Pwnage Pie - PwnageTool 3.1.4 for iPhone 3.1.2

The Dev team have now officially released pwnagetool 3.1.4.

If you’re already jailbroken (by whatever means), you don’t need to mess around with DFU mode at all. Just create (or get from a friend) your custom IPSW and Option-Restore (Shift-Restore on Windows) to it via iTunes. Don’t enter DFU mode at all. Please make sure you are restoring to the custom IPSW, not the stock one from Apple! For best results, use the latest iTunes (9.0.1) — which includes a nice new application organizer.

This release allows your baseband to remain unlocked at 3.1.2, but it does not unlock a new baseband put there by restoring to official 3.1.x. It is super important that people who need the unlock to understand they can keep it only by starting at 3.0 (or earlier) and updating solely to custom IPSWs that don’t update the baseband. For those who have been onboard the “unlock train”, simply install ultrasn0w via Cydia once you’ve restored to your custom IPSW. Don’t forget to turn off the “3G” setting in Settings->General->Network if you use T-Mobile in the U.S.A.

Note for 3GS users not already jailbroken and stuck at 3.1.x: this version of PwnageTool has a side feature to jailbreak your 3GS. It uses a simple implementation of the usb control msg hole found by chronicdev, geohot, and our very own gray. Now that the hole is public and in use, we expect Apple to close it by the next major firmware update. That’s why 3GS users need to get their ECID hashes for 3.1.x now, and need to stay onboard the “jailbreak train” in all future updates.

For the early adopters who ran blackra1n and are having problems with mobilesubstrate, winterboard, diskaid, or ifunbox, you can install a custom .ipsw from PwnageTool to fix these issues. That’s because all jailbroken devices accept a custom .ipsw created by PwnageTool. (However, if you ran blackra1n on a 3G or 3GS that means you updated to stock 3.1.x, and the carrier unlock is now out of reach. We’ll continue to work on a carrier unlock for the latest basebands, but the timeframe for such an unlock is unknowable.)

Note: If you use internet tethering on a carrier that doesn’t officially support it, you’ll lose it by going to 3.1.x. Stay back at 3.0 until a hack for that is developed.

SUMMARY:

• The iPhone 3GS is now supported out of the box in PwnageTool 3.1.4 (or if you have upgraded to 3.1.x in iTunes)
• The iPod 2G is still supported in PwnageTool 3.1.4 but you must already be jailbroken (we’ll update this if there’s a big demand from non-jailbroken ipt2G owners)
• The iPod touch 3G is NOT supported

DETAILS:

1. GOLDEN RULE: If you are using a iPhone 3G or iPhone 3G(S) with ultrasn0w and rely on ultrasn0w to obtain cellular service then you should only update your device with an .ipsw that is made with the new PwnageTool. There are no second chances with this. You need to remember that PwnageTool will provide an upgrade path to newer versions of the iPhone software in the future.
2. Please read all parts of this post before downloading and using these tools.
3. Read items 1, 2 and 3 again and again.
4. At the bottom of this post are the bittorrent files for the 3.1.4 capable version of PwnageTool.
5. PwnageTool will work for the iPhone 3GS
6. PwnageTool will work for the iPod touch 2G
7. PwnageTool WILL work for Original iPhone (1st Generation), the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G(S) and the iPod touch (1st Generation and 2nd Generation) but NOT the iPod touch 3rd generation.
8. For 3G and 3G(S) users who are Pwned, PwnageTool is your key to updating in the future, just remember to never install an update directly from Apple, always use an .ipsw that has been created with PwnageTool.
9. There is no Windows version of PwnageTool it is a Mac OS X tool only, we are not developing a Windows version of PwnageTool.

What’s a Baseband?

The ‘baseband’ is the generic nickname given to the internal components of the iPhone that handle the phone calls and Internet access. This ‘baseband’ is a tiny and unique independent computer system that runs inside your iPhone, it is separate to the main system that handles the applications (such as email and google maps) and it talks to the main part of the phone over an internal communications network.

Think of it like a cable modem or other peripheral that is attached to your home PC that needs occasional updates. When a software update is released and presented to you within iTunes the baseband is sometimes updated (to fix bugs or add new features).

The 3.1.2 update for the iPhone 3G and 3GS contains such an update, so running the vanilla updater straight away with iTunes will reprogram and update the baseband.

WHICH DEVICE DO I HAVE?

Read the description to identify your device, once you have correctly identified your device follow the specific instructions for that device as listed below.

