain apps because it needs the upgrade. I’m afraid to upgrade because I don’t know if all my other stuff will be lost (ie cydia, installer and all my other apps). Will that happen?
November 10th, 2008 at 8:08 am
i used this method to jailbreak my iPhone and it worked great! thanks! Only thing is now i can’t get my sim card to work on it. It won’t get any signal. I have a 16GB 2G iPhone that i bought in the US. I’m in Australia now and am using a 3G sim card which did work in the phone prior to the upgrade that restored it. I don’t know what to do? HELP please! i tried bootneuter, that doesn’t seem to do anything. Please help with descriptive explanations. A good guide. thanks!
November 11th, 2008 at 3:25 am
alright… even got to the can haz success page… all was going to plan… it began the restart… but it still hanging- 10 minutes… turned it off.. turned it on… still hangs.. sometimes does a double vibrate… but just apple logo… itunes doesnt recognize it etc… im on a blackbook… 2.1 on it before i started… all files in the right places…. iTunes opened itself at some point in the installation though… then it was not responding… HELP HELP HELP
November 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Please help!!!!!! I am having the same problem when i try to click on my phone it shows up for about 3 sec and then closes…. I had this problem before and updated cydia and had not problems for about 2 months then same thing again. This time could not fix it so i rebroke the phone and worked fine till i reinstalled all the cydia apps. I think there is an app that is causing this? If anyone knows please please let us know because i see i am not the only one with this problem… Thank you very much for your time.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Thank you P Jackson… sorry I did not see your post before I posted mine… I did what you said and it worked good. Thank you!!!!!!
Is unticked any of those things going to affect my jailbreak options? JW
Thanks again
November 11th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Hey first of all thanks for all your help and talents in making all this happen,..not sure what went wrong but iphone sits forever in “apple logo picture” loading mode and vigrates from time to time….Help!!! Stuck in a moment and i can’t get out…
November 11th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
i meant: viBrates…
November 12th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Hey guess what it finally work awesome! now if i could only get my gophone sim card to work then everything would be irie mon
November 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
having the same problem apple logo hanging and vibrates every so often. What do i do to fix this, just leave it alone? Been sitting for 45min. Quickpwn Log says Successfully built Ramdisk file?
November 13th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Hi There I hope you peolple can help me I have download the software and did run it on the 16 Gig Iphone and it did work for one day. The next day it came up with the pineapple icon and it is staying there the unit doesn’t connect to the computer for upgrading or restoring from itunes and it is stuck on the icon I can only switch it on or off nothing else. Is there a way of cleaning out the software without connecting it to the computer? (reset or factory defaults) Any help will do at this point in time.
Thanks Willie
November 15th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I also had the issue of dialer not working a few days after upgrading to 2.1 and jailbreaking iphone. Followed post 117 / P. Jackson and it restarted the dialer, now works a treat…..thanks for that
November 15th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
thank u thank!!!!!!!! its perfectt!!!!
November 16th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
For some reason, Jailbreaking my 3G iPhone dose go well with my new Macbook Pro! any idea?
November 16th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
when i downloaded quickpawn i get a file that says iPhone1,1_2 i dot know what to do help!!!!!
November 16th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
is anyone having problems saving notes in the original apple app, mobilenotes? i can write a note, but when i click out of it and there are no notes saved. any suggestions?
November 16th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
How safe is this process and will I be able to restore if something goes wrong?
November 17th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Is it possible to unlock an (old) iphone without jailbreaking it?
November 17th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
@ Jeremy.
I have a jaibroken & unlocked Iphone 2G with firmware 1.1.1 since 07 and was considering updating it to use new apps and stuff. I decided to give it a try but first I had one question. Is it necessary to remove the AT&T SIM before the process or at any other moment or can I just follow the steps of updating, jailbreaking and unlocking w/Bootneuter with the SIM installed at all times???
Thanks!!!
November 17th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
@Chris, I have a question for you. If there is a AT&T sim in the phone why are you unlocking it? Now if you are a AT&T customer and just want to jailbreak, sure you can keep your sim in the phone. That will not hurt anything. And if you are unlocking to use the phone with T-Mobile you can leave your SIM card in. It really does not matter and will not cause any damage.
Hope this helps you out.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
To all those folks who couldnt dial after jailbreaking and installing kate… uncheck all options for kate and allow it to reset. now you can use the dial keys…
November 18th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
@ Jeremy. The reason I have an jailbroken/unlocked iphone is because I live in Puerto Rico and the iphone was not “legally available” until last october when the 3G arrived. The 2G iphone was never sold in PR but it was obtainable nonetheless. Therefore I had my iphone unlocked so I could use my 787 (PR) area code since december 2007 when I bought it. Also, having an unlocked iphone gives me the oportunity to use it without those expensive internet packages for iphone and just use regular internet features instead. But since you told me is ok to leave it inside, I’ll give it try and see how it turns out! Thank you!
November 19th, 2008 at 12:05 am
******* reboots and is stuck with the Apple icon. I’m fucked… what do I do? Any suggestions?
November 19th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Had the same problem as Jorge in comment 131. Tried jailbreaking again to let iTunes pop up and I hit restore. Restoring as we speak. Cancel Quickpwn while iTunes and your phone show up in it. THen hit restore. Thought I was fucked… it’s restoring as I type. Thank God. Never did I think that I’d panic about losing my cell. I guess you don’t know until it happens. Pheew… dodged a motherfucking bullet. I won’t be trying this again until all the kinks are worked out.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:46 am
what’s kate?
