Man, the ubernerds are at it again. Check out the iPhone Dev Team site for info, and I’m sure Pylorns will have a step-by-step walkthrough out there soon enough. I’ve done the jailbrake to 2.2.1, and it works pretty smoothly.

Out.

Ok a few notes about QuickPwn.  Compared to Pwnage Tool, it makes it much easier for the novice to jailbreak an iPhone or iPhone 3g or ipod touch.  I did not test this on a “clean” iPhone as mine was already jailbroken the first time.  But, iphone dev doesn’t have any notes that say you can’t do it on clean iphones.  So here is the tutorial on how to do this on an already jailbroken iphone 3g, as always backup first, do at your own risk, yada yada, most likely doing it on a clean iPhone works exactly the same way.

Also you have to be at 2.02 in order for this to work.  I’ll walk you through that update if you haven’t already.

1.

Browse out to http://blog.iphone-dev.org and pull down the QuickPwn file from there site or through bit-torrent.  Remember to use the native archive utility and not “unarchiver”.  Once you have this downloaded and extracted chill out a moment and fire up iTunes.

2. Ask yourself this question: “Do I feel lucky?”  Then decide that you haven’t and backup your iPhone.  You should have already but I wanted to remind you again.

Once you have iTunes started and your iPhone plugged in you should get this message, choose to download and install.

3. Click on Next for the update, as you can see it says “bug fixes”.  Can we get any more generic?

4. Agree to sell your soul to Steve and click next.

5. Now when you do this, you may think, what the hell, the screen disapeared.  Steve’s come to collect my soul early! No like all iTunes downloads it just put it in the download section.

6. Soon as it finishes you’ll get this screen

7. And then this one…

8. And then…

9. Boom done, you’re at 2.02 Apple legit software and if you had any jailbroken apps they are gone.  Your iphone should reboot and you’ll get the old favorite apple logo.

10. Now you can fire up QuickPwn. Double click to launch the goodness.

11. Click Ok that you have been warned. You should know the drill you can’t hold them, or me or anyone else but yourself responsible for bricking your iphone.

12. Keep following ye’ old onscreen instructions, your device should already be connected so just click ok, or it may have just jumped right to detecting your device.  Mine was rebooting when I took this so it popped up right after this.

13. Next it should popup with this screen. Basically it is going to go out and look for the 2.02 firmware on iTunes.  You don’t need to re-download or do anything, I had to close iTunes after a minute, but clicking Yes makes QuickPwn do the work and it worked so I didn’t run into any thing too out of the ordinary aside from not expecting it to fire up iTunes. If you didn’t get this or its finished or you’ve done this before just click the device and it should continue.

14. As mentioned before here and on the dev site you don’t get the option to choose how your custom firmware package is built, this puts it all in.  So put in your username/pass and click “ok.”

15. Ok so I didn’t get the immediate next screenshot, but basically we’re repeating the same steps as you should already know to get your phone into DFU mode.  Follow the steps on screen.  In case you have never done this before, look at your screen you’ll just follow the on screen prompts and if you have problems still check the bottom of this post for a tip on DFU mode.

16. And we’re holding…

17. And we’re holding… and boom, you’ll see it automatically sends the firmware as opposed to the crazy stuff you had to do with Pwnage Tool.

18. And here is where it gets tricky.   It took 2-5 minutes aproximately but it rebooted.  Then my phone just hung there.  I went out and checked online others were saying that they just re-did everything and freaked out.  Some say they waited 20 minutes, or they rebooted and it would continue to just hang at the pinapple.   See below.

19.  For me, I watched it reboot after 5 minutes the first time.  Then it hung there for about 10 minutes.  I started to get pissed, but I held down the home button and power button to turn it off.  I then powered it back on again, let the pinapple sit for a couple minutes and boom.  It came up fine, jailbroken, nothing wrong.   Cydia, Installer, all came back, I didn’t have to restore my music from iTunes after the fact or do anything else wonkey which made the experience much less painful.

If you had problem getting the phone into DFU mode follow DJ Felix’s method:

* Turn off the iPhone
* Hold the home button
* Plug it into USB
* Watch for DFU mode

Anyway Comment below, if you saw something else or experienced something else please share as it could help others.

First things first, the tutorials for the PC seem to actually be easier.  Also a lot of the Mac tutorials left off a key step - holding down the option key when clicking the restore function.  For someone who has never done this before the other tutorials mostly assume that you know what you are doing.  This tutorial will cover how to jailbreak your recently updated 2.01 version iPhone or iPhone 3g. 

Note: This tutorial is for iPhone running 2.01 version software, and for Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 on an Apple Mac.  While it may work for future releases the screens may not look the same.  A PC version of this tutorial will follow.  Make sure you have a backup of everything you have on your iPhone, and make sure that iTunes does a backup prior to starting this.

Why should I jailbreak?

I mean, with the App store, the main reason people did it before was because you couldn’t install other applications, now there are lots of applications and all developers can now get their software on it right?

Wrong.  Apple has strict, slow, approval process and quite often they remove apps without telling the developers - just look at the box office fiasco. Also, with jailbreaking you can customize what your iphone looks like, all the menus, icons, battery indicators you can individualize your iPhone which is a big factor for me. See screenshot below of how you can customize your iPhone.

Winterboad Theme program

How do I get applications on the iPhone?

There are two applications that install when you use the PwnageTool 2.0.2. Cydia and Installer.  Cydia is open source and Installer is not, Installer also has very few programs as opposed to Cydia.  Basically these two are like the app store, they connect to multiple sources and categorize applications and themes.  They also let you know when an update is made.  These two programs are the simplest tools to use.  I suggest installing Winterboard and Customize as well these are installed through Cydia and allow you to start your theming fun.

Ok so how do I do this?

1. You need to head out to the location of the Pwnage tool and download it.  Go here and download the latest tool.  (Also note you’re iPhone should be plugged in and on and iTunes should be ready to rock.)

2. Extract the PwnageTool to your desktop and double click it.

3. Say yes that you want to open the application.

4. Click “OK” to continue.

5. Choose your poison of iPhone and click the arrow for next.

6. Select your firmware (it should show up and just click on it) then click the arrow for next.

7. Click on yes to continue to create your image

8. The tool will need your login/pass so enter them and click continue.

9. Choose if you have Pwn’d your iPhone before.  If your first time just choose no.

10.  Now we get to the interesting part.  Basically you’re putting your phone into DFU mode.  This basically sets the iPhone to be ready to accept the new image you just made.  The phone will appear to be off when you’re done but your system will still see that it is turned on.  Follow the directions by clicking on both the home button and the top button. 

11. Next you choose to hold just the home button down.

12. If you held the buttons down correctly you should have put your phone in DFU mode at this point you’re done with the PwnageTool. 

13. Fire up iTunes (as noted above you should already have it running.  So just bring it back up.

14.  Here is where you need to hold down alt/option button and click on the restore button. 

15. Choose to open the image that was saved to the desktop by PwnageTool.

16. It takes a good amount of time - some tutorials say it could take 30 minutes or so.  Course if you miss a step like I did, you’ll restore incorrectly and 30 minutes turn into 2 hours.  But anyway.   So baring any unforseen circumstances you should see this screen.

17. Now you want to sync up your phone, restore your previous settings and sync your music, photos, etc etc.  You should have two apps installed now on your iPhone; Installer and Cydia.  

Postscript: You can do the expert mode on PwnageTool but this tutorial is more for people doing it the first time as simple as possible.  Once you know what you’re doing - then go back and fiddle with it if you need to.