Best/safest way to jailbreak UK iPhone 3G 2.2?

Amraam · 5 Jan 2009 at 22:46

Hey all,

I'm not bothered about unlocking the carrier - I pay £35 for my contract so I'm gonna use it!

Anyways, has anyone use Ziphone? I used it once on my mates 2G iPhone and it worked flawlessly. That was back in the days of 1.1.4 however.

Now, on the iPhone 3G with 2.2 I guess things are a bit different. So, how did you guys jailbreak your phone? I've read about quickPWN, but I think ZiPhone looks a bit safer...

Can jailbreaking **** up the iPhone permanently?

Thanks!

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Bipolar Kittens · 5 Jan 2009 at 23:06

I used quickpwn 2.2 to jailbreak my iPhone 3G 2.2

It was very straight forward to use and work first time with out a problem.

I'm no expert, but read in another thread that if something does go wrong, you can just do a restore through iTunes

Amraam · 5 Jan 2009 at 23:08

ibolden said:
I used quickpwn 2.2 to jailbreak my iPhone 3G 2.2

It was very straight forward to use and work first time with out a problem.

I'm no expert, but read in another thread that if something does go wrong, you can just do a restore through iTunes

Cool I'll give it go using that advice. From my reading here, quickpwn seems to be the favourite.

When JBing, does it unlock by default, or can I choose to JB without unlocking?

Thanks!

tang0 · 5 Jan 2009 at 23:24

ibolden said:
I used quickpwn 2.2 to jailbreak my iPhone 3G 2.2

It was very straight forward to use and work first time with out a problem.

I'm no expert, but read in another thread that if something does go wrong, you can just do a restore through iTunes

this

Done it last night, although it messed up the first time for some reason, on reboot it would just halt at the apple logo. So i restored by booting into FDU mode > restore through itunes, tried again and it worked

Amraam · 6 Jan 2009 at 00:12

All done in a matter of minutes

Just upgrading cydia now.

OK, noob question (be warned

): What's the difference between 'Installer' and 'Cydia'?

sepulchre · 6 Jan 2009 at 00:24

Cydia seems to work better, I found Installer crashed a lot and slowed my iphone down so I removed it.

Amraam · 6 Jan 2009 at 00:46

sepulchre said:
Cydia seems to work better, I found Installer crashed a lot and slowed my iphone down so I removed it.

THanks for the help. I've used Cydia to download Customize, but every time I download a theme, it says it cant find the files in offline mode,and that I should go online to update the files. I am online, via WiFi!

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Faded · 6 Jan 2009 at 02:18

Amraam said:
THanks for the help. I've used Cydia to download Customize, but every time I download a theme, it says it cant find the files in offline mode,and that I should go online to update the files. I am online, via WiFi!

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Have you downloaded Winterboard?

Amraam · 6 Jan 2009 at 02:46

Faded said:
Have you downloaded Winterboard?

Sorry, forgot to reply, I've been playing with it for the last few hours!

(^ that sounds wrong, but I don't care lol)

Yup, winterboard is awesome. Love how just sliding them up or down changes the mod overwrite priority, simple and effective

Alex53 · 7 Jan 2009 at 14:54

Sorry to piggy back but if your iPhone is already a factory unlocked one (italian stock) on firmware 2.2, does jailbreaking it pose any issues?

tonyzero · 7 Jan 2009 at 18:18

i jailbroke my iphone last week so what i would like to know is, is there any way of disabling the "lost network" pop up ?

iSam · 8 Jan 2009 at 01:02

Alex53 said:
Sorry to piggy back but if your iPhone is already a factory unlocked one (italian stock) on firmware 2.2, does jailbreaking it pose any issues?

No, it shouldn't do, you are only adding Cydia and Installer.

tonyzero said:
i jailbroke my iphone last week so what i would like to know is, is there any way of disabling the "lost network" pop up ?

What do you mean?

Alex53 · 9 Jan 2009 at 11:01

iSam said:
No, it shouldn't do, you are only adding Cydia and Installer.

Thanks for your answer. When you use QuickPWN do you have to choose different options depending on whether your iPhone is locked or already unlocked?

Also, will it wipe all the content, settings etc I currently have ?

Edit: I am not too confident on doing this, I just tentatively started QuickPWM 2.2, connected my iPhone to the USB and I get an error saying this verion of QuickPWN can only unlock firnwares 2.0 and above...I am on 2.2!

G-MAN2004 · 9 Jan 2009 at 11:42

It will wipe all of your settings, etc. but iTunes will restore all of those, as long as you've backed it up beforehand.

Unfortunately for me, the jailbreak went fine, but my backup didn't work.

iSam · 9 Jan 2009 at 13:13

Alex53 said:
Thanks for your answer. When you use QuickPWN do you have to choose different options depending on whether your iPhone is locked or already unlocked?

Also, will it wipe all the content, settings etc I currently have ?

Edit: I am not too confident on doing this, I just tentatively started QuickPWM 2.2, connected my iPhone to the USB and I get an error saying this verion of QuickPWN can only unlock firnwares 2.0 and above...I am on 2.2!

You need to go to the dev team site and get the latest version.

You won't need to wipe the phone as you are not unlocking it. Quickpwn will recognise that it is activated and it won't unlock, just jailbreak.

hartgeh3 · 9 Jan 2009 at 15:07

iSam said:
You need to go to the dev team site and get the latest version.

You won't need to wipe the phone as you are not unlocking it. Quickpwn will recognise that it is activated and it won't unlock, just jailbreak.

This is what I did and worked a treat

Nitrojan · 11 Jan 2009 at 16:52

I also used quickpwn and yellowsn0w. Both very easy to use and very simple - mine was done within minutes!

Sp00n · 12 Jan 2009 at 08:00

I quickpwn'd my iphone at the weekend, worked grey however it doesnt back up my applications so it wiped all of the ones I had downloaded

Faded · 12 Jan 2009 at 08:15

Sp00n said:
I quickpwn'd my iphone at the weekend, worked grey however it doesnt back up my applications so it wiped all of the ones I had downloaded

Were they not already backed up in iTunes?

iSam · 12 Jan 2009 at 20:19

Sp00n said:
I quickpwn'd my iphone at the weekend, worked grey however it doesnt back up my applications so it wiped all of the ones I had downloaded

Your apps will be in iTunes, just re-sync them again.

Unless you downloaded them on your phone and didn't back them up on your Mac/PC.