November 20th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
In Mac 10.4.11, QuickPwn hangs at step 8 in the tutorial, when there’s a progress bar and a dialog saying “Sending WTF….”
The last entry in the log says “2008-11-20 03:05:04 – Successfully built Quickpwn Ramdisk file.” but its been 8 hours since then. I’m paranoid and don’t want to unplug my 1st gen iPod touch.
Any help, please??!
November 20th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
I jailbroke my phone and I have cydia and installer appear but after two days I added some themes and apps but now I can’t use my phone icant call people from my phone I can only call people but I can only call them from contacts and I have no way of ending my calls HELP!! Somebody
November 20th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
if my iphone is already unlocked and jailbroken do I need to use pwnage or other apps to update it to 2.0? Can I just update it through itunes?
November 21st, 2008 at 8:12 am
If you are having problems with using the dialer after upgrade just go into settings, down to rip dev option, unclick all Kate options…phone dialer will work…or if you want you can just uninstall Kate completely.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:48 am
I’m havin the SAme issue with the dialer….what does untick mean…does that mean turn everything off and then restart cuz if that’s the case it still doesn’t work
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 am
how do I uninstall Kate period
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:04 am
i’v already jailbroken my 3iphone ver 2.1 . how do i proceed in doing it for 2.2 then?
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
I also have a problem with a dialer, after installing Cate,… I deinstalled it, but that didn`t fix a dialer problem,… I still have a “rip dev” option in my options panel
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Sory,.. I meant “Kate”….
November 24th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I have had problems with my dialer pad, followed the instructions to untick all of kates options and this fixed it straight away.
Thanks for the advice. I an now very happy….
November 25th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
If after the jailbreak you can’t make dial calls because the phone dialer freezes and goes back to the main menu, try this:
1- Uninstall Kate from Installer: this is what everyone recommends, seems to work for a lot of people but didn’t work for me.
2- Then go to Installer again and uninstall these apps:
A) Mobile enhancer B) RIP DEV preferences
3- Reboot your iPhone.
That’s what I did and got my dial pad back again.
Hope this helps someone, I spent like three hours searching for a solution…
November 26th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Is the procedure the same if I have the Iphone 3G with the original firmware 2.0 (5A347) and want to use Pwnage Tool to upgrade to the latest firmware 2.2 and not upgrage my baseband (01.45).
November 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
@Koas - Thanks! That fixed my problem with the dialer as well.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Hiya, I’ve got an iphone running 2.1 and twice ive run quickpwn and both times it all goes smoothly and ends ok except there is no cydia or installer logo on my screen – can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong or what stage I’m missing. The phone seems just as before? Matthew
December 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
@Kaos – Thanks alot!
December 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
@Kaos – you’re a savior!
December 15th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Ok I have the 2.1 and after a couple days of using it my dialer just stopes workin like it opens then after a couple seconds it just closes
December 21st, 2008 at 5:02 am
i did this an all steps went fine but now my iphone is stuck at the reboot. i tried going to the forums but that didn’t work either. help? anyone?
December 31st, 2008 at 6:01 am
can i do this on my laptop (NOT A MAC) The instrustions arnt wrote to the clearest of there abilities… when i double click it in its file itunes pops up and nothing happens! Can you help ?
December 31st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
i did this with pwnage and it says i have no sim card in and cant make any calls or anything…comment back please
December 31st, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Thanks Koas, worked like a charm.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:20 am
im having problem jailbreakin my iphone 3g 2.2. i followed the instruction, even look on the internet for other instructions. bu teverythin went fine till it get to the install section on the computer. it wont load anthing. can someone help me please. can i restore my phone atm?
please email me if you have an answer. elliot.hancock@googlemail.com
January 7th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I have purchased an iphone 3g in o2 uk. Its firmware is the 2.1. If i jailbreak, would it in any way mess up my EDGE internet connection? Cuz I have unlimited internet access, and I don t want to loose it.
January 16th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
@Koas Awesome!!! worked like a charm! thanks!
January 18th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Koas thanks so much!
January 19th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I have succesfully jailbreaked my 3g iphone, but now i cant make calls from it i have lost all contacts and when i go on my phone screen to try and make a call it puts me back on my home page, alos when peolple phone me i cant hang up after the call. please help
January 27th, 2009 at 3:51 am
I am having an issue after jailbreak on 3G (2.2). I have no audio on the iPhone when making or recieving a phone call. The other party can hear me but I cant hear them. It sems that if I rotate the phone or switch to speaker and then back, that it sometimes starts to work. Any ideas ???
January 27th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
sasf
January 27th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
My friend have jailbroken my iphone and after a while i updated it on i-tunes and cydia was gone,i cannot play or transfer my apps that i downloaded,and i don’t know what to do now.Please help.
February 1st, 2009 at 12:45 am
i can’t sync any app after jailbreaking my iphone. i also can’t update it to the lastest version to avoid losing the jailbreak. what can i do about sync my app to my iphone. It’s pretty bad if i just can use iphone to make calls, not for playing game. Thanks!