SIM Free/SP Unlocked/Factory Unlocked iPhone 3G(S)

This applies if you bought your iPhone 3G(S) for $$$$$$$. This model of iPhone 3G(S) doesn’t have an Service Provider lock (aka factory unlocked) and you are able to put any SIM card into the phone and get service. Your phone is already unlocked so you do not need to worry about baseband updates, you can use PwnageTool to create an ipsw and then use this to update and jailbreak your phone.

SIM Free/SP Unlocked/Factory Unlocked iPhone 3G

This applies if you bought your iPhone 3G for $$$$$$$. This model of iPhone 3G doesn’t have an Service Provider lock (aka factory unlocked) and you are able to put any SIM card into the phone and get service. Your phone is already unlocked so you do not need to worry about baseband updates, you can use PwnageTool to create a 3.1.ipsw and then use this to with iTunes to upgrade and jailbreak your phone.

iPhone 3G

Use PwnageTool to do the magic and then restore with iTunes using your newly created .ipsw

iPhone 3G(S)

Use PwnageTool to do the magic and then restore with iTunes using your newly created .ipsw

iPhone 2G (1st Generation)

Use PwnageTool to do the magic and then restore with iTunes using your newly created .ipsw ‘nuff said, you don’t need to worry about anything, the baseband will be unlocked, the phone jailbroken.

iPod Touch 1G (Original iPod Touch)

Use PwnageTool to create a firmware image and restore with that .ipsw using iTunes.

iPod Touch 2G

Use PwnageTool to create a firmware image and restore with that .ipsw to your already jailbroken device using iTunes.

iPod Touch 3G

At this time PwnageTool does not support this device.

Official Bittorrent Releases -

• PwnageTool 3.14 Torrent
• PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg.5122330.TPB.torrent
• SHA1(PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg.5122330.TPB.torrent)= d9d44258ade35623ec71e83520943b6f4baa568a

Unofficial Mirrors

The following links are unofficial download mirrors, you download these at your own risk, we accept no responsibility if your computer explodes or if it becomes part of a NASA attacking botnet or even worse if your hands fall off mid-way during the use of these files. We do not check these links or archives and we accept no responsibility with regard to the validity of the files, or with other content these links provide or with the content that is on the linked site.

• http://downloads2.touch-mania.com/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
• http://download.sourcekills.com/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
• http://old.bielsipod.de/Daten/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
• http://www.hackthatphone.net/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
• http://miphone.ca/iphone-dev/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
• http://www.appleturk.net/ATWT/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
• http://www.apfelphone.net/dl/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg
• http://apfelportal.de/host/images/dev-team/PwnageTool_3.1.4.dmg

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Blackra1n released!

blackra1n is a 30 second ALL device 3.1.2 jailbreak. Even the ipt3, but the ipt3 is tethered. In order to boot it, just rerun blackra1n.

There are a few important things to note about BlackRa1n:

• BlackRa1n can jailbreak OS 3.1 and 3.1.2
• BlackRa1n is for Windows only so far. If you’re using Windows 7 , run BlackRa1n as an admin with “Windows XP Compatibility” mode by enabling it from the “Properties” tab
• BlackRa1n does not hacktivate your iPhone, which means you must be using an official carrier
• BlackRa1n does not unlock the iPhone
• iPhone 3G and 3GS users should not upgrade to 3.1.2 if they want to keep their unlock. You will have to wait for an updated version of PwnageTool if you want to unlock the latest OS.
• the iPod Touch 3G is supported but it is a tethered jailbreak which means you’ll have to use BlackRa1n everytime you want to boot your iTouch

This is the RC1 of BlackRa1n and it is still a little buggy so be careful.

I think it’s worth highlighting again that if you want to keep your unlock, you should NOT update to 3.1.2. Simply wait for the Dev Team to update PwnageTool.

It's available here
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iPhone phone home.

An Apple patent application published this week details a security system that would cause an iPhone or iPod to enter “security mode” and send a signal or e-mail to an external party when certain vibration or acceleration levels are detected. The technology could come in handy as an additional anti-theft measure.

As you may know, Thursday is patent application publication day (try saying that 10 times fast), and yesterday’s crop of documents included several Apple patent filings. AppleInsider took a gander and has details on one of the applications. This particular one discusses an electronic device that could enter “security mode” or transmit a security signal based on vibration or acceleration readings, among other things.

