Unlock Your iPhone 2G 2.2 Using QuickPwn

Sebastien, Nov 23, 2008

This guide will show you how to use QuickPwn 2.2 to jailbreak and/or unlock your iPhone 2G. This tutorial is for PC users but I assume the steps are the same on a Mac. This tutorial is NOT for iPhone 3G. If you’re only interested in jailbreaking your iPhone (not unlockink), please may read my QuickPwn 2.2 guide.

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IMPORTANT: READ EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THIS POST BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO UNLOCK YOUR IPHONE

Note that the comments are closed. If you have any question about the unlocking process, please ask in the forum.

Before doing anything, I suggest you read this important message from the Dev Team.

Click here to download the MobileInstallation patch for 2.2

Note that you are pwning your iPhone at your own risk… Success is not guaranteed!

  1. Make sure you have downloaded the latest version of iTunes. Update or restore your iPhone to firmware 2.2 using iTunes. Restoring is the preferred way to do it as it won’t waste space on your iPhone. Plug your iPhone and make sure iTunes has detected it. If you’re iPhone is already jailbroken, you may want to remove all the apps that you have downloaded from Cydia. Certain applications such as Winterboard, Categories and more cause trouble. You will be able to reinstall them later.
  2. Create a folder called “QuickPwn” on your desktop. Download your appropriate iPhone 2.2 firmware from here. Also download the QuickPwn 2.2 from here, the bootloader files BL 3.9 and BL 4.6 from here too. Place these files in the newly created QuickPwn folder on your desktop.
  3. Extract QuickPwn zipped file.
  4. Launch QuickPwn and select your iPhone version.
  5. You will be asked to select your iPhone firmware. Select the firmware you downloaded in Step 1.
  6. If the firmware you selected is valid, QuickPwn will show a green checkmark. Click Continue.
  7. You will then have the opportunity to select Cydia, Installer, custom boot logos and “unlock iPhone”. You have to select Cydia and “unlock iPhone”. You may also choose to install Installer. Click Next.
  8. You will now be asked to select your bootloader files. Click the Browse button and select the 3.9 bootloader from the Pwnage folder on your desktop. Likewise do the same thing for the 4.6 bootloader file. Then click the blue arrow button to continue.
  9. QuickPwn will now ask you to confirm that your iPhone is connected. Click the blue arrow to continue.
  10. QuickPwn will now automatically put your iPhone into recovery mode. Once its 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 and continuing holding the Home button until your iPhone is in DFU mode. Watch the prompts carefully and follow along.
  11. Once QuickPwn detects your iPhone in DFU mode, it will start the jailbreak process.
  12. Finally, QuickPwn will let you know that pwnage process was completed successfully.
  13. Done!

[digg-me]Let us know how it goes!

 
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  • asfdman

    hey if i unlock my iphone to use it with a different service provider, can i restore it and use with at&t after i unlocked it???

  • hiyahoward

    This works well except I can’t get past the part where it puts my phone is restore mode. It never prompts me to continue and push the home button? I am trying to unlock an iphone 2g. What am I doing wrong? Any help out there? Thanks!

  • ant

    i have downloaded all the files but my quickpwn says application failed to initialize some error

  • Noly

    I went through 3 times getting stuck in the “Waiting your iphone to connect in recovery mode…” message. I took the advice here, did the redownload and all that… never worked. UNTIL, I rebooted and downloaded QuickPwn from http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ with the torrent (file size is different from my previous download), and then it worked! Hope this helps.

  • conner

    im using tmobile with my iphone currently…i havent yet updated to any 2.0 software….if i were to do this, would all my music….photos…and contacts be erased one i restore

  • cerver

    PLEASE ANSWER THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Once using quickpwn 2.2 on my 3G 16GB phone, the JB went fine but i have no service. No one answers this and many people here have this issue. To all of you having this issue, did you find a fix??