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
I tried to jailbreak my iphone 3G and in the process something happened and I cant turn it on now. Can someone please help me. Thanks
February 4th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Hi there, can someone please help me urgently. I tried to jailbreak my iphone 3g. when I tried to restore it with Itunes it failed and now when I connect it to itunes it just says that my sim card is not vallid and the iphone can not be turned on anymore.
pleas help me.
thank you very much
February 5th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Thanks Koas!!!
February 5th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
For those that d/l the firmware and instead got a folder instead of the ipsw file, here is the problem:
Safari automatically unzip all compressed file into the download folder, you need to disable this function. Go to Preference -> General -> Uncheck “Open Safe file After Downloading”
that should do the trick.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
CANT MAKE CALLS?
Koas says: November 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM If after the jailbreak you can’t make dial calls because the phone dialer freezes and goes back to the main menu, try this:
1- Uninstall Kate from Installer: this is what everyone recommends, seems to work for a lot of people but didn’t work for me.
2- Then go to Installer again and uninstall these apps:
A) Mobile enhancer B) RIP DEV preferences
3- Reboot your iPhone.
That’s what I did and got my dial pad back again.
Hope this helps someone, I spent like three hours searching for a solution…
February 9th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
IT WORKS!!!!
February 12th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Does this also unlock your phone or just jailbreak it?
February 13th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Forget it! 6 crash’s in the last 34 days 3g iPhone 3G and is pissing me off. Have all the latest software but makes no difference. Jailbreak was great when it was working other wise forget it! I’ll put up with the standard firmware cause at least it works!
February 15th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Re: Question 68…
Shawna Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Hey, I’m confused about the second step… how do mount the firmware file to Quickpwn??? (I’m on the latest mac) Do I need to download a program to do that? Thanks guys.
I am confused on the “mount” term, too. Please help.
Thanks
February 15th, 2009 at 4:53 am
dialer problem?
thanks @Koas It worked for me:
” 1- Uninstall Kate from Installer: this is what everyone recommends, seems to work for a lot of people but didn’t work for me.
2- Then go to Installer again and uninstall these apps:
A) Mobile enhancer B) RIP DEV preferences
3- Reboot your iPhone.”
February 15th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Hello to every body,
Please help me.
I have a 2G iphone and I used to have 1.1.4 fw that was working perfectly.
I tried to use Pwange, quickpwn: Itunes updated my iphone to 2.1, I think (since I cannot even see which version does it have now) but quickpwn was not working since it says it does not support that version of the fw and pwnage created the restore file but ITunes did not use it and now I cannot use Iphone anymore. I don’t know what happened to it.
Please help me,
Thanks
David
February 15th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I was reading other questions of this blog. I have the same problem of Adreas of question 181, only with a 2G.
Can anybody help us?
David
February 16th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
It worked for my 3G, running the program on my iMac Version 10.5.6. Only after downloading the USB file from Apple’s developer site.
February 17th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
After step 8 my phone doesn’t do anyting can someone help?
February 17th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
It is after step 7 that my phone won’t do anything it just sits there and the clock just rotates in the lower right hand corner and rotates and rotates like it is thinking?
February 17th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I can’t get Quickpwn to install it’s files into the phone it just sits there.
February 17th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
3G with 2.2.1 dialer not working? I fixed mine:
Settings -> RiP Dev -> Rip Dev Products -> Kate
Uncheck ‘Facelift’ and tap ‘Apply’. Let Springboard restart. You may need to Reboot/PowerOffOn.
ps. Kate may fail with other buggy stuff you might be running, so if this doesnt work for you, then uncheck all of the options under Kate.
February 18th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Hello I followed all these instructions perfectly but the phone will not work. All I have is the pineapple logo and it keeps turning off and on on its own. PLEASE HELP
February 18th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
ok I was able to get it out of this frozen stage but my internet doesnt work on cydia it says unable to load lost network connection but i try to reload and it keeps saying that……..I tried with my Edge network and WIFI but neither works At least the safari works now but it wasnt before when i first upgraded it… I have a 2G iphone my service is with Tmobile I upgraded it to the 2.2.1 firmware and I have a Mac Osx someone please help I don’t want to try again and freeze it or mess it up more. Should I just downgrade to 2.0 again? Please HELP!!! Thank you
February 19th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Stuck between 7-8. New firmware wont load. Third trying going on a 15 minute this time. Any suggestions?
February 20th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Hiya! I had my iphone 3g unlocked and have been installing all sorts of stuff then today I noticed I couldn’t dial using my keypad. When I went into my phone it just kept taking me back to the main screen. I followed the instructions ramtin left and its works!!! Thank you!!!!
2- Then go to Installer again and uninstall these apps:
A) Mobile enhancer B) RIP DEV preferences
3- Reboot your iPhone.
That’s what I did and got my dial pad back again.
All my icons seem to be moving around too so I’m hoping maybe this will solve that problem as well cos I’m fed up with moving them all back …ARGGGHHHH !!
February 20th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Hi, I have a iPhone 3G with 2.2.1 and a Macbook with 10.5.6 and when I try to follow these steps to jailbreak my phone, I get to the step where it says Building IPSW and it just stays there, I’ve left it there for an hour and nothing happens. Could someone help please? Before I read this I tried to do it without downloading the firmware and it found it from when I had updated to 2,2,1 and it did the same thing. So I tried downloading the firmware today and its still weird.
