Hey all Prax here, this is my initial posting on Wetwierd, and for the initial posting I am going to run though how to jailbreak an iPhone 3g in the windows world.  As Pylorns wrote about how to hack an iPhone on Apple Mac(Leopard) I decided I would help out the rest of the world who aren’t using those Mac things.  This guide is going to assume you know nothing about jailbreaking or cell phones.

First off lets run down a list of what we need to do this, first of course we will need an iPhone (of course) and a windows machine, personally I used my gaming box, that’s running Vista Ultimate edition 64 bit, but any vanilla windows box should work pretty much the same way.  Below is the first of many screenshots you will find in this guide, but it lists all the files you will need.

Going though this list I will explain each of the files and why ya need them.

1) winpwn- this is the application that will actually do all the work for us

2) iPhone roms- There are two of the listed here, you need to grab one from Apple the other one is one you will create.

3) winscp416.exe- this is not a required file but it is great for ftp’ing stuff back and forth to your newly jailbroken iPhone.

4) putty.exe- yet another app that isn’t required, but is of great use once you jail break you iPhone.

So now we got everything you need, or at least know what to look for lets move on to the first step, installing winpwn.  Its pretty easy just double click and keep hitting next until your done, once your done launch the application from the desktop icon it just created.  Once started you will be presented with the following screen.

Once you do the above, it will request an open dialog that you need to select the Apple rom that you downloaded earlier.

Once you select it, it will go though a verification of the rom.  Then the following screen will come up.

Once you have done that and winpwn has going though the check of the rom then click on the IPSW Builder. This will bring up the following dialog.

This shows what applications will be installed by default in the jailbroken rom.  Onto the next screen.

As you can see in the screen above you can select a boot up and a restore screen.  You can either select a boot logo from one that you have on your hard drive or search online for several.  You can skip the Customer payload screen and go directly to the advanced screen.

This is the most dangerous screen in the entire process, but everything works right the above settings will work on pretty much any iphone upgraded to 2.0.  Once the screen looks like it does above click on Build .ipsw file and save it some place you can find later. Once that is done you will get a pop up that looks like this.

Once that is done and you hit ok you will be shown the following screen.

Once you click the button the application will ask for the rom that you created earlier, after you tell the app where to find that file it will “enable” itunes to accept that particular file.   When it is ready you will get this.

Next you will want to dismiss this window and set your phone to what they call DFU Mode.  To do this hold down the power button and the home button at the same time, the screen will go completely blank at this point plug in the iPhone to the computer and load up itunes, but what ever you DO NOT RELEASE THE HOME BUTTON, you can release the power button though.  Soon after if everything went right, iTunes will display this dialog.

Once that happens, you will be taken to the iPhone restore screen and you will have to select the restore option.  But you want to select the rom that we made earlier using winpwn.  To do that hold down the SHIFT key and click the restore button, it will ask you to select the correct ipsw.  iTunes will start to do a restore, your iPhone will blank out several times and look kinda scary but I assure you that if you did all the previous steps everything should work right. Your iPhone will reboot itself, once it does iTunes will ask if you want to do a restore or treat this as a new phone.  This decision is up to you.  If you set the phone as new, you will be asked what to sync to the phone and it will be like the first time you plugged in your iPhone. If you choose to restore your iPhone it will be back to the way it was before you started the process.  After all this when your iPhone is finished booting, you will notice two new apps on your iPhone, Installer and Cydia, both of these installers will install 3rd party apps, but thats a blog from a different time.  Also I will go into what to do if you need to restore back to the original Apple rom.

Prax

Tags: jailbreak, windows
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