    Someone say something please about this. We too would like to be in the land of jailbroken-ness.

    ty

    /rant off

  • cerver

    and i am with AT&T…btw, no yellow snow, no need to unlock. just JB with quickpwn 2.2

  • sajid

    hi all,
    im living in ksa and i have jb my iphone 2g with 2.2.1 but there is no carrier in my phone .i have tried every thing that in the discussion blow but nothing happens can anybody help me with this

  • harold

    CERVER,read the top of this page—for 2g not 3g

  • cerver

    ok. my fault. So i work for a video game company and i sold them my iphone 2g 8GB. That was used with quickpwn 2.2, when i place my sim card in the phone, i have no service. Its the same for the 2g as the 3g. But when the sim card is placed into my non-JB’d 3g, it works fine, so its not the sim card.

    Any suggestions now? 2g or 3g, dont matter in my case as to BOTH are not working.

  • Rachel

    Can someone PLEASE answer me this–

    I have unlocked and jailbroken my 2g iphone. I get no service, no carriers, wifi, or bluetooth. I’ve tried ziphone (which isn’t compatible for me), quickpwn, and pawnage. I’ve tried resetting the network settings, something with the maps, I bought a new sim, tried a turbo sim, unlocked it with my centennial sim, with the at&t sim, and even called Apple Technical Support.

    Absolutely no luck. Now my phone is saying that I don’t have a sim in it, when I have my Centennial Wireless sim in it.

    I’ve been working on this phone for around three weeks and I REALLY need it to work…can someone please help?

    Thanks

  • cerver

    Harold, you see that others have this issue. Do you know anything about this error or problem or are you just poiting out to 3g users that this only works for 2g? even though it worked for my 3g just fine.

  • sarah

    Using 2G 2.2.5 Roger SIM ( pay-as-you-go).

    Have been using jailbroken iPhone for 1.5 years.

    1. Upgraded through iTunes.
    2. Used Quick Pawn.
    3. No Error messages and YES, I waited for re-boot.

    No carrier service now.

    Tried restoring to version 2.2.5, 2.2.1 and 2.0 ( QP wouldn’t work with this last version) all with same results.

    At square one again. SIM card no longer works.

    Anyone have the same problem or know of a fix?

  • http://tannerhobin.com Tanner Hobin

    Perfect and under 20 minutes!

  • Donnodooo

    WooHoo~ It work great!! simple steps, very very easy to follow!!

    Only problem I encountered was the “Different Sim Detected”, but this link helps!!

    Step by step what to do to replace the “Lockdown” file
    http://www.modmyi.com/forums/unlocking-activation/349741-different-sim-detected-error-after-quickpwn-2-1-unlock-2-0-2-a.html

    Ways to get to the iphone directories
    http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-copy-files-tofrom-your-iphone/2008/09/05

    Many many Thanks!!!

  • Polish Robert

    Here is the scoop for those who have problem with wrong firmwire all you need to do is download 2.1 and restore your iphone to 2.1 holding shift when presing restore the program will open location where the old software should be place the restore 2.1 in and run restore once you downgradet to 2.1 ran the software abowe and you home.
    And thank you for the program greate help all the best from Poland]
    Robert

  • Catarina

    Fantastic – updated & re-unlocked my 2G iPhone (from v. 1.0.2 to 2.2), and now can download apps like Skype. Happy day.

    Two workarounds we needed, because we got Error 1403 when we tried to “Restore” the iPhone to firmware 2.2:

    1) Though we downloaded iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Restore.ipsw and the computer said “download complete,” in fact only about half of the file had downloaded, so we had to download the complete version (222.6 MB ) again, from scratch. Check the file size and make sure you have the whole thing.

    2) Our iPhone needed to be in DFU (“Device Firmware Update” – makes sense!) mode for the process to work. For more on DFU mode, see here:
    http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1034

    Thanks again and good luck to everyone trying this.

  • AG

    For those of you using QuickPWN on Mac OS X, you’ll see there’s no unlock option. After running quickpwn, if you still don’t get service, download BootNeuter from Cydia on the iPhone. You can then flash the iPhone to complete the unlock.

  • =BB=

    Hey….

