How to Jailbreak iPhone 2.1 Firmware IPSW with QuickPwn 1.2.0 (Windows)
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Yesterday the latest iPhone firmware v2.1 was released and it didn’t take long for the iPhone Dev Team to come up with the new Pwnage 2.1 Tool to jailbreak the 2.5G and 3G iPhones. Unfortunately for us Windows users, there isn’t a solution out unless you can get a hold of a custom 2.1 ipsw file from a Mac user. The steps we are about to present work on Windows but only for AT&T-activated iPhones only, and won’t work if you want to unlock, it just works to jailbreak.
Update: If you’ve previously pwned your iPhone (that is, you’ve used Pwnage, QuickPwn, WinPwn or any tool like that at some point in your life), you can actually upgrade to 2.1 firmware quite easily and without any tools except iTunes 8. Heck, it’s a lot easier than this guide so you may want to check it out.
Update 2: QuickPwn 2.1 for Windows is finally out so we recommend following the revised 2.1 upgrade guide instead. Trust us it’s a lot easier.
- Download the latest 2.1 IPSW firmware from Apple for 2.5G and 3G
- Launch iTunes 7.7 and let it upgrade itself to version 8. Otherwise download it yourself from us.
- Allow iTunes 8 to update your iPhone with the latest v2.1 firmware update.
- Uninstall iTunes 8.
- Uninstall Apple Mobile Device Support too
- Install iTunes 7.7
- Download QuickPwn v1.2.0 with 2.1 ipsw support
- Install and run QuickPwn following the steps in our 2.0.2 upgrade guide. The difference will be you select the 2.1 restore firmware ipsw file that you downloaded in step 1.
- Download TotalCommander and the T-PoT addon for it.
- Install TotalCommander
- To install the T-PoT addon simply launch TotalCommand and use the left window to browse to the T-PoT.1.1.zip file where you saved it and double click it to install it.
- Make sure your iPhone is on and still connected to your computer via the USB cable. Use TotalCommander to browse to your iPhone file system by first clicking -/- on the drop down menu with all the drives. Then double click on [T-PoT].
- You are now in your iPhone’s file system. Use TotalCommander to navigate to /System/Library/PrivateFrameWorks/MobileInstallation.framework. Just in case things don’t work out, make sure you save your existing MobileInstallation file simply by dragging the file over to the other window.
- Now replace the MobileInstallation file on your iPhone with this patched one for v2.1 firmware.
- Now use TotalCommander to navigate to /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/ and backup your existing com.apple.mobile.installation.plist file first, then delete it
- Reboot your iPhone. Now ponder why you went through all this trouble (like us). Enjoy!
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Well, I just went through the rigmarole..
and everything seems to be working!
Although my boot logo is no longer ANYTHING and it boots with a black screen.. any suggestions on that?
well this is all bullshit check the dev team website someone is using there name and i just fucked up my iphone and it didn’t work for me….
worked for me, and to change the icon on your boot up, you need to ad a png file with you use the pwnage tool
Works like a charm.
Note:
The installer and Cydia does not appear until the MobileInstall file is replaced and the iPhone is rebooted.
Do I need to pwn the phone all over again to get a boot logo?
hi..i use an US made iphone 2G in India which was unlocked using zibri’s app. Software version is 1.1.4. If i upgrade now, it’ll get locked to AT&T. would I be able to unlock it?
thank a lot. I have just completed
Getting message telling me that iTunes can’t use “My iPhone” (which is the profile name I originally gave it” because it requires version 8.0 or later. Any suggestions?
The instructions work just fine. We did the whole process about 3 times. Make sure when using Quickpwn to hold and release the Power and Home buttons exactly as you are told. The last 2 steps are very important, until your upgrade the MobileInstallation file and delete the the plist file, you won’t see Installer and Cydia. Good luck
I got the same message as malik. Won’t let iPhone work with 7.7 tells me to download iTunes 8. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I have the same question as greg and Malik.
I would like to reinstall some of the ipas I have. Has anyone got itunes 7.7 to do this?
Has anyone installed itunes 8 after updating to the new fw and been able to install ipas?
Thankyou for the guide…
…an update from me,
I got ipas to install.
I installed itunes 8
I was able to get ipas to work only after I installed a free app from the appstore.
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Hey does it delete all your data from your iPhone when you do this?
