GeoHot, the same person who created yiphone.org last week, has released a DFU tool for the iPhone. It uses an implementation of the same exploit that is present in PwnageTool 2.0, and allows you to do whatever you want at the iPhone’s DFU level. On his blog, he says:
“Also, heres why a certain person claimed the DFU was the key. You could, without any exploits, upload the 114 iBoot(even to the 3g), the 114 kernelcache(ok, this crashes on the 3g), and a hacked ramdisk. But the filesystems don’t mount. And even if they did, you’d need a way around sig checking.
Here is a little program(with source of course) to run whatever you want at the DFU level; an implementation of the dev pwnage 2.0 exploit. Pass it a binary file, it will start executing at the start of the file(no file formats to deal with). I’ll leave it to dev to explain the exploit used.”
You can read the full article here.Â
If you want to do some testing on your own, here’s the tool, but do so at your own risk, as I doubt that there is much support for this tool.
soo. whats this do exactly, again?
I’m not entirely sure. I know it’s not a tool for the average iPhone user, but it has value for hackers. I’ll try to get some more information on it.
so this is a little off topic but.. is there ANYTHING right now to use for pwning/jailbreaking a 2.0 1st generation iphone? and if there was would the app that makes the speakers louder work?
also has anyone tried that trick of poking the speaker with a needle like multi released a while back? what about you multi? did you ever try it? did it work?
im sorry.. FOR WINDOWS!
Currently, there is not a program that is able to pwn/jailbreak the 2.0 software that runs on Windows. WinPwn will be able to do it once it is finished, but the site is currently down.
And you could try various volume boosters available via Installer, if you’re on 1.1.4.
And yes, I tried penetrating the plastic film in the speakers and experienced a great increase in volume from my iPhone’s speakers.
you did this to a 2g or 3g phone? and exactly how did you modify it?
I did it on the 1st generation iPhone, and I simply took a sewing needle and stuck it through all of the holes on the left side (speaker). You’ll feel a small resistance as the plastic breaks.
oh! thanks for the tip! has anyone been brave enough to try this with the iphone 3g? just kidding, i dont even think it has that film..
I wonder… why did Apple put a plastic shield in front of the speaker? Probably to shield the precious inner parts of the iPhone against dust etc? Penetrating it with a needle sounds like a bad idea…
I guess it would be helpful to have if and when you decide to take a shower with your iPhone