ZiPhone: jailbreak any version iPhone out of the box, including 1.1.3
By Ryan Block 
posted February 12th 2008 1:10AM
posted February 12th 2008 1:10AM
[Thanks, Tyler and Eugene]
Update (2/13): Looks like v2 is out, and it's capable of downgrading the bootloader from 4.6 to 3.9. Thanks, Yuri.
first post im tryin this out now
Didn't work out too well, did it?
If you'd used punctuation we'd have higher regard for you.
ZiBiT would let us know...however he was writing that post from his iphone...and sadly...
two... one...
Freaking damn unlockers.
It just keeps getting better and better!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU GUYS!
Doesn't work under Vista. Vista pops up the "ZiPhone v1.0 has stopped working" as soon as I run the exe with the -j option.
omg this freaking bricked my iPod touch.
Doesn't work, I did a fresh upgrade to 1.1.3 on my iPod Touch and tried the CMD version and GUI version on Vista, and the CMD version on XP, neither worked. I tried it with ituneshelper.exe enabled and disabled, with iTunes open and closed, nothing worked. Always hangs at the Please Wait 45" Any help?
Hey vdogg89, I'm pretty sure your ipod touch isn't bricked. Just press and hold the "home" button and the "sleep/awake" button for about 10 seconds until the apple logo comes on, and when the logo comes on, let go of the "home" button, but continue to hold the "sleep/awake" down until it comes up to the menu. The problem was, that you started in the updated iPod Touch firmware of 1.1.3 when you should have done it with 1.1.2. With 1.1.2, the iPod would restart automatically, but with 1.1.3, you have to manually reset. But you should have a successfully Jailbroken iPod now. If not, try it again after a apple firmware restore, wait for an hour or so, then reset it with the technique I just taught you. Good luck bud.
*******CORRECTION*********
let go of the "sleep/awake" button and not the "HOME" button. I'm soo sorry if this made someone mad...
Kyle man, thank you so much. My phone was stuck on the Apple logo and your little hard reset helped me out tremendously. Well, not at first, but after your correction lol. Thanks!
please help! i bricked my ipod touch using ziphone. i'm pretty much computer illiterate and some how have the whole thing going bonkers. my ipod wont register on itunes. it won't turn off (yes i tried the 10 plus second thing) and the screen is filled with white text. i just want it back to normal settings at this point. can anyone offer advice?
hey lazyd, I think I had the same problem and I hope this helps you and anyone else with it. do the reset thing by holding down both buttons while the ipod is connected to your computer. once the text goes away hold down the home button. soon your computer and itunes should figure out what's going on with your ipod and itunes will be able to restore it. just let it do that and you'll be fine.
Ziphone works great under Vista 64. I guess this will boost apple iphone/itouch sales! I think now I'll get another iphone, this time 16gb.
the screenshot scared me for a sec but it appears that there is a mac version.
where's the mac version?
I haven't tried unlocking my phone because I havent seen or found any unlocking softwares out that I can use without all the super complicated stuff to do to unlock
@Nick:
On the website you get when you click the read link it says there is a mac and windows version available for download.
now if only i had an iphone...
The first people downloading it are the ones who buy iPhones, unlock them and sell them in Canada for $700 calling it an excellent 'value'.
Sorry for replying to myself but I just checked ebay and it has suddenly been flooded with $30 unlocks for 1.1.3 iPhones...
Sorry for replying to myself but I just checked ebay and it has suddenly been flooded with $30 unlocks for 1.1.3 iPhones...
Curse your commenting system Engadget, its as bad as the eBay iPhone unlocking sellers.
errr ... What is iPhone?
A shoe.
our savior
a phone with an i
a miserable little pile of secrets?
it is an iPod phone
where is the mac version?
link?
Does this work with the touch? I'm assuming it would, but if anyone's tried it let me know before I upgrade to 1.1.3 and lose all my apps.
yup, works on touch 1.1.3, even with software upgrade
Many comments to his blog post say it isn't working with the iPod touch 1.1.3, FWIW.
ziphone works!!!
I just unlocked my iphone with his tools
so cool....
do you have a mac- if so where can i download it?
Hey, man. Don't download his Mac. That's just not cool.
pardon my ignorance, but will this jailbreak a iTouch if i only select jailbreak (no unlock + activate)?
ooops, someone beat me to it
It's fairly easy (at least it was for me with my ipod touch) Just do a restore in iTunes and ur back to normal.
Yeah, you can just go into iTunes and hit "restore"
works like a charm....took a little more than 45seconds and BAM i was browsing installer.app
Wow that was fast, and thanks!
Did you try this on your Touch yet?
too bad you guys posted this like 24 hours after it was actually released!
i had this yesterday morning, sent an e-mail informing you guys of it, and waited all day just to see how long it was gonna take for you guys to post it.....you guys are getting slow!
You must be thinking of some other site or another piece of software -- this has only been up for a few hours and we never got a tip from any TazgodX.
I never got the point of people announcing to the Engadget community that you sent a tip in ages ago and didn't get any credit for tipping them off.
What's the point? Just think about the result: everyone is informed in the end.
It's not like you developed the program, you just stumbled upon it.
i didn't want credit for this, it is not my app. if you want to give credit give credit where its due. to zibri! he wrote it. or if you believe the Iphone-dev team, its their tool which he stole. whichever story you want to believe believe it. but believe me when i tell you i was talking about this at 10:30AM CST in #iPhone on EfNet with someone else, and have logs to prove it.it was posted here at 12:30AMCST the next day.
I was just trying to get the news out. you guys seriously need to calm down with the bashing.
You think *this* is bashing?
I guess you've never read a thread where someone asks "does it play doom?"
...or "does it blend?", or "I, for one, welcome our robot...", or irreverent, die-hard Apple/Microsoft fanboys...
No one likes any of you. Go away.
I for one welcome our credit-hungry overlords. :D
@ trevor,
You make an interesting comment, but will it blend?