How to Jailbreak the Iphone 3g O2 UK
I have finally got an IPhone 3g from an O2 store which happened to have two left, so can now use my phone contract properly again!
Anyway, what you get with the jailbreak for the 3g IPhone is the installer app to install non apple-sanctioned software. At the moment not a huge amount is available, but this will definately expand over time.
There is however an openSSH shell, a pacman emulator, and a NES emulator, which more than makes this upgrade worthwhile!
Lets get started! So first you need to download PwnageTool. Currently at 2.0.1. you can download it direct from the authors here or here or here
You will need a copy of the firmware for the phone for the install. There should already be one on your system, if there is not, the IPhone 3G firmware is available here.
What the PwnageTool does is create a new backup to restore the Iphone with. It creates a new .ipsw file for you. So follow the instructions on the screen to create this .ipsw
When PwnageTool is finished, it will open up ITunes. At this point you must restore from this new backup PwnageTool created. To do this press and hold down the “alt” key and click on “restore” in ITunes. This will bring up a file selection, select the new .ipsw you just created and restore!
July 30th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Hey I tried this with Winpwn on a PC and it left my iphone not having an o2 signal at all. Did you have any problems like this? If not, i’ll be going down to my friends house to try this on his mac
July 31st, 2008 at 8:48 am
Hi Freenrich, I did have a problem like that when I first made the ipsw. I found it was because I chose no on the is your Iphone registered screen. I remade the file choosing yes and it was fine.
September 7th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Just to clarify pwnage is for mac. If you have windows then you need to use winpwn. I had the same problem as freenrich with winpwn and had no 02 signal and the phone dialler showed US-style numbers with hyphens ie 01234 456789 became 012-344-567-89. there was also no option in settings for network selection. Have had to restore to origininal settings to get 02 back and await further updates in this thread. btw good instructions on how to use winpwn on you tube by willdta - search How To Jailbreak A 2.0/2.0.1/2.0.2 iPod Touch / iPhone /iPhone 3G With WINPWN 2.5