The iPhone Dev Team has pushed out a great update for their IPhone 3G and 3GS unlocking tool, ultrasn0w. This update fixes a bunch of little bugs here and there.

Features:

• Works on both 3G and 3GS
• Works on hacktivated devices
• Works regardless of how you jailbroke your device
• Doesn’t patch any mach-o binary whatsoever. (Doesn’t require a separate patch as each new firmware comes out).
• Doesn’t install any additional daemon
• Has no race conditions, no popups about “Missing SIM”, no network issues
• Is almost 7000 times smaller than its nearest competition :)
• Is available now via Cydia. Source repo is http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com (that’s ultrasn0w with a zero!)

If you haven’t yet updated to ultrasn0w 0.9 then we highly suggest you do! So fire up cydia and update that puppy!

- source: blog,iphone-dev.org

Yay! iPhone Dev Team have released the long awaited iPhone 3G Unlock, ultrasn0w! Just like yellowsn0w, ultrasn0w unlocks your iPhone 3G.

How to install:

1. Ensure you have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0
2. Jailbreak your iPhone 3G using redsn0w or PwnageTool (this will also install Cydia/Icy)
3. Run Cydia or Icy
4. Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to Cydia or icy
5. Search for ‘ultrasn0w’ in cydia or icy and install ultrasn0w
6. Reboot your iPhone 3G
7. T-Mobile USA users should disable 3G before using ultrasn0w
8. Enjoy

Simple enough, ey? Well, go on! Unlock your iPhone 3G!

Note: This will NOT unlock nor work with the iPhone 3G S

- source: blog.iphone-dev.org

Update #2: iPhone Dev Team has released an update for yellowsn0w, version 0.9.5 beta. So make sure you update!

Update: If you have success or failure on unlocking your iPhone 3G with yellowsn0w, report it to the iPhone Dev Team at report.yellowsn0w.com – Here

Finally! After months of waiting for an iPhone 3G Unlock it’s finally here. Yellowsn0w is available for Installer and Cydia. Yellowsn0w is exclusive for the 2.28.00 baseband. (The baseband provided with the firmware version 2.2 from Apple)

From iPhone Dev Team’s Blog:

BASICS

• The unlock works exclusively with baseband 02.28.00. This baseband is provided by the latest firmware update (2.2) from Apple. You’ll need to upgrade to this release using iTunes and then use QuickPwn to activate etc. There are plenty of tutorials about this on iclarified, bigboss, and other established tutorial sites. Because it works on 02.28.00, it is available to everyone on the planet. This means we don’t need to unnecessarily expose holes in earlier basebands, which is an important concern.
• The application is a small daemon that is launched on boot. It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset. You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. It’s a small program and unobtrusive. There is no GUI (this is by design).
• You can add the application using the sources outlined below (coming soon). There are Cydia and Installer sources available, so use whichever you are comfortable using.
• yellowsn0w is completely removable through Cydia, the command line, and iTunes.

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Been having trouble unlocking your iPhone 3G with yellowsn0w? Follow this guide!

Note: This IS beta software, there is no guarantee this will work. Use at your own risk!

First is first, Jailbreak your iPhone (If your iPhone is already jailbroken you may skip steps 1-7)

1. Install firmware 2.2 if you didn’t already (Download it from our iPhone Downloads section: Here
2. Download QuickPwn to jailbreak your iPhone 3G (Again, download it from our iPhone Downloads : Here for Mac
   Here for Windows
3. Pick the desired device, the iPhone 3G of course

Click Images to Enlarge

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Update #2: Looks like the yellowsn0w application will be in Cydia and it will only work for the 2.28.00 baseband – We were semi-correct about ignoring the post where they told us not to update the iPhone 3G to 2.2

Yellowsn0w will be available once the Dev Team member in charge of their Cydia repo wakes up and fixes the permissions.

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If you decode the binary message, you get vtaber 61060174 if you decode that ROT13 message, you get IGNORE 61060174 — Now, what does IGNORE 61060174 mean? We believe it means to ignore their blog post #61060174 – This blog post – Yeah, remember that blog post from the iPhone Dev Team stating NOT to update your 3G to 2.2, because doing so will update your baseband and you’ll loose possibility of a 3G Unlock. Maybe they are secretly telling us that yellowsn0w will in fact work on all iPhone 3G basebands. Only time will tell.