February 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Should I try it on my Windows? or with Pwnage tool? I’m not interested in unlocking so I thought I’d use Quickpwn but seeing as it doesnt seem to to work… Anyway what does anyone think?
February 25th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Hey all. Just ran through this tutorial. Works well except that my admin user must have screwy permissions or something. The first time I used the tutorial, I got a failure message after a message along the lines of “Detaching QwickPwn ramdisk /Volumes/QuickPwnRamdisk/” … FAILED.
If you run into this problem, just make the ramdisk partition by hand and re-run:
sudo mkdir /Volumes/QuickPwnRamdisk/ sudo chown myuser:staff /Volumes/QuickPwnRamdisk/ sudo chmod a+rw /Volumes/QuickPwnRamdisk/
problem solved.
Worked perfectly after that.
February 25th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Whoops – those sudo commands should look like:
sudo mkdir /Volumes/QuickPwnRamdisk
sudo chown myuser:staff /Volumes/QuickPwnRamdisk/
sudo chmod a+rw /Volumes/QuickPwnRamdisk/
sudo will prompt you for your password.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
2- Then go to Installer again and uninstall these apps:
A) Mobile enhancer B) RIP DEV preferences
3- Reboot your iPhone.
had the same problem with the dialer, would not load up. removed these 2 and worked fine.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
hey guys i need a little help here. i just jailbroke my 3g using the steps above and everything seems to work just fine except it wont recognize any sim so i can’t get a signal. i tried using the bootneuter trick someone said above and it keeps telling me to restore my phone. has anyone else had this problem?? what have you done to fix this?? PLEASE HELP!!!!
February 27th, 2009 at 1:35 am
hi i am trying this out right now on the newest imac running leopard. My iphone 3g is latest version 2.2.1 I went through all the directions after step 8 I have the little icon on the bottom right spinning and spinning but no loading…. It has been almost 45 mins now?!! Is there something wrong? How long did it take for yours to load?
thanks
February 27th, 2009 at 11:47 am
I’m having the same problem as “royer” but I have a 2G. The log reads: “2009-02-27 11:47:43 – Successfully built Quickpwn Ramdisk file.” and the spinning gear keeps going, saying, “QuickPwn is about to run on your iPhone.” Help anyone? ch:
February 27th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Ok, I followed everything step by step, but at the end a message pops out saying “Ipod detected but it can not work,conect and disconect and ty again”, but I’m plugging my iphone not my ipod, and then is trying to put my phone in DFU mode and nothing happens it stays in that step forever. Why I’m getting the message that I’m using an ipod when i’m using my iphone?
February 28th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I’m having the same problem as JP Feo…
March 1st, 2009 at 2:13 am
Hello! Can you guys tell me how long it should take to jailbreak because after the last step I got the :”QuickPwn is about to to run on your iPhone 3G” and nothing is happening !!!! just the spinning gear !!! CAN SOMEBODY HELP US??????????????? Thanks!!!!!
March 1st, 2009 at 11:35 pm
This DOES NOT, repeat DOES NOT WORK (at least for me) I’ve tried it 8 times, finally I restored my phone to it’s original factory settings and STILL, nothing works. I get the same problem as Paul. I do exactly what QuickPwn tells me, it DOES NOT tell me to release the power button after 10 seconds. I get that spinning gear and NOTHING.
What gives?
March 1st, 2009 at 11:38 pm
This does indeed WORK. Sounds like you may be running into the issue with the latest Mac update. Easiest way around it is to use a hub in between your computer and iPhone.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:49 am
hey jeremy i live in india & using vodafone connection.i have apple 2g jailbroken iphone with 1.1.4 version.i want to upgrade it to 2.2.so plz can u let me know how can i do it. thnkx
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
hey jeremy one thing more that i m have windows vista on my laptop if it makes a difference in installation procedure.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
hey jeremy,
i just got the iphone 3G for tmobile about a week or so ago, and everytime i plug my iphone in it comes up with a software update for 2. something, and i finally did it.
now its saying my sim cards invaild and all it wont work, it just has an itunes icon and an usb cord. i dont know what to do now.
please help
March 4th, 2009 at 4:50 am
I have an iPhone 3G, version 2.2.1, mac os x 10.5.6. I like others get to step 8, and watch no progress bar movement, and the spinning gear in the bottom right of the window. I feel like I’m not completing step 7 correctly. How will we know if we have correctly put the phone into DFU mode? Please help. Thanks so much!
March 5th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I’m having the same problem as GAry number 176. I can make and recieve the calls but can’t hear the other party and they can hear me. 3G iphone 2.2.1
March 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
hey I was just wondering after the iphone is jail broken, is there a way to go back to the way it was before it was jail broken. Like say if a problem occurred and u had to get ur phone fixed, and are there any chances that something will happen to the iphone by doing this procedure?
Thanks
March 6th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Hey all you freezees after the DFU mode attempt with the gear just turning… try this:
http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/f146/60657.htm
March 6th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
That’s the problem I am having cause I have a new mac with the new OSX, now what if I tried doing all of this on another computer, will it screw up how my iphone is assigned.