No, Jhakir, it does not delete your data. It will remove all your Cydia/Installer apps, which you’ll have to reinstall, but none of your pictures, SMS messages, VMs, contacts, music or videos will be touched. nor will any apps installed from iTunes.
a) Install Poof if BossPrefs was hidden install BossPrefs if Poof was hidden. Either of these can completely unhide all your apps. If both were used and hidden then move to B.
b) If settings is available, run that. Enable restrictions, disable restrictions. All your apps will be visible. If settings was hidden, move to C.
c) SSH into the iPhone with scp or ssh. If you don’t know how, use this guide. Navigate yourself over to /var/mobile/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.springboard.plist. Respring your iPhone by typing “killall SpringBoard” into SSH or, if you don’t know how to do that, just reboot. All your hidden apps will be visible.
Refer to this website if still dont understand
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Unable to sync with iTunes 7.7 or 8 now. With 7 it tells me that my fw requires 8 and with 8 it tells me it can’t read the contents of my phone and I need to restore to factory settings.
also Total Commander would not let me copy the patched MobileInstalltion file after it let me delete the original. I back it up but TC still won’t let me put it back…says “please turn write protection off”
This sucks hard!
Read these instructions they will simplify things: http://www.thedanosphere.com/?p=107
Work great, able to use cydia and other apps now. Thx alot. By the way, DONT try it unless you are with ATT!
Worked great. Thank you. Can you more clearly explain how one changes the boot logo AFTER completing the jailbreak?
MANY Thanks!
like that…
Thanks for the great instructions. Looks like my iphone 3G is now 2.1 Jailbroken. It removed a couple of apps that I installed when it was a JB 2.0.2, but i’ll try it out to see if I see anything bizzare. The only thing I don’t like is that my boot and restore screens are blank right now :( Will have to jailbreak with WinPwn again when it becomes available for 2.1
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Hmmmmm. So nobody else is having any problems getting Total Commander to allow you to replace the MobileInstallation file with the patched one? Keeps telling me “remove write protection please.”
Oh Duuuuh! My bad. I re-read the instructions very carefully and it worked fine. Sorry for the dumbassness. Thanks for the help.
Anyone can help and tell how to jailbrake iphone 3g via latest 2.1 firmware on windows xp?
in Past I had already jailbroken my 3g Phone with Winpwm-2.5 beta and phone was active and working but after few hours it started freezing and only showing logo screen winpwn 2.5 so I restored iphone factory settings via downloaded latest itunes8 updates 2.1 firmware version. And now phone is running with its original form but its not connecting with itunes8 and when i switch it on it says on screen “NO SIM CARD INSALLED! insert an unlocked and vaild SIM to active iphone”
Waiting for quick reply from you genius guys!
Is this only for AT&T users?
After you jailbreak 2.1…..itunes 8 wont let you sync your phone….any patches for this yet?????
to asif: http://www.quickpwn.com/2008/09/jailbreak-iphone-21.html
I dont think so
Diskaid works MUCH better than total commander, you don’t need a trial and no error messages when replacing files.
I’m also not getting the boot logo, would be nice to have a tutorial on how to get it back.
To gumby! Thanks to given me this link and I am downloading all software at the movement from this link and preparing to jailbreak and following the instruction from this link if any problem occur then I got back you here to find solution.
http://www.quickpwn.com/2008/09/jailbreak-iphone-21.html
As I followed the one instruction from this link below to uninstall iTunes8 to reinstall iTunes 7.7 so after that installation iTunes 7.7 on pc its giving an error when it runs it says “The file “iTunes Library.itl” cannot be read because it was created by a newer verion of iTunes.” so anybody tell me what to do then?
http://www.quickpwn.com/2008/09/jailbreak-iphone-21.html
http://www.quickpwn.com/2008/09/jailbreak-iphone-21.html
After run QuickPWN iPhone 2.1 Jailbreak it reboots my phone and after rebooting it freezes with small apple icon logo in middle screen and same time i run DiskAid_1_5.exe but phone is not connecting with it too and not showing media folder as follow instruction from this link
http://www.quickpwn.com/2008/09/jailbreak-iphone-21.html
Works perfectly fine on 3G iPhone.. originally was on 2.0.2 jailbroken via WinPwn.. followed the instructions exactly (minus the syncing/backing up) and 2.1 is working perfectly fine. I used a custom f/w downloaded from another site because i wanted a bigger root partition size.
my bad, this comment is in relation to the ‘quicker’ method mentioned at http://www.coderetard.com/2008/09/16/how-to-upgrade-pwned-iphone-with-21-custom-firmware-ipsw-windows/
It worked great for me! However I also have no boot logo….can someone reply using my name if you have an answer how to fix this, I will monitor this blog. Thanks!!!!