We’ve seen a number of mentions of mobile device security and safety from Apple lately, including device locators and biometric sensors, so the company seems to be on a bit of a kick. The most recent patent filing discusses a system that would put an iPod or iPhone into “lock-down mode” if certain vibration or acceleration levels were detected, and might also call or e-mail an external security service (or perhaps any external source) depending on the level of vibration or acceleration involved. Owners of the device would also be able to enter a code to bring the device out of the security mode.

At first, the system sounds a little silly—it’s unlikely that an iPhone thief would vigorously shake the device just for fun—but there are some situations in which it might make sense. For one thing, having your iPhone call the police if huge acceleration levels are detected might help if you’re in a car accident. You could also set your iPhone to lock whenever someone picks it up, in case you need to leave it in a gym locker or something. Still, the number of uses for something like this seem a bit limited, so it’s unlikely that this will appear as part of the next iPhone revision.

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Ih8sn0w exposes appul0ha1?

I'll let the vid do the talking!


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Blackra1n here. Well, nearly!

Geohot posted this picture last night. It's an iPod, yes, but this is evidence there is a downgrader for iPhone coming very very soon. Stay tuned..

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Appulo in competition with dev team

This website was brought to my attention this morning: http://appulo.tumblr.com/

The claims are dubious at best, and there is much speculation the entire operation is a fake and in fake appulo is simply going to steal the (official) dev team release or blackra1ns system. Putting this to one side, and if it is 100% genuine, it represents a positive shift forward for the jailbreak community. At present we are relying on the voluntary work of just one group of people. If they decide enough is enough it could spell the end for jailbreaking as we know it. More developers on board is always a good thing.

In other news, official 3.1.2 jailbreaks and a working 3GS downgrader is imminent.


-- Posted from iPhone

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iPhone OS 3.1.2 Released

Apple today released iPhone OS 3.1.2, addressing several issues regarding waking from sleep, network service disruption, and crashing during video streaming. According to Geohot and Dev Team, this update has the same exploit open so shouldn't pose a problem for jailbreak tools. As yet, no update to any of the snows or rains to jailbreak it, but I don't imagine it will be long until there is.

This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

- Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
- Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
- Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming

The update is compatible with all iPhone models and weighs in at approximately 240 MB. Apple introduced iPhone OS 3.1 almost exactly one month ago, bringing a number of new features including Genius recommendation for applications, Genius Mixes for music and purchasing of pre-cut ringtones.
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Chronic Dev Team Reply..

Chronic Dev Team has just posted the following:

The Full Story

In mid July, pod2g and westbaer came across an exploit that allowed us to write to 0×0 while iBoot was running. We develop upon it for awhile and finally get it working and able to execute code. We toss it in the backburner and start looking for more, occasionally working on the greenois0n payload.

This month comes around with release of ipt3 and we go into overdrive. We wanted to make greenpois0n perfect and easy to use, not to mention fast like purplera1n. I didn’t have the money for an ipt3 at the time so I had a chipin to raise funds. I got about $200, and had enough in my bank account to cover the remaining $100. Headed down to Best Buy on Saturday of release week and picked one up, then the testing started. As I have said before, we wanted to make this perfect and bug-free, so it was taking awhile. Soon, people started commenting and emailing me complaints about it taking so long. I can handle this.

Then, I start getting ppl threatening to file a dispute with PayPal to get a refund. This is an issue, not because they don’t realize that these were donations, but because PayPal usually sides with the “buyer”, as I have heard in many PayPal horror stories. I have heard of them freezing peoples accounts and even dipping into the person’s bank account to refund people. Naturally I start to worry, and I can’t exactly do much more than devote more time to GP. So I start spending more time on the payload, no problem. We have decryption keys @ this point, other’s are close to getting bootrom, all is well. Then geohot came in the private IRC room, I believe last night, and suggested something that I won’t name now since it’s still his workaound that he might have wanted to keep under wraps, but it was a sly solution to a certain roadblock that may have made things more annoying for the user on release. We put it on the to-do list. All is well. Hours later, he posts the “Meet The Family” blog post, and joins our room saying that he just picked up and ipt3 and he was going for the jb.

At this point I should probably mention that we have given him the password to our private development room and welcome him there. We had told him sometime in August about this, and he said “yeah, I saw that when researching usb put stuff”. That is what the truth is to this tweet. Although there is no hash, due to his prior trustworthyness, we all believed him. Again, we had found and implemented this all on our own, the only thing that geohot did, which we are trusting that he is telling the truth about, was find the vulnerability on his own, totally seperate from us. I would like to believe that the tweet was misworded, but the way he said it make it sound extremely like he was saying we stole it form him and were taking credit.

