How to Install iPhone 2.2.1 Firmware on Jailbroken and Unlocked T-Mobile iPhone

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Update #1: There is now a guide for installing, jailbreak and unlocking the iPhone 3.0 Firmware.

NOTE: This is an update to our Firmware 2.1 Guide, which was an update to our Firmware 2.0 Guide.

Outline

Introduction
Who is this Guide For
Details You Should Know
Getting Started
Applying the Firmware Update
Unlocking the iPhone w/ the 2.2.1 Firmware

Introduction

This document looks long and scary — but it’s not… I just tended towards too much information when writing it so no one went into this process missing the information they needed.

A lot of folks that have Jailbroken iPhones running on unsupported networks (like T-Mobile in the U.S.) usually get fearful of trying to upgrade the firmware of the phone — usually for fear of locking themselves out of the use of the phone or bricking it. Fortunately there are so many people with Jailbroken iPhones now, and the process (thanks to projects like QuickPWN) has gotten so easy, it’s a fairly safe bet now adays.

One of the biggest motivators for applying firmware updates to the iPhone have been new features that have slowly trickled out. Us Jailbroken folks don’t want to get left in the dust.

WARNING: That being said, it is always possible to have a firmware upgrade go bad. While I’ve not seen reports of people bricking their phones into an unrecoverable state, I’m sure it’s possible if you goof the process hard enough. Please backup all data before starting, and if you need your phone for your lively-hood, I’d suggest not messing with the update process unless you need the update.

Who is this Guide For

This guide is written for people using the iPhone on unsupported networks. That includes both Jailbreaking the phone as well as hacking the Baseband so it will connect to a non-supported network. If you have your iPhone on a supported network, but just want it Jailbroken so you can play with it more — I believe all you have to do is run the QuickPWN step and that’s it after upgrading the firmware through iTunes like a normal person.

This guide is also written for Windows users.

Details You Should Know

In order to use your iPhone on a non-official network (e.g. T-Mobile in the U.S.) you have to hack the baseband on the iPhone. This is now done easily using the yellowsn0w application installed via Cydia using the Repository http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/ once your iPhone has been Jailbroken.
While yellowsn0w makes hacking the baseband easy, it does not support the latest baseband, 02.30.03, that is forcibly installed when installing Firmware 2.2.1 from iTunes — that means if you are on an unofficial network with your iPhone, you don’t ever want to install Firmware 2.2.1 directly from iTunes — it will upgrade your baseband to an uncrackable version (atleast not hacked yet) and you won’t be able to connect back to that network.
What you need to do, is use PwnageTool to create a custom 2.2.1 firmware (*.ipsw file) that uses the 02.28.0 baseband (the crackable one) and then flash that custom firmware to your phone.
UPDATE: Updating the Firmware on your iPhone will remove all apps installed via Cydia and Installer — these are unofficial apps and not backed up during the iTunes backup/sync process, so when the device is wiped and new OS installed, those apps will be erased.

Summary

A Summary of the information above is as follows:

If you have a 3G iPhone (2nd Generation), installing the 2.2.1 Firmware updates your baseband to 02.30.03, and blocks your ability to unlock the phone — allowing it to work on unsupported networks (like T-Mobile). You can still Jailbreak the phone however. So until unlocking this phone is supported, hold off on updating it using the normal Apple firmware — if you must update it, you can build your own custom firmware by using PwnageTool (Mac Only).
If you have a 2G iPhone (1st Generation) or a iPod Touch (1st Generation), installing 2.2.1 Firmware is fine — even though it updates your baseband, the way QuickPwn unlocks the phone still continues to work fine. So you are OK here in all cases.
If you have a iPod Touch (1st Generation), you can still apply this upgrade but you can only Jailbreak it while teathered to your computer. So you are still OK here.

I wanted to make sure to cover all that in detail to make sure no one got caught with their pants down (and locked out of their phones).

Getting Started

I am writing this guide using a 1st Generation iPhone (non-3G), on the T-Mobile network with the BlackBerry data plan and all the following software listed. If your setup is similar, you can probably follow this guide to a T. If you have a slightly different network setup, the steps should still work fine, but if you are have a different device, like the 3G iPhone or 2nd Gen iPod Touch, please read the red “Summary” above at the end of the previous section — it seems you might have to hold off on doing this update just yet.

What you will need before we get started:

Download QuickPWN 2.2.5-2 for Windows (15.4mb)
Download iPhone (1st Generation) 2.2.1 Firmware (246mb)
Download v3.9 Bootloader (129kb – Alt. Download: Bootloader v3.9)
Download v4.6 Bootloader (129kb – Alt. Download: Bootloader v4.6)
UPDATE: Have iTunes 8.1 or later installed — 8.1.1 is recommended

NOTE: Here are download links for other firmware images that you might want. Keep in mind that if you are on the 3G iPhone there doesn’t seem to be support for unlocking that upgraded firmware to work on other networks right now (read the red “Summary” above).

Apply the Firmware Update

Now that you have the two files downloaded that you need (QuickPwn and the 2.2.1 Firmware) our first step is to apply the firmware update.

Doc your iPhone, let iTunes sync everything up for you (or sync it manually if you don’t have it setup to sync manually) and then go to the Device node for your iPhone, hold down the Shift key and click the Update button to bring up the file-selection dialog:

Now select the iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw file that we downloaded earlier:

and click Open. iTunes will begin a series of 7 or so stages of applying the update to your phone. This includes uncompressing the IPSW file, installing the software, verifying it and so on. The exact series of little dialog status windows you will see look like the following (in-order):

And after the firmware update is installed and applied, you will see a 10-second notice from iTunes that the phone is restarting:

After your phone has finished restarting, it will re-connect to your computer and iTunes will come up with a scary looking message about an unsupported SIM card that looks like this:

Don’t worry about it though, we haven’t QuickPwn’ed the phone yet, so technically it is locked. So let’s go fix that!

Unlocking the iPhone w/ the 2.2.1 Firmware

UPDATE: If this step doesn’t work for you, we’ve had a few users tell us re-running this portion of the guide with the SIM card pulled out of the phone helped — but many have success just leaving the card in, so if you run into trouble, try both.

Now that we have our iPhone fully upgraded with the 2.2.1 Firmware, we need to fire up QuickPwn to do the dirty work of both Jailbreaking it and unlocking it (cracking the baseband so we can get this thing on the T-Mobile network).

Go find where you downloaded QuickPwn-225-2.zip to and unzip it into a new folder (or in-place if you want, it won’t create it’s own folder), resulting in the following contents:

Then drag and drop the two .bin files (for Bootloader 3.9 and 4.6) into the same dir just so they are easy to find, like this:

Then fire up QuickPwn.

The first screen you will see is the QuickPwn warning (not for commercial use):

Click OK. Now you are instructed to make sure your iPhone is attached to your computer so QuickPwn can find it:

After making sure that step is done, QuickPwn will verify that it can see your iPhone connected to your computer, then ask you to select the iPhone firmware (IPSW file) that we used before in iTunes. In this case it is our iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw file.

Click Browse…, go find it, select it and QuickPwn will do some verification on the file to make sure you selected the right onw:

Once QuickPwn has verified the image you selected was correct, it will let you know and enable the blue “Next” arrow for you, so click it:

Now QuickPwn will ask you what you want it to do for you. In this case we recommend:

Add Cydia
Add Installer
OPTIONAL: Unlock phone (if you are on an unofficial network, like T-Mobile in the U.S.)

Click next when done and QuickPwn will ask you for the Bootloader v3.9 and Bootloader v4.6 files that we downloaded from earlier. Select them:

and after you are done QuickPwn will verify the Bootloaders for you, allowing you to continue:

Now click the blue “next” button and QuickPwn will ask you to make sure your iPhone is still connected to your computer:

After confirming this, click the blue “next” button.

GET READY: The next part of QuickPwn will look like a list of things it’s doing, but it’s actually prompting you to do these items — and they won’t wait for you to read the prompts. So get ready for the next screen to appear:

NOTE: As your phone moves from state-to-state, QuickPwn may move to the next item in the list before the time counts down — that’s OK, go ahead and change what buttons you are holding to correspond with the prompts when that happens — don’t worry about the timer.

You will have about 5-8secs for the first prompt to finish — this is done automatically by QuickPwn for you (putting your phone into Recovery Mode), but then after the highlighted prompt changes to the 2nd item you have to get ready to:

Hold Home for 10 seconds (The round face-button at the bottom center of the phone)
Keep Holding Home, and now start holding the Power button for 10 or 15 seconds (Power button is on the top right corner of the phone)
Release the Power button, but keep holding the Home button for 30 seconds (In reality, the phone moves to the next prompt usually within 15 secs, and you can let go… but just incase wait until the prompt moves before releasing the Home button)

After you are done, your phone is in DFU mode and QuickPwn will take over, installing modified bootloaders, ramdisks and utilities to crack it:

You can now sit back and watch. After QuickPwn is done sending files to your phone, your iPhone will begin displaying status bars processing the new files, the QuickPwn logo screen (with a pineapple on it) and then some baseband cracking UIs that automatically fill out and complete as you watch.

This whole time QuickPwn will be showing you this screen:

And you will just want to wait until your phone is done installing software and rebooting itself. After either 1 or 2 reboots it will eventually stop and just go to the standard charging/locked screen. Give it about 20 secs to make sure it’s done, then swipe your finger across the screen to unlock and viola! You are upgraded to the iPhone 2.2.1 firmware!

Conclusion

Congratulations, you are all done now and your phone is upgraded. In this guide (as opposed to our Firmware 2.1.0 guide) we did not try and do a new fresh install of the operating system, so there is no need to try and restore the phone’s data — we just upgraded the firmware, and the phone is ready to go with all our old data on it.

