iPhone Dev Team's yellowsn0w

Submitted by Dan; December 22, 2008

Update #2: The 3G unlock video is live

Update: Sometime before Christmas, iPhone Dev Team member MuscleNerd will demonstrate the unlock along with some other pwnage stuff. The demo will be streamed via Qik and it'll be announced via MuscleNerd's Twitter account just before the broadcast goes live. We'll keep you updated!

Today, iPhone Dev Team announced their iPhone 3G unlock, codenamed "yellowsn0w." It's completed and being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity of Quickpwn. Yeah, you heard right. The dev team is targeting for a release date in New Year's Eve 2008. This unlock is available to iPhone 3Gs with the 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, You were warned not to update. Your iPhone 3G will also require to be jailbroken.

We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed yellowsn0w. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.

The target release date for the unlock is New Years Eve 2008.

This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.

The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone.

In addition, Apple pushed an update to Mac OS X users, 10.5.6. Lots of users who updated have been having trouble with DFU mode. iPhone Dev Team believes Apple didn't do it on purpose but a bug in the kernel, is causing the problems.

Lots of users have been experiencing problems with the use of DFU mode after applying yesterdays 10.5.6 system update. We believe this behavior is due to a kernel bug not a specific countermeasure by Apple. Possible fixes are (try at your own risk!) -

Replace the following plugin kexts from within IOUSBFamily.kext with the ones from 10.5.5 and then rebuild kextcache (if you dont understand this, then you shouldnt attempt it!)
/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBHub.kext /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext
Use a USB hub in-between the DFU device and the Mac and insert/reinsert the iPhones USB cable.

Use a PwnageTool created .ipsw on Windows! Oh the irony!

Stay tuned for New Year's Eve!!

Tags: DFU, iPhone 3G, iphone 3g unlock, iPhone DEV Team, yellowsn0w

Well i´m not gonna blame iphone-hacks but you could have warned us for 2.2 in a better way. As soon as your post came up with quickpwn released for 2.2 i upgraded and then after i checked the iphone dev team page and saw that it contained a baseband update and i was like oh my god.. You could have made a post about the baseband update before or written something about it in the same post but now I learned it the hard way not to check on just one source

# jawsjawss 2008-12-17 18:19

which firmwares contain 2.11.07 or lower baseband?

# red_spider 2008-12-17 20:34

to jawjawss firmware 2.11.07 baseball is 2.1 or lower firmware. Im glad to see that they have completed this as i bought my iphone last week :) and didn't update to 2.2.my question is when we restore with 2.1 will it erase the unlock just like a jailbreak or will it be permanent?

# mondul 2008-12-17 21:00

I have a 3G iPhone... I updated to 2.2... Is there a chance for downgrading the baseband? Even if it is via hardware?

# kobi67 2008-12-18 01:01

i was thinkin abt updatin it for a app..
i jut did the fake ver. change..
lol i didnt update :)
sorry for those who did...
lets hope they find a way for the 2.2fw

# SumoX 2008-12-18 04:39

Thank God I didn't update. This is one of the few times being lazy helped me.

It's going to be a long 2 weeks because I really want to try out SimCity, but it's worth it. I have a very, very long flight coming up and I'll actually be able to use my iPhone (the card that allows me to use China Mobile specifically states not to use Airplane mode, but I don't know why).

Great work, team. And thank you.

# Chou Chou 2008-12-18 14:21

@SumoX - The Gevey3g card says to avoid Airplane mode because if you turn the mode on and off the signal won't come back, you'll have to restart the phone. So actually there's no problem having it in Airplane mode, just remember to hard restart.

# cruelgangsta 2008-12-18 15:25

wow guys... its really awsum news!!!!!!!

# DevTeam Rocks 2008-12-18 18:36

Note to Apple: You can't stop the dev team. Stop trying.

# DevTeam Rocks 2008-12-18 18:37

Note to Apple: You cant stop the dev team. Stop trying!!!

# iphonemaster 2008-12-18 18:37

Note to Apple: You cant stop the dev team. Stop trying.

# iphonemaster 2008-12-18 18:39

Excellent news guys!!! The Dev Team cannot stopped by Apple.

# arabic_:) 2008-12-18 20:35

THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL THE HARD WORK THE AMAZING DEV TEAM

and i wish that the Baseband 2.11.07 is really 2.1 v

:) i wish you good time people

bey

# Hebele 2008-12-19 06:19

IOUSB DRIVER macos 10.5.5

http://rapidshare.com/files/17...

# luvs2spooge 2008-12-22 21:52

and still no second gen ipod touch hacks :(

# wargamedt 2008-12-26 14:29

Do I need a mac for this or is there an xp/vista version coming out also at the same time?

# patrick 2008-12-28 20:45

i updated to firmware 2.2 and would dearly love to unlock my fone but cannot find the winpawn file to do so!!!!!!can anybody help????

# Rey Perez 2008-12-31 08:11

Bought my phone, already has 2.2 on it... anyway to rollback to 2.11.07? If not, I'll just have to patiently wait for my SIM card hack to come in the mail... /sigh.

# henry 2008-12-31 14:44

ye ha cant wait bring it on team! freedom

# cruelgangsta 2008-12-31 16:06

stil waitin:S

# cruelgangsta 2009-01-01 01:50

where is it:SSSS

# Erjon 2009-01-08 16:04

Great work with the unlock. I did try about 4 days agow and works, just wanted to say thanks to all and one thing, if u have problem with the unlock check the clock settings(must be within your location), that did the trick for me. I'm in albania and i used "rome" meridian. Yellowsn0w v.094

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