March 7th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Will the jailbreak for the Iphone work on the sprint network?
March 9th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
i have a2g an followed the steps exact. i have been waiting for an hour and its stuck on the final step. status bar has not even appeared blue yet. the spinning icon is all i have. should it take this long.
March 10th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
how do i go back to the original os after jailbreaking?
March 10th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
After i downloaded the 2.2.1 iphone IPSW to my mac how to i mount it to quickpwn?
March 10th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
i jailbroke the phone a week ago now my interent wont work unless im useing my wifi any help??????
March 11th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
i completeed all the steps and at the end it says ihaz completed or watever and it says to wait for it to reboot. i waited for 30 min and finally it turned back on…. but nothing happened it looked the same with no new features…. what did i do rwrong
March 12th, 2009 at 5:30 am
my itunes keeps launching in between and i cannot close it in any way. this disturbes the installation and when the quickpwn starts to “send things to iphone” it doesn’t do anything. heeeeelp:)
March 13th, 2009 at 1:55 am
I went through all the steps but the last step never loaded. and my phone never rebooted. Now it wont turn on and its not recognized when I plug it into my computer. How do I set it back to factory settings? I cant have a phone that doesnt work at all.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:34 am
I’m having the problem as ajj2526 (number 206). everything seems to work just fine except it wont recognize any sim so i can’t get a signal. 2G iPhone 2.2.1 / Does anyone know how to fix this please ?
March 15th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
FABIO6043,
Thank you!
March 16th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I am having a problem with this I keep getting stuck at part 7-8 I do everything right and when it gets to 8 the down load just never starts it says “Quickpwn is about to to run on your iPhone3G. Now I might have been confused at step 2 it tell me to double click Firmware to mount the Quickpwn does mount just mean to open the folder if it does then what could the problem be?
March 17th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Hey I just jailbroke my iPhone 3G but now, for some reason, I can’t connect to T-mobile. I got it through a plan from T-mobile here in Europe so I hope this isn’t a problem! The status bar un the left upper corner either has 5 little flat lines or says no signal. What do I do? Please help
March 17th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
i have a at&t sim card, but i have no signal.what should i do? i get wifi but, no signal/ no status bar on my iphone after i unlock it & jailbreak it. please help
March 19th, 2009 at 12:40 am
If i jailbreak it, can i un-jailbreak it later
March 19th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Iphone Specs: Iphone 3g Modem Firmware: 02.30.03 Version 2.2.1 (5h11) Netword: At&t (with sim card)
Laptop: Mac book Pro 17in (Processor 2.4g core 2 duo) Mac OS X (Vrs}: 10.5.6 Itunes: Itunes 8.1 (50)
Downloaded: QuickPwn & 2.2.1 Firmware IPSW for iPhone 3G. as linked above. Everything goes smooth, except at step 8 I do not get the sit back and wait, what i get after doing step 7) is itunes opening, and saying it needs to restore, I ALT OPT and direct it to the file created: iPhone1,22.2.15H11CustomRestore
The phone then goes threw the motions of restoring, i see the pineapple images. and then once completed the phone restarts and itunes asks me to wait. once waited a few seconds the phone restarts and then Itunes asks me if i want to use my carrier settings that have been saved or set as a new phone. (bare in mind i have tired both options after a few restores).
Once finished i see Cythia & install icons and everything appears to be ‘jail broken.” I am able to set a wifi network and then update Intall and Cythia apps. At this point My phone had not noticed or picked up on my AT&T 3g network. but wifi is just fine. After reading the posts here, i go ahead and download bootneuter and run the app, it goes through the motions of detecting settings, and once its done an msg from support pops saying i need to restore from itunes.
Rinse and repeat, i go threw all the motions again and still no network…. Am I missing an obvious step or not so obvious step..to get this phone working properly with jailbreak & my at&t network settings?
Going threw this in hope that i’ll be able to use fling at some point on 3g for skype calling.
March 21st, 2009 at 3:17 am
Please help me to find out what is error [2001] popping out during the jailbreak processing.
March 21st, 2009 at 8:47 pm
guys, dont bother with this tutorial. use this one and youlll make everything succesfully http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1557
March 22nd, 2009 at 11:26 am
my name is nasser from oman. i hve a iphone 3g 8gb i download a new version 2.2.1 and now its not working no signal pls help me about this . thank u
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I did all of the above steps and when I was in the “Sit Back and Wait” process, the phone screen turned white for several minutes. When I was waiting for the reboot, the phone simply went from the white screen to shut off.
After turning the phone on to experience my jailbroken phone, I had returned the the exact same set up that I had before it was jailbroken. Am I supposed to take any more steps to get Cydia or did the process not work? Above results same after two attempts…
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
I’m having some trouble getting the job done. When it says hold down power button and home for 10 seconds, I do that, nothing happens, then it switches to hold down home button for 10 seconds, so i did. Now my itunes was being weird and wouldnt restore. Now, it randomly restored, i have no idea whats going on.
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
after i have when through the hold power button and everything and im now at the downloading stage where it shows the bar being filled… only it is doing nothing… what am i doing wrong? should the iphone be turned on for this part or off?