In fact I would encourage you to re-sync with iTunes after this process is done just to make sure it worked. I was able to sync the phone and make some phone calls right after this guide was written without a problem.

If you did run into any problems, please post below and we’ll try and help out. Be as specific as possible!

Troubleshooting

When we did our Firmware 2.1.0 Guide, a handful of people couldn’t get iTunes or their iPhone to recognize their SIM card after flashing the phone and a few other hickups. Most all those problems were discussed/covered in the Comments section of that guide if you want to review that first before posting here.

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282 Comments For This Post

nandy Says:
February 14th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

thanks alooooooot! works great!!!!!!

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 14th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Good deal, glad to hear it!

n00b Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

The guide works flawlessly

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

n00b,

Good deal, happy iPhone-ing!

christine Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

excellent post again, updated with ease! thanks again!

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

Thank you for the kind words Christine.

will Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

I did everything just like above, i got my phone unlocked, but it keep saying wrong sim card, it reads t-mobile on top, but i can only make emergency calls only, what can i do to change this and use the phone to dial out and use the features?

Thank you for everything, this has helped me alot.

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

Will,

I know in the 2.1 guide some folks actually removed the SIM card, and then went through the entire Firmware upgrade process and then running QuickPwn and then after it was all done, putting the SIM card back in and it worked.

BEFORE you do all that though, hold down the power button and do a full power off… wait for a few mins, then power it back on and see if that clears it’s state.

jamunyea Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 3:49 pm

Hi Riyad:
I use a 2G iPhone. My phone is unlocked, but I am stuck in the emergency screen as Will mentioned above. I checked my version on the iPhone and it says 2.2.1 (5H11). I have a couple of questions 1) Did you apply the firmware update using the old SIM? There is no way I can go to the iPHone summary page on itunes using my T-Mobile SIM. The moment I have my T-Mobile SIM, I see the scary looking page (Unsupported SIM Card). Also does it make a difference if the OS is updated using iTunes or do I run the downloaded version that you have above.
I am stuck in the emergency screen since yesterday and have tried doing this at least 5 times.
Thanks in advance for your help
Jamunyea

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Jamunyea,

I have the 2G iPhone as well (1st gen) and did this whole guide with the T-Mobile SIM in, never removed it and all was right with the world.

That being said, are you sure during the QuickPwn stage you selected the “Unlock” checkbox?

Also have you tried doing a hard-power down as I mentioned to Will, waiting and then powering back on? I saw some people online say that worked for them… you could also try the whole procedure of installing the firmware then quickpwn’ing it with the SIM out.

Also, I *believe* you can use the normal “Restore” button in iTunes to install the firmware, but to be on the safe side I’d suggest using the link in this post to grab it locally first, then use Shift-Click to select it.

jamunyea Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Hi Riyad:
Thanks for the note. Well, I got it to work now. I think a lot of us who are stuck in the emergency screen are there because we do not seem to be updating the Firmware from this blog. Unless the phone is restored to factory settings, I think the rest of the process is not going to work completely. So the most important first step is to update the Firmware using the download link mentioned above.
Regards Jamunyea

will Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 6:48 pm

I have try every possibly scenerio, i have follow every step, i have restore numerous times, in the end is the same thing, i cannot possibly get this iphone unlock, i keep getting the same problem, what else can i do, i have been goin on this for 2 days over 10 each day, with every single one giving me the same result, i had this phone unlocked before, now that i updated the thing, it wont let me unlocked it again, help please.

rubeN Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 7:54 pm

I’ve just got done doing this and it works good. I have a prepaid Tmobile SIM card and my carrier message icon says “no service” I’m thinking maybe the card is not working or expired.

I don’t get the nagging wrong SIM message though when that SIM is inserted.

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 8:41 pm

Will, you don’t have a 3G iPhone by chance do you?

rubeN, keep us posted if a new SIM gets you service again, want to make sure you’re up and running.

rubeN Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

Nah, its a regular 1G 8GB phone. I had tmobile pre-paid running before when I was at 1.1.4. I then have ATT but I will probably have to go back to Tmobile.

will Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 11:28 am

Riyad Kalla, thank you for your reply, but still stock with no luck, I have a first generation iphone 4gb, I had it unlocked before, I have follow everything by the T, the last attempt, i turn off the phone, then when i restarted all the programs were gone, so i restore it again, I do everything with the t-mobile sim card in, but still does not read the sim card, I downloaded all the programs from here, i try different computers, what do you think is the problem.

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 11:35 am

Will my only suggestion at this point would be to try the process with the sim card out and also make sure you are using the firmware linked in this article and not just clicking the “restore” button from inside iTunes.

All the rest of it should work

jamunyea Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Hi Riyad:
Did you manage to access internet using Edge on your iphone with T-Mobile. I did not realize until I stepped out that edge was not working, at home it picks my wireless so did not notice the difference.

Regards
Jamunyea

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 2:42 pm

Jamunyea,

Yes it’s been working fine, are you sure the APN is still set and you have the BlackBerry data plan?

If you used to use the T-Zone hack, you might need to pull that hack app back down again — I don’t have experience with that.

jamunyea Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

HI Riyad:
I do have the blackberry plan, but I am not familiar with APN, what is it?

Regards
Jamunyea

jamunyea Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

Hi Riyad,I also forgot to ask you above visual voice mail. Is it something we have to give up, even this does not seem to be working.

Regards
Jamunyea

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Jamunyea,

Unfortunately, yes you have to give up visual voice mail.

As far as APN, go to Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network, and under “APN” use “wap.voicestream.com” for T-Mobile’s BB Data plan, then you should get edge.

If it doesn’t work right away, try restarting the phone. Look for the “E” up in the header bar.

Lucky Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 12:37 am

Worked like a charm, now I can use that snow and ski report I downloaded. Thanks!!!

jose Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:00 am

ok so i had to downgrade my iphone to a crappy phone but i want to still use my iphone i jailbroke my phone and also tried unlocking it with quickpwn i have 1g iphone with 2.2.1 firmware i did everything with quickpwn used the bootloaders and all and even though i clicked on the unlock box whenever i try switching sims i get the wrong sim message can i actually use another at&t sim or not? maybe thats the problem..? someone help

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 7:06 am

@Lucky, sweetness. Glad it worked!

@Jose, if you are on AT&T, you actually don’t want to “Unlock” the phone, that cracks the baseband to remove the binding to the AT&T network — in your case, if you are on AT&T, you want to leave that intact.

Go back through the firmware install and the QuickPwn process again, but don’t check off “Unlock”. Then you should be all set.

will Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

I have tried with the sim card out, i used everything from this website, i have done everything right, I am really good at this things, but for some reason it just not doing it for me, even if i do it with the sim card out, as soon as i put the T-mobile one in does not work, I don’t know if i should give up, but i been at this for 3 days now, i keep getting the same results no matter how i try it, i have put over ten hours each day, good think im unemployed during the day or else when would i have the time.

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:44 pm

Will,

That really sucks man, I thought we would have gotten it figured out by now… you don’t have any other friends with SIM cards do you on T-Mobile *just* to pop in temporarily and check to see if it registered theirs?

You are also making sure to try hard power-downs and power-ups when putting in the SIM card to make sure the phone reboots right?

michael Says:
February 21st, 2009 at 10:47 pm

upgraded to 2.2.1 with no flaws so far… problem i am having now is itunes wont let me add or delete or drag songs or anything to the ipod. any ideas?

thanks,

-michael

michael Says:
February 21st, 2009 at 10:49 pm

nevermind. i got it. i had the ipod synched to anotther computer all i had to do was delete and sync with this computer. Thanks for everything

christine Says:
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 am

Hey quick question for you,

Ever since updating my phone I havn’t used Cydia or Installer to get any applications or anything, but I was curious as to waht was available and checked it out, and all of these updates came up. Is it safe to update Cydia and Installer?

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 am

Christine,

Yes it’s fine. Both Installer and Cydia do a bunch of self-updated — either catalogs or minor software updates. You can go ahead and let them do their thing.

Kai Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 am

i got to the part where itunes says it is setting up my phone for update and then it just gives me a message saying this iphone could not be updated. an unknown error occured. (1602)

Kai Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:51 am

would be grateful for help,
phone is jailbroken, sitting on ver. 1.1.4,
i personally dont care if its j/b or not,
juss would rather have it on ver. 2.2.1
someone PLEASE help me.
oreo_WC@hotmail.com

jose Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm

hey Riyad i did what you told me to i didnt check the unlock box did everything with quickpwn but still every time i switch at&t sims i still get the whole wrong sim message or whatever… is there anything i can do about that?

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Blast!

Jose there is 1 other thing you could try… you can try normal left-click “Restore” from inside iTunes, this will install the AT&T/Apple standard firmware.

After that is installed, put in your SIM — if it doesn’t even work then (AT&T phone, with AT&T firmware, with AT&T Sim) then there is something wrong with your SIM.

If it *does* work, you could try QuickPwning that firmware to jailbreak it, but not Unlock and that might do the trick.

jose Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm

actually riyad i tried it the same day i downgraded my iphone to my other phone before jailbreaking and unlocking it and it didnt work =/ thats why i decided after to jailbreak and unlock my phone because maybe that would be the only way i could have it back but it never worked so im pretty much stuck till i can upgrade it back or i find a way to pass that “incorrect sim connect to itunes” screen/message

elizabeth Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:57 pm

How many times does the phone reboot itself after the final step? Mine has rebooted several times now, certainly more than twice, and continues to do so– and it doesn’t go past the white apple loader. I don’t want to interrupt the process if this is normal but I don’t want to keep waiting around if there is a problem.

