Those with jailbroken iPhones should proceed cautiously before updating to the new 2.0.1 firmware. Released by Apple yesterday, 3G owners that prematurely updated to the new firmware might find their dreams of unlocking in the future dissolved. The creators of PwnageTool, the iPhone Dev Team, have posted an official response on their blog:
We don’t see any major problems with the release that Apple made, but we have not released an update for PwnageTool for it as yet and therefore PwnageTool 2.0.1 will currently not work!
When will that PwnageTool update be coming? Well, the Dev Team doesn’t specify, but they do provide a handy breakdown of the current situation for pwners:
If you own a first generation (2G iPhone), no matter what you do now, you don’t have to worry, the next PwnageTool will get you where you want even if it you prematurely updated. 2G is completely pwned at every conceivable level and you’ll always be OK. But if you own a 3G iPhone and are looking for unlock in the near future, don’t use Apple’s update yet! If your 3G iPhone is on a regular contract and you always plan to be with the carrier then you can update but you will lose the jailbreak and access to third party (non AppStore) applications. If your 3G iPhone is not on a regular contract and you plan to use it on an alternative network to the carrier that supplied it then do not update unless you do it with the impending PwnageTool update. PwnageTool v2.0.1 does not work with version 2.0.1 of the iPhone or iPod update from Apple. We will release an update to PwnageTool when the testing has been completed and all applied changes have been checked for safety.
so all jailbreaking tool will be useless for this firmware update?
so I accidentally updated to 2.0.1 and after u did this safari seems to be allot slower and most of my apps that needed the Internet don’t work very well. I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem and also if I can downgrade from 2.0.1 to 2.0?
@leo: dev team is working hard on an upgrade to PwnageTool that should allow pwnage of 2.0.1 firmware.
@keatonec: have you tried doing a custom restore (shift + restore) of the 2.0 .ipsw file? if you have a 3G i’m not sure if it will downgrade your baseband automatically though.
thanks andrew, so for now we just need to wait for the new release. and it seems Winpwn is also cooking version 2.5.
@Leo: Yup, though I think WinPwn 2.5 might be delayed a little bit, as it uses the same exploits as PwnageTool but with a GUI for Windows users. They’ll need the PwnageTool update before WinPwn will work with 2.0.1.
Think it will be worth the wait- less fussing around. Installer 4 and the 2.0.1 Jailbreak in one with 2.5 WinPwn.
@andrew
What do you mean by baseband? What does that do? I’m new at this whole iPhone thing?
@keatonec
without too much technical explanation, baseband handles phone communication sitting as a subsystem and modifying it a bit makes a phone to be unlocked. let me stand corrected andrew if I am wrong.
@andrew
as for WinPwn and PwnageTool, that makes sense now, WinPwn relies basically on Pwnagetool. thanks for pointing that out.
@keatonec: thanks leo! for a more technical definition, check out The iPhone Wiki page on baseband: http://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Baseband_Device