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:33 pm
RD, same with me. Im getting really stressed over this
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Update: While the download bar was being wacky, I turned on the phone. Will provide results in a moment
March 24th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Hi there,
I have jailbreaked my iPhone 2G, and it seems to work great. However, iTunes made me aware of a new software update for my phone so I downloaded it. The problem is that now my phone is locked again, and I have to jailbreak it once more, and I can’t figure it out. I can’t open the Pwn, and also I can’t get to the “information site” in iTunes about my iPhone (the one where you can choose restore). Does anyone know how I do it?
March 25th, 2009 at 5:33 am
my iphone going till step 7 then in step 8, it say quickpwn is about to run on iphone 3G it is not loading and i was waiting for like 30mins to 1 hour, but nth happen i mean the blue line is not comin up either , wht should i do
March 25th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
I have the same problem as the Austin (person above me ^^^) basically i do the install.. and it runs and runs and runs.. and then it gets to last bit and says that its about to run and NOTHING… it just says Quickpwn is about to run on your iPhone 3G. but nothing. left it on for nearly 3 hours and nothing!
Any ideas anyone?! really want to get this working.. and dont want to have to pay for someone to do it!
Pleasse help?!!!
Thanks
March 25th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Im not sure if this’ll work. Im trying it atm, but download the iPhone 2.2 Firmware update (search google), and save that to your pwnage folder. Go to itunes, shift click restore, and choose that 2.2 Firmware to restore to. Now, google quickpwn 2.2 or just find a 2.2 tutorial because I know there are many out there. Hope this helps. Let me know if this works, just a process Ive done with previous firms.
Brett
March 26th, 2009 at 8:16 am
i trying to fine out what to do about my ophone 3g i cant use my i phone coz no signal i download a new version 2.2.1 , pls help me about this, tell me what to do. thamks
March 26th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Ok… so I tried everything i could to get it to work on my mac.. and it kept getting to step 8 and would just stop!
So… i fired up my XP side of my macbook and decided to do it through there. downloaded quickpwn for windows.. and 2.2.1 etc etc etc followed all the steps.. seemed to be working really well.. finially got to the end where the pinapple comes up.. was all going well.. then on the screen it said please wait whilst your iphone 3g reboots.. so i thought brilliant its worked… its now been rebooting for over 2 hour, and just vibrates every now and again. i plug it into my macbook and nothing comes up at all. i really don’t know what to do. it doesnt even recognise it in itunes.. so i cant restore it or anything…
Can ANYONE please help me?!? ANY advice would be great?!
please please please please please? lol
March 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
ok i just jailbroke it everything went fine, but when my phone restarted it just stuck on the apple symbol, and wont do anything. even when I plug it back to to my computer, it doesnt reconize it of anything??????? someone please help now my phone doesnt work and its just stuck on the apple symbol even if i keep manuel shuttuing off my phone, PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 28th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
i just jailbroke my iPhone 3G and went fine and i sync all my stuffs and then i realize that it wasn’t reading the sim card, i already try with another cellphone and the sim work normally, but when i put it into the iPhone stays like this …. and after a litle went No Service. can anyone help me please, HELP PLEASE !!!
March 28th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Always make sure to jailbreak using the USB going through a hub. This will prevent a lot of hang-ups.
March 28th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Hi I have a question. Every time when i am using quickpwn, right after i release the power button and hold the home button for 10 for seconds it detects an ipod and I have an iPhone 3G. so it doesn’t work. what do i do close itunes?
March 29th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Hi i have the 3g iphone firmware 2.2.1 with baseband 02.30 (newest one) and i have the Gevey plus 2 turbo sim. i am trying to get T-mobile to work on it but everytime i put in the turbo sim with my T-Mobile sim it get this message “diffrent sim detected please connect to itunes” i can only making “emergency calls” while it is in this mode. Can anyone help? Please if you can e-mail me at Greenwade88@gmail.com (also my phone is activated and has been jailbroken, works with AT&T sim as well)
March 29th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Hey the itunes after step 8 popped up and i closed it, and my quick pawn is now just saying it is about to run on my iphone 3g and wont do anything else
March 29th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
ok, I’ve tried this about 3 times and I cannot get it to work. It is REALLY frustrating, especially since it is somewhat time time consuming and you don’t know how long this is supposed to take. I left my phone for a couple hours to see if it would reboot itself and NOTHING happened.
Can ANYONE tell me what to do. I know I can always restore my regular settings but I want to be able to do whatever I want on my iPhone.
ANYONE??!?!?
March 30th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
thanks a lot! took me about 10 minutes!
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Ok I have read and tried a number of suggestions from the other comment but nothing is working. My itunes pops up and say that the ipod cannot be deticated and it wont allow me to continue with the jailbreaking. What can I do to jailbrake me phone?
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
my iphone is stuck on the pineapple logo is that supposed to happen for a few hours or what is going on?
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
P. Jackson You saved my life my dialer is working again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 4th, 2009 at 9:24 am
I’m trying to jailbreak my phone but even after quitting itunes keeps coming on automatically saying that an iPod was detected follow by an error message, what can I do everything freezes after that?
April 5th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Hey, Just giving everyone a heads up. The IPSW file can not be downloaded properly with Safari on mac osx. Save yourself the hassle and download Moxilla firefox!
