Purplera1n, unrelated to the Dev Team, has announced a solution to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS for both Windows and Intel Mac computers. The jailbreak allows users to download Cydia on their iPhone to install unofficial applications on their device.The jailbreaking solution provided by purplera1n still does not allow Winterboard to be used as of yet. The method installs an application called Freeze onto the device; this installs and unpacks Cydia.
Users who install Cydia onto their device can then proceed to install UltraSn0w which was recently released to unlock the iPhone 3G, now unlocks the iPhone 3GS. Users can freely use any service provider using a SIM card on their iPhone without being locked to selected service providers.
Users who have installed the iPhone 3.1 SDK will not be able to unlock their device due to the update in the baseband. The updated baseband in the 3.1 SDK prevents the exploit to unlock your iPhone from working. Users who updated previously may not be able to unlock their iPhone, according to The Dev Team Blog.
Warning: Users who jailbreak or unlock their iPhone may void the warranty and are cautioned to use this software at their own risk; purplera1n RC2 may still be buggy on Windows machines.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with GeoHotz's jailbreak. Being he's the original/father of the iPhone jailbreak/ers.
Not to mention this is the easiest/most user friendly jailbreak to date. So easy a caveman can do it..
It doest contain a single problem that a devteam release wouldn't have at the 3GS' current state. All left is for app author's including Saurik (cydia/Winterboard anyone?
Its true. Its very simple. Took less than 2 minutes.
Anyway seems a fix for this is enabling airplane mode, restarting then disabling again fixes the wifi drops issue for you unlocked tmob subscribers.
yup, thats your answer 305.
Not exactly. He's stating there was an issue with Geo's release with wifi usage. When this problem lies in the devteams ultrasn0w; just as Sauriks Winterboard needing some recoding, not the jailbreak itself.
Again, Gabe3, "why wait for devteams rls"? if devteam released their jb right this moment, they would still have to touch on on their ultrasn0w to get it working with 3gs fixing the wifi bug with unlocked phones.
btw, im devteam supporter. but saying its best to wait is just stupid at this time. the jailbreak is done, the rest is on app devs recoding their apps to work accordingly.
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Again, Gabe3, "why wait for devteams rls"? if devteam released their jb right this moment, they would still have to touch on on their ultrasn0w to get it working with 3gs fixing the wifi bug with unlocked phones.
btw, im devteam supporter. but saying its best to wait is just stupid at this time. the jailbreak is done, the rest is on app devs recoding their apps to work accordingly.
like i already said quoting dagamer34. Multiple people testing for bugs is always better than one person. it's like 1 person to make sure win7 is ready for RTM instead of 10 people. for us consumers, its safer to let those 10 people(dev team) test things out instead of that 1 person.
a road to jb has been paved. if you rather wait for the other road to jb-land to be opened, by all means, continue waiting. just silly to say this new road will be better when the destination is the same as the one already done.
at the end of the day its simply a jailbreak on a 3GS. its a matter of getting the apps recoded to work with the 3GS. which is why apps like tricker3g/winterboard arent fuctional.
1. the original thread about the first RC jailbreak was full of people having problems, even so much as to it not even running at all - and this was evident on twitter as well
2. A lot of people who jailbreak aren't "geeks" so comparing it to win7 beta testers is stupid, because a lot of the jailrbreakers wouldn't test beta software on a day to day basis anyways.
3. Regardless what you say, the dev team's releases are predominately bug free, and there's a single place documenting any problems in detail you can expect before jailbreaking. The purepl3rain site has 2 links to the exe's and that's about it - not good for the type of users I mentioned earlier.
All in all if your happy with potential bugs, and are confident enough to deal with them if they arise then by all means jailbreak. If your not, and want to wait for the dev team then do.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with GeoHotz's jailbreak. Being he's the original/father of the iPhone jailbreak/ers.
Not to mention this is the easiest/most user friendly jailbreak to date. So easy a caveman can do it..
It doest contain a single problem that a devteam release wouldn't have at the 3GS' current state. All left is for app author's including Saurik (cydia/Winterboard anyone?
a road to jb has been paved. if you rather wait for the other road to jb-land to be opened, by all means, continue waiting. just silly to say this new road will be better when the destination is the same as the one already done.
at the end of the day its simply a jailbreak on a 3GS. its a matter of getting the apps recoded to work with the 3GS. which is why apps like tricker3g/winterboard arent fuctional.
i never said the dev team's jailbreak would fix winterboard. of course dev team is not testing geohotz's jailbreak, why would they? i think we're on different pages or something.
what bogus information did I spread? I said "better wait for dev team's." thats my opinion and suggestion. welcome to the internet, opinions are all over the place. if you agree with my opinion or not I don't really care. however saying I should be banned for stating my opinion is a little childish, if your a child then your excused.
Rofl !
im using the first one he released, and a fair amount of apps dont work, or crash.
its what i expected from an early release but its far from no issues.
im waiting for the dev team to release there version so i can use winterboard.
im using the first one he released, and a fair amount of apps dont work, or crash.
RC2
Well it looks like he has updated purplera1n since I last saw it. So from what i read on the above I might consider jailbreaking my 3GS now. But not having my Fallout3 Winterboard theme still is a killer. But i'll probably wait til see how this newer version plays out before dropping it on
That is quite a price. Where exactly do you live that it costs so much?
Reminds me of a Rogers store in Canada that tried to sell me an iPhone out of contract for $3,000.00 CAD. I phoned a service rep, and she confirmed that they were trying to rip me off, and that an out of contract phone should coust around $700 CAD...
i will use it with operators in europe (non tmobile)...will i have issues?
please respond.
thanks
2) Ignore the losers saying Purplera1n is best. Make your own choice, and dont believe the silly people arselicking whichever group
3) Backgrounder works fine (even with voice control thing) - but settings not available on 3.0 software
4) Wintersnow doesn't work
5) Cydia is stupidly quick
6) Ultrasn0w very buggy - drops signal even if signal bar shows a few bars. Not really usable yet unless you have perfect signal at all times
7) geohot did good, he has the right ideas, and is updating it too
hope this info helps someone
Err... well yeah they could, but that would also wipe out your... 'advice' wouldn't it?
Geeze that kind of stupidity doesn't even reach 'fail' limits. But thanks for the info - I really will take it on board.... I'm sure it'll be useful somehow.
My only quibble is that there seems to be a lot of apps not compatible with either v3 software, or the 3gs... would be good if you could only view software that was compatible with your firmware/iphone version.. I installed an app, and it crashed my phone, and on reboot, I have several corrupted, incorrect icons for my 3rd party apps...
Will have to do a full restore, so maybe I will leave until v3/3GS has better applicaiton compatability...
Jailbeak was a painless process though :-)
c4n7 u s33 th3s3 names is 1337?!?!?!11
Well gee there's a surprise.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only two networks that would be able to support the iPhone in the USA are AT&T and T-Mobile...right?
Your confusing unlocking with jailbreaking.. unlocking allows the use of another network sim, to do this you must first jailbreak your phone...
Jailbreaking however, also allows you to install third party, unofficial apps, of which there are hundreds to choose from that are not available in the apple store... it allows you to do many things, such as customising your phone, with themes and changing homescreen.. adding extra functionality by using other replacements for the dfault apps...
As you point out, there is no point unlocking a new contract phone..
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
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