How long will it take to Jailbreak iPhone 2.0?

Chauncey Dupree
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June 25, 2008
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9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 12:30pm

i know there are definitely many reasons, but for me personally, i see no reason to hack the iphone 3g. sure, theres video recording, but its low quality and i have a camera that can record. sure theres voip, but the iphone is bonded to a contract and i dont want to rely on wireless internet. i know i wont hack my iphone 3g

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 12:49pm

I think apple should prevent iphone 2.0 to be hacked or at least not that easy if they want to be taken seriously by corporations

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 1:08pm

I am pretty sure that by "hacked" they mean "jailbroken" i.e. being able to use a SIM card issued by a provider other than the official carrier (AT&T in the U.S. case) and having the possibility of adding applications developed by those outside Apple (which has been the only way to get cool games and apps up until now). It's not about security issues when using iPhone for business. Sheesh.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 26, 2008 - 9:56am

All corporations have a stick up their never-regions and should lighten up. Ask yourself, will installing tetris on your jailbroken iPhone 3G really bring the end of the world? There's nothing that prevents installing whatever the hell you want on your blackberry or winmobile phone, the two platforms that are notorious for their high ratio of virus/spyware found in downloaded 3rd party programs, but somehow that's A-OK and the IT Departments could not be happier with them.

Just like in the MS-Office dominated desktop world, most of the fears of this new product are absolutely unfounded if not contradictory to the facts. It's just politics and propaganda, and the real reason for the hesitant acceptance of Apple in the workplace is many years of it being regarded as non-business, not-serious, play-things, useful only for "creative types" and students. Phobia is easy and contagious, but educated and enlightened decisions aren't as easy to make.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 1:01pm

Missing option: It's already been hacked.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 1:24pm

Missing Option: who cares

beez1717 (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 1:39pm

With the ablity to "pown" your iphone/ipod touch and then create custom firmware on the fly, I'm assuming that all ipod touch users will get the software for free within an hour, and that we will have hacked the software about 3 minuts thereafter.

Ted Farley (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 2:07pm

Clearly it cannot be hacked until it is out and available to the public - after all, the final form of the iPhone is unknown until the public gets its hands on it.

And, it isn't clear if Apple even wants to "lock" the iPhone. Since you can only get an iPhone with a contract, there is no real reason for Apple to lock it down to a single provider. Wnat to use it with T-Mobile? Great! Go for it. But you're already in a contract with AT&T. After all, people don't talk about hacking the iPod - it's already hacked, and most people don't care that it is "hackable".

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 5:42pm

For PayG phones it's worth it - unlocking avoids roaming charges when going from country to country, allows you to select a better network (O2's 3G network is legendarily poor, and for many unlocking may be the only way they'll get 3G at all).

It also opens up the possibility of things like a proper bluetooth stack, VOIP over 3G, etc. eventually.. also things that are on the unlocked phones already like MMS, better SMS clients (the ability to delete messages for example) - both of which require access that the official apps will not have.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 5:42pm

For PayG phones it's worth it - unlocking avoids roaming charges when going from country to country, allows you to select a better network (O2's 3G network is legendarily poor, and for many unlocking may be the only way they'll get 3G at all).

It also opens up the possibility of things like a proper bluetooth stack, VOIP over 3G, etc. eventually.. also things that are on the unlocked phones already like MMS, better SMS clients (the ability to delete messages for example) - both of which require access that the official apps will not have.

Anonymous (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 2:37pm

Here is a link to my Flickr with uploaded images of screenshots of my 3G iPhone. I currently have possession of one of the Testing units handed down by Apple nearly 3 days before WWDC 08. Check them out because I really wanted the general public to get a look at the new 3G iPhone.

Here is my Flickr link with uploaded screenshots.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28022835@N06/

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9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 26, 2008 - 2:32am

You are a ridiculous idiot! Why bother to pretend that you have a 3G iPhone when you clearly don't. You obviously have a 1st generation. The 3G icon at the very top of your screen is the wrong font, take a look here http://www.apple.com/iphone/gallery/#image3
And I'm also wondering if the buttons on your calculator button are a little too square in comparison to the new not-quite-as-square-as-your-buttons in the 2.0 software.

Meh!

AriX (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 3:43pm

Trust me. It's been hacked.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 4:09pm

As a previous comment mentioned "pwn"ed iPhones bring a new methodology to the jailbreaking business. Assuming the 3G is generally similar in basic system function to the v1 phone, the phone has already been hacked. There are even leaked development versions of the 2.0 firmware that can be fairly easily installed on unauthorized phones.

Ted Farley (not verified) | June 26, 2008 - 5:38am

Assuming the 3G is generally similar in basic system function to the v1 phone, the phone has already been hacked.


I don't think it is safe to assume that the 3G hardware doesn't have additional features in terms of hardware-supported OS protection.

Zibri (not verified) | June 25, 2008 - 4:28pm

I don't know if we are talking about 2.0 firmware on 2G iPhones or about 3G iPhones.
Anyhow,
on 2G iPhones 2.0 Firmware has already been hacked, unlocked and patched.
Nothing has been done on the 3G iPhone.
3g iPhone shares the same codebase but has a totally different baseband firmware.
I don't think you will see an unlock so soon.
I agree with the first comments:
the 3g iPhone has almost no need to be hacked if not just for fun.
Installer.app is not even ready for 3G iPhone.
And you could already use it with a 'special' sim (you know what I am talking about)

Michael Foord (not verified) | June 26, 2008 - 6:30am

In the UK the newly announced 'Pay as You Go' option is pretty good value, but O2s PAYG data rate is awful.

I'd like to use an iPhone 3G on my current (Orange) phone contract - so buying and unlocking a PAYG one is probably the way forward.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 26, 2008 - 8:22am

I marked within a few days, but now that I'm thinking about it, it might never be jailbroken. Unlocked, maybe, but that's another thing. People probably wouldn't care if their iPhone is jailbroken or not since they will get to use the app store anyways, and get apps without the risk of damaging their phone or making it unreturnable.

um person (not verified) | July 02, 2008 - 3:55pm

The software has already been hacked. But the iphone 3g might just pull a nano 2nd gen on us. (The nano is virtually impossible to hack along with 6th gen ipod clasic and 3rd nano.)

The “DevTeam” would like to announce the release of the 1.1 version of the PwnageTool application. The application will automatically update from 1.0 to 1.1 using the inbuilt application updater.

Changes and fixes:-

EDGE settings fix for iPhone 1.1.4 firmware
iPhone/iPod firmware 2.0 5A240d support
New Features

Added custom package support
Added custom logo support
Added auto delete of BootNeuter.app
The application can be downloaded directly from (removed to apply with rules)