( I have a first gen iphone with tmobile)

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:18 pm

elizabeth,

I think I saw mine reboot twice during the whole process, but I never saw it reboot at the white Apple… each time it rebooted it had just finished up some custom QuickPwn GUI, like unlocking the baseband or jailbreaking the phone — there was already some custom UI that it would show or run through and then reboot.

I never saw it get to the normal iPhone desktop and then reboot from there.

elizabeth Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm

apparently this has happened to other people ie. endless rebooting after process appears to have worked properly–they said you have to do a restore to factory settings from recovery mode, then restore to last good back-up, then do quickpwn…but isn’t this missing a step? wouldn’t you have to either update or restore to the new firmware and then run quickpwn? I’m freaking out.

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:05 pm

elizabeth,

I can’t really say — I am not familiar with the process of getting a phone out of endless rebooting cycles.

But yes, I agree, it does sound like it’s missing a step.

Harris Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

Hi Riyad,

I have an iphone 3g 2.2 already unlocked/jailbroken and I’m on AT&T. Is there a way for me to update to 2.2.1 without losing the unlock or screwing up the phone permanently. I also have Cydia and “installer” installed.

Let me know at harris.najib@gmail.com

Thanks

Harris

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

Harris,

Are you sure about the unlock on the existing phone? The reason I ask is, if you are already on AT&T, why do you need the unlock? The baseband unlock is only necessary when needing to run the phone on unauthorized networks.

So incase you *don’t* have the unlock, and it’s just Jailbroken on AT&T so you can install custom software and the like, using the steps above and QuickPwn *will* still allow you to Jailbreak the phone for 2.2.1 on the 3G iPhone — what it won’t do though is be able to re-unlock the phone if it is infact unlocked.

So if the phone is unlocked and you need it that way — don’t follow this guide — QuickPwn cannot unlock the 3G iPhone yet. But if you don’t need the unlock and just need the JailBreak, you can follow this guide and JailBreak it — putting Installer and Cydia back on it.

NOTE: I would throw out a disclaimer again though — that’s not to say you can’t still bork your phone in the process. I’m not a firmware expert and would hate to have you come back after trying this with news like “turns out I need unlocked baseband, how do I do it?!” and me not really have any help to offer.

If you were on a much-older firmware I’d say it’s worth it, but if you are already on 2.2.0, 2.2.1 won’t help much but it will give you the Exchange sync support that Google is using to provide GCal and Contacts synchronization — so if you don’t need that, no need to upgrade to 2.2.1 right now.

– Out of curiosity, how have you done the firmware upgrades in the past? You said you are on AT&T — did you buy the phone and have just been doing normal upgrades via iTunes? If so, your phone isn’t unlocked and you should be fine with just the JailBreak after the upgrade (which QuickPwn will do for you).

Hope that helps.

Harris Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 10:02 pm

Riyad, thank you very much for the prompt reply. I just got the phone today on Ebay. I am on AT&T, and I travel quiet often. Therefore, I needed a phone that would work on networks outside the US.

The phone came with 2.2 version of the software, and I was prompted to update to the newer version. I actually wanted to update and clicked the “update” button. LUCKILY my internet connection was disrupted and the update was unsuccessful. After reading all these articles about unlocked iphones going useless after the update, I was terrified (imagine my iphone going flat on the very first day)

On the other hand, I do want to keep up with software updates and want to use the phone outside the US. Do you think that any solution is coming up quickly?

Thanks again and good job in addressing so many questions/problems.

Harris

Riyad Kalla Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 10:16 pm

Harris,

Thanks for the clarification. Definitely don’t upgrade it yet — and yes I imagine a resolution to the problem is around the corner. Those iPhone hackers function at an incredible rate. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t already cracked now (I haven’t gone digging) but if not now, then in a week or so.

Either way you aren’t going to be stuck on 2.2 forever.

JOse Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 11:58 am

well i did the update on the firmware and everything i dont know how to upload the firmware from i tunes do i use the old sim card first or what am i suppose to do to get it to do the firmware threw itunes.?

Lucky!13 Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Dude im only 15, and i did this as easily as pie…. Awesome thanx alot!!!!

Julian Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 9:34 am

I already updated to 2.2.1 on the itunes update, but is there anyway that i use the custom restore that it will work and unlock?

Bryan Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

You know…….an odd thing happened…..i followed your directions exactly. I downloaded the firmware through your link…..but after shift-clicking update i selected the firmware…..and after updating i didn’t get the scary message! It was still unlocked without even using quickpwn…..and i don’t think that mine is factory unlocked because when i ulocked it on 2.0 it wouldn’t work before i unlocked……i just thought i would share that…..anyone else have the same thing happen?

Bekir Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

I have installed jailbroke 2.2.1. and before I have upgrade my phone with itune. My network is not working. How can I fix it?

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 10:01 am

@Bryan that’s pretty sweet… no idea why that happened. I’ve seen it *once* when I originally upgraded from 1.1.4 to 2.0, didn’t need to do the unlock, had no idea why, figured it was some firmware magic.

@Bekir, do you mean WiFi or EDGE? If it’s EDGE, make sure you go back to your APN settings and setup the right APN. Instructions here.

Kesha Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 6:38 pm

I just wanted to say thanx for everything. I followed the step by step instruction and it worked flawlessly. I have the 2G Iphone and I paid somebody to unlock it for me at first. I’ve paid $45 and the idiot downgraded my phone to a 2.0 firmware and he told me that to have it upgraded, I will have to pay another $45 because it will lock the phone again and he will have to unlock and jailbreak it again. And he said that even if he was to upgrade it, my phone will not work n e more. So, I took it upon myself to upgrade it since I was missing the Cellular Data Network setting for my T-mobile data plan. N E way. Everything worked and I still have all of my old information. Thanx again guys for everything. I’ve also learned how to put ringtones on the iphone using itunes for FREE!!!! N E way, thanx again guys….you are a life saver………..bye

Adel Hallak Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 6:50 pm

You are a freakin GENUIS Riyado!!

Ana Bahobak Ya Wahesh!!

Thanks pal!

incognito Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 7:17 pm

thxxxxxxx a lot. i had some troubles with my iPhone that wasnt booting but it fixed it. many thx man. very clear

Fuzz Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Riyad,

Fist off thanks for creating such an easy guide to follow; I was trying to upgrade from 1.1.1 on my 1G and during the process of installing the firmware version from the link I got an error message and my phone just displayed the iTunes symbol (not even emergency call). I restored it and it downloaded the newest firm ware from apple and I get the “SIM card is not supported” window because I have my SIM card in from a carrier that doesn’t have iPhones in Canada. How do I install the firmware from the link from this window?

Thank you very much,
Fuzz

Adel Hallak Says:
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 am

I hate it when people ask stupi’ questions. Your answer is up there in this article man, just read it and re-read it carefully. Gosh!

You are a freakin GENUIS Riyado!!

Ana Bahobak Ya Wahesh!!

Thanks pal!

Fuzz Says:
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm

Weird, I looked through the article again and I still didn’t see that I needed to enter DFU mode by holding home and power for 10 seconds and then releasing the power button but continuing to hold home for another 10 seconds. Then hold shift and hit restore in iTunes and follow the rest of the instructions. I must be retarded cause I still don’t see that in this thread, but thanks Adel for wasting everyones time with your useless post.

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm

Guys I’m really glad it helped, and Kesha I’m *really* glad you didn’t have to cough up another $45 for that guy to upgrade your phone for you.

Fuzz, did you get things sorted out by chance? It sounded like you did but I wanted to make sure.

Devak Says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:08 am

hey i have a question- ok i have heard that if you have att and you unlock it, the att sim wont work but other sims will, well i unlocked/jailbroke my iphone but when i put my att sim in the phone its stuck at the connect to itunes/slide for emergency but when i slide the bar and type a number in it calls, i also recive txr messages and i recive calls, will left-clicking the restore button on itunes restore my iphone so that i can use my att sim?

ps i have gone through itunes to activate my phone after unlocking but it doesnt load after the verifing your number page) thanks for your help

hani Says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:21 pm

when i downloaded the bl-39.bin and the bl-49.bin they dont have that orange icon in my download window like yours did. mine only shows a blank page icon. Why are the icons different?

hani Says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:41 pm

also when i downloaded the two bin files they are labeled as BIN Files under type and under yours I see it is labeled VLC Media File. Did i download them wrong?

Ramsey Says:
March 4th, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Ok, I have the 1st generation iPhone (2G) and I have AT&T contract. I jailbroke my iphone first with the 2.2.0 firmware and also unlocked it. Now I wanted to upgrade the firmware to 2.2.1 and followed the steps. The step where it was supposed to tell me that the sim is unrecognized… I didn’t get that screen. It totally recognized my phone in iTunes. But it did tell me this: “An update to the carrier settings for your iPhone is available. Would you like to install it now?” I pressed cancel and continued the whole instalation with quickPwn and everything worked fine. However my phone was restored to the original way of looking, it doésn’t have all my themes and everything I had before. The only thing that is saved is all the recent calls, texts and that kind of stuff. It does tell me that the phone is now updated to the 2.2.1 firmware. But if I press the button “Check for updates” it keeps telling me that previous message about the update of the carrier settings…. What is that message? If I press update, then it gives me this error and it doesn’t work…..What’s that message? and shold my phone look like the original look after this whole process or not?

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 4th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

Hani, you’re fine, I just have VLC (it’s a movie player) installed and it *thinks* those BIN files are movies, they aren’t obviously.

On a clean Windows install I’m sure it would just show the blank-page icon.

