Facing many complains from people saying that WinPwn 2.5 Beta was crashing on them (especially while building ISPW), WinPwn was updated today with the release of WinPwn 2.5.0.2.
Three ways to upgrade:
This update is just about bug fixes, namely:
Good job cmw on updating WinPwn so quickly!
[digg-me]How to use QuickPwn Mac OS X to jailbreak the iPhone? This is a very good question that will find answer in the new few paragraphs. Before we start, I want to make it clear that QuickPwn for Mac OS X does not activate; it just pawns firmware 2.0.2 (at least to this date).
Another thing I would like to add is that you are pawning your iPhone at your own risk and it will void Apple’s warranty. It is also worth noting that pawning your iPhone is illegal. I know, it’s your phone, you should be able to do whatever you do with it but it still illegal. Ok, let’s go.
QuickPwn Mac OS X Guide:
Before starting: your iPhone must be on firmware 2.0.2.
So, wasn’t that hard, was it? Please leave comments.
A lot is going on today. First, the release of WinPwn 2.5 (see tutorial here) and now the DevTeam informs us on their blog that they have released the long-awaited QuickPwn for Mac.
From the DevTeam:
QuickPwn is not a replacement for PwnageTool, they are different tools and provide different features, QuickPwn is for quickly pwning a device, whereas PwnageTool is designed to custom build and tailor the ipsw production process, both tools will be actively developed in the future.
To use QuickPwn 1.0 Mac OS X your device should be running 2.0.2, if it isn’t then you can upgrade it to 2.0.2 using iTunes and then use the QuickPwn tool, we repeat, it’ll only work on version 2.0.2 of the iPhone or iPod touch firmware.
If you don’t want specific things to happen such as baseband updates then PwnageTool should be used to create a custom .ipsw with your specifics.
QuickPwn for Mac can be downloaded from here (Bittorent) or from our iPhone Downloads section.
SHA1(QuickPwn_1.0.0.tbz)= 22ee0d6814a6bac9b1b9a8c7715dd714bd6bb449
Thanks DevTeam
We’ve been waiting for WinPwn 2.5 for quite a bit now (see my previous posts on the topic) but it is finally out!
WinPwn 2.5 makes it stupid simple to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone. Note that so far, you can only jailbreak the iPhone 2G. An unlock method for the iPhone 3G is not available yet but check out my blog every once in a while as I will be staying on top of that and I will be informing you.
So, how to jailbreak the iPhone? Pretty simple. I just created a guide that will show you every step of the process: jailbreak your iPhone with WinPwn 2.5.
This tutorial works for iPhone 2G and 3G. Only a few steps slightly change. Read the tutorial and leave comments.
WinPwn 2.5 is out and it is making it even easier to unlock or jailbreak your iPhone 2G. So far, it doesn’t allow you to unlock the iPhone 3G but the DevTeam is working day and night on it.
I just created and published a tutorial on how to use WinPwn 2.5. This tutorial works whether you have an iPhone 3G or an iPhone 2G. It also works whether you simply want to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone.
Enough talk: use this WinPwn tutorial to unlock your iPhone 2G.
[digg-me]How to jailbreak 3G iPhone? How to unlock an iPhone 2G? These are 2 questions that will find an answer in the next few paragraphs. Believe it or not but it is illegal to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone but more importantly, it voids your warranty. Basically, you are unlocking/jailbreaking your iPhone at your own risk.
One last thing before we start…. Please do not complain to me if you have problems or if you have to restore several times. I am providing this WinPwn tutorial without any guarantee. I mean, I know it works and I know if you do everything I tell you, you won’t have any problem. But I hate receiving insulting emails telling me what a jackass I am (I already know that, haha). If you’re having issues, please post in the comments and I will do my best to answer your questions. Any insulting comment will be deleted.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: There is a confirmed bug with WinPwn 2.5 that can cause the WinPwn application to crash during the creation of your IPSW. Some users are finding that increasing the partition size to 700MB will resolve the issue. To specify the root size partition click the “Expert Mode” button before starting the tutorial. You will be asked to resize the partition before the IPSW starts building.
