As of now the only factory unlocked Palm Pre’s are being sold here in Germany. German Palm Pre’s are of course being sold with a germany QWERTZ keyboard. Anyway some international customers prefer the international QWERTY keyboard.
Now rumors in spanish forums have surfaced that the spanish GSM based Palm Pre sold by and locked to the MoviStar carrier have been unlocked. As of now we have no confirmation, if that is true or a hoax.
GeoHot fixed some minor things with his BlackRa1n Jailbreak application. Download BlackRa1nh here.
** Update — RC2 is out **
Fixed 3G issues
Tethered jailbreak for 3.1 OOTB ipt 8GB and new 3GSes
Fixed Icy issues
Both Windows and Mac
If you used RC1 with success, no need to rerun
The latest manufactured iPhone 3GS devices seem to contain new bootloaders, which can not be compromised using the 24k bug. Although Musclenerd of the iPhone Dev Team paints a dark future, Mathieu Hervais expects that there are still ways thru the chain of trust in order to jailbreak.
P.S. To find out which Bootrom your iPhone got, just get yourself a Mac and check system profiler while your iPhone is in DFU mode.
Today notorious GeoHot released a standing new jailbreak tool called BlackRa1n. BlackRa1n is currently only available for Microsoft Windows. It is supposed to jailbreak any 3.x based iPhone or iPod touch. No matter if you’ve jailbroken before or not.
BlackRa1n is fairly self explaining and straight forward designed. It’ll bring your iPhone or iPod Touch automatically into Recovery Mode.
Sadly currently BlackRa1n does not hacktivate your iPhone. So you still need a valid subscription with an Apple licensed carrier or a factory unlocked iPhone.
Kudos fly out to GeoHot. Standing work again.
GeoHot today posted a photo of a jailbroken iPod Touch running iPhone OS 3.1. He eventually made it. As of now there is no more information available, but it is likely that this is the approach he and the Chronic Dev Team were talking about.
What has happened so far
Some irritation is going on in the Apple hacking community. On the one hand GeoHot today announced that there will be a tool that will allow jailbreaking all iPhones and iPod Touchs, but as he wished to perform further tests he didn’t tell anything about the procedure.
The Chronic Dev Team on the other hand who seem to have been working together with GeoHot now released the technical details about this hack. Sadly as there is no GreenPois0n tool available as of now, the technical details are most likely useless for 99,9% of all iPhone and iPod users.
Reasons are unknown why the Chronic Dev Team released the information before a tool has been finished. But it seems GeoHot is not amused by taking these steps.
Update 2009, Oct 19th: GeoHot and the Chronic Dev Team tell they have independently found the bug that allows for jailbreaking the 3.1 firmware.
Enduser compatible information
According to mFX.ch (german only) the forthcoming GreenPois0n jailbreak tool will not require to bring the iPhone into DFU mode. The GreenPois0n will be released on the PirateBay*.
External Links
» GeoHot on the universal 3.1 jailbreak…
» Chronic Dev Team on 3.1. jailbreak progress…
» GreenPois0n site (only dummy page atm)…
» TheiPhoneWiki with technical details…
* for legal reasons here in Germany we cannot link directly to the PirateBay.
Update July 5th, 2009: GeoHot now also provides a Mac OS X version of the jailbreak tool. Windows and Mac versions ready for download at purplera1n.com…
That’s it with the 3.0 firmware and the iPhone jailbreaks. Apple has been beaten again. This time by GeoHot. Although the iPhone Dev Team seems to have their programs already prepared they preferred to wait with the release of an updated PwnageTool. GeoHot did not wanna wait and decided to release a Windows based jailbreak tool for the iPhone 3Gs called PurpleRa1n.
Status
All three iPhone generations can now be activated, jailbroken and unlocked with the current firmware 3.0. Currently for the iPhone 3Gs there is only a Windows version available that is under strong beta testing. Anyway you can give it a try. The security whole that gets exploited in the iPhone 3Gs is well known as the 24k bug that has been found in january in the iPod Touch 2nd generations.
After jailbreaking, the iPhone Dev Team’s UltraSn0w should unlock your baseband.
