iPhone Dev Team unleashes Pwnage Tool 2.0

Sort of. Pwnage Tool 2.0 can't handle 3G iPhone SIM unlocks just yet, though jailbreaking should work just fine, and we're also faced with the teensy little problem of the Dev Team's server being totally destroyed by downloads already -- mirror please? -- but the friendly little jailbreak app has finally been unleashed upon the earth. We'd never suggest trying out software like this right out of the gate, but, um, let us know how it goes, yeah?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Update: We're seeing mixed results so far in the comments, but no bricked phones to speak of. Always a good thing. Oh, and plenty of mirrors to be found in the comments, thanks guys!

Update 2: Looks like 2.0.1 is already out with a few fixes!

[who? @ Jul 19th 2008 7:20PM]

FIRST of all, I will jailbreak my iPod touch, then, I shall play Playstation on it!

[deyanimay @ Jul 19th 2008 8:07PM]

second of all you fail

[who? @ Jul 19th 2008 8:11PM]

Oh, come on. I would say it was a partial fail. 20% fail tops.

[deyanimay @ Jul 19th 2008 8:16PM]

ok i'll give you that much, byw i did not low rank you.

[who? @ Jul 19th 2008 8:20PM]

Thnx

[deyanimay @ Jul 19th 2008 8:24PM]

np

[deyanimay @ Jul 19th 2008 8:26PM]

its supposed to be *btw not byw srry

[Steffen Jobbs @ Jul 19th 2008 9:11PM]

That's cheating. You're hedging your bets. Be a man and take the risk.
Partial fail = FULL FAIL

[jupiterthunder @ Jul 19th 2008 9:36PM]

@Steffen

Partial fail = full fail. Sorta like iPhone 3G?

zing!

[deyanimay @ Jul 19th 2008 9:48PM]

oooooooooo burn

[Pengadget @ Jul 19th 2008 10:22PM]

@ Jupiterthunder

Well apparently the iPhone 3g fail didn't stop 3+ million people from buying it. I (through a corprate viewpoint) would call it success. Just incase u havent done the calculation, ill do a minimal one for (att standpoint):

3000000 (iphones Bought) * 24(months in 2 year contract)* 70 (minimum plan price) = 5,040,000,000 or 5.04 bill.

[Tony @ Jul 19th 2008 10:44PM]

@ Pengadget

Well, first of all woooosssshhh.

Also, from a "corporate" stand point, I would be more interested in how much the iPhone has cost ATT before wanting to know the profits. Since cost comes first and profits come second this is always more important.

I noticed your "math" did not include the cost of the iPhone itself, subsidies to Apple, the cost of service provided to customers over a 24 month agreement, marketing costs, or general overhead.

[Steffen Jobbs @ Jul 19th 2008 11:34PM]

@Jupiterthunder

Maybe you're right about Windows Mobile phones being better than the iPhone. I know my avatar certainly loves his WinMo 6.1 handset. He still does WinMo programming work for Microsoft. And he's also happy to accept his salary in bananas.

Ouch! That must smart a bit.

[jupiterthunder @ Jul 20th 2008 1:43AM]

@Steffen and Pengadet

I've nothing against iPhone. But Steffen set it up. I just hit it out of the part.

For the record. WinMo would be a huge step up from the Motorola L2 that I'm using.

[JeffM @ Jul 20th 2008 3:15AM]

@Pengadget- I wonder how many lemmings make it to the sea each year...

[SaNcTuS @ Jul 19th 2008 7:19PM]

lol it didn't even download for me. It just went from "starting..." to finished, but the files is 0 bytes...Once i can get it to download, I'll upload to my site and I'll post the link here. :)

[iPhoner @ Jul 19th 2008 8:26PM]

Here is a mirror in case anyone is having troubles downloading:
http://www.iphone-hacks.com/2008/07/19/iphone-dev-teams-pwnagetool-20-released/

[Steffen Jobbs @ Jul 19th 2008 9:14PM]

Don't do it. Such a wonderful device doesn't deserved to be vandalized. Keep it forever virgin.

[kccboy2004 @ Jul 19th 2008 9:53PM]

this is disgusting behaviour if you ask me. this is not what Steve Jobs nor Apple had intended.

This is an ILLEGAL activity.

If ANY of you lot were truly loyal to Apple beyond your own pocket you would desist from this.

TRAITORS !!!!

[oki @ Jul 20th 2008 4:51AM]

@kccboy2004

whats illegal about it?

[Kyle @ Jul 19th 2008 10:20PM]

@kccboy2004

Nub, jailbreaking your own phone is not illegal, it IS your phone, its not apples once u buy it. hell you can go hoem and smash it up if u want, its yours.

[deyanimay @ Jul 19th 2008 10:43PM]

Doesn't at&t have to provide you with and unlock code or something if you ask. I think there is a law saying that.

[deyanimay @ Jul 19th 2008 10:45PM]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061124-8280.html

[Tina Darby @ Jul 20th 2008 12:04AM]

@Steffen Jobs
You, yourself, will also forever be a virgin

[Bob-B @ Jul 20th 2008 1:01AM]

OH MY GOSH, this is such a tease for us millions of PC users! This sucks.

[Carl Vitullo @ Jul 20th 2008 1:03AM]

kccboy, it's not a religion.
it's a goddamn computer company.

FUCK loyalty. if their product is missing a feature, i will be DAMNED if somebody tries to stop it from being added.


sorry for caps.