UPDATE 2: A new version of WinPwn (WinPwn 2.5.0.2) is now available and fixes bugs such as crashes. Go to our iPhone Downloads section to download WinPwn 2.5.0.2.
Ok, so let’s learn how to jailbreak or unlock an iPhone (note that unlock is only available for iPhone 2G so far).
Done!
WinPwn 2.5 is out and can be download either from here or from our iPhone Downloads section.
So, what’s new on WinPwn 2.5?
Notes from cmw:
- ONLINE IMAGE BROWSING IS DOWN DUE TO HIGH TRAFFIC
- Why is it beta? Well it’s my way of saying.. Use at your own risk
- You MUST do a full uninstall of winpwn 1/2 before installing the new version
- Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes (Currently 7.7)
How to use WinPwn 2.5?
Use my WinPwn 2.5 Tutorial.
Gizmodo was tipped by what they call a “pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers” that Apple and AT&T might be discussing the possibility of offering bringing tethering to the iPhone.
Apparently, their tipster emailed Steve Jobs himself (we know Steve sometimes personally answers emails from random people like you and me). Here is the email he supposedly sent to Steve:
AT&T offers data plans for BlackBerry that include tethering for an additional $30 per month (a total of $60 per month for the BlackBerry+tethering plan).
It seems ludicrous that the same thing is not offered with the iPhone. I understand the desire to prevent tethering with the current data plan, but I am willing to pay more money to allow tethering! With such an advanced device, why can I not do so?
Now here is the reply he supposedly got from Steve:
We agree, and are discussing it with ATT.
Steve
Sent from my iPhone
Not sure how I should take that but that is a pretty interesting rumor…
PlanetBeing, a member of the DevTeam, wrote a very interesting post about the similarities and differences between QuickPwn and Ziphone. If you’re not an iPhone geek, don’t even bother reading this…
Here is what PlanetBeing took into account (as you can see, there are more differences than similarities):
Similarities:
Differences:
Technique
ZiPhone uses, as the root filesystem device, a pseudo-device that provides a window to an arbitrary section of memory. This memory is not allocated or otherwise reserved by the operating system and hence will be used by other random processes in other random ways and will become more and more corrupted with every CPU clock cycle. The only safe way to use this is to mlock all memory used by the jailbreak binary as soon as possible, and then use data previously uploaded to flash. Anything else will cause either the jailbreak binary to crash at random moments or cause random data to be written to flash. I am not sure why Zibri elected not to implement ZiPhone in a safer fashion.
QuickPwn uses the same mechanism that Apple uses to send its update ramdisk. This memory is both allocated and reserved. It will not crash at random moments, or give you repeating BSD root errors. This is the way the XNU kernel is designed to use ramdisks.
Longevity
ZiPhone hinges on a BUG in iBoot that was quickly fixed by Apple.
QuickPwn uses an iBoot FEATURE that Apple cannot remove without rewriting their own software and undergoing lengthy QA. Even if Apple did change the architecture, it would be straight-forward to simply mimic what they do and adapt to it. The reason QuickPwn can do this is because it relies on a hardware exploit to bootstrap into this phase. Apple cannot fix this problem without changing the manufactured hardware.
Elegance
ZiPhone modifies an existing Apple ramdisk and ships it as a complete set.
QuickPwn contains all-original code and features a very tiny bootstrapper that allows it to use libraries and code that’s already on the iPhone.
Not only does ZiPhone’s distribution of Apple’s binaries violate copyright laws, it also takes up a large portion of room on the ramdisk that could be used for the payload. Keeping its existing algorithm, ZiPhone would never have been able to install Cydia, for example. The maximum feasible ramdisk size is 32 MB; Cydia takes 13 and Apple’s library take up a significant amount. With some work, Zibri could possibly make it just under the 32 MB limit, but with the large number of files in Cydia, and the large size of the corruptible area of memory, corruption would be inevitable.
