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!
It’s MacBook (w/o the space) and you must have your hands washed first ;)
@iCaci: You know I will wash them before getting them on your laptop. More importantly I will wash them as soon as I get them off it. :-P
Ahaaa, so you wash your hands in secret after each time you talk on your iPhone :P
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ok. i need help. i need to find a nice person who can help me understand all this jailbreaking stuff.
here are the details:
-i have windows xp
-i purchased ipod touch last october so that makes it a 1st generation.
-ipod touch is 8gigs.
-i never paid attention to the firmware but i did upgrade to 2.0 this week. and then i found out about all this jailbreaking, dev team, pwnage, winpwn, etc.
-i realized i’ve been using such a boring itouch for the past months. i feel dumb now and want to experience the true potential of an ipodtouch.
now. these are the things im not too farmilar with..
-if i have an ipod touch, does that mean i dont need to/ cant unlock it coz its not a phone?
-what do these “mirrors” do?
-if i do pwn it like your method above, will i be able to run app store AND d/l applications for free such as super monkeyball, this customizer thing (for ipod themes, etc), tetris, etc without paying or anything?
-and if i do get these free applicaitons through installing them directly on ipod touch for free, when i sync it to itunes, what happens? everything will stay the same? wont the itunes recognize somethigns weird here?..
ok please pardon my lack of knowledge in all this jailbreaking. never done it before and dont want to risk any bricking of my itouch lol. just want to noe the basics before i attempt to do anything..
so please help me out here. (: greatly appreciated
@jessica: Straight to your questions…
My personal advice to you is to wait for the availability of WinPWN 2.0 or find a friend with MacBook or any other computer with MAC OS and use the Pwnage Tool on it to jailbreak your iPod Touch. In fact there are currently not many applications in Cyndia so you won’t benefit much with jailbreaking your device at the moment. So you’d better wait a bit…
jailbreak these iphones with 2.0.2 version isnt out yet but im still waitn.
@redesign_website: Jailbreak option for 2.0.2 firmware under Windows already exists. Take a look at this blog post for more information.
I tried jailbreaking my ipod touch the other day with quickpwn but it didnt work :( It kept saying that quickpwn encounterd a problem and closed.
QuickPwn worked very well for me, i recommend it. It’s very easy
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Use Quickpwn, very easy to understand and it’s a straight forward jailbreak :) I love my custom themes and apps!