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 4th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

Ramsey,
Any customizations that aren’t supported by iTunes (like customizations done through Jailbroken software) will be reverted to the defaults. Also, as far as the carrier updates… not sure what that is — but the phone works fine right?

Ramsey Says:
March 5th, 2009 at 8:34 am

Thanks for your reply. The phone works fine, with no problems. I hope it is unlocked… I will only be able to check when I get out of the country with a new sim. I reinstalled all my themes and features I had before no problem. However, I still get that message about carrier settings update every time I hook the iPhone to the iTunes. If I accept to download, it just gives me an error saying it couldn’t do it… that’s all. I guess I shouldn’t worry too much.
Thanks

Liam Duffy Says:
March 5th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

Hi Riyad, one quick question….
I currently hav an unlocked and jailbroken first gen iphone running on firmware 1.1.4. I am wondering, because my phone has already been unlocked, if I follow your steps, will I be able to reunlock my phone????

hani Says:
March 6th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Thanks Riyad. I did it and it worked flawlessly. Everything is perfect. Lovin my iphone once again.

Frank Says:
March 7th, 2009 at 8:06 am

Great tutorial, upgraded in 20 minutes, piece of cake!
thanks guys.

Frank

pilotsethnorris Says:
March 7th, 2009 at 11:45 am

I’m just gonna say this, you are the man!! Thanks for this awesome tutorial! Works perfectly!!!

Adel Says:
March 7th, 2009 at 4:49 pm

I Love You Riyad.

ria Says:
March 8th, 2009 at 9:34 am

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!
I AM ONLY AT THE UPDATING IPHONE STAGE AND THE CONNECTION FROM MY CONPUTER TO MY IHONE WAS LOST. NOW MY PHONE IS IN “RECOVERY MODE” SHOULD I RESTORE MY PHONE THROUGH I TUNES HELP ME!PLEASE! WHAT SHOULD I DO?????

esra Says:
March 8th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

Perfect! Also works for Turkcell in Turkey. Thank you very much!

andy Says:
March 8th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

The Title of this blog, “How to Install iPhone 2.2.1 Firmware on Jailbroken and Unlocked T-Mobile iPhone” is very misleading. The instructions are for UNLOCKING an iPhone.

Don’t you just use PwnageTool 2.2.5 to install the 2.2.1 firmware and restore the baseband. Why do you still have to go to the unlocking process if it is already unlocked?

Please clarify. Thanks.

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 9th, 2009 at 8:25 am

@Liam, yes if it’s a 1-st gen iPhone (which mine was and yours sounds like it is too) you can re-unlock it using the steps above. So you should be all set.

@Hani, pilotsethnorris, Adel, thanks for the kind words guys!

@esra, excellent news, I’m glad it helped!

@andy, that’s true we do cover a bit more information here in the blog — I just didn’t want to leave anyone hanging incase they were in my situation as well and needed more information. As far as PwnageTool, if you are on a Mac yes you can use it and do different Steps IIRC, I’m not sure, I don’t have a mac and haven’t run through that flow — so I just documented everything I could to avoid anyone getting stuck.

Fuzz Says:
March 9th, 2009 at 10:56 am

ria,

I had a similiar problem, what you want to do is:

put the phone in DFU mode by holding home AND power for 10 seconds and then releasing the power button but continuing to hold home for another 10 seconds.

You should then be able to plug your phone into iTunes and it won’t recongize it ie. Name: iPhone

Then hold shift and hit restore in iTunes (if your using Vista; no idea with Macs) and it will ask you what file you want to use to update with. Choose the ipsw file that you downloaded above and click open. Then follow the rest of the steps outlined above. Hopefully you had all your contacts backed up or else they will be gone.

Cheers,
Fuzz

Valerie Says:
March 10th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

I updated my phone and it worked, kind of.
I had to restored my contacts and texts, but my phone wont read my t-Mobile SIM card anymore. Any suggestions?
Valerie

haris Says:
March 11th, 2009 at 5:59 am

Dear Riyad,,,thank a lot for being such a great teacher and guide…helps clear out the jitters for us non-technology types….one quick question…my iphone on being connected to itunes shows that itunes doesnt recognize it and that I should restore it through itunes…can i unlock it through this step too??i mean by pressing SHIFT key and following it from there as in ur guide….
I have a 2G , ver 1.1.4 unlocked iphone ,

Matt Says:
March 11th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

Hello,

Has anyone tried this using a Mac? I have a 2G iphone that is already unlocked and jailbroken, however, it is running the 1.1.4 Firmware and I’m thinking of taking the plunge and upgrading to 2.2.1. If anyone has used this guide to upgrade firmware using a Mac…I’d love to hear any tips or tricks you may have.

Thanks,

Matt

Anthony Says:
March 12th, 2009 at 6:41 am

ok i unlocked my phone but i cannot get onto any network i install the apn settings to my phone from cydia but when i look to find it Settings>General>Network there is nothing there what should i do? plese help

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 12th, 2009 at 8:48 am

Haris, thank you for the kind words. I’m not sure why iTunes doesn’t recognize your iPhone. A few things to clarify first… does the phone work properly? You can make calls, check contacts, etc? If so, that’s good. Also, does iTunes not recognize your phone as a valid device, or does it not recognize that it’s been synced to that PC before, sort of like “This iPhone has not bee synchronized with this iTunes library” sort of thing? If it doesn’t recognize it as a valid device — you can try to do the upgrade and continue from the Shift-CLICK portion just like you said, but I would stay vigilant, making sure each step works correctly since I’m not sure why it wouldn’t recognize the phone unless something was wrong. I’m basically worried that you could get to the firmware portion and it could barf half way through then you’d be phoneless.

Also, when you said 2G, you meant “EDGE” and not “2nd generation” as in the 3G iPhone right? I get so confused — so I just wanted to make sure. If it’s the 1st gen iPhone, even if you do the upgrade and need to re-unlock it, you can. It’s just if it’s a 3G (2nd generation) iPhone, you’ll be stuck.

NOTE: Given that you are still on 1.1.4 — I’m pretty sure it’s a 1st gen iPhone and you are OK, I just didn’t want to leave that to chance.

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 12th, 2009 at 8:49 am

@Matt, if you have a Mac look at using PwnageTool — it’s an even easier process from what I understand.

@Anthony, no need to do anything fancy from Cydia to get your APN settings installed, just drill down to Setting > Network > Cellular Network settings and manually set the APN using the normal iPhone user interface. I posted instructions here as well.

onestici Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 5:25 am

hi, i have unlocked my iphone, and it works perfectly but from time to time it shows an error message saying: Your Cellular network is lost, please go to settings and select a different network”… and i have no service…. can you help me on this?

haris Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 10:33 am

thanks a ton Riyad for the prompt reply…turns out…with ur software links , i followed the instructions and got my phone updated and working a lot better and faster than before on the 2.2.1
the problem initially was that my phone was working properly but on connecting it to itunes it was saying that itunes needs to restore this phone through the apple site…
anywayz ,,i restored it and used the link that u gave us…worked like a charm…
thanks again

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Haris, glad to hear it man, happy iPhone-ing!

haider Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

hey mate can you help me am a fresher and i simply upgraded the iphone 3g from 2.2. to 2.2.1 and now its showing me that invalid sim enter sim which with no sim lock to unlock you iphone plz help me with this am stuck badly ..

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

haider,

Unfortunately I don’t have details or instructions on how to re-unlock a 3G iPhone — I mentioned it a few times in the guide. Sorry

haider Says:
March 16th, 2009 at 1:36 am

so is there no way to unlock my iphone, and i can only see it from now on …

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 16th, 2009 at 7:10 am

haider,

Not a way that I know of, but if there is anyone that knows how to do it, it’s the iPhone hackers. I’d suggest starting here and just reading around the web to see if it’s been cracked yet.

Matt Says:
March 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am

Thanks Riyad…you’re right, the Pwnage Tool is the way to go for Mac users. I successfully upgraded my 1st Gen iPhone to the 2.2.1 firmware using the Pwnage Tool today. If any other Mac users stumble onto this page and are looking for a guide to using Pwnage Tool on a Mac, this is a good one:

http://www.hackthatphone.com/20/pwnagetool_2_2_1_1st_gen_iphone_expert.html

I used this guide and had my 1st gen iPhone upgraded to the 2.2.1 firmware…and running with a t-mobile sim card in about 15 minutes.

Cheers,

Matt

Haider Says:
March 16th, 2009 at 10:57 am

thnks for the help … but tell me that i have to unlock it at mac or windows … and i have downloaded quick pwn from diff site but its not working at my computer what is the problm guys …

khan Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

hi.
i have done all the step as you said i update to 2.2.1 by firmware but its not showing unlocking option.
what should i do now

jojo Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

good day.i got i lil problem.i folowed the steps above.everything went great.but went i went the iphone rebooted after finishing the progres,the phone says:”different sim detected please connect to itunes”.itunes says sim card not supported.what to do i can’t even go in menu only emergency calls,the phone isn’t a brokn 1.please help

jojo Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 7:47 pm

oh yes yes yes.sorry guys i found it out.i restored the firmware i removed the sim then quickpwn it again,after finished put sim back and voila.everything works like it should.thanx guys

Ken Ken Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 8:55 pm

hi all, i am using 2.2.1 & 2.30.3 as well.Are u guy saying that i had to use QuickPWN 2.2.5-2 for Windows to unlock my iphone with a simcard NOT insert in the phone, i try to do that With a simcard inserted, but funny that the unlock icon did not show up in the QuickPWN manual, does anyone which step i miss, and is my 3Gphone with (2.2.1 & 2.30.3) can be UNLOCK with sofeware NOW, is that possible, a million thx.

rpg40 Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 6:27 am

Awesome guide… upgrade my iphone 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 without a problem…
thanks… after you done this guide go to this site for all who have
a problem on “unable to verify unable to install” on itunes you need
mobile installation for iphone firmware 2.2.1
Here:
http://rdsbc.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-install-cracked-ipa-file-to.html

haider Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 10:03 am

hey guys i have jail break my iphone 3g 2.2.1 with modem 2.3 but i cannt unlock it help me with this issue now

DK Says:
March 19th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

Hi!
Just want to thank you for this helpful guide…
I was really worried, after I read that many people had problem and ended up with a brick in their hand… but now I am all but relieved. From 1.1.4 I (with this guide only!) made a 2.2.1, working perfectly and … I am in love again with my phone!
A Hungarian guy with a Hungarian T-Mobile SIM.
THX

Julian Says:
March 19th, 2009 at 6:49 pm

i bought a rebel sim card on ebay yesterday, that shit better work!!!!!