[elbow @ Jul 20th 2008 1:30AM]

Sorry to throw a bit of cold water on this, but unfortunately, all the cool 1.1.x apps that you can get from Installer won't run on 2.0 - d'oh!

Just FYI - after the 2.0 Pwnage is complete (def. not as easy yet as Ziphone/iNdependence), what you're left with is an icon for Cydia, which is the new replacement for Installer. It's still early days - most of what's available so far inside Cydia is unix tools & a few cosmetic skinning things. Nothing super-yummy yet like VideoRecorder, IntelliScreen, etc, etc. (but I'm sure that stuff will be coming, right? right??)

(No disrespect to the dev team meant, just wanted to set folks' expectations...)

[joshua @ Jul 20th 2008 6:37AM]

To all you out there who think this is bad.
I have and iPhone 1st gen, and have had for a year.
however i live in a country that was yet to receive it until july 11th.
I have unlocked mine but deleted installer and i'm not running anything non apple or app store on it. how do you think i should go about getting an iPhone if it is'nt in my country i want it for a Phone not an iPod so unlocking using this is the only way i can get apples phone.

[kccboy2004 @ Jul 20th 2008 10:14AM]

sorry for posting this here...but I know that a lot of learned OSX user frequent this blog. I want to ask a question:

Anybody know if you can get the free software "Lotus Symphony" for OSX. It is available for Windows and for Linux. I thought that this was multi platform software and figured that because there are so many developers out there developing for OSX that this would be out.

I love Symphony, and like to exercise my choice of the Office software I use.

[Aguiluz @ Jul 19th 2008 7:19PM]

Pineapple...

....

[jason @ Jul 19th 2008 7:21PM]

ok

[Alan @ Jul 19th 2008 7:23PM]

So can it at least jailbreak iPhone 3Gs?

[computer.dude.28 @ Jul 19th 2008 7:26PM]

considering that the article says it can't handle 3G iPhones just yet, I would assume not.

[thatrotierkid @ Jul 19th 2008 7:26PM]

RTFA

[HOOPER @ Jul 19th 2008 7:27PM]

"Pwnage Tool 2.0 can't handle 3G iPhones just yet..."

[ghostfish @ Jul 19th 2008 7:30PM]

Actually I think it jailbreaks 3G iPhones it just can't unlock them. This being based on what I've read the past week on the iPhone dev team blog.

[Alan @ Jul 19th 2008 7:31PM]

Yes, but the link on the words "Pwnage Tool 2.0 can't handle 3G iPhones just yet" leads to Engadget's article on saying how the Pwnage Tool 2.0 won't be able to UNLOCK the iPhone 3G, not unable to jailbreak it.

[computer.dude.28 @ Jul 19th 2008 7:32PM]

ghostfish,
Jailbreak = unlock.

[who? @ Jul 19th 2008 7:33PM]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it can jailbreak, but not unlock.

[Alan @ Jul 19th 2008 7:35PM]

computer.dude.28
jailbreak=/=unlock

[Khris @ Jul 20th 2008 1:23AM]

If you're getting an error 6 while trying to restore the modified firmware in iTunes and the pwnage tool fails to put your iPhone 3G into DFU mode, you'll need to do the following:

mkdir “~/Library/iTunes/Device Support” where ~ is your user directory (usually your name)

Leave your iPhone unplugged until the pwnage tool tells you to plug it in.

[mishap @ Jul 19th 2008 7:27PM]

here's a mirror!

http://rapidshare.com/files/130983920/PwnageTool_2.0.zip

[Michael @ Jul 19th 2008 7:31PM]

any one got another download link to it?

[Ryan @ Jul 19th 2008 7:27PM]

mirrored already.

http://thebigboss.org/repofiles/nonrepo/PwnageTool_2.0.zip

[Anthony Martinez @ Jul 19th 2008 7:30PM]

It will Jailbreak the 3G, just not unlock it. They should have an update that will unlock soon though. Please post if anyone has any issues with their phones once they install this.

[computer.dude.28 @ Jul 19th 2008 7:30PM]

considering jailbreaking ipod touch 2.0 but what are the real advantages of jailbreaking a touch now there's the app store. Are there better free applications?

[Bassir @ Jul 19th 2008 7:33PM]

I'm pretty sure we'll see lots and lots of pirated applications now.

[Seth Porter @ Jul 19th 2008 7:39PM]

Well, everything from Installer is free and there are quite a few apps in there that arn't offered in the App store. A popular one is summerboard, in which you can theme your iphone with custom backgrounds and icons. But yeah, there are tons of apps on installer so it would be beneficial to be able to pull apps from installer and the app store. That's why a jailbreak for 2.0 firmware and iphone 3g is important to many people, even if they are using the carrier designated by apple. ATT is sweet so i don't even know why people jailbreak to use on t-mobile. tmobile is almost as a big a joke as sprint.

[Alan @ Jul 19th 2008 7:41PM]

I really doubt we are going to see any of the applications that normally cost money in the app store be pirated, at least anytime soon. All the applications are wrapped with Fairplay DRM.

[StevenGlansburg @ Jul 19th 2008 9:38PM]

To Seth

Wanna know why people use it on T-mobile? Because you pay $75 a month for 1000 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, unlimited data, unlimited text. That would be right around $120 for AT&T. T-mobile also uses AT&T's 850/900 signal when in roaming so you do have coverage everywhere.