Anyway, back to the “story”. Some people started saying that I was an all out scammer and when geohot released first they would dispute their donation because it “seemed like it was all an elaborate hoax to get a free iPod touch”. This concerned me more. We weighed our options, talked to some people, and many agreed that it might be a good idea to wiki the exploit. This was for a few reasons:
- We knew that we could not get greenpois0n completely finished in time. We needed a perfectly safe NAND write, a ported over 24kPwn, and more to make it totally stable.
- Geohot would release in a few days anyway, so “hiding the exploit from Apple” was not a concern at all.
- We had done a lot of research on the exploit, how it worked, and why it worked, and had everything written up. If Geohot would release in a few days, and we knew we couldn’t do anything, why not share what we already knew with the community? Geohot usually writes up short descriptions and gradually adds on when it comes to exploits, while we already had a nice write-up already made.
- Again, Geohot said a few days, so the idea that we were giving anything to Apple is false, since they would have had it in “a few days” anyway.
- This would cause people to stop hounding about progress + threats to dispute their donation, because it would show that their money went to good use.

Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out too great. Geohot claimed credit for some reason, and now we are a lot of flak for this gross misconception. And here we are, now trying to get across the situation to the angry mob that has seemed to form.

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iMotion - simply awesome!

It's not really my preference to post reviews of mainstream app store apps but this one has really stood out from the crowd, and at present, is free, so in keeping with the jailbreak ethos (with the exception of cyntact, but we shall put a veil over that one!)

iMotion is an iPhone app the uses the iPhone camera to capture up to 500 pictures and turn those into stopmotion. The app requires you to have the latest 3.1 software and preferably the iPhone 3GS for optimal performance. You can use it to either capture photos manually, or automatically using time-lapse to create your very own animations.

Tap new to get started, and choose manual or time-lapse. Also you can edit the number of seconds between each photo is taken. The app takes a photo every 3 seconds until you press the stop button. After you are done, you will see your animation and you can adjust the speed using a simple slider. From there you can save the animation to your iPhone, email it (sent as an animated gif file), or export it to your photo library. If you don’t like the automatic format, you can choose manual and tap to take a picture each time. The iMotion app also has a helpful feature called “Onion Skin” where you can see a transparent view of the previous photos to help you when positioning the subject in the next frame.

This is a terrific app for anyone wanting to create something cool on their iPhone. It can be used to make any type of animation, such as a sunset, sunrise, waves at the beach, driving down the street or just used a fun photography app. If you are feeling super creative, you can even make your very own movies with inanimate objects, as done in famous movies such as the Nightmare Before Christmas and Chicken Run.

Note: This app is free until October 10th, so grab your copy now.

View the developer website here

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Next iPhone to include 4G, video calling and HDTV.. and here's why

Apple have historically named devices by generation with the exception of one thing; the iPhone. This even confused the press when BBC Newsbeat reported that a 4g iPhone was on the way (when they were actually referring to the 3GS, which is actually the iPhone 3G. Confusing, I know!) However, the next iPhone release is expected in July 2010, by which time the amount of iPhones models released (remember, 3 so far) will match the new network standard, 4g.

Keeping this in mind unfolds the reason behind Apple's decision to have a different naming convention for the iPhone to every other iPod based device it makes. They wanted it to keep up with the network standard. Clever, huh.

4G opens the floodgates where mobile communication is concerned, and with Android, Palm and even Winmo hot on the heels of iPhone's previously unique touchscreen experience, Apple really need to pull out all the stops in 2010. This will be entirely possible with 4g network capability. Apple have a habit of releasing desktop items and closely following with iPhone versions. I personally consider every innovative desktop application released by Apple to be a sneak preview of what's to come on the iPhone. The latest and greatest of this is the new iChat. Small window in a big window? Sound familiar? Indeed, this PiP technology has been present in Symbian, Sony SE, and Winmo phones for quite some time, but Apple have intentionally held it back. They simple cannot afford to do this anymore because the competition is just too strong.

Taking into account all this information, it is very very likely the iPhone 4g will have at least:

• A front facing camera for iChat video conferencing (this could also be the reason Apple never included a hard button for taking pictures, despite it being ridiculously difficult to take self portraits. They knew they were going to put a front facing camera on the iPhone.)
  
• 4G network capability to facilitate iChat conferencing.
• High quality streaming, such as iPlayer HD, HD downloads from iTunes etc.
  
  

If Apple don't do the above in 2010, there is a real chance they will start to lose out on what is already a minority share.
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