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Jailbreaking The iPhone

// May 9th, 2009 // iPhone

Ive spent the last 2 months doing so many keedas on my iPhone, and to top it all, with lots of things happening in semester 2 of engineering, Ive been without a single blog post for more than 2 and a half months! So, to get the damn thing working in India, we need to unlock it to be able to use any sim in the phone, and optional is Jailbreaking if you want to install 3rd party apps on the iPhone.

So the tools we need here are :

1. iPhone/iPod Touch (duh!)
2. iTunes 8 or above.
3. QuickPWN 225 or higher.
4. iPhone Firmware – For 2G iPhone – v2.1 is here & for 3G iPhone click here.

Since I did not take any screenshots  when I did the process, Im going to use screenshots from other web sources. So here we go:

1. Extract the QuickPwn-225-2.zip file to a custom folder.
2. Connect your iPhone to the computer and launch iTunes.
3. Install QuickPwn and launch it
   

   QuickPwn Screen

4. The screen should immediately change to :
5. Now,click the Browse .ipsw button. Locate the firmware file from the downloaded folderand click Open.
6. QuickPwn will check to make sure the ipsw is valid. Click the blue arrow button to continue.You can now select whether to Add Cydia, Add Installer, or Replace Boot Logos. Select the ones you would like to perform then click the clue arrow button. (Since I’m not going to do this process again for my iPhone, Ive used the screenshots below from iClarified.com)
   
7. 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.

   
   

8. Once QuickPwn detects your iPhone in DFU mode it will begin the jailbreak process.
   
9. Once jailbreaking is complete QuickPwn will inform you that it was successfull.
   
10. Youre ready to go !
11. I did not upgrade to 2.2.1 since some of my old apps wouldn’t work on it.
    
12. Next up is how to install apps on the iPhone after downloading then from the internet on your computer (also includes how to get all the AppStore apps from free!)
13. Stay tuned.
    

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