    I just wonder what about us with a iPod Touch 16GB.
    Tried using Quick Pwn and it keeps saying that the firmware is either corrupted or does not match supported firmwares.

    Tried downloading the damn firmware from different places and still the same hell I even tried ziphone and it won’t even find the freakin’ thingy :P

    Help very much appriecated

  • Stacey

    mines keeps saying diffrent sim detected.please connect to intuns..but it lets me make emergancy calls nd reciveve multiple text messages

  • Ayz

    Willoughby YOU ARE THE BEST

  • Alex

    I unlocked the Iphone 1st Gen to use a T-mobile SIM card it works fine, but when i put the T-mobile SIM in it gives me the “Different SIM detected” error

    HOW DO I GET IT TO WORK!!!

  • Jimbo Mac Gimbo

    Bloody brilliant, very easy to do and works a treat. Cheers

  • http://Alexisrua.com Alexis Rua

    When will the unlock version for the 3.0 be available ? I can’t wait!!!

  • Liana

    hi just wondering if someone could give me a bit of advice?
    yesterday i got a 2G iphone from a friend, who i think had unlocked using this kind of jailbreaking thing and not realising, i tried to erase all the content. this meant that the phone relocked its self. it is now completely unresponsive just with the apple symbol and doesnt turn on. I just reinstalled itunes, the phone’s not detected by itunes and doesnt even seem to be charging now. These instructions say to plug in the phone and make sure itunes has recognised it but it doesnt even do that! suggestions??
    thankyou

  • addee

    hey all…
    i am having a problem with Quickpwn.
    when ever i try to open it there is an application error that application failed to initialize properly..
    plz help me out

  • afisher49

    addee I am having the same problem. PLEZ HELP US!!!!!!!!

  • afisher49

    IT JUST KEEPS GIVING ME AN ERROR MESSAGE THAT SAYS “THAT APPLICATION FAILED TO INITIALIZE PROPERLY”

  • jay

    I GOT A 2G IPHONE FROM US WITH ATT SIM CARD , I HAVE TRIED ALL STEPS TO UNLOCK IT . I CAN ONLY GET TO THE EMERGENCY CALL WITH MY LOCAL SIM CARD.MY RESTORED FW IS 2.2.1 , I AM REALLY GETTING CRAZZYYY PLS HELP …….
    WILL APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS SO I CAN USE THIS PONE

  • afisher49

    Liana try to hold down the round home button and the power button at the same time and it should turn back on.

  • D14

    Hey thank you after spending hours and hours on other unlokcing procedures atlast came to this and succeded with in 5min.Thank you so much atlast i unlocked my iphone 2g

  • jay

    THANK YOU WILLOUGHBY AND 61 , 62 FOR UR HELP TO UNLOCK, I HAD GONE CRAZY TRYIN TO FIGURE OUT THE SIM PROB
    U GUYS R THE BEST

  • http://www.processpeak.com Worked on tmobile

    It worked with my T-mobile sim card. I was extremely frustrated because I kept getting an “unsupported sim” error in iTunes when I went to activte it, but after my 5th attempt it finally worked. I’m now fully functional with the exception of visual voicemail. I have a T-mobile sim and blackberry unlimited internet plan.

  • http://www.processpeak.com Worked on tmobile

    I’ll also add that I had to do the entire process (start to finish) 5 times, not just try to activate 5 times.

  • addee

    afisher49
    my problem is solved on its own..
    i just downloaded wuickPwn again and the next day it worked flawless.
    i dont know how it started working… :o

  • Himanshu Vohra

    hey brother…thanx a ton buddd…..i was so scared….but u helped me out…..

