Dev Team Demos iPhone 3GS ultrasn0w Unlock, Hacker Releases iPhone 3GS purplera1n Jailbreak
There has been so much jailbreak/unlock news as of late, it’s enough to make your head spin. So let’s end this week with two more tidbits of news from the community.
The Dev Team has released yet another demo video. This time they are showing off their iPhone 3GS 3.0 ultrasn0w unlock. Please keep in mind for the unlock to work you cannot update to 3.1 — and yes, this includes the 3.1 beta.
It’s pretty well known in the jailbreak community that the Dev Team delayed releasing their iPhone 3GS jailbreak for their own reasons. Well someone else has stepped up to the plate to bring you a iPhone 3GS jailbreak alternative. iPhone original hacker, George Hotz, has released purplera1n which is currently only available to Windows users (not Windows 7 though). Mac users don’t panic, your version is coming soon!
In his latest blog post, not only does George explain the steps you must take to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS, he is pretty vocal on why he has decided to release purplera1n to the public.
Normally I don’t make tools for the general public, and rather wait for the dev team to do it. But guys, whats up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played. We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes. It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the “last” hole in the iPhone. What last hole…this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week. Also your purplera1nyday files ensure that you can always get back to a jailbroken state, so if you have it it’s just a matter of tools.
Has this brought back to life a heated rivalry? It’s time to sit back, relax, and jailbreak!
And as always, TiPb and staff take no responsibility for any bricking, failures, security risks, etc… that may occur during the jailbreak process. Proceed at your own risk!
[Not iPhone-friendly video -- we know -- please encourage them to post video to YouTube in the future. Thanks to everyone who sent these in!]
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Hopefully I’ll be home early enuff tonite to try this out. Man I need a laptop!
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Tried purplera1n on me and my wife 3GS and it works fine. We both have T-mobile running on 3.0. Now its time to sell my Old 16GB 3G on Craigslist! Surprise a hacker has not challenged the Dev team sooner. There teasing us with theses videos just watching there stat counter stats skyrocket, sitting back laughing at how great they are.
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
working on it right now!!
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
yes have cydia now!!!
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
arggh windows 7 on my pc and snow leopard on my mba time to start calling friends
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
jeeez i just wanna jailbreak the thing… i want my OWN backgrounds, i DON’T want stupid apps like stocks and stuff…
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
all i want is sb settings
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Dont wanna get to attach to the jailbreak and then 3.1 comes along and messes it all up!!! Going to def consider it!
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Notice that the video was captured using an iPhone too!
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Hi guys I am not able to jailbreak on windows vista. Or can someone please point the way, thanks
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Nice to see a windows version of a jailbreak realeased first rather than the Mac first and the letting 90 to 95% of the world hang in the balance.
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 pm
I have been trying to get the jailbreak to work on it for hours on end tonight. Screw it. Restoring and re syncing it and I will wait for the iPhone Dev-Teams Jailbreak
July 4th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Got out an old laptop with xp sp 1 and put itunes on it and ran purple rain and it worked great Wouldnt work on 7 (as Stated) or vista
July 4th, 2009 at 12:19 am
I got it to work on my vista steps: 1. run purplera1n when it says wait for reboot if it does not exit purplera1n and restart it and it works!! **make sure itunes is running to…
July 4th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
looks faster!
August 10th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I do not have itunes 8.02, firmware 30 is there a site avail where i can go and download that old software?
November 12th, 2009 at 3:48 am
I am getting iphone 3Gs from US, so i want to know whether it can be used in INDIA , by unlocking ? Plz Reply .