April 8th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I’m having the same problem as several others. After step eight it says ‘quick pwn is about to run…’ and its just frozen on this pop up with no progress after about 50 minutes.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
can u jailbreak the iphone 3G without using winzip
April 12th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Awesome. Thanks very much for the easy guide!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:43 am
HELP!!! I tried to jailbreak and now i cant even turn on my iphone 3g. it wont turn OFF OR ON! i went through all of the steps and everything worked fine… it just keeps vibrating twice and nothing else. WHATS HAPPENING??? please help!
April 18th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I have followed the directons to jailbreak my i phone but it seems to be spinning where qckspwn works its magic. can you advise, its been over 5 minutes and nothing is happening except the little spinning circle in the corner of the box
April 28th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Hey,
I followed all the steps but it keeps on getting stuck right after i shut of my iphone 3g, been standing still for a couple of hours now :S:S please advice
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Hey so i got through all the steps and after i was finished entering DFU mode u know like holding down the home button for 10 seconds, it gave me an error that said the iphone was detected or something like that and then (2001) It then continued to not work. What is that and what do i have to do to fix it? thanks
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:43 am
this wil all not work if youre on one of the alluminium mac’s. becose apple built a chip in there against jailbraeking/unlocking im sorry for you all
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Hey, same thing as a lot of other people here. Did the entire process, screen said it was successful, iPhone reboots and only logo shows up, vibrates every minute or so. Finally forced restart and it came up good. If this happens to you, just force restart.
May 4th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
i need help with this because everything goes good until it starts loading for the jail break. like after u turn ur iphone on dfu mode te quick pwn doesnt load it makes me mad.
May 5th, 2009 at 11:22 am
I’ve also lost a day doing this and it’s simply not working. I get up to step #8 where it’s supposed to “start working it’s magic” and it never says sending .dmg file. It says getting ready. What do I do>? i am about to lose it and throw this iphone out the window
May 7th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
ERG7pd comment3 ,
May 7th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Why the hell is mine taking so long? I’m at the part after you have to hold the home button for 10 seconds. and its said: Sending WTF.s5l8900xall.RELEASE.dfu…
What the hell does that mean? It’s said that for like a ******* hour now. Ugh!
May 7th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
So then I unplugged it because it fuc,king pissed me off. And now I’m crying because it won’t turn on and I don’t know what the f.uck I did. f.ucking help me now!
May 7th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Ohh, thank god, never mind it turned on. HUGE RELEAF. oh my god.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Okay. Now its just not showing like any ******* words on that screen when its suppose to be sending shi.t Well its not saying anything and this thing is pissing me off.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:46 am
After step 8 my iphone just does the whole reboots and only logo shows up, vibrates every minute or so thing. I forced a reboot but is still doin the same thing. any suggestions?
May 9th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Ok, very good and easy instructions… but with all the other ipsw files i downloaded never had a problem, exept for 2.2.1.. When i download the firmware, it doest comes out as a .ipsw file, it comes out as a folder, the folder is called iPhone1,2_2, and inside of it there is:
018-4437-16.dmg 018-4443-16.dmg 018-4451-19.dmg A folder called “Firmware” kernelcache.release.s5l8900x Restore.plist
when i downloaded the firmware, the first half second it started downloading as a .ipsw file, then it started downloading as a .zip, and when the download was done the .zip started decompressing and came out as a folder
I downloaded the firmware from you and the apple source, so uh please help!!!
May 11th, 2009 at 12:05 am
im already in the step 8 where in i have to wait for the iphone to reboot, but it keeps loading and loading for about 20mins. is it still normal or should i unplug my iphone and start the process all over again?
May 12th, 2009 at 11:31 am
so i just put my phone in dfu mode.. but now quickpwn isnt loading anything and my phone wont restart.. any help?
May 14th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
BINGO! Now i just have to learn how to install new apps! Thank you sooo much!
May 15th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
mine can’t get past the first step
May 19th, 2009 at 10:17 am
this is crazzy cause my iphone wont turn on now…it said that the iphone was unrecognizable and to unplug devise and then at step 8 it didnt do anything…this is very confusing and idk wat to do now…is my iphone dead for good or wat do i do/????
May 20th, 2009 at 11:32 am
so i did everything correctly.. the only thing this tutorial is missing is when i should put my sim card n the iphone before or after. so my real problem…… my number reads out n my wi-fi is working.. I CAN’T MAKE ANY CALLS. try to locate my carrier in the settings nothing shows up… so i check then went to Network – not available carrier – null null somebody hit me up n let me know.. reverbnation.com/rudeboydream hit me up!!
May 20th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
my ipod just shows a pic of a pineapple and wont rebut
May 21st, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Hey, I didn’t read all the posts, but this my help someone. I am using a Macbook 10.5.6
The 2gb iphone in the process would NOT go into DFU mode. I then hooked up a usb hub, and tried again. The iphone was able to go into DFU mode. So if you are having some problems with DFU. Try a powered USB HUB….
May 24th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
I’ve got to step 8, just did the holding buttons thing and its saying ‘QuickPwn is about to run on your iPhone 3G’ but its been there for ages and nothings happened..on your shot of the screen it shows blue loading bar which is not coming up…? Help pleasee.. Thanks
May 24th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
i cant get the bootneuter to work properly either i open it and my iphone freezes what’s up with that and everything else works properly.. i need help… and does any one know anything about blackberry 8900 it’s busted also… thanks..
