Now that iPhone OS 3 is here, I am sure you're waiting to unlock or jailbreak it. Well, dev team is quick enough to release the PwnageTool to unlock the first generation iPhone and jailbreak iPhone 3G. So here it is, just follow the instructions and you'll unlock/jailbreak your iPhone in no time.
Remember only first generation iPhone will be unlocked by this. You can only jailbreak iPhone 3G at this stage. So if you're using a different SIM card than your provider then you will be able to use your phone if you jailbreak it now.
- Download iTunes 8.2 and upgrade if you haven’t already
- Download the PwnageTool 3 from here
- Download the OS 3 IPSW
- Make sure both PwnageTool and Restored IPSW is in the same folder
- Run the PwnageTool.app click on Expert Mode from the top menu
- Then select your iPhone type and click the next arrow at the bottom right
- The PwnageTool will find the Restored IPSW
- Select it and click the next arrow at the bottom right
- On the next page, select “General” and click the next arrow at the bottom right
- Untick “Activate the Phone” and leave the rest as it is and click the next arrow at the bottom right
- Keep clicking next until you see two images
- Once you see the images, untick both of them - Boot Logo & Recovery Logo and click the next arrow
- This will bring you back to the home screen
- Select “Build” and click next arrow
- This will ask you to select a location to create the Custom Restore IPSW file (iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Custom_Restore.ipsw)
- Save it on the same location (you can save this file anywhere you want)
- This will take a few minutes to create the Custom IPSW file
- Once created please follow the instruction on the screen to put your iPhone on DFU Mode
- Once the iPhone is on DFU mode, iTune will automatically open up and will be ready to restore your iPhone
- Press alt/option and click on restore at the same time to select the custom IPSW you’ve just created
- And you’re done
- And finally Sync with your iTune to get all your data from the backup