The iPhone community reacts pretty fast. Just a few hours after iPhone Dev Team released their Pwnage Tool 2.0 a torrent with a modified firmware was published and an option for jailbreaking iPhones with 1.2.0 firmware is now available for Windows users. I personally couldn’t wait until tomorrow so I gave the method a try. I’ve successfully upgraded from 1.1.4 to 1.2.0 version of the firmware. Here are the steps I followed:

Disclaimer

• A method that worked for my iPhone follows;
• This method may not work for your iPhone;
• If you want to do it do it at your own risk;
• A successful outcome is not guaranteed;

Prerequisities:

• Download the 1.1.4 firmware from Apple’s website;
• Download the 1.2.0 custom firmware from The Pirate Bay;
• Download and install WinPWN 1.0 from their website;
• Download and install iTunes 7.7 from Apple’s website;

Make Sure the iPhone is Pwned:

• Launch WinPWN;
• Click the “Browse .ipsw” button and choose the vanilla 1.1.4 downloaded from Apple’s website;
• Click the “iPwner” button to proceed:
• It automatically puts your iPhone in Recovery Mode. If it fails:
  • Try disconnecting and connecting the iPhone;
  • Put your iPhone in Recovery Mode manually:
    • Turn your iPhone off;
    • Hold both the “Sleep/Wake” and “Home” buttons for 20-30 seconds until a yellow triangle appears;
• A message informing that you iPhone is being Pwned should appear;
• A message “Your iPhone is being pwnd. Please wait for reboot.” should appear;

Make Sure the iPhone is Neutered:

• Launch the “Installer” application on your iPhone;
• Install the “BootNeuter” package (available from iClarified source);
• Launch the “BootNeuter” application;
• Select a Bootloader Version (I choose 4.6);
• Enable “Neuter”, “FakeBlank” and “Unlock” options;
• Click “Flash” and “Flash It!”;
• Wait until your Bootloader and Baseband are flashed;

Optionally Put Your iPhone in DFU Mode

• Turn off your iPhone;
• Hold the “Sleep/Wake” and “Home” simultaneously for 10 seconds;
• Release the “Sleep/Wake” and while still holding the “Home” button until the device is detected;
• Wait until iTunes is launched (if not already);
• A message is displayed “iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode…”;
• Click “OK”;

Restore Your iPhone

• Go to your iPhone in iTunes (if not there already);
• While holding the Shift key of your keyboard, click the “Restore” button;
• Pick the custom 1.2.0 firmware you have downloaded;
• Click “OK”;
• Wait until your iPhone is restored;
• After your iPhone is rebooted:
  • BootNeuter starts automatically and flashes your baseband;
  • Your iPhone reboots again;

Troubleshooting

• In case an error 160x occurs during the restore process try the guidelines in Apple’s Knowledge Base;
• If you’re experiencing problems restoring in DFU Mode:
  • Get back to Normal Mode (by holding the “Sleep/Wake” and “Home” buttons simultaneously for some time);
  • Try restoring in Normal Mode;
• In case your iPhone gets bricked try downgrading to 1.1.4;

Have fun!

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It’s been only ten days since the official release of iPhone 3G and the new 1.2.0 firmware (for both 1st and 2nd generation iPhones). Last night the iPhone Dev Team has made an unofficial announcement of the availability of the new version of their Pwnage Tool - 2.0. An official announcement will be released shortly on their website.

Note that Pwnage Tool runs on MAC OS only but its Windows derivate - WinPWN is expected to be released very soon. You should also note that the tools works with the following devices with 1.2.0 (also known as 2.0) firmware:

• iPhone 1st generation (w/ unlock);
• iPhone 2nd generation (w/o unlock);
• iPod Touch.

So iPhone 2nd generation unlock is still not available but is expected in future Pwnage Tool releases.

Naturally the download site went down almost immediately and a few mirrors were set up:

• http://www.iphone-hacks.com/downloads/file/110
• http://rapidshare.com/files/130983920/PwnageTool_2.0.zip
• http://thebigboss.org/repofiles/nonrepo/PwnageTool_2.0.zip

During the long awaited iPhone 2.0 unlock I came across some interesting websites to bookmark:

• http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ - The iPhone Dev Team unofficial blog - an interesting source of iPhone Dev Team news;
• http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/ - Geohot’s iPhone blog - the guy that originally hacked the iPhone has created a place to share his advanced experience in hacking the iPhone;
• http://www.iphonelinux.org/ - iPhone Linux - a project aimed at getting rid of Apple’s software on this fabulous piece of hardware. If you are able to contribute to this project, please do so!;

I can’t wait to go to work tomorrow and get my hands on iCaci’s MacBook!

Thanks to all who helped for this Pwnage Tool release!

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