Click here to read the full post.
cmw just posted on his site that he was preparing WinPwn 2.5 for a beta release. Yeahh! I’ll let you know when the beta is out and available.
WinPwn 2.5 ( Update 08/28/08 )
Yay! Squpix fixed the 2.0.2 bug and we are now preparing for beta release! Get your iPhone/iTouch’s ready it’s winpwning time. Thanks again for the support.
In the meanwhile, here is a screenshot of WinPwn 2.5 in action. You may see more here.
Since the recent update to 2.0.2, many users reported that their applications crash really often when trying to open them. A few fix were offered, including decreasing the amount of iPhone applications on your device or, downgrading to an earlier version of iTunes.
These 2 fixes delivered different results but it seems the folks at iPhone Atlas finally discovered a real fix to this problem.
On the iPhone, select Settings > General > Erase all Content and Settings.
On a Mac, delete the following support files from the computer:
/Library/Receipts/AppleMobileDeviceSupport.pkg
/Library/Receipts/iTunesAccess.pkg
/Library/Receipts/iTunesX.pkg
~/Library/iTunes/Device Support (the entire folder)
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleMobileDevice.kext
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DeviceLink.framework
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework
~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates (all contents)On a Windows XP PC, delete the files in settings/[yourusername]/Application Data/Apple Computer/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates
On a Windows Vista PC, delete the files in C:/users/[yourusername]/AppData/Roaming/Apple Computer/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates
Delete the iTunes application
Restart the computer
Install iTunes 7.7
This method is obviously not for the average noobie as it requires some basics skills but that’s the only solution so far to fix this issue with your iPhone…. at leat until Apple releases a new firmware update.
Thanks iPhone Atlas
T-Mobile just changed their IP address for T-Zones, causing all hacked iPhones using T-Zones to stop working. BigBoss was on it right away by releasing an update to TZones Hack in a matter of hours.
The upgrade is available in Cydia and only works with iPhone firmware 2.0+. This means if you’re still on 1.1.4, well, it’s time to upgrade or:
you can fix proxy.pac yourself but editing the file /var/preferences/proxy.pac and changing “10.0.0.0″ to “25.0.0.0″. (The 2.0 version is a bit more flexible allowing addresses from both 10.* and 25.* to both be covered.
For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, T-Mobile has a $6 data plan called T-Zones. You can use this plan if you’re on a jailbroken iPhone, instead of paying the usual $20 from AT&T. This is obviously again T-Mobile’s TOS so you may do this at your own risks…
How to use T-Zones on your unlocked iPhone?
Thanks Boss
Interesting finding over at hackint0sh… One smart user found a way to take his iPhone 3G apart, using a suction cup.
Here is how it works:
This can be a handy trick, should you want to fix light leak for example, as this user did. No need to say that your iPhone warranty will be voided in a heartbeat…
You thought that password-protecting your iPhone would keep you safe? Think again! A pretty big security breach was found in iPhone firmware 2.0.2, putting some of your data at risk. Fortunately for the most paranoid of us, there is a way to avoid it.
What’s this security flaw about?
Now anyone using your phone can make a call to your favorites. On top of that, they can edit your contacts, view and listen to your voicemails, SMS, have access to email and Safari…
Apple will most likely fix this issue in the next firmware update but if you can’t wait a couple weeks, here is how to fix it:
This way, when someone uses the method described above, they will either be taken to the home screen or to the iPod screen.
One of my routines with this blog is to check how I rank for certain keywords. Lately, I noticed in Google Analytics that I get quite a bit of traffic for key phrases such as “iPhone backup on computer”, “iPhone to computer transfer“, “iPhone to PC transfer” or “iPhone to Mac transfer“.
