Dev-Team Blog – iPhone 3G unlock tool: yellowsn0w

Dev-Team Blog – ‘Tis the Season to be Jolly! – yellowsn0w.

The Dev-Team have announced they will be releasing the iPhone 3G unlock tool ‘yellowsn0w’ on new years eve 2008. As soon as it is released I’ll be adding all the information you will need to unlock your iPhone 3G.

Here’s some of the info released so far:

3G Unlock

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.

You can tell what version baseband you have by going to Settings->General->About->Modem Firmware

The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone. It’ll be installable via Cydia and so it doesn’t matter if you have a Mac or PC.

Please refrain from updating your baseband, regardless of what version you’re at. We’ll have complete directions on New Year’s Eve.

We’ll stream a live demo of the unlock before Christmas (see the update at the end of this post)

DFU Issues in OS X 10.5.6

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!

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#1 written by Christopher Shennan 3 years ago

How reliable is this likely to be? Whats the chances of this turning my iPhone into a brick with some future update?

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#2 written by admin 3 years ago

I guess there is always a risk when you do anything that affects the firmware. Remember this is from the renowned ‘Dev-Team’ and has been tested to an inch of it’s death, so I would say as long as you follow the instructions you should have no problems. I unlocked mine easily with no issues at all. If you did end up with a brick, you can always get a free iPhone to try again!

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#3 written by Free Wii 2 years ago

Hasn’t this already been cracked by apple? I heard that the latest firmware release has already declared yellowsnow useless?

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#4 written by free iPhone 2 years ago

Apple haven’t cracked anything. The latest firmware upgrade as closed the flaw that yellowsn0w utilised. As long as you don’t update your firmware you can still have an unlocked iPhone. The Dev team are working on the next crack for new firmwares.

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