Beginners guides
So you have bought your new iPhone and you have heard that you can do much cool things with your iPhone.
But you’ve heard so much things about jailbreaking and unlocking and activating and you simply don’t know where to start anymore.
Well this guide is for you all the beginners. If you have a iPhone 3G or you run firmware 2.0 please check THIIS post !!!
I’m going to explain what jailbreaking, unlocking and activating is. I will also briefly mention the apptap installer and some other things.
Ok let’s go.
1) Activate
A new iPhone without activation is actually nothing more than a nice looking Brick.
You really can’t use it for anything else then call for emergency.
Here comes the activation in place.
It opens your iPhone up for normal operation.
To do this, yo should connect your new iPhone to iTunes so you can officialy activate with AT&T (in the US) and other carriers around the world.
If you chose to activate your phone without doing this the iTunes way, you actually make a very expensive iPod of your iPhone.
In most cases we don’t want to do this so i haven’t created a separate guide for this. Please check the jailbreak or unlock and jailbreak guides.
2) Jailbreak
So what’s jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod touch?
Jailbreaking is the process of gaining access to the iPhone’s root filesystem, this will allow you to install third-party applications on your device.
Why do you want to do this?
If you jailbreak with our guide, a whole new world of iPhoning or iPodding will open up to you, you will be able to install load’s of free customer made games and applications.
If you follow our guide, your iPhone or iPod Touch will be jailbroken and the defacto Apptap installer(where all new app’s will be available) and Cydia installer will be installed onto your device.
Check the guide here.
3) Unlock
What is unlocking?
Unlocking is the process opening up your iPhone for any GSM sim card.
Apple has limited the use of the iPhone to a select few wireless carriers (eg AT&T, Tmobile,etc).
Check the guide here.
4) Jailbreak + Unlock
Check our guide here to combine all of the above processes into 1.
5) Pwn your device
What is pwning?
Pwning your iPhone is the process of making your iPhone or iPod Touch run any firmware you like, this includes the beta firmwares or a custom made firmware with your own bootloader images and software already installed.
Check our winpwn guides here.
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Does Jailbreaking void your warranty on your ipod/iphone?
Yes if voids your warranty. However if you restore to your default Apple will never know.
Greetings Multivnova
I am not a rookie…I have been using installer for the past 7-8 months and it has been working good for me….My quetion is which installer or Cydia installer is better???
I tried to use Cydia installer I am not famailiar with it and I had hard time to figure out how to update sources and I could not find nothing as far as other apps from installer…Would please help me?
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IS it possible to send and receive MMS with the new IPHONE 3G???
nope
i need help, i bought the new iphone3g and am trying to unlock it using liberty. While its trying to go into recovery mode it keeps disconnecting i keep trying and nothing…am i supposed to do all this w the at&t sim card inside?
Hi Marisela,
the iLiberty Process is only for firmware 1.1.4 and not the new iPhone 3G. As of today there’s still no unlock ready for the iPhone 3G. If you would like to jailbreak your iPhone 3G, then i would recommend to check out the new post on how to WinPwn your iPhone 3G.
http://iphonefreakz.com/2008/07/25/winpwn-20-tutorial/
then are they false advertizing bc it says on their site that the software can unlock the new 3g? im very upset..
Can anyone tell me how long we will have software to unlock the iphone 3g?and when can we check if we have new version to unlock the iphone 3g?Thanks Alot
hi, I am still waiting for download music
Thinkin about upgrading my firmware to 2.0 from 1.1.4 and was wondering whats the difference between iLiberty and winpwn?
Just a little confused between the two programs
Hi Deep,
iLiberty no longer works on firmware 2.0.
You will need to use the WinPwn or PwnageTool to get firmware 2.0.1.
If you don’t want to pwn your firmware yourself you can download a pre-made one from http://thepiratebay.org <– just search for firmware 2.0.1 and you will find it.
Thanks Multinova,
Just one more question, I realized that i have the iPhone with tmobile, so when i use WinPwn i need to click on the You tube activation and Activate my phone am i right?
Also is it worth upgrading firmware from 1.1.4 to 2.0?
Thanks for all your help.
Deep
Using winpwn 2.0.0.4 I tried many times to create a custom 2.0.1_5B108 ISPW. Once my device was in DFU mode I shift-click restore and iTunes would start the restore process and after extracting the software it would get to “preparing ipod” stage and then stop with “An unknown error accrued (6)” message. I also tried creating a custom 2.0_5A347 but itunes gave me the same message. I restored to an original ISPW and then switched to my mac using pwange 2.0.2 and it worked like a dream:) Tx dev-team.
P.S. (use macs to hack I could have saved 2h that way)
Using winpwn 2.0.0.4 I tried many times to create a custom 2.0.1_5B108 ISPW. Once my device was in DFU mode I shift-click restore and iTunes would start the restore process and after extracting the software it would get to “preparing ipod” stage and then stop with “An unknown error accrued (6)” message. I also tried creating a custom 2.0_5A347 but itunes gave me the same message. can you help me where am i going wrong what should i do
Dude, I got that error message many times myself. Look at the post above to see what worked for me.
Or you can use QuickPwnGUI120 That worked like a charm for me on windows.
i bought my iphone 3g unlocked ready to work but when i put my sim and run bootneuter it appears repair needed cant receve or make calls
so what do i do now???? 
Hello!
I has bought an iPhone with cancellation payment (100 Euro) in Orange France, and now need some help to unlock it. Unfortunately I already leave France and can’t get the unlock code via regular mail.
I have already pass the “charge call” procedure #124*secret code# 5 days ago, but there no any unlock codes back to me. How many time does it take to recive mail (or what) to get SIM-free phone? Who knows? What should I do, step by step? Please.
Thanks!
I tried this method, but it didn’t work for me. I did something bad, I think.
My iphone now is a black brick.
What can I do, to restore?. Can I restore to 1.1.4.
Or another chance. Thanks a lot.
Please send an email.
It was solwed with Orange France
I had read this method work only for French carriers. Is that so?.
Any suggestion?.
The iphone is alive, but it’s in a loop, it not show anything on the screen.
I think the QuickPwn-GUI wrote the bootloader, It could be?
Thanks.
It was done!
After call in Orange, wait (for nothing) 5-6 days (they have told adout 2 days). There NO any e-mails after it, just restore yours iPhone in iTunes 1-st with Orange SIM, then with new. Thats all, for me it works ok.
Guys, I got alive again my iphone. Only to do is power off, press home button, iphone status now is in recovery mode, the itunes discovery it in this mode. Then it possible do a restore. It’s all.
Other point to consider, when it’s restored, the baseband was locked. With utility BootNeuter 2.10 in the iphone (install from Cydia). It get the version’s baseband, choose Unlock and Neuter. That’s all. And the carrier is recognized again.
Arms.
ok jailbroke my 3g, using t-mo sim in it and having trouble with edge, the E signal is there but hard to stay active any help?
Hi I am a relative new user to iPhone. I have an official t-mobile contract but is it interesting for me to jailbrake, I read that it should be possible to download a lot of apps that are not in the Apples appstore. What would be te best jailbrake to use?