Our recommendations
By now you know we are the conservative ones. We recommend: wait a couple of days. PurpleRa1n is still beta. But can hacks ever become stable? ;-)
More information to be found here:
» GeoHot accounces jailbreak for iPhone 3Gs…
» iPhone Dev Team confirm unlock of iPhone 3Gs…
» Get iPhone 3Gs jailbreak tool (PurpleRa1n.exe) here…
I. Abstract
The following article will show you how to install firmware 3.0 on your iPhone 2G by also allowing to jailbreak, activate and eventually to unlock (JAU process). At the moment of writing this article is for Mac OS X users with iPhone 2G’s only.
II. Who needs this article?
We suppose 50% of all 2G users around the globe. As iPhone 2G’s were sold almost everywhere with Sim-Lock enabled (besides some T-Mobile Germany or Orange France unlocked 2G’s).
III. Warning
You’d better read all of this in detail before you do anything practically! If you feel there is something you don’t understand or something you will not be able to handle, then go and ask someone who is in the know.
!!!!!!!! Otherwise your devices may be terribly screwed up! !!!!!!!
IV. Required Downloads
Download these tiny things first:
» RedSn0w for Mac OS X…
» iPhone OS 3.0 for iPhone 2G…
» if you are using an iPhone 2G: get Bootloader 3.9 and 4.6…
RedSn0w is almost the same as QuickPwn was in the ancient days of iPhone firmware 2.x
V. Preparing for Take off
start RedSn0w
Browse to the downloaded restore firmware (iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw)
Next
Cydia (and Unlock if you are using an iPhone 2G. If you are using an iPhone 3G, don’t select to unlock, since it will not work this way)
NextBrowse for the Bootloaders you downloaded
iPhone off
iTunes offVI. Fasten your seat belts // Get into DFU mode
NextDFU modeVII. Ignition sequence start
VIII. Possible issues
Although we haven’t been reported any yet, this doesn’t mean there can’t go something wrong. If you run into problems, try:
IX. Kudos
Fly out to the iPhone Dev Team. You guys should get paid by Apple…
I. Abstract
The following article will show you how to install firmware 3.0 on your iPhone 2G by also allowing to jailbreak, activate, and eventually to unlock (JAU process). At the moment of writing this article is for Mac OS X users with iPhone 2G’s only.
II. Who needs this article?
We suppose 50% of all 2G users around the globe. As iPhone 2G’s were sold almost everywhere with Sim-Lock enabled (besides some T-Mobile Germany or Orange France unlocked 2G’s).
III. Warning
You’d better read all of this in detail before you do anything practically! If you feel there is something you don’t understand or something you will not be able to handle, then go and ask someone who is in the know.
!!!!!!!! Otherwise your devices may be terribly screwed up! !!!!!!!
IV. Required Downloads
Download these tiny things first:
» Pwnage 3.0 for Mac OS X…
» iPhone OS 3.0 for iPhone 2G…
» if you are using an iPhone 2G: get Bootloader 3.9 and 4.6…
V. Preparing for Take off // Prepping your custom iPhone OS 3.0
start PwnageTool 
Expert ModeNext button (down right of PwnageTool window)
Next button
Create (here in german “Erstellen”)Next button
VI. Fasten your seat belts // Get into DFU mode
VII. Ignition sequence start // Restore
iTunes (make sure you’re using iTunes 8.2)Select your iPhone (found on the left column under devices)
Alt Key and Click the Restore button (this allows browsing for your custom firmware)
VIII. Possible issues
You may receive an “unknown error 1600”, “unknown error 2001”, “unknown error 10”, or “unknown error 20” . If this is the case you may try this:
IX. Kudos
Fly out to the iPhone Dev Team…
GeoHot posted a picture showing that he managed to run custom commands on iBoot. This seems to be the first major step for a jailbreak. Moreover GeoHot also managed to find the key for the Ramdisk while MuscleNerd of the iPhoneDevTeam obviously has already found the vfdecrypt key.
All this is good news. Anyway aswell as GeoHot and the DevTeam will have lots of work to do. Don’t expect anything soon, since GeoHot also found a new security addition called ECID, which obviously gets generated by Apple’s servers and which seems to be unique to every iPhone. Every restore seems to have to be validated by Apple’s servers. And this is bad news.
» Running custom commands on iBoot…
» Ramdisk key found…
» ECID signature layer found…
