QuickPWN 2.2.1 Guide & Tutorial
February 1, 2009 by Jack Svetlana
Filed under iPhone Guide, iPhone Hacks & Cracks, iPhone News
This guide will show you how to use QuickPWN to jailbreak your iPhone firmware 2.2.1. Please read carefully all the steps and warnings before attempting to use QuickPWN to jailbreak your iPhone. The following tutorial is for PC users.
Before doing anything, I suggest you read this important message from the Dev Team.
- GOLDEN RULE: If you have a 3G iPhone running 2.2 firmware and you want to keep your ability to use yellowns0w (or the option to use it in the future) do NOT use QuickPwn, and do not use the official ipsw or the iTunes update process without using PwnageTool.
- Yellowsn0w will NOT work with the baseband version (02.30.03) that is present in the recent 2.2.1 update – you will need to create a custom ipsw that will allow you to update safely without affecting the baseband.
- Please read all parts of this post before downloading and using these tools.
- Read items 1, 2 and 3 again and again.
- At the bottom of this post are the bittorrent files for the latest versions of PwnageTool and QuickPwn.
- These apps are suitable for the recent 2.2.1 release.
- The Yellowsn0w version has been updated to 0.9.7. Yellowsn0w is available from Cydia or Installer - this version allows compatibility with pwned 2.2.1 system (not baseband) - again – remember 0.9.7 yellowsn0w DOES NOT WORK WITH 2.2.1 (02.30.03) directly - you need to be running a ‘pwned’ version of 2.2.1 which doesn’t upgrade the baseband.
- Users of OS X 10.5.6 will be unable to use DFU mode correctly, please see the note towards the end of this post to easily fix this issue.
What does that mean? It means that you can only use this method if you don’t care about unlocking your iPhone in the future with YellowSn0w. If you’re a “legit” AT&T iPhone user and you have no interest in unlocking your iPhone in the future, then this is for you.
On the other hand, if you’re not a “legit” user or if you do want to be able to unlock your iPhone in the future using YellowSn0w, then this is NOT for you. If that’s the case, you will have to jailbreak your iPhone using PwnageTool, which will preserve your baseband. I will do my best to provide you a PwnageTool tutorial asap!
This being said, this QuickPWN guide will help you jailbreak your iPod Touch, iPhone 2G, and iPhone 3G. There is no jailbreak available yet for iPod Touch 2G!
MAKE SURE YOU READ EVERYTHING BEFORE STARTING TO USE QUICKPWN. THERE IS NO ROOM FOR FREESTYLE!!! YOU ARE USING QUICKPWN AT YOUR OWN RISKS!
That was sort of my disclaimer as I am tired of people messing up their iPhones and holding me responsible for it. So again, you’re using QuickPWN at your own risks. If you have any issue during the process, please leave a comment.
Everything you need to download is in the iPhone Downloads section of the site.
1. On your desktop, create a folder called Pwnage. In this folder save a copy of the 2.2.1 firmware (make sure you use the appropriate firmware!) as well as QuickPWN 2.2.1.
2. Unzip QuickPWN.
3. Make sure you have the very latest version of iTunes. It is extremely important!! If you don’t have the latest iTunes, download nad install it. After the install, make sure to restart your computer. This is a very important step!
4. Plug your iPhone to your computer and wait for iTunes to detect it. Now you have 2 options. You can either update to 2.2.1 or restore your iPhone to 2.2.1. I always prefer restoring as you will start with a fresh and clean firmware and it will not create wasted space on your iPhone. As an alternative to restoring, you may want to read my post about upgrading a jailbroken iPhone. It’s your choice but again, I recommend restoring. To restore, simply hit SHIFT + Restore. A window will pop up asking you to choose what firmware you want to use to restore. Use the firmware 2.2.1 you downloaded in step 1.
5. After restoring (or updating), launch QuickPWN. QuickPWN should recognize your device automatically.
6. Click “Browse” to select the firmware 2.2.1 you downloaded in step 1.
7. QuickPWN will display a green checkmark if the firmware is correct. In this case, click the blue arrow to continue. If it’s not, it means that you have downloaded the wrong firmware.
8. Now QuickPWN will let you install Cydia, Installer, and custom boot logos. Note that you HAVE TO install Cydia but Installer and custom boot logos are optional. So make sure you select at least Cydia, then click the blue arrow to continue.
9. QuickPWN will now ask you to “please make sure your device is connected via USB before continuing”. Click the blue arrow to continue.