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 20th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

DK,

Really glad to hear it helped!

Hani Yousri Says:
March 20th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

It’s Working Greatly thanks guys,

I did it two times, in the first time i’ve skiped the first restore step, but it didn’t work, second time i did every step and it worked
read carfully,
Bye

Sana Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Hi I am trying to unlock, jailbreak my iphone 3G on windows vista. I downloaded everything but BL-39 and 46 are blank icons on my computer and it does not look like the cone icon that is shown on your pix. Because I cannot open the two files, when I am using QuickPwn I don’t have the “unlock” option. How can I open these files and I am doing something wrong?

Farhan Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Worked like a charm. Excellent set of instruction very well explained.

Two additional information which might be useful for people.

1. Works fine with any other carrier.
2. Make sure you follow the instructions with newer version of iTunes I did it on 8.1

dinoix Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:50 am

sorry when you unlock the iphone you can use any network ? or only t-m >???

lina Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 am

hi
thanx 4 guid us but ido what u say its work good but the QuickPwn didnt ask me for the Bootloader v3.9 and Bootloader v4.6 files that we downloaded from earlier and the sim dont work now what can i do help me plz iam from ksa

Scargo Says:
March 26th, 2009 at 10:03 am

When I upgraded my T-Mobile iphone the other day to 2.2.1 it got stuck on that white apple. When i would hook up to itunes it would say it couldn’t do anything until I put the pass code in I couldn’t put the pass code in because it never got to that screen. I took the sim out had it hooked up to computer and itunes on put it in DFU mode then it wanted to do restore mode (on a unidentified iphone) so I hit shift and restore and pointed it to my downloaded upgrade 2.2.1 and it ran it again. After the upgrade it asked for my sim card and then I ran Quick Pawn. I think i had screwed up on first try with Quick Pawn on holding down power button and home button. Anyway it worked the second try but had erased my contact list and all personal stuff. It reinstalled all my applications even the ones I tried to get but had to have the upgrade to get. I have a 1st gen 8 gig IPHONE. It works great Now, but I was freaking out when that happened. Now Itunes say I have the latest upgrade. Also if you haven’t upgraded itunes you probably need to the latest version. I did that first before I tried to restore phone. I meant to take the pass code out before upgrade but for got to and by taking out sim card it thought it was a new Iphone.

Scargo Says:
March 26th, 2009 at 11:15 am

Also when I was running Quick pawn i don’t know what happened when i was suppose to hold home and power button(which i did ) it threw up a box saying quick pawn has experienced an error and needs to close. But I saw it continuing in the back ground and i let off the buttons as directed and ignored the error( didn’t close it or say ok)it finished and rebooted the phone and went to home page all is well. I didn’t close anything
( like error message) until it finished.

Ashish Says:
March 26th, 2009 at 11:45 am

very very useful method to unlock iphone and upgrade the firmware within an hour which i had wasted time experimenting methods and downloading diffrent softwares from other sites for past 1 week…..now i had upgraded to firmware 2.0.1 ……thanks…..

TR Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 6:56 am

I read your blog. I have an Iphone w/ At&t that is 1.1.3 will this process help me upgrade to 2.2.1 I want to know this before I start upgrading. Thanks.

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 7:26 am

TR,

If you have an iPhone on AT&T already (the official US network) why not just use iTunes to upgrade the firmware? Or is the phone JailBroken?

If the phone is JailBroken, then yes you can use this guide. If it’s baseband is unlocked AND it’s a 1st gen iPhone, then yes you can use this guide.

If you have an official contract with AT&T and are already a customer, no need to do any of this stuff, just update it through iTunes.

(NOTE: This is all outlined in detailed in the first few paragraphs of the guide)

TR Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 8:16 am

Yes the phone is “JailBroken”. I didn’t want to pay for the data plan, or the 2 yr contact. My phone is “1st gen iPhone”. When I do the upgrading would I have to unlock again? This phone has been unlocked w/ 1.1.3.
Thank you very much.

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 8:34 am

TR, ahh then you are all set. You can follow this guide just fine and fully upgrade, JailBreak and Unlock the phone.

About half way through the guide I have a screenshot that shows the different checkboxes you select in QuickPwn, that is where you can choose to Unlock the phone (and install “Installer” and “Cydia” which will jailbreak the phone).

Linda Says:
March 28th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

Hi,

My iphone is exactly like yours – I think. Iphone first gen., already jailbroken and unlocked using T-Mobile, currently on V. 1.1.3. I decided to finally take the plunge again for the apps. However, I noticed your guide has one extra step that another guide does not: the bootloaders – the other guide I saw on the internet somewhere has the exact same files and steps EXCEPT it doesn’t say to load any bootloader files. Therefore, the steps concerning that aren’t listed. Any info as to why this is needed here would be appreciated (mostly for my own info). Your guide looks easy enuf and I can’t wait to try it.

Thanks
Linda

Linda Says:
March 28th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Please use this email address to respond to above comment – sorry for my error.

Thank you
Linda

Scargo Says:
March 29th, 2009 at 7:07 am

Hi Linda, I upgraded my iphone to the 2.0.1 version months ago and recently I decided to upgrade to the current version because new app’s available require it.I have 1st gen 8gig with T-Mobile. Back then I think I had to do it 3 times before I got it right (the Quick Pawn tool pressing home and power part)and doing recent upgrade to 2.2.1 had to do that twice.(print out the directions)The Quick pawn tool will ask you for the 3.9v bootloader and 4.6v exactly like the screen shots in this guide.I think this step by step guide is the best one and it works!!Just don’t give up if it doesn’t work the first time because you may have skipped a step or didn’t do it right, just try again. Make sure you know where your downloaded files are and that Quick Pawn is unpacked and looks like a pineapple.

haider Says:
March 29th, 2009 at 8:47 am

hey there all …

am still stuck at the point of upgrading the iphone from the itunes and it is jail broke but my sim card is not working in it … help

ann Says:
March 29th, 2009 at 10:35 am

my phone is currently unlocked and jailbreaked. if i want to unjailbreak but make sure it’s unlocked, can i just upgrade to 2.2.1 through itunes? i have the iphone 2g and i don’t really use the jailbroken features.

thanks !

Linda Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 3:48 pm

First of all, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, TY, TY, TY – can’t say it enuf. I’ve researched the internet and different guides and youtube, etc., etc. for literally about 20 hours trying to make up my mind whether I wanted to go through this again (it’s already jailbroken, unlocked on T-mobile). Well your guide looked like the easiest and I just did it and I have to say it is absolutely the best guide out there – very baby steps – great for someone like me!!!

I only have two questions:

1) T-Mobile goes in and out sporadially and doesn’t seem quite as stable as before although it is working now. Could this just coincidentally be that I’m having bad service at this time? I can make and receive calls – just data/internet is either non-existent or real slow and at one point it was “searching” in network settings and never could come up with anything. (I have my APN as internet2.voicestream.com).

Secondly, I note that my Navizon is gone. Is there an alternative that is just as good or better for me to download? I’m assuming it’s missing because it was an app installed from the first jailbreak???

Scargo, thanks for your post – it was really the post that pushed me over the edge to get up the nerve and go ahead and just do it.

Linda

Scargo Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 6:20 am

Your Welcome Linda, I like this one cuz it looks easy enuf and if you make a mistake you get do overs, which I needed and really appreciated. My T-Mobile signal fades in and out but it always has because I have lots of tree’s around me.I use wifi mostly for internet access.
I looked up Navizon it sounded like maybe that is why you were getting a better signal before.
Apparently the 3G’s have the GPS chip and older Iphones don’t but Navizon sounds like a great app maybe we can find it through Cydia.( I’d like to get it too) Don’t forget to get all updates thru Cydia too.

Riyad Kalla Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 7:55 am

Linda,

I’m glad we I could help. To address your questions:

1. I have another friend complaining about this as well up in Phoenix but I don’t experience it at all down here… INSTEAD I get dropped-calls constantly when I’m in a moving vehicle… but he doesn’t. I think there are small nuances with the different phones depending on the internal revision they are. I don’t think it’s related to the firmware as we both experienced these crappy behaviors back on the 1.x firmware before upgrading them. So I think you are OK, just having some crappy iPhone service like we have from time to time.

2. Not sure, never used it. If you put Installer and Cydia back on the phone I’m sure you can just go grab it again or whatever the official replacement for the Firmware 2.x series is for it.

Scargo Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 8:12 am

Hi Linda, I checked Cydia and Navizon (jailbroke version) is there under sections, all packages,click n,( or you could scroll thru every screen, but finger and eyes would get tired) and scroll to it,install and confirm. Easy to get.Also you could download it from navizon.com, navizon lite is free but navizon premium cost $10.

