Having real problems unlocking iPhone Gen1 - help?

[Mad Dave]

Hi Guys,

Upgraded my iPhone yesterday and got a 3G one. Now, my kid brother wants my gen 1 so i'm attempting to unlock it - i've downloaded WinPWN 2.0.0.4 and tried it - I had to download the Iphone 1.1.4 IPSW file and then ran iPwn - it went through all the motions and after a few minutes declared 'Your iPhone has been Pwned'. Thing is, it's now locked! It was previously unlocked, running on O2. When I put a Voda sim into it it worked and had several bars of reception by no provider name, and wouldn't make calls - now it's stuck in Emergency Calls only mode!

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Dave

[Mad Dave]

Panic over - managed it with iLiberty. Haven't dared to upgrade it to v2.0 (or v2.1) but hopefully in the next few weeks itll be easier to unlock those software versions.

[PJ S]

I much prefer iLiberty, but Pwnage/Winpwn is the dev.org's offering, who are the backbone of those involved in unlocking the iPhone.

[cyberface]

PJ S said:

I much prefer iLiberty, but Pwnage/Winpwn is the dev.org's offering, who are the backbone of those involved in unlocking the iPhone.

They all use the same tools now for v1 with firmware below 2.0 - Winpwn is nothing to do with the 'Dev Team' but a separate bunch of windows guys who port the PwnageTool code over to windows. The name is lame as hell as well - I wish they'd come up with a better name for the tool, it sounds childish as it is.

TBH the behaviour of the 'Dev Team' now just pisses me off. All the secrecy and marketing games got old and boring a very long time ago. I really hope someone beats them to the unlock of the 3G, because their arrogance is astounding. Hotz is still in the running but not sure whether he's got the time to work on it. I'm hoping some random hacker from the far east or east europe cracks it and releases the source code straight away so interested parties can have a go - like with the first iPhone when Hotz released the alpha unlock tool.

If I had the hardware hacking skills then I'd be having a go myself but I know little about phone baseband code and much more about the Mac OS and its internals - which is what I want the iPhone for at the end of the day...

[PJ S]

cyberface said:

PJ S said:

I much prefer iLiberty, but Pwnage/Winpwn is the dev.org's offering, who are the backbone of those involved in unlocking the iPhone.

They all use the same tools now for v1 with firmware below 2.0 - Winpwn is nothing to do with the 'Dev Team' but a separate bunch of windows guys who port the PwnageTool code over to windows. The name is lame as hell as well - I wish they'd come up with a better name for the tool, it sounds childish as it is.

TBH the behaviour of the 'Dev Team' now just pisses me off. All the secrecy and marketing games got old and boring a very long time ago. I really hope someone beats them to the unlock of the 3G, because their arrogance is astounding. Hotz is still in the running but not sure whether he's got the time to work on it. I'm hoping some random hacker from the far east or east europe cracks it and releases the source code straight away so interested parties can have a go - like with the first iPhone when Hotz released the alpha unlock tool.

If I had the hardware hacking skills then I'd be having a go myself but I know little about phone baseband code and much more about the Mac OS and its internals - which is what I want the iPhone for at the end of the day...

Didn't know (or much care really to ascertain) that Winpwn was a port over.
Again, not really much interested in the squabbling being done, but there's a difference in which way the two Apps appear to work.
As said, I prefer the blow by blow of iLiberty - it's reassuring to see what stage things are at, etc.
I'm less fussed on the hassle of having to create a custom IPSW file, which is minus the custom boot and DFU screens.
I prefer the tick box of loading particular packages that iLiberty approach uses.
I also prefer the fact iLiberty has useful Enter/Exit Recovery/DFU mode calls.
Pity it doesn't explain Crashx better, or I may have added it, and I never bothered with SSH, since the Shared option in Finder via Connect to Server suits me better than Terminal.
Of course, this was with Pwnage 1 - not bothered to look at 2 since the phone's running perfectly once again.
Also found iLiberty picked up the connected iPhone, as well as terminated iTunes, better than Pwnage 1 did.
Hopefully iLiberty will release an updated version once 2.0 BB firmware is unlocked.

[DamienCBR]

I am with iLiberty too. Very easy and straight forward, just follow the instructions. PWnage seems very complicated, i am sure i could do it evetually but there is still the under lying fear that i will balls it up, making my own softare part of the process is what i dont like.

Agree, hope iLiberty will bring out 2.0.0 hack soon. Still the phone works perfectly on 1.1.4 anyway.
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