Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 20 July 2008 08:31
Your IT -
Mobility
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At this stage, the PwnageTool 2.0 will only work on Apple
Macs. There is no Windows version as yet, although the developer of the
WinPwn
application now has something to work with, presuming the Dev Team will
share their findings or the WinPwn developer can figure out how the
PwnageTool 2.0 does its magic.
In a post
entitled
“Thanks for waiting :)” the iPhone Dev Team announces the release of
the new tool, complete with download locations as listed below:
“Here you go.
“We’ll be releasing a more official announcement soon, but we wanted to
get the tool out there. We sincerely hope you enjoy using it as much as
we enjoyed making it :)
“Update 1: Just to clear up some confusion over what this actually
does: yes, it jailbreaks and unlocks older iPhones, and jailbreaks
iPhone 3Gs and iPod Touches. We only support the 2.0 firmwares.
“Update 2: It looks like there aren’t enough TCP ports on that server, so _BigBoss_ has generously offered to mirror it.
“Update 3: If you get Error 1600 from iTunes (or if you see in your log
a failure to prepare x12220000_4_Recovery.ipsw), try: mkdir
“~/Library/iTunes/Device Support” ; if that directory already exists,
remove any files in it. Then re-run PwnageTool.”
The
MacGeekBlog
has some step-by-step instructions on how to run the PwnageTool 2.0 and
download locations for iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G OS 2.0 firmware, as well
as 3.9 and 4.6 baseband versions if needed.
Plenty of comments at the iPhone Dev Team blog are very thankful the
tool has launched at last, plenty of people have reported that it works
perfectly, and there are some who have had issues that are either
covered in the three updates to the availability announcement, or are
answered within the comments stream by those who have had the same
issue and solved it.
So... we should expect a Windows version in the not-too-distant future,
but in the meantime, if you have an iPhone 2G, 3G or iPod Touch, and
want to unlock the 2G or jailbreak the other two, you’ll need to find a
Mac owning friend first!
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