I googled some of these key phrases and the result was quite surprising… For most of these searches, I rank pretty bad, in most cases on the second page or even worse. But what annoys me is not my ranking; what annoys me is shitty, crappy websites are ranking better than.
When I say “shitty, crappy” websites, I mean those websites that are solely here to sell affiliate products. I do sell affiliate products but that is not the only purpose of my blog. Blogging about the iPhone comes first. Monetizing this blog comes second for me.
So when I see some of these borderline spammy websites, I wonder why Google doesn’t recognize my blog as a “good” website. I know this blog is pretty young but still.
Oh well, listen to me complaining again.
At any rates, now you know that if you’re looking for an iPhone to PC transfer software, you can find it here.
Why would you use such a software? I see 2 main reasons:
What is the best iPhone to Computer software?
I also sell softwares to convert DVD or videos to iPhone format.
I am posting about all this because that is the only way (with Google ads) that I can make a little money from this blog, which takes a lot of my personal time… I hope you guys understand.
cmw just posted a status update about WinPwn 2.5.
Sorry about the delay. I have been trying to fix a quickpwn 2.0.2 bug.
If it doesn’t get solved in the next day you will see a release with just quickpwn 2.0.1 support.
I will keep you updated! Thanks again for the support.
Hopefully we’ll see WinPwn 2.5 available soon.
The DevTeam posted on its blog a few hours ago that bugs have been found in the recent releases of the PwnageTool for Mac and the Windows Beta of QuickPwn.
We’ve had some issues with iPod touch devices and the latest version of PwnageTool for the Mac, in certain conditions incorrect permissions will be used and the keychain doesn’t save passwords. So hold on and wait for the next release, we’ll push out the updated version via Sparkle as soon as it is tested (it is being tested right now). We have also encountered some issues with the Windows Beta of QuickPwn, and we have an update that should fix the issues seen with 64-bit Windows versions and should be able to be used with all versions of Windows, but as with all beta software other bugs may be present.
A new Windows QuickPwn Release Candidate (RC3) was made available and can be downloaded from here or from the download section of this blog.
After announcing the release of the new PwnageTool 2.0.3 for Mac OS X, the DevTeam spoiled us today with a new beta update to the Windows QuickPwn application.
DevTeam says:
This contains a revised GUI from Poorlad that has tighter integration into the the main updated QuickPwn executable which has fixes for YouTube and provides BootNeuter support for the unlock of 2G iPhones, remember this is still beta software, use at your own risk.
The tool can be downloaded from here or from the iPhone Downloads section of this blog.
A “Nota Bene” from the DevTeam:
NB: QuickPwn Windows doesn’t work well with virtualization as there are some problems with the way USB resets are handled, so we wouldn’t advise trying it, we have had reports of some success with VMWare Fusion 2.0 Beta 2, but this shouldn’t be relied on, use PwnageTool instead, or wait for QuickPwn Mac.
Additionally, the DevTeam says that QuickPwn for Mac is currently being tested and we might see a beta release sometimes within the next few days. I’ll keep you updated about that.
Also worth noting is that they are still working on a 3G baseband unlock solution but they are not there quite yet.
Well, I just posted and “predicted” that following a short post on the the DevTeam’s blog they would make available an updated version of their PwnageTool. I was right on as they just announced that PwnageTool 2.0.3 for Mac OS X is now available as a Sparkle update, or a direct download here.
So what’s new on PwnageTool 2.0.3?
DevTeam warns us that:
The application SHOULD ONLY be downloaded as a .tbz file from our servers and should NOT be decompressed using the application called “the unarchiver” (this breaks permissions within PwnageTool) just use the standard OS X built in ‘Archive Utility’ to decompress. The SHA1 sum of PwnageTool_2.0.3.tbz is 91e670e0c623cd43f5e8cfbfaae6c23d98d8f31b.