Scargo Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 8:33 am

Gee I wanted to THANK YOU Riyad Kalia!!! for this EXCELLENT guide AND SCREEN SHOTS you simplified it so much probably a monkey could do it successfully.
Anyway THANK YOU SO MUCH and I am so happy I came across this site first before the others and chose it to follow. It’s just EXCELLENT!!!and THANK YOU AGAIN and AGAIN!!!

Linda Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 9:32 am

RIYAD,
Thanks for your response above – I agree that it’s probably the service. I’ve been playing with it for the last few hours and have downloaded a few apps over wi-fi and LOVE it!!! Thanks for the Cydia-Navizon tip.

SCARGO,
Thank you for your response also and for the exact directions to get Navizon. Got it and it’s back on my phone.

Linda

Paul Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 8:33 am

I’ve got my fingers crossed and hopping for the best, but I do have one question before I click abyware…. I do have iTunes 8 and a 1st gen 8Gb iPhone 1.1.4 that as been jailbronken and unlocked.. therefore I do not see the “Restore” buttom cause the phone/sim is not recognised by iTunes. Any help would be appretiated. Keep up the good work..
Paul

PS: I’m using a totally different sim from what you’re use to…. see I’m in Angola-Africa, don´t know if that helps.

Paul Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Riyad (I’ve tried to reply..didn´t work)

Thank you for the prompt response…. and..yes it does.. but right next = to the “iPhone” screen, another one pups up and says :It appears the = you’re using a Sim that is not …bla..bla..bla…! or something like = that…
I really want to do this upgrade, but have no way around this…

Thanks again

Regards

Paul

Hawaii808 Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Hey all,

It states that this is written for Windows users. Are these the same steps for Mac users? Just wanted to make sure before I started.

I’m on 1.1.3 still. It’s been working fine, but it has been really laggy.

Will I notice a big difference? Thanks.

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Paul,

Odd… what happens if you pull the SIM? Can you see that screen OK then?

Hawaii8080,

You’ll want to grab PwnageTool, that’s the Mac-centric tool and I think the process is even easier… just hookup and run from what I’ve heard.

tsalmon Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 5:47 pm

I got a question. I just got a iphone yesterday and i just got it unlocked. I am using t-mobile and everything is working great other then the internet. I have the data package that i used on my blackberry before but it dosent work with the iphone. Before i knew that you were able to use t-zones for $5.99 but now t-mobile dosen’t offer t-zones anymore. I want to know if there is anyway to get internet for my iphone and how do i do it? Please help!

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 5:50 pm

tsalmon,

You can use that BlackBerry data plan on the iPhone, I posted instructions on how to set that up in this comment.

tsalmon Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 6:29 pm

The E shows up in the top left but i still cant get on the internet. When i go through the steps that you told me i don’t have APN in the cellular data network. so i don’t know what to do.

Paul Says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 am

Riyad..

Negative…. it says the same thing…. and I can’t think o anything = else to do…..

Need help with this one….

Regards

Paul

Paul Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:20 am

Riyad

..Finally got it…. took the Sim out and it started the upgrade. Just letting you know that it work as you said it would, except for one thing…. it cleaned the iPhone apps, music, photos, contacts….all!!!!! Eveything is gone…..I´ll have to re-install all of them..but that’s Ok…

Thanks
Paul

Noelm Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:33 am

Thanks a million man!!! it worked smothly and wow, you have outlined the steps clearly. Thanks again

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:22 am

Paul, glad to hear you got things working, sorry to hear it required a bit extra elbow grease.

Either way, welcome to 2.2!

TR Says:
April 6th, 2009 at 11:54 am

I did the firmware 2.2.1 the phone worked fine for about 9 days. Now when I start the phone after 3 seconds it will restart by it self. Could there be something that I downloaded from Cydia. Before everything went down I was trying to send an video record from I-phone to e-mail then everything went down…Can I redo everything I did to upgrade to 2.2.1 would that do anything?

Thanks.

BBasmedi Says:
April 7th, 2009 at 12:57 am

TO WILL
“I have tried with the sim card out, i used everything from this website, i have done everything right, I am really good at this things, but for some reason it just not doing it for me, even if i do it with the sim card out, as soon as i put the T-mobile one in does not work, I don’t know if i should give up, but i been at this for 3 days now, i keep getting the same results no matter how i try it, i have put over ten hours each day, good think im unemployed during the day or else when would i have the time.”

i had the same problem n i took a few hrs but i have been able to solve it.
start the whole process again this time on the summary page of your iphone in itunes choose shift and restore at the same time it will give you the option to browse n choose where to restore from. choose the ipsw you downloaded from this website n then follow up with the rest as directed. wish you all the best. worked fine for me.

Hitesh Says:
April 8th, 2009 at 8:02 am

Hi Riyaad,

i am from india and i have a 8 GB (Non -3G) unlocked i phone.

i dontknow that which software was used to unlock the phone. have a Vodafone prepaid connection which works fine at this moment.

Presently on version 1.1.3 – want to upgrade on 2.2.1….

what i wanted to check before i go through the entire process is that “Will my i phone be updated to the latest version and work fine ????”

please advice.

Regards,
Hitesh

TR Says:
April 8th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

I did the restore and I got the phone to work again.
Thanks.

Samuel Says:
April 9th, 2009 at 12:14 am

I unlocked and jailbreak my 1st gen iphone and it reads my sim card and everything but none of my numbers saved to my card are showing up. When I put the card in another phone they show up. Why is this?

Stephen Arnolds Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 9:11 am

I crashed my iphone 16gb using the initial firmware 1.1.14 and i upgraded it to the 2.2.21v
I followed the instructions and my phone came alive
I lost all my contacts which is all good whoever wants to reach me will just have to call first
THANK YOU!!!!!!!

haider Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

hey Stephen Arnolds

please give me your contact number i have upgraded my iphone 3g 16gb from 2.2 to 2.2.1 and now its locked please tell me the way to unlock it … please
waiting man … please

haider

chew Says:
April 12th, 2009 at 10:20 am

help!! followed instructions to the tee and managed to updated my 1g 1.1.4 jailbroken to 2.2.1 BUT now the bloody phone wont recognize the sim. urgently need help please……………….

Scargo Says:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:46 pm

Hey Everyone, I would just like to say that YOU NEED TO READ THIS BLOG FIRST!!! before asking questions. SECONDLY READ EVERY POST by the users because chances are your question has already been answered. I DIDN’T WRITE THIS BLOG!!! EVERYONE with a 3G Iphone YOU are taking a chance of LOCKING your Iphone to the AT&T network. REread the beginning of this blog again about the baseband.

The BEST thing to do is PRINT THE DIRECTIONS OUT FIRST read and reread them until you understand them.
Make sure ITUNES is updated to the latest version and your iphone is recognized
Make sure quick Pawn is unpacked and looks like a pineapple in the downloaded files you will use and you know where they are
Make sure your sim card is not locked with a pin # in Settings
Make sure to turn passcode required off in Settings

Lastly the guy who can’t see his contacts from his sim card go to settings-Mail,contacts,calenders click on import sim contacts.

Reve Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 11:20 pm

Very detailed and helpful tutorial you have here Riyad, thanks a lot.
I just want to confirm whether all the basics apps icon will appears because in my iphone 2G the apps store icon doesn’t show up(or deleted ?). Just fyi, I got my iphone from 2nd market.
Secondly, whether it is still compatibile with all the apps downloaded from itunes store?

Thanks in advance

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 8:41 am

Reve, thanks for the kind words. I have a 1st-generation (non-3G) iPhone and the App Store icon is there — also all the apps I’ve downloaded (free) have worked fine… Facebook, Pandora, Google Earth, etc.

So I’m not sure why you are seeing a difference on your 3G iPhone (2nd generation).

adamar Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

i was really looking for a guide like this. i was planning to get an iphone 2g for my birthday but was worried that i would have a hard time unlocking and putting jailbreak on it. since i found your guide, it actually made me excited to get my iphone now. thanks a lot for this awesome guide.

Raghav Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

HI Riyad,

First of all, Thank you so much for the unlock/jailbreak guide
it worked fine to get on my 1st gen iphone to 2.2.1. The problem is wifi is not detecting any hot spots
this was a problem while i was on 2.0.1 as well.That’s the reason i decided to upgrade to 2.2.1 but unfortunately he same here. Any suggestions are truly appreciated. Thanks a million for ur wonderful guide again

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

Raghav,

That’s a tricky one… turning WiFi on is pretty straightforward… the Wireless-B/G antenna kicks on, detects a connection and lists them.

Is it possible you are in an area with Wireless-A or N signals and that might be why you aren’t seeing a signal?

Sylvia Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 4:39 pm

FIRMWARE STRING ERROR !!!!!!!
I upgraded my 2G iphone to 2.2.1 from version 1.1.4. I tried to unlock my iphone using quickpwn but when i give the path of the firmware bundle that i have downloaded from this site. Surprisingly, it couldn’t verify the file. it said firmware string error. I double checked the firmware file, it is same, iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw file for first generation iphone. I am using Vista. So can anyone help me to fix this issue??????
Please………
Thanks,
Sylvia

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 6:11 pm

Sylvia,

Very strange… you’ll notice that the IPSW (iPhone firmware) download links are directly from apple.com — if you ended up with a corrupted firmware, try and download it again.

Also try upgrading to iTunes 8 incase there might be an issue there with an older iTunes.

