The iPhone Dev Team have released their much awaited Pwnage Tool which I had talked a lot about here, here and also here and for the first time here.
The iPhone Pwnage tool can be used to flash your iPhone so that you can jailbreak it to install and run any of your favorite native iPhone application as well activate and unlock your iPhone to use it in any compatible GSM networks.
The Pwnage tool as the iPhone Dev Team had told us essentially consists of two tools which are:
iPwner - tool to make your iPhone/iTouch “pwned”. You will have to use this tool just once.
IPSW Builder - by using this tool you will be able to modify the .ipsw filesystem, i.e. pre-jailbreak, pre-unlock, pre-activate, and create a complete custom .ipsw installation. In case you are already unlocked you can even tell it to disable the baseband update, just in case. Restore or Update from iTunes with custom .ipsw file.
The iPwner and IPSW Builder are both available as simple buttons when you launch the iPhone Pwnage tool.
To get going with the tool all you need is an iPhone running firmware 1.1.3/1.1.4 and then use the iPwner tool to "pwm" your iPhone, use the IPSW builder tool to create a custom .ipsw installation which is jailbroken, unlocked and will come bundled with additional software which can then be used to restore or update your iPhone from iTunes to give you a jailbroken, activated and unlocked iPhone.
It is important to note here that before hacking your iPhone it is always a good idea to take a backup of your iPhone in iTunes so that in the worst case situation if things goes horribly wrong you can always restore the iPhone.
You can checkout the demo of the iPhone Dev Team's Pwnage tool in action.
As you can see its not a single-click method but appears to be quite simple to use. The tool is currently available for download only for Mac users. However Windows users need not feel disappointed as the iPhone Dev Team in their announcement have mentioned that hacking expert “cmw” has jumped in to port the complete Pwnage Tool to Windows and is currently in final testing stage and could be released within the next 24 hours. So Windows stay tuned here at iPhone Hacks for further updates.
You can download the tool from this link.
Update: IPSWTool to be Released soon to Create Custom iPhone Firmware
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does this REQUIRE you to put the phone in recovery mode? I'm on Windows so I have to wait to try myself. I simply don't like having to install all of my 'extra' software everytime I update and jailbreak. I wish I could just plug it in and pwne it. That way I can just upgrade with an pwned image, hopefully without all of my stuff dissappearing again :/
can you do this if you already jailbroken. I have many apps and dont want to install them again
@urherenow: yes, it does require u to be in recovery mode…if its not, iPwner, the tool to Pwn ur iPhone won't proceed w/ the Pwning process
@zo: yes, I did it on mine which was already jailbroken and my apps were still intact, the only thing you'll notice diff from a user-level is that the apple logo on start-up is replaced w/ a pineapple (for Pwnage)
-Mike
is it completely reversible. And could possible fix some syncing issues
@zo – yeah just restore like you would normally
kinda pointless to do right now since they don't tell us how to build a custom ipsw file with our own customization…
I have a Jailbroken iPhone 1.1.2, can I go to 1.1.4 with Prwn? Any experience?
@ursus – why would you not upgrade to 1.1.4 ? you can use ZiphoneX to do everything for you ?? let's go, get with the times….
Hey Mike & Key,
Thanks for all the clarifications to fellow readers, appreciate it.
Also Key, you can checkout this post:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/04/iphone-ipswtool.html
Folks at the theiphoneproject have announced that they will be soon releasing the IPSWTool tool which will compliment the Pwnage Tool to help you create the custom iPhone firmwares.
cheers!
@IphoneHacks – yeah i see that up. i actually posted my comment the first day this came out. i guess the first Pwnage release was just to show people what they have been working on.
Apple icon changes to pineapple and some other images well I have a question, I've seen snapshots of the actual pwnage software it does have a box to make these custom images an option. I know this is a stupid question but if we don't tick the box, does that mean all images that comes out will be original unlike those that we've seen like pineapple, colurful apple etc?
I just wanted to check and make sure a windows version is coming out soon.
thanks
I've pwnage it.
How do I add apps now? I want to add vnotes.
Do I need to do something with bootloader?
Hey seth,
It appears that you will be able to install apps when the IPSWTool is released which will help you create the custom iPhone firmware.
More details on the IPSWTool is available here:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/04/iphone-ipswtool.html
You can checkout either ZiPhone or iLiberty rather than the Pwnage tool to jailbreak your iPhone as of now. These tools also install the Installer app which in turn will make it easier to install the native applications on your iPhone.
Checkout this post on ZiPhone:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/03/iphone-ziphone3.html
Details about iLiberty available at the link below:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/03/iphone-iliberty.html
Hope this helps.
cheers!
Thank you. I'll wait for the ipswtool then. Is there a mailing list I can subscribe to, to find out?
Hello. I jail Broke iPhone , then i restored iphone and it blocked again. I tried to unlock the iphone by the same way but it didn't help. Could you help me please??
I have tmoblie can I upgrade my software to 2.0 even though it works off a 3G network and not off the Edge network…
thanks
Aaron
Where can i find an IPSW for my 1st generation iPhone updated to 2.0.2 version. I need it for use on WinPWN 2.5 beta. Please help (running windows vista)