iPhone 3G Unlock to Ship New Year’s Eve

**secretmrx** · 12-16-2008 03:11 PM

Taken from my blog at http://www.appledailytimes.com/
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The iPhone DevTeam (http://blog.iphone-dev.org/) have officially confirmed the completion of the iPhone 3G unlock, dubbed “yellowsn0w.” This is to be built into PwnageTool, QuickPwn and BootNeuter in a way that first gen iPhone users are already familiar with.

The software unlock does, however, require that the user has a jailbroken iPhone 3G running a Baseband version equal to or lower than 2.11.07. Baseband versions higher are currently not supported. It has been suggested that in a few months, the possibility of downgrading Baseband firmware may arise.

On another note, the Team have also gone on to say that they believe the recent Mac OS X 10.5.6 update does not intentionally disable recognition of a device in DFU mode. They have offered three possible fixes, to be outlined below:

1. Replace the following plugin kexts from within IOUSBFamily.kext with the ones from 10.5.5 and then rebuild kextcache.

/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBHub.kext

/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext

2. Use a USB hub in-between the DFU device and the Mac and insert/reinsert the iPhone’s USB cable.

3. Use a PwnageTool created .ipsw on Windows.

There is also word that work on the iPod Touch 2nd Generation jailbreak may begin sometime in the New Year.