Raghav Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

Hi Riyad,

here’s the thing …i used 7.7.1 to upgrade to 2.2.1
May be that’s the problem
while i was on 1.1.4, iphone was in perfect condition
after upgrading to 2.0.1, it stopped working and my phone becomes so heat and the charge drains quickly. Then i upgraded to 2.2.1
I am on vodafone (earlier i unlocked and jailbroke iphone from 1.1.4 to 2.0.1
Now when i upgraded to 2.2.1, i wonder why it worked without unlock
My service is available, right after the upgrade. here’s what i did
1.updated ( shift+Restore) in iTunes 7.7.1
2. after the upgrade, my carrier still remains( apple and vodafone are now friends )
3. i launched winpwn and just jailbroken as it’s working fine
4.Just to clarify, i tried anoher sim and it’s detecting
Problems: it won’t detect any Wifi hotspots and the charge drains right after 5 hours
It’s not grayed out…jus the search wheel keeps searching searching and searching
I am quite sure that there are atleast 4 hotspos in my location
Laptop connects to the hotspot but not the iphone
i Wonder why?
Please help………….

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:05 am

Sorry Raghav, I have no idea why it cannot find hotspots… as far as the battery draining, that’s because you have WiFi on in endless “detection” mode — it will drain the battery like crazy.

The only thing I could think of is to try and reflash the firmware again and see if that does the trick.

As a side note of “weirdness”, I dropped my iPhone the other day on a sidewalk… and now when I sync it it creates *duplicate* playlists (Gym, Gym, Fun, Fun, etc.) — if I remove the duplicates, synchronization corrupts my library and erases all the content on the phone…

So you not being able to find hotspots isn’t the *weirdest* thing I’ve seen, I’ve seen weirder

Raghav Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:11 am

Hi Riyad,

can u please PM on Yahoo!

my ID is Raghav_vicky23@yahoo.co.in

can we do it now…becos i already charged iphone thrice today…it’s gone crazy

Please PM. You can even post ur IM id (Yahoo, Gtalk)…i’ll be waiting

Thanks and Regards

Raghav

Raghav Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:38 am

Hi Riyad…can you please ping me so that we can fix the battery drain issue?

Please…i am totally tired of charging it thrice a day

Paul Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:43 am

Hi…

I’m one of the that came here to look for help..(and found it, thank you) as upgrading my iPhone to the new firmware is concerning….!! I was so desperate (as most of you) that when I found all the information as well described and with all the help from the author, that I completly forgot everything else….(side efects)…! Theres more than a zillion arthicles on the “WiFi after 2.2.1″ issue, please Google it before doing anything else… as I said before, I came here for help and found it…! so I only have myselfe to blame!!! Please read as much as you can…!

Thank you
Paul

Tesh Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 8:02 am

Dude you rock. I was able to upgrade and repwn my phone. I was having prolems with itunes seeing it.

THE KING Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 7:05 pm

******NEED HELP****
I have a unlocked iphone (1st generation) I updated on itunes (I know I shouldn’t have) but anyway, My iphone works flawlessly, but Itunes won’t recognize the iphone at all. I am not sure what I need to do to get my itunes to recognize my Iphone. my version is 2.2.1 and of course it’s on T-Mobile..I also use a mac (If that makes any difference) any help would be apreciated.

Phil Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

So I had my phone unlocked for me to 1.1.4 by my cousin.
I decided it was time to upgrade it, so i attempted to use this guide.

but then something went screwy in the middle of the firmware update and now this comes up

itunes must check the iphone software update server to identify this device

what to do now?

Tako Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

Need help please.

I had Iphone 1Generation, 4Gb, firmware 1.1.2 and using Itunes 8. I did follow instruction from this sit, It did no go to far, I have an error when I apply firmware update iphone 1,1_2.2.1 5H11. Error occur after the somewhere at the prompt for “Preparing iphone for software update” or thirth “Waiting for iPhone” display error prompt “Iphone could not update, an unknow error occurred”. And the second prompt “Iphone now is at recovery mode you must restore this iphone before it can be used with itune”. Should I restore it back? I just afraid that it will restore and update my iphone to 2.2.1 and lock my iphone for ever. Before I did download the firmware 2.2.1 from itune but I did not install it. Now i can not use my iphone it is still in update or recovery mode? it show connection icon when I turn on power. What should i do?

Thank you,

Phil Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 10:32 pm

oof!

It looks like I made a silly mistake. I didn’t have the newest version of Itunes.
Once I did that I still got the message, but then i put it in DUF mode and then pressed check. Then Itunes recognized it was in recovery mode. Then I did shift+restore with the firmware from this website and followed the rest of the steps.

Easy as pie.

rezwan Says:
April 19th, 2009 at 10:22 am

i downloaded quickpwn and everything and followed everything step by step…. but when i try to load quickpwn i dont see the “unlock” option…..i dont know what i am missing here…hope somebody can tell me what i am missing..thanks

amar Says:
April 19th, 2009 at 11:42 am

hello, dear i try this but my itune pumps a msg (ipod coul not be udate because firmware is not compatible)

Quinn Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 11:05 am

Does the 2.2.1 firmware have the option to edit APN settings? The 2.2 did not and I had to downgrade back to 2.0.2 to be able to use my Edge data network.

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am

Quinn,

Yes you can edit the APN on 2.2.1 — I just double-checked that for you.

haider Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 11:58 am

hey
can i downgrade my baseband of iphone 3g 2.2.1 in order to use it …

thanks

Quinn Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

Thank you very much! Wow you’re being so helpful to everyone! =)

Scott Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

SUCCESS! i cant believe i actually paid for the software and all the bs. they were telling me to do the restore button on itunes. 1. for those who have questions, a. dont use the restore button. b. make sure the file you dl is the .zip file not a .rar, .rar is bs too. i left my t-mob sim card in the whole time, works fine now. i serious would like to kiss whoever posted this site and everyone who posted solutions to problems on the comments. anyone who wants a kiss, come to philadelphia pa and ask around for me.

Scarlet Says:
April 24th, 2009 at 8:35 pm

hii oki followed allof your directiong and everything worked perfectly except one thing in step where i had to put a check on add cydia and add installer well i didnt have unlock phone? for some reason idk why everythin worked great except that. can you please contact me and let me know. thank you for your help

Scott Says:
April 26th, 2009 at 2:40 am

make sure all your boxes are checked, unlock cydia and installer, you dont have to check off the boot logos and stuff. it should work from there. also, the thing i ran into iwas instead of clicking the “check for updates” button i was clicking the “restore” button and kept getting the same result as you were, or so it would seem.

victor uzunow Says:
April 26th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

if you update wont that erase all apps and themes you have downloaded from cydia too?

Rishi Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

Hello Riyad
I have an iPhone 2G unlocked and jailbroken on 1.1.4 but I am in the UK. Does this guide work the same way for us folks here in the UK too? Do I have to make any changes in the process..??

And does this guide work for all iPhones, 2G of course, on any firmware (by any, I mean 1.1.3 to 2.1)?

Please do reply. Thanks

Peter Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

hey Riyad..
I have a brand new Iphone 3g (2nd Generation)..
It’s on 2.2.1 on AT&T.. I’m trying to unlock it to T-mobile

You suggest me to follow your steps posted?
I have no skills whatsoever in unlocking iPhones btw

Thanks Alot in Advance!

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 28th, 2009 at 8:37 am

Victor,

Yes it will. iTunes does not back-up those Cydia-installed apps or data, so doing the firmware upgrade is a lot like a OS reinstall followed by an iTunes restore — unfortunately it won’t restore the 3rd party/Jailbroken customizations.

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 28th, 2009 at 8:40 am

@Rishi, yes it should work just fine. We actually have a few other users in this thread from the UK, Australia and 1 gentleman from Turkey. You should be all set.

@Pete, trying to unlock the baseband on the 3G iPhone on 2.2.1 wasn’t supported when I wrote this guide (Weeks ago) — but I imagine it’s probably supported now. What you want to look into is the yellowsn0w application — I believe that’s the base application used to crack the baseband. QuickPwn may have been updated to utilize this to crack the 2.2.1-based 3G iPhone so you could just go through a nice GUI, but I haven’t investigated that yet so you might need to dig a bit.

Also with Firmware 3.0 looming around the corner, I think everyone is pretty much waiting on that to drop before continuing massive amounts of cracking work.

JoshVD Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 9:09 am

Soo i have an unlocked iphone 2g.. 1st generation … firmware 2.2.1 … my poroblem is it wont show up that i have a tmoble sim card in my iphone.. how do i fix it so that i can make calls from it??.. i know the sim card is fine because it still works in my sidekick 2008… i just hate that phone and wanted to use this iphone.. plz help me out

Riyad Kalla Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 9:57 am

JoshVD,

Does iTunes complain about an “Unsupported sim card” like this?

If so, you just need to unlock the phone. Follow the rest of the guide from the QuickPwn portion down and you should be all set.

shaggy Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 11:01 am

the firmware is installed but the sim card is not showing any service but shows on other handsets.please reply me a solution please.

shaggy Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 11:17 am

i am a vodofone customer from india.but it is displaying ‘no service’message.the sim works on other handsets.please give me a solution.

justin Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm

i used quickpwn but it keeps i believe for a year for starting quickpwn on your iphone.
help me plz.

justin Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm

hi riyad!

i see most of the guys around there saying lots of thanks to you.

Can you help me plz?

I’m about to finish the unlocking for 2.2.1 using quickpwn 2.2.5 till it says starting
to put quickpwn on your iphone but when it will stops?

please help.