Guys! my phone with 2.1 firmware has been jailbroken by QuickPWN iPhone 2.1 now!! And thanks for your help specailly GUMBY who provide me this link thanks boddy! http://www.quickpwn.com/2008/09/jailbreak-iphone-21.html
But phone camera resolution is very low and YouTube videos are also playing with very low picture quality it seem like its screen resolution is 256 pixels or less then that and colour quality is less then 16 bit. Is there any way that we can improve the display settings as well as camera settings then please let me know!
Waiting for your quick reply!
Thanks all of you!
This tutorial totally messed up my iphone, everything went ok, the quickpwn process was ok, I got into dfu mode as i should have, with the new device popping up, BUT after quickpwn was done, I noticed that the pineapple logo was still on my iphone, with the progress wheel spinning, then the logo dissapeared while the process wheel still was on, and then, finally after like 3 minutes of spinning, the phone turned off by itseld. THE PROBLEM IS that now when I boot it up, the apple logo is on for like 2 minutes, than the progress wheel starts spinning for like an other 2 minutes in the middle of the screen, like on top of the apple logo, and, when it’s done spinning IT HANGS and stays like that for ever, and finally reboots with a white screen only to go into the same circle again……….. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
16 GB 3G 2.0 of the box, upgraded to 2.1 with itunes 8, windows
worked great thanx!!!!!
all works exellent, but no boot logo any ideas? many many thanks karl. karl_125@hotmail.co.uk
The Windows iPhone 2.1 QuickPWN GUI has been released! It works for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch as well. It’s completely GUI. This link has all the mirrors for it. http://www.quickpwn.com/2008/09/jailbreak-iphone-21-gui-version.html
any ideas how to getta bootlogo bnack without re doing quickpwn
while doing the above task:
“13.Now replace the MobileInstallation file on your iPhone with this patched one for v2.1 firmware.”
I deleted the file instead of replacing it!! I am frittened!!!! Should I be worried? I now tried to Drag and drop the file downloaded(14.Now replace the MobileInstallation file on your iPhone with this patched one for v2.1 firmware.)
It’s giving me a error message… Please remove the write protection. I click on reply nothing…..!!!! what should I do? I just Jailbreaked to 2.1! on a brand new 3G? Can some on please help
thank you from greece.you are the only who explains everything exactly.it just working perfectly
So I Restored the device and re-jailbreak and by pass step 13 and 14! It seems to work just fine! is it imperative to do this step??? Can someone please assist ?
I have trouble opening iTunes. I keep getting this message “THE FILE “iTunes library.itl” CANNOT BE READ BECAUSE IT WAS CREATED BY A NEWER VERSION OF iTunes”
I have trouble running iTunes 7.7 after I UNINSTALLED iTunes 8.I keep getting the message “THE FILE “iTunes library.itl” CANNOT BE READ BECAUSE IT WAS CREATED BY A NEWER VERSION OE iTunes
I have trouble running iTunes 7.7 after I UNINSTALLED iTunes 8.I keep getting the message “THE FILE “iTunes library.itl” CANNOT BE READ BECAUSE IT WAS CREATED BY A NEWER VERSION OF iTunes”
search for *.itl on your computer to find the file and delete it, that will solve your problem
what does it mean when after doing STEP #15,it goes back again to STEP #12?
i can’t do step 3. i am really interested, how to do it, how did all of you this step, if you paid 10 bugs to Apple or what …
a can’t do step 3. i am really interested, how did all of you this step. did you pay 10 bugs to apple or what?
i don´t know what happend but the process with the QuickPwn v1.2.0 never ends, i wait for 5 hours but nothing happend, now the iphone is complety blocked, i get the recovery mode but itunes don’t do anything. I don´t know what to do, somebody can help me? I´m really worried because the iphone seems to be broke downs. Thanks.
dude read the article there are two updates. Try them out if u have problems.
PLEASE HELP! First I took 2.1 firmware in iTunes 8 to my iphone. Then I did everything what´s here. I´m in the step 8. Now my phone is turning on all the time a doesn´t do enything else!!!
After few hours blocked, totally stuck on recovery mode step I finally got it. It was an issue with my USB port.
It works in less than 15 minutes for the full process on another computer.
Hope it could help some of you.
hey ummYeah i have a iphone Old version haha
and it was version 1.1.2 and since the week just gone i couldnt recive any texts or phone calls so because it was jail broken no 1 wanted to no so i spoke to this man in my local mall and he updated to to version 2.1 and it worked perfectly for 1 hr then restarted its self and then ever sine i go to turn it on and will load on the apple logo for 2 mins then just freeze there and like i keep restarting it and still no luck any 1 help me pleasE? :o