May 25th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I’m also on step 8 and the screen came up and says “Quickpwn is about to run on your iphone” and nothing is happening how long should i wait? should it just start right up? do i need to download something? any help will be appreciated! thanks!
May 25th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
i have jailbroken my iphone (not iphone 3g) and still i cant get bootneuter to work correctly is there another way (ssh)??? thanks..
May 31st, 2009 at 6:15 am
I’ve tried doing this for a day and a half now. I’m running on windows vista and have iphone 3g 2.2.1. I follow every step to the very letter yet when it gets to the last step of installing RAMDISK nothing happeneds? Please help…!
June 1st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
when i get to step 8 it takes forever, i waited over an hour, and nothing happened, what should i do?
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
HAHA.. THANKS ALOT.. was nice and easy
June 6th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
does this software really work for the iphone 3g 2.2.1?
June 8th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
when i download the firmware it starts off as a ispw file, but then starts downloading as a zip… after the download has completed it decompresses it into a folder with many files inside it… it is meant to be one file..
CAN ANYONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS HAPPENING PLEASE! AND HOW TO FIX IT! many thanks.
June 10th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Guys, when dl the ipsw make sure you use Firefox since Safari decompress the ipsw. If you use Safai you need to hold down ‘ctrl’ and select ’save file’ otherwise it will decompress and you will be stuck
June 10th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Hi All, I have jail broken my iPhone at least three times and restored it back again quite successfully. I am again trying to jailbreak my iPhone first gen. 2.2.1. I followed all the above directions and can’t seem to get passed step 5. For some reason my phone isn’t being recognized. I tried to click all three of the phone options and no joy. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for a great website.
June 10th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Hey I went through all the steps but when I got to part 8 it would not move it has been at a stand still for 1 hour and it said a few minutes on the instructions above there is not even any blue in the progress bar Could someone help Please
And also after this is done will my iphone work with rogers or do I have to do something else Thanks Cameron
June 12th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Hi i have an iphone 3G i followed all the steps above and it worked perfectly…. until i downloaded a program called installous (it gets all the apps free) and it downloads and installs the applications but when i turn back to the menu on my iphone i cnt find these apps…. can anyone help with that?
June 15th, 2009 at 10:33 am
I’ve jailbroken my iphone 2g like 3 times (after every update) This weekend I unlocked the phone to use with a different carrier and for some reason it is now not jailbroken now when i try to jailbrake it again for some reason Quickpwn does not see my phone. I try deleting the version of quickpwn and downloading a new one. Restarted my mac and nothing. Can some one give me any suggestions?
June 16th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Leo did you get a solution to this I have the same problem?
June 17th, 2009 at 3:56 am
hay i dont know wat im doing wrong but i cant even get past the second step when i connect my iphone 3g and press ok it just does nothin it wont select witch phone it is?? plz help
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
hey,
i have unlocked my iphone 2g a few times using your directions. i bought the 3g when it came out so i wasnt using my 2g. i wanted to take the 2g iphone overseas so i tried to unlock the iphone again.
when i tried it this time when it rebooted itself it got stuck on the pineapple symbol and now i cant access anything. when i try and plug into itunes it says this iphone cannot be restored due to error.
did i fry my iphone? please help!!!
thanks a lot!!!
June 25th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
To: Moka Installous downloads the apps for free, but you then have to install it in the other tab.. Go to the “Downloads tab” on the bottom.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I just got a used ihone and it is in the stage at which you are only allowed to make emergency calls. When I started Quickpwn, I got a message that the firmware was not suffeicient. How can I update my firmware?
July 30th, 2009 at 7:42 am
after downloading quickpwn 2.2.5 i put it in a pwnage folder than open it. it tells me to connect my 3g. it doesnt detect it. am i missing something? please help thanx
July 30th, 2009 at 8:26 am
btw my 3g is factory unlocked can i still use this method to jailbreak my iphone. please reply back thanks
August 14th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I get the same results as Chris. I connect it but doesn’t seem to detect my 3G. Suggestions? Thanx
September 16th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I have a first gen iphone 2g. I downloaded the firmware and updated it via with itune’s but I can’t get pawnage to recognize my phone when I connect my phone. Only itunes open’s and display’s a message about no sim card installed. I tried restarting my computer and phone. I don’t’ know what to do to unlock my phone.
September 17th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
I cant get passed step 5 where you plug in the phone and choose witch phone it is I click on the one and nothing happens.
October 11th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Step 5: My iPhone is not being detected by QuickPwn app. How can I resolve this?
October 15th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
I got suckered in to downloading itunes 9.0.1 which then interrupts the Pwn process…. Fascinating learning this game
November 8th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
i just downloaded it to my iphone 3.0 and i got to the point that the iphone says it is downloading the jailbreak software… but when it says it is finished… i opened up my home screen and Cydia and Icy werent there. I tried this 3 times and i then tried another software and it made my phone delete everything and i had to restore it all. Why can’t i get cydia or icy on the home screen? What am i doing wrong?
November 19th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I figured it out, This program for some reason doesnt work on everybody’s phone, so if it doesnt just google search for another site called black rain jailbreak n u will find a different better way to jailbreak your phone!