George Hotz – well known to the iPhone scene as GeoHot – has put some efforts into analyzing the behaviour of the bootloader 5.8 that is running in many iPhone 3G’s. He found the signature checking of the bootloader is buggy. By exploiting this bug we are now able to up- and downgrade the bootloader. Sadly many of nowadays iPhone 3G’s contain bootloader 5.91. which added an RSA check that GeoHot could not circumvent yet. Read his whole article here.
By the way: this seems to be the same exploit the iPhone Dev Team used and released to be able to be used for manipulating (read our news here). Anyway GeoHot did standing work again. Kudos to you, dude.
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Dear
Why my I phone after updated to 2.2.1 it is being used double SIM, I really want to downgrade baseband from 2.30.03 to 2.28… but I can not do. How can I do? Now even I use double SIM it is still have no service; How can I solve this stupid problem.
tell me how to solve, because my phone bootloader is not 5.8 so it needs bootloader 5.8
I look forwards to hearing from you soon
Yim Kimpov
afaik only bootloader 5.8 can be used to downgrade baseband. and this is quite risky as there are a lot reports about issues.
I suppose you’re stuck atm. Sorry for the bad news.