Try it for yourself!
ROT13 Decoder used: rot13-encoder-decoder.waraxe.us Thanks Ecko!
Binary Decoder used: roubaixinteractive.com

- source: blog.iphone-dev.org

Update #2: The 3G unlock video is live

Direct link to yellowsn0w demo on Qik

We’ll keep you updated!

Today, iPhone Dev Team announced their iPhone 3G unlock, codenamed “yellowsn0w.” It’s completed and being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity of Quickpwn. Yeah, you heard right. The dev team is targeting for a release date in New Year’s Eve 2008. This unlock is available to iPhone 3Gs with the 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, You were warned not to update. Your iPhone 3G will also require to be jailbroken.

We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.

• The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
• This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
• The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone.

In addition, Apple pushed an update to Mac OS X users, 10.5.6. Lots of users who updated have been having trouble with DFU mode. iPhone Dev Team believes Apple didn’t do it on purpose but a bug in the kernel, is causing the problems.

Lots of users have been experiencing problems with the use of DFU mode after applying yesterday’s 10.5.6 system update.

We believe this behavior is due to a kernel bug not a specific countermeasure by Apple. Possible fixes are (try at your own risk!) -

1. Replace the following plugin kexts from within IOUSBFamily.kext with the ones from 10.5.5 and then rebuild kextcache (if you don’t understand this, then you shouldn’t attempt it!)

/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! Oh the irony!

Stay tuned for New Year’s Eve!!

Dong Ngo, one of the editors over at CNET, has confirmed that Tuan Anh Do, a 29 year old Vietnamese iPhone hacker, has successfully unlocked the iPhone 3G. Now this isn’t any easy to use free software unlock; you know, what the iPhone dev team have been striving to accomplish, instead we have a complicated hardware unlock requiring removal of the iPhone’s baseband chip. Yeah, this unlock ain’t no joke.

- source: CNET

The iPhone Dev Team is still hard at work unlocking the iPhone 3G for us, a signifigant milestone has now been reached with the ability to run a custom baseband.

Here’s a screenshot of a 3G iPhone whose baseband has been modified. And even though it’s modified — and fails the integrity check — it’s still running…
…Running modified baseband code is a very useful ability, but it’s still not possible to accurately estimate how close we are to the ultimate goal.

Check out the video here.

The iPhone Dev Team have updated their blog to let us know the free software iPhone 3G unlock is still being worked on. They’ve also linked their troubles with unlocking the iPhone 3G to the same problem of jailbreaking the new iPod Touch 2G. They mention the timeline of the original iPhone’s free software unlock and they aren’t too far behind, if they can manage to get an unlock out soon. The original iPhone was released in July and software unlocked by mid September.

Regarding the two current challenges: the 3G iPhone soft unlock and iPod Touch 2G jailbreak are still relatively new challenges (compare them with the timeframe of the iPhone challenges last year). We’re making slow advances on both fronts, but it’s not the sort of thing that can be easily described in a blog like this.

But, to maybe show how interlinked these challenges are, this weekend we’ll be trying some hardware based ideas on the iPod Touch 2G jailbreak :)

The future looks bright for unlocking and jailbreaking the upcoming iPhone v2.1 firmware for EDGE iPhone users, and jailbreakable for 3G users (the 3G unlock is still being worked on see more…). In the iPhone Dev Team’s latest update they have detailed their success with Pwning iPhone 2.1 beta firmwares

DevTeam members have an internal beta version of Installer 4 from RiPDev. It looks very nice, and expect a release from them soon. We don’t have an exact date yet, but we’d estimate certainly not within the next few days and less than a couple of weeks. We’ve attached another couple of screenshots at the end in case you want to see more.

We are also testing an internal build of PwnageTool for iPhone OS 2.1b2 (for first generation iPhones and also 3G models). Unlock and jailbreak is working fine on the 1st Gen (we don’t think Apple is even trying anymore to prevent pwnage or unlocks for 1st Gen iPhones). For 3G, jailbreak certainly still works, and this will be released in good time.

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