JJ Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Hey Riyad,
1st off great guide on the breakdown for 2.2
question; do you recommend installing the latest version of itunes b4 starting this process, or it doesn’t matter. Just want to get that out of the way, i read some of the posts but it’s not very clear if that matters or not? i’m currently running on 2.1 and i know a guy that’s charging me $50 to get the latest version, that’s why i went online to see if can do it myself, and with your great guide i’ll be saving some money (hell i’ll send you the money) for being so unselfish and helping people out.
Thanks for your time,
JJ

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 4th, 2009 at 10:00 am

JJ,

I would suggest atleast iTunes 8.0.1, I think it still works fine with 8.1 (is that the latest? I’ve lost track) but when I wrote the guide it was using 8.0.1.

Then you should be all set to save yourself some money

Enjoy

JJ Says:
May 4th, 2009 at 10:54 am

Thanks for the quick response Riyad, I appreciate your help.
Will you be doing the same thing once 3.0 comes out??

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 4th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

JJ,

I definitely want to, just depends on how the 3.0 rollout goes on the different models and off-network phones.

Gonna keep my ear to the train tracks and see what I hear

Luciano Says:
May 5th, 2009 at 8:55 am

I am using the 3G network with T-Mobile, If I buy an iPhone will I still be able to use my 3G on my new iPhone?

Please advice,
Luciano

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 5th, 2009 at 9:49 am

Luciano,

Unfortunately no, the T-Mobile 3G network using different frequencies than the AT&T 3G network, click here to read more details.

Craig Says:
May 9th, 2009 at 12:57 am

I’ve got a 1st Gen iPhone which was running 1.1.4. I downloaded all files and backed up before starting.

After selecting & opening the downloaded .ipsw file an error occurred around the “Preparing iPhone for software update” stage. The error message in iTunes said: “iPhone could not update, an unknown error occurred”. I didn’t grab the error number – sorry.

On the iPhone itself, there is now permanently a ‘connection’ picture of a USB cable and an ‘up-arrow’ pointing to an iTunes logo.

The iTunes error message eventually disappeared and was replaced with a message in iTunes saying “iTunes must check the iPhone software update server to identify this device. To enable automatic checking for updates, go to the General pane of iTunes Preferences and turn on “Check for updates automatically”. I get the option to either “Check” or “Cancel”.

I’ve tried ‘cancelling’ but the message just reappears. I have not selected “check”.
I’ve also tried a couple of full power-offs on the iPhone (both with and without the SIM installed and when connected via USB and when disconnected) but just get the same ‘connection’ picture again.
I can no longer see my iPhone as a device in iTunes.

What now? Should I opt to “check for updates”? I’m stuck.
Thanks for your help.

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 9th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

Craig,

Shit man, I’ll try and help as much as I can. I think what you are going to need to do is get the iPhone to suck down the firmware update forcibly, the way to do that is put it into DFU Mode.

Here are instructions on how to do that. Once you’ve done that and the iPhone fully updates itself you *should* find yourself at this point and then you can continue the guide from the “Unlocking the iPhone w/ 2.2.1 Firmware” section on down.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed on this end that it helps, let us know!

Jade Says:
May 9th, 2009 at 10:38 pm

Thanks so much, this worked very well for me! I didn’t know any better and i connected my jailbroken iphone to itunes and it updated my software to the 2.2.1. And I could no longer use my iphone with t-mobile I had to do a factory restore and then i followed your steps running the quickpwn program, but I had to skip the Restore.ipsw file step.
Thanks!

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:19 am

Jade,
Glad it helped!

Craig Says:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:38 am

Riyad,
Thanks – appreciate your help. I saw your message arrive and got straight onto it. I am getting into DFU mode (screen stays black etc and I see it load as a USB device in DFU mode in the taskbar) but instead of my phone appearing in the device node in iTunes and getting the option to restore, I keep getting that dodgy message I was getting before asking to “check the iPod update server to identify…’

I’m on a PC running XP. I connected a new legit iPod Touch to iTunes a few days ago and haven’t registered it yet. I’ve tried a ‘System restore’ to a week ago in case that had something to do with it and reinstalled iTunes (now running 8.1.1.10 ) and rebooted a few times but unfortunately it’s still happening. Any more suggestions?

Craig Says:
May 10th, 2009 at 1:40 am

Hold the phone – it worked. At the error message asking to “check the iPod software update server…” I tried a ctrl+shift+click on ‘Check’ and it showed up and gave me the restore option in iTunes.

The rest worked just like you said it would. Thanks Riyad. Fantastic stuff!

Cheers

Isabelle Says:
May 10th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

Hey,
my iphone 3g has been jailbroken with pwnage. however, i made the mistake of updating the software to 2.2.1 with itunes. i was asked to insert a valid sim with no pin lock to activate iphone. and when i put my sim in, the message “the sim card inserted into this iphone does not appear to be supported” thus i can’t access the phone through the phone itself and through itunes. so i cant restore or do anything with it for that matter.

Any solutions?

Btw, i live in malaysia.

Shaggy Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 12:41 am

the jailbreak was done but the sim doesn’t work on my jailbroken iphone and the Wi-Fi doesn’t works.please suggest me a solution.thanks for the help given for jailbreaking.

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

Craig,

Excellent news I’m glad that did the trick!

JJ Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

Hey Riyad,
its JJ, got a question for you. I’m trying to help out my cousin with the jailbreaking, but here’s the kicker! he’s got a 3g. I’m not trying to unlock it (obviously) cuz he’s running with att already, but as far as jailbreaking it to install cydia & installer, is it possible??
Hit me back when you get a chance, thanks…

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

JJ,

From what I’ve seen Jailbreaking the 2.2.1/3G phones actually works fine, it’s the baseband cracking that has been tricky — but it sounds like you don’t need that since he’s already on ATT. So from what I’ve seen you should be all set with QuickPwn.

Hope that helps.

JJ Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

Riyad,
Thanks man!. So as far as the procedure, it basically remains the same, minus the installing of 2.2.1 right?? Just follow the remaining steps..
Thanks again!

Shaggy Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 12:43 am

hi RIYAD.
i can’t enter my Wi-Fi and bluetooth options because they are inactive after the jailbreak.please please help.

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 8:44 am

Shaggy, sorry man I’m not sure why Bluetooth or WiFi wouldn’t be working on your phone… if you think it’s a software issue (e.g. it failed right after you did an update) you can try running through the guide again and make sure the update takes and crack works and see if that helps.

Geoff Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 6:36 pm

I have run through the process about ten times now with no luck, I always end up with the same result.

I have tried diffeent ipsw files as the one you link to here is rejected by my 2G phone (yours is a version “a” of the one I am using and the phone works with).

I am using a Virgin and a vodafone chip but the result is the same for both and also if I try to PWN it without a SIM in at all.

On completion I have a Virgin (or vodafone) network signal but the phone only shows the emergency calls screen and wont let me get to the normal desktop. When connected to iTunes it says “SIM not supported”.

I have even run the software three times with just the unlock section ticked. Every time Boot Neuter reports Fake Blank OFF but Unlock ON. Is that correct?

On completion I still get a message that says “Different SIM detected, please connect to iTunes”.

I connect to iTunes but cannot sync as the message “The SIM card inserted in this iPhone does not appear to be supported (etc.)”

HOWEVER, if I slide the bar across the screen on the emergency page and insert a phone number and ring it (even though it says emergency numbers only) it rings the line I entered. I can also call back to the iphone as well. So it seems it is jailbroken and unlocked but the phone still thinks it is not and prevents me getting to the home desktop.

Any ideas on what I should do?

Geoff

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

Geoff very frustrating… this is basics-101 and you’ve probably done it 100 times already, but did you try and power off the phone and back on again when it’s in that psuedo-retarded state?

It’s almost like it doesn’t “get it”.

As far which IPSW to use, you’ve tried the one linked in this guide right? We’ve had a lot of success with those listed (there are ones listed above for both 1st generation EDGE-only iPhones and 2nd-generation 3G iPhones).

Whenever folks use “2G” I can’t tell if they mean “2nd gen == 3G phone” or “2G” like “not quite as good as 3G and I meant EDGE” so I’m just being extra-sure

alejandro de caprio Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

help please..
i have 1st Gen iphone which have firmware 1.1.3 i bought in store here in the philippines, second hand. I’ve use almost 2 months and i download some apps on my iphone on cydia and intaller. but lately it prompt an error “need to restore, your iphone can’t make or recieved call. please contact http://www.iphone.com/support“.

Then i restore to 2.2.1 firmware,jailbroke and unlock using quickpwn 2.25 it works but the carrier dosn’t. I can’t make a call and send and recieve text messages. On Carrier it prompt “No Service” on the top left window..

What i have to do to fixed this. Sometimes if i insert a sim Smart or Globe still no service and if i refresh it repeatedly it prompt as i said “need to restore” and then if i restart it take a minuite and then it prompt as a virgin- like not jailbroken and unlock (”emergency call”) and then if I restart again its Ok again mean jailbroken and unlock but carrier are not.

there are times the carrier is ok it detect my sim i can recieve a text messages and recieve call but i can’t make to send text messages and make a call.

help me pls..what i have to do? and what program to use? please post your comment and suggestion here or send to my email at alejandro_decaprio@yahoo.com

Joe Says:
May 13th, 2009 at 9:45 am

works great. I updated my phone from 2.2 to 2.2.1 with no problems. I left my tmobile sim card in and followed the instructions. Although it should be mentioned that you’ll need itunes 8.1.1. My only complaint is that all my apps installed via cydia are now gone. =(

leland Says:
May 13th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

Hey,

Is it normally supposed to take like….20 minutes at the “2009-05-13 21:29:14 – Successfully built Quickpwn Ramdisk file.” stage.?

1st gen iphone, using latest quickpwn on my mac. im still waiting..thanks

Geoff Says:
May 14th