  • Himanshu Vohra

    and finallly m using it……it feel so great…actuallly it belongs to my cousin…..and i thot that i fucked his phone….but u helped me out boy……

  • jorous

    YYyuuupppppeeee! Done! Thanks Dev Team and #42. Willoughby !! You are great

  • Chris

    I think I hate the iPhone. I’ve been at this, two rounds now, for a good 3 hours each time, and it just will not work. I have a perfectly working iPhone 2g here, no way to recover the passcode and am trying to unlock it on my pc, which isn’t the one that the iPhone was set up on.. and no Pwnage, QuickPwn or firmware will just unlock the damn thing.. I’m about to just throw the f**kerr out the window! I’m operating on Windows x64 bit edition, which doesn’t help, so I grabbed another hard drive, making the # of HDD’s on my pc 6 now, burnt a Windows 32 bit version, installed it on that little 12 GB HDD, booted it up on that, installed iTunes on that HDD.. and I am beginning to go crosseyed! Why won’t this work?!

  • Chris

    I mean, why won’t Pwnage or Quickpwn open al att.. “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click OK to terminate the application..

  • Chris

    still at it.. installed net framework.. but now Quickpwn won’t find the device.. and I’m goin on about 5 hours, its after midnight, and I still hate this damn iPhone

  • judith

    this works like magic, very quick, easy and fast.
    Thank you.

  • franco

    don´t give up!!!
    this really work i´m so happy with my 2g iphone
    thanks to all of you guys keep working.

  • recalibrate

    For Mac OS X users – people with issues unlocking (ie “No Service” or can’t make calls) – I tried this tutorial here and failed multiple times and was never able to get QuickPwn to work, however I was able to get the Pwnage tool to work (finally!) and my phone now works very well (including data). Use this tutorial http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=1557 although I did use the BL 3.9 and BL 4.6 files that I downloaded from this site. Also, if you are on T-mobile, you need to go into settings and add an APN for the data to work. I use epc.tmobile.com but supposedly internet2.voicestream.com and internet3.voicestream.com work as well. wap.voicestream.com is an older version… I get email only with this but can’t seem to use the internet.

  • ssporter

    I have spent several hours reading forums, etc, to help solve my problem, and I have the feeling that your site is my best hope. I have an unlocked 2G 8G iPhone (from Ebay) that is working with a t-mobile SIM card, sort of. I have installed iTunes apps successfully, can use wifi, and synced with gmail contacts, and so far so good. However, the phone defaults to a white screen within a minute whenever it’s not connected to the charger, and I must hold power and home button to reboot the phone whenever this happens. It seems to have started after I updated Cydia. How can I get rid of this problem? I also am afraid to restore, thinking that it may relock the phone or brick it. I have a MacBook Pro (OSX 10.5.6) with iTunes 8.1.1. I already sync my 3G ATT iPhone with this iTunes, the unlocked 2G is for my husband to use on T-Mobile. Can you help me?

  • peter

    i hav iphone 2g i dint read ur steps before upgrading it. i upgraded it and now it is locked. it says “insert a valid sim with no pin”. and now i tried quickpwn, after it detects my phone, it does not proceed after the browse part i tried several firmware because i dont knw which firmware it has but it does not work.
    i will be very thanks full if u help me
    regards
    Peter

  • peter

    i hav iphone 2g i dint read ur steps before upgrading it. i upgraded it and now it is locked. it says “insert a valid sim with no pin”. and now i tried quickpwn, after it detects my phone, it does not proceed after the browse part i tried several firmware because i dont knw which firmware it has but it does not work.
    i will be very thanks full if u help me
    regards
    Peter

  • Andrew

    Peter
    I have a question – Can you slide the bottom bar across the phone to make an emergency call or slide the bar across the top of the screen to turn the phone off?

    I just got a used 2g and I could do neither of those things. Then after jailbreaking/unlocking, I got the Globe background and it says “tmobile” in the upper corner and I can see incoming calls, but I can not slide the bottom bar to get into the phone. There is a lock sign on the top of the phone, but I am now thinking this is a hardware problem. The phone looks fine, but it will not acknowledge any touch.

    I am trying to campare with others to find out if this is a hardware problem or a locking problem.

    Please help – pittphan@gmail.com

  • Mimrah

    Works like a charm! thanks!

  • G1

    I have a question? It say download the version 2.2 do I download that version even if I have a 2.2.1?

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