Month: September 2008

PwnageTool 2.1 Tutorial for Mac OS X

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated September 29, 2008

[digg-me]That's a lot of work for me this morning with all these news falling... I just posted about a tutorial for QuickPwn 1.1 for Mac OS X and now I'm gonna show you how to jailbreak your iPhone 3G with PwnageTool. This tutorial (or guide) will show you how to use PwnageTool 2.1 and how to update your iPhone to 2.1.

Before we start, make sure you backup your iPhone in iTunes and also download your iPhone firmware from here and save it to your desktop.

Download PwnageTool 2.1 from here. in iTunes, go to the summary tab and download (do not update!) the latest iPhone firmware 2.1 Launch PwnageTool 2.1 Select your device and click "Next" Select the right iPhone firmware You will then get a message that says "We will now create an .ispw file that you can use to restore your iPhone with iTunes. This file will be placed on your desktop. Do you want to continue?". Click YES The it will ask "Do you have an iPhone contract that would normally activate with iTunes?". If you are a legit AT&T customer, click YES, if not, click NO Then wait while PwnageTool 2.1 builds the custom .ispw file. It could take a few minutes. Enter your password when asked to. Then wait for the custom .ipsw to be built The it will ask if your iPhone has been Pwned before. Click YES or NO Turn off your iPhone You will then get a message saying: "Close the PwnageTool application, put your iPhone into recovery mode, start iTunes and restore with your custom firmware bundle". Close PwnageTool Put your iPhone into recovery mode (Google it or go to YouTube to see how to do this) Start iTunes. iTunes will say "iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode. You must restore this iPhone before it can be used with iTunes." Click OK Do NOT just click "Restore". Hold the OPTION key + click "Restore" With Finder, select the Custom .ipsw file PwnageTool created on your desktop Select whether to set up as a new iPhone or restore your it from a backup. I recommend setting it up as a new phone. You will lose all your contacts and everything but these can be synced again later on. Restoring from a backup sometimes created problems. You're done!

How was this PwnageTool 2.1 guide? Hope that helped!

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QuickPwn tutorial for Mac OS X

Sébastien Page ∙ September 13, 2008

Ok, now that a new version of QuickPwn is out for Mac OS X, you don't have any excuse for not jailbreaking your iPhone 3G. I already posted a QuickPwn guide a couple weeks ago called QuickPwn Mac OS X Tutorial. The method is exactly the same so instead of doing it all over again, I'll just put the link to the QuickPwn for Mac tutorial.

Here it is: QuickPwn Mac OS X Tutorial

And here is the PwnageTool 2.1 for Mac OS X Guide

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PwnageTool and QuickPwn for 2.1 Firmware

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated November 15, 2017

It's official. It's clean. It's easy and it works without having to pull your hair out! That, my friends, is the new releases of PwnageTool 2.1 for Mac OS X and QuickPwn 1.1 for Mac OS X. The DevTeam worked all day and all night to bring you an easy way to jailbreak your iPhone 3G.

Yesterday, we were presented a way to jailbreak the iPod Touch is a couple shady QuickPwn that turned out to be "fake" tools that were not developed by the DevTeam but used their name anyway. Then, BigBoss released a tutorial on how to jailbreak the iPhone 3G but that was still kinda hard for non geekie guys to use.

I don't like copy/pasting large parts of other people's posts but I think it is very relevant to do this in the case of the latest post on the DevTeam blog:

Some of the popular press and blogs have been backing the opposition. :-)

While criticism and competition is fine it should be reported correctly, with all the facts. and certainly minus the FUD. Do you guys think we are “less and less relevant with each passing day” ? We don’t think so, and we certainly prefer our hacks to theirs. ;-)  Though even if the world deems us irrelevant, the iPhone family of devices is still fun to hack!

By the way we figured out a way to combat iTunes 8 without patches…and we’re waiting to see what Apple tries next.  But we think they might want to rethink their priorities.  They probably won’t though, and so we get back to the “cat and mouse” game between Apple and the Dev Team and third-party communities.