10. This is the most important step! QuickPwn will now automatically put your iPhone into recovery mode. Once it is in recovery mode you will be prompted to:
- Hold the Home button for 5 seconds,
- Hold the Home and Power buttons for 10 seconds,
- Then release the Power button while continuing holding the Home button until your iPhone is in DFU mode.
Watch the prompts carefully and follow along!
11. If you did this correctly, QuickPWN will detect your iPhone in recovery mode and will ask you to “wait while your iPhone is prepared for jailbreaking”.
12. As a final step, QuickPWN will tell you that “the pwnage process appears to have completed successfully. Please wait for your device to reboot in its newly modified state”.
13. Voila!
Copy & Paste Arrives via Clever Javascript Hack
December 23, 2008 by Jack Svetlana
Filed under iPhone Hacks & Cracks
Yesterday, an online service called Pastebud was announced. So far, it offers what seems to be the best solution to what has been one of the iPhone’s greatest weaknesses, the cutting and pasting of text. However, there is only one caveat, the service only seems to currently work in the iPhone’s Mail.app and Safari. Using some clever javascript programming, the developer, Jed Schmidt is able to copy selected text to his servers and then paste it back into the applications. It sounds more confusing that it is, so a video demonstration will probably explain it more clearly…
How to determine your iPhone firmware version
November 30, 2008 by Jack Svetlana
Filed under iPhone Apps, iPhone Hacks & Cracks
To determine which firmware(s) you have on your iPhone, press the Home button, then the Settings button, then press General, then press About. Look at the entry for “Version”. It will have a number next to it and another number in parantheses. We’re only concerned about the first two (or three) digit number. In my examples I have 2.2 firmware. So when you hear: Apple is releasing 8.4 firmware today, that’s the number they are talking about.
There’s another firmware number you should be aware of. This is the one that says “Modem Firmware”. This is also referred to as baseband by us hackers/unlockers. Every time you update your firmware (i.e. 2.2), the modem firmware gets updated too (except for the 1st generation iPhone). While baseband updates are good for most iPhone users, they are usually bad for those who want to unlock their iPhones. But for now, do not concern yourself with this.
The image on the left is from a 1st generation iPhone, the image on the right from a 3G iPhone. I have outlined in red, the two version numbers.
If you have a new iPhone that hasn’t been activated or modified, then this is what you must do to determine what firmware you have.
If you see this image when you turn the iPhone on, then you have a 2.x firmware installed.
There are only two other images that will be displayed when turning on an unactivated iPhone. The image on the left is associated with firmware 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and 1.1.1. The image on the right is associated with firmware 1.1.2, 1.1.3, and 1.1.4 only.
To further determine if you have 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 or 1.1.1 firmware there is one more thing that can easily be performed. At the main screen on the iPhone, slide the slider to access the emergency call panel. Enter *3001#12345#* and then press the Call button.
You will now see this screen. Press the Versions menu. You’ll see the infamous typo menu entry called Firware version. This is actually supposed to say firmware version. This particular firmware number refers to the modem version.
Installer 4.0b8 is out
October 1, 2008 by Jack Svetlana
Filed under iPhone Hacks & Cracks
The new Installer 4.0b8 is out in the wild! The RIP Dev Team had been working for a while but it’s now here and available for your iPhone or iPod Touch. To update, simply open Installer and it will automatically prompt you to update. How convenient!
This Installer 4.0b8 is about new features and a few bug fixes. Most importantly, the RIP Dev people are sying that they are going to release Installer 4 soon. Can’t wait for it but I can’t help wondering what will happen to Cydia? Who of the 2 will survive?
From the RIP Dev Team:
Installer 4.0b8 is out (it’s been ready for a while and even included in the last PwnageTool but we were holding off to releasing it publically). Among notable features is the switch to libcurl from the stock Foundation URL loading classes, which means more lightweight CPU and memory footprint and, more importantly, resumable file transfers. The new beta also features a plethora of little fixes which we won’t extensively list here. Enjoy. We’ll be pushing out a 4.0 release soonish…
The featured page you see when you launch Installer is actually automatically generated based on the popularity of the packages (based on the number of installations across the board), so it’s nothing like the “old” featured page that listed a set of pre-defined products. It will eventually have some “sponsored” products, but they will be easily distinguishable visually and we’ll try to keep the amount of these to the minimum – no more than 3.
Community Sources are updated as well to reflect the change in the modmyi.com domain name and to remove some outdated sources that shown promise but actually never delivered anything.
Kate update been out for a while, and we’re finally at adding new features to it – so look for a non-bugfix release in the near future.
