This is a late follow up to Jailbreaking the latest Apple 2.1 software update with the latest version of QuickPwn 1.1.  You will as always need to ensure that you have backed up.  Download the latest version of QuickPwn here.

Note: You have to be at version 2.1 on your iphone for this to work.  I’ll go over breifly the update in this tutorial, you can also look at previous tutorials on the update such as here.

1. Launch iTunes and have your phone plugged in and you should receive the message about updating as I’ve covered before in previous tutorials - it will run through these screens as you update to 2.1 version of Apple iPhone Software

2. And it will continue to update, your iphone will flash and reboot at some point as well.

3. Once it’s done make sure you have your quickpwn on your desktop and double click on it.

4. Then the usual screen will come up with the usual we’re not responsible if you brick your phone.

5. Connect your iPhone if you haven’t already - click ok. It will auto-detect your phone and continue.

6. Choose to replace the original boot and logos and click yes.

7. Put in ye’ old username and password.

8. And wait while it builds the new firmware package.

9. Now it needs to xfer the information over - follow the onscreen instructions for getting into DFU mode - if you have problems refer to the previous tutorial here.

10. QuickPwn will send the package to your iPhone

11. The software part is done on your mac now you need to watch your iPhone.

13. Here is the new screen, apologies for the blurryness.  This go around you get a status update about what is going on which is very cool.  Plus it didn’t hang like last time for me or the other iPhone of Prax’s that we jailbroke.  Once its done, you’re good.

14. You may want to install boss pref’s and run through the reset of directory permissions.  I didn’t have this issue before but I did after updating to 2.1.  Check here for instructions and issue.

And that’s it.

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.

Prax here, checking in again to give you some iPhone tidbits.  Since my last post several things have happened in the iPhone community that might be of interest to some of you.

1) Jailbreaking, the new old way- Recently iPhone devs have released a new way of jailbreaking your iPhone in windows.  Called QuickPwn, this basically does the same jailbreaking as the old way but without having to go through all the peskiness of creating new roms and restoring them.  Though this is a “new” way its somewhat more dangerous, because you are editing your rom while it’s still active on the phone.  But it does work alot quicker if you need to jailbreak in a hurry.

2) iPhone 2.0.2 and maybe a break?-  Apple released 2.02 for the iPhone since my last post, this update has had mixed reviews to say the best.  The update aimed to “fix” 3G issues that many users were reporting, Apple also seemed to refine some other portions of the rom as well.   From what I have heard from various sources, iPhone dev team has started to take a look at jailbreaking this new version of the OS, but someone apparently didn’t want to wait.  Appearing on several forums earlier today a few iPhone users were able to use the QuickPwn software above to jailbreak the latest OS.  Seeing this done I wanted to try it myself, I can report that the jailbreak went smoothly and I am running 2.02 on my device now with the Cydia installer app loaded.  But this install isn’t without its quirks, for one some of the customizing apps do not skin the OS correctly, and a few of the applications available in Cydia don’t work as they should, but over all I am happy enough to use the phone right now.  Once iPhone dev releases their latest jailbreaking tool I will reflash and use that.

3) To fix your crashing phone downgrade iTunes?- Earlier today in a unusually long e-mail from Steve Jobs to a news site reporting on iPhone apps crashing, the CEO reported that Apple is well aware of the issues users are having with crashing iPhone apps, and they are working to get a fix into the customers hands by next month.  The news site who employs an ex-Apple engineer suggested a temporary fix to its readers in the form of uninstalling the 7.7.1 version of iTunes and reinstalling version 7.7 .  While I cannot report on the success of this, it might be something to look at if you having issues with Apps crashing on your iPhone.

4) Copy cat- One of the most requested features that iPhone users want from Apple is a copy and paste function at the OS level.  While there are some hints and rumors from Apple about this mainly being some loose calls in the most recent development build of the iPhone OS.  There hasn’t been any official word from Apple if this feature will ever be implemented.  So while we wait with baited thumbs, a 3rd party developer has taken up the torch to add the much lusted after feature to a few apps.  By publishing a framework or set of programming tools to other app developers this developer is hoping to integrate his copy and paste function across multiple applications.   While this is far from a perfect solution, I wish the developer luck in his or her endeavor.

5) The iPhone 3G becoming a real class act-  Earlier today, news broke that a Alabama woman, brought about a class action lawsuit in which she names Apple computer for creating a “defective phone”.  She sites lots calls, and spotty reception for 3G network, she also goes on to say that phone is overall slower then she expected.  Not much info is known about what will happen with this class action, but I foresee that this isn’t the last apple has heard about this.

With that I close the first I hope of many chapters of iPhone notes; I will keep my eyes open, for more news to bring the readers of this blog.