Whatever this guy at Engadget says, I still think jailbreaking your iPhone is more relevant than ever. Do you really want to rely on Apple? I don't! Anyways, this is not the point of this post...

Downloads:

PwnageTool 2.1 for Mac OS X QuickPwn 1.1 for Mac OS X

These can be downloaded from the iPhone Downloads section of my blog.

SHA1 Sums:

PwnageTool_2.1.dmg = 0b2dcb51e224b12590793e8a758dd80c450e5b64 QuickPwn_1.1.dmg = 92487230c66296ec1e414260b5f107e5d351923f

Hey, this is for iPhone 3G only and as you can notice, it is for Mac only. A Windows version is coming out pretty soon. A QuickPwn tutorial can be found here and a PwnageTool Guide can be found here.

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Apple posts fix for iTunes 8 Windows blue screen of death issue

Sébastien Page ∙ September 12, 2008

Apple was quick to post a fix for iTunes 8 issue that caused Windows Vista users to see the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) when plugin an iPod Touch or iPhone.

From Apple:

After installing iTunes 8 for Windows, some users may see a blue screen error message when connecting iPhone or iPod to a Windows Vista computer.

The fix involves uninstalling Apple Mobile Device Support then reinstalling the updated iTunes 8 package. One of my previous posts involved uninstalling Apple Mobile Device Support then reinstalling iTunes 7.7.

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How to jailbreak your iPhone 3G 2.1 firmware

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated November 13, 2019

Wow, again, it didn't take long for BigBoss to come up with a not-so-easy way to jailbreak your iPhone 3G.

Download the 2.1 firmware for iPhone 3G from the iPhone Downloads section and save it to your desktop Install iTunes 8 Update your iPhone to firmware 2.1 with iTunes and make sure it is activated Uninstall iTunes 8 Uninstall Apple Mobile Device Support (From Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel) Install itunes v7.7. - you can find it here Download QuickPwn with the correct 2.1 bundle inside it here Run QuickPwn. Select the iPhone 3G 2.1 firmware that you downloaded in Step 1 Select at least Cydia. You may also select Installer Once finished, your iPhone will reboot, which may take a few minutes. Cydia and Installer will not be visible on your springboard. Don't panik! This is ok. Download TotalCommander and t-pot addon Install TotalCommander and in the left pane navigate to T-PoT.1.1.zip and click on it. It will install t-pot automatically Download the mobileinstallation patch Use Totalcommander to install the patched mobileinstallation file to /System/Library/PrivateFrameWorks/MobileInstallation.framework. Click on the dropdown box [-\-] top left and select network neighborhood then t-pot. Remember to back up your original mobileinstallation first! Still in TotalCommander delete /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist Reboot your iPhone Done!

This is not the most straightforward method to jailbreak your iPhone 3G but it is the only one so far! As usual, use it at your own risks...

Thank BigBoss

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iPod Touch 2.1 Jailbreak Update

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated February 5, 2016

I posted this morning about a new shady way to jailbreak your 2.1 iPod Touch. It seems many people are having issues with this method and the guy who first posted about this jailbreak technique posted a new way to do it through a GUI version of QuickPwn.

It is still very very shady and we still haven't heard from the DevTeam about that so again, if I were you, I would NOT attempt to jailbreak my iPod Touch 2.1 for the time being.

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Cro-Mag Rally and Poptiq on sale in the App Store

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated March 18, 2019

TUAW pointed out today that 2 pretty big games are on sale in the App Store today.

Cro-Mag Rally Pangea has dropped the price on its premiere racing game down to just $1.99. This sale is for a limited time, and while it affects the other Pangea titles as well, Cro-Mag offers the best deal of the bunch.

Poptiq Poptiq delivers personalized video streams to your iPhone or iPod touch. Over time, it customizes itself to your likes and dislikes, so you don't have to wade through videos that aren't to your taste. You can download a free copy of Poptiq until September 25.

Thanks TUAW

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Jailbreak your iPod Touch 2.1 with QuickPwn

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated March 18, 2016

UPDATE: This method sucks! Read my new post to learn more.

It didn't take too long. That's what? Four days? Four days until someone figured out how to jailbreak the new iPod Touch firmware 2.1. The news came from QuickPwn who published a tutorial on how to jailbreak your iPod Touch 2.1 using QuickPwn.

Disclaimer: These comments were found on the QuickPwn website, so please, use at your own risk!

I wouldn't try this on the iPhone, wait until there is an official update from the iphone dev team

Hi, I'm the one of the developers of QuickPwn and should stress this is a very unsupported mod and I think it causes confusion to present it under the QuickPwn name when it isn't sanctioned by the developers at all.

Download this stuuf at your own risk...

This is not the official Pwn-age or QuickPwn site...

This on is...

http://www.winpwn.com/

His tutorial is a little messy so I would like to make it a clearer and more user friendly to everybody.

Before starting:

You must already be on a jailbroken iPhone. If you are on a clean iPod Touch 2.1 firmware, this is NOT gonna work. SSH into your iPod Touch to the /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileInstallation.framework folder. Copy the MobileInstallation file on your desktop as you will need it later during the process. OK. You ready?

Download the iPod Touch 2.1 firmware and save it on your desktop. Go to iTunes 8 and hold the SHIFT key on your keyboard while clicking "Restore". You do not want to update per say, you want to RESTORE. Make sure you hold the SHIFT key. Download QuickPwn 2.1 Jailbreak Edition from here, or here, or here, or here. Unzip the QuickPWN folder, run QuickPWN.exe; select your device; browse for your iPod Touch 2.1 firmware file that you saved on you downloaded in Step 1and click the "Next" button. Installer and Cydia should be checked by default. You don't need Installer but you have to leave Cydia checked. You should see a message on your screen that says "You are now ready to start the PWNAGE process on your device", make sure your iPod Touch is connected via USB and click "Next". Follow the on-screen instructions for putting your device in DFU mode. If everything went well, you should see a message that says "The Pwnage process appears to have completed successfully". Wait for your iPod Touch to reboot. Once your iPod Touch restarts, you will notice that the Cydia and/or Installer icons are not there. Well, it's time to use the MobileInstallation file that we copied from your iPod Touch before Step 1. In order to install Installer and Cydia you will need to put this file in your iPod Touch. To put the MobileInstallation file in your iPod Touch, download the TotalCommander. You will need the T-Pot plugin for TotalCommander in order to browse files on your iPod Touch. Launch TotalCommander, and navigate to /System/Library/PrivateFrameWorks/MobileInstallation.framework Replace the MobileInstallation file with the one you copied to your desktop before Step 1. You're done!

See, it's not really complicated but it could be simpler. Hopefully, a GUI version will come out soon.

No word so far if this process works with the iPhone firmware 2.1 or not. I doubt it but you never know...

Thanks QuickPwn :-)

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iPhone firmware 2.1 is out!

Sébastien Page ∙ September 12, 2008

As I announced earlier this week, Apple released it's iPhone firmware 2.1 this morning and is now downloadable via iTunes. Note that you will need iTunes 8 to be able to download and install firmware 2.1.

This update includes:

Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls Significantly better battery life for most users Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts Faster installation of 3rd party applications Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications Improved performance in text messaging Faster loading and searching of contacts Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages (in case you missed the beep the 1st time) Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts Genius playlist creation

To get this 2.1 update, simply connect your iPhone to your computer, open iTunes 8 and click "Check for update".

According to the DevTeam, this new iTunes 8 detects and prevents the Pwnage exploit. No word from the DevTeam so far on when they will release and updated version of the Pwnage software. This means if you're on a jailbroken iPhone, DO NOT UPDATE yet!

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