Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 14 July 2008 00:18
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At Geohot’s blog, we get an explanation.
In a
post titled “iPhone 3G Unlocked?”, Geohot says: “So I read
this [about the iPhone OS 2.0 unlock and jailbreak] on gizmodo. Here's the truth...
“Post beta 4, the ramdisk hack stopped working. Sorry Zibri, guess you'll have to steal another exploit. They also changed the recovery mode USB protocol to use the control endpoint to send commands.
“The possiblity of unlocking, which is very distinct from jailbreaking, is based entirely on the baseband bootloader. Apple doesn't appear to upgrade the bootloader on phones in the field, probably for fear of breaks. So any old iPhones out there today, regardless of version, can be unlocked.
“The iPhone 3G uses a different bootloader, which I believe there aren't any known exploits in yet. So no unlock.
“There is a known exploit in iBoot, on both the old and 3G iPhones. The "the specific date/time is not firm yet" pwnage tool will leverage it to jailbreak all 2.0 software iPhones, 3G and otherwise. Dev team, that date better be soon or I might just have to release
yiPhone . The iBoot exploit is yours, use it. You wouldn't want a repeat of ZiPhone now...”
Here Geohot ends, basically saying the original iPhone 2G can be jailbroken with the iPhone Dev Team’s software, and presumably unlocked as well, but as the iPhone Dev Team is taking its time in actually releasing its software, Geohot has put a counter at YiPhone.org to release his own jailbreak/unlock tool.
YiPhone is also a dig at Zibri and his "ZiPhone" software, with a picture above the counter that has George Hotz's head on the body of Zorro, and a 'Y' in the 'Zorro Z' font, which is funny.
This counter runs out at Tuesday, 6pm US time. I can’t remember exactly which timezone it is but you can see the counter running down at YiPhone.org now.
This challenge quite annoyed the iPhone Dev Team, who put out an explanation as to why they weren’t rushing to release their hack just yet, while also earlier releasing videos to show that their “Bootneuter” program was working on an original iPhone 2G to unlock it just fine.
See what the iPhone Dev Team says on page 3, more of my own iPhone and iPod Touch OS 2.0 musings on page 4.
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