iPhone 3GS - Jailbreak Released


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you guys do know that all of the dev team and geohot say they do NOT support using their tools/apps from a guest OS running in a VM right?

doesn't work anywa:p:p

i guess im SOL for the momen:(:(

seems that the thing only works on windows xp 32bit right now.

once i've grabbed the ecid and created the cerificate, do i just run purplera1n? does the iphone need to be in recovery mode ?

update: ok plugged the iphone in normal mode and purplera1n does its thing, but now im getting a message: "done, waiting for reboot" and its just sitting their... ?? with plug into itunes on the screen.

Edited by Elite_graphix

I had to do a restore to get it out of recovery mode. It just kept going into recovery mode as soon as I turned it on otherwise.

Looks like it's working on my work laptop (XP 32-bit) so based on my admittedly fairly limited experience so far, I'd avoid x64 OSes for this.

Edit: Ok maybe not. It rebooted fine but I have no Cydia or anything visibly different at all.

Edit2: Just ran it again and it completed much quicker. I now have Freeze showing on my Springboard which is letting me install Cydia :)

Edited by Phemo

Okay, Geohot released his version of the jailbreak called Freeze. This is a tool to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS! Here's how to go about it!

Go to purplera1n.com and download the program.

Plug in your iPhone 3GS.

Run purplera1n(if your running Vista, run in XP capability mode).

Wait for the iPhone to reboot, will show the purplera1n picture.

Run Freeze, it will download and install Cydia(not Icy).

If Cydia doesn't show up right away, reboot your iPhone.

Done! Never been as simple as this!

Okay, Geohot released his version of the jailbreak called Freeze. This is a tool to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS! Here's how to go about it!

Go to purplera1n.com and download the program.

Plug in your iPhone 3GS.

Run purplera1n(if your running Vista, run in XP capability mode).

Wait for the iPhone to reboot, will show the purplera1n picture.

Run Freeze, it will download and install Cydia(not Icy).

If Cydia doesn't show up right away, reboot your iPhone.

Done! Never been as simple as this!

Holy crap that's easy!

Everything's fine for me so far. My connection via 3G and wireless works absolutely fine and none of the apps I use are behaving weirdly.

The only problem I did have was when trying VOIPover3G to use Skype with 3G - that caused Skype to bomb out when trying to make a call, even with wireless enabled, but as soon as I removed it it was fine. Wouldn't surprise me if that was a 3.0 incompatibility rather than anything else though.

Apparently Winterboard needs updating. From one of the dev team's twitter accounts..

#The PurpleRa1n 3GS jailbreak (like the unofficial 3.0 beta QuickPwn jailbreaks) is missing critical patches required for WinterBoard (etc.).
# ADDITIONALLY, WinterBoard /will/ need work on the 3GS (new instructions), but I can't even begin looking at that until we get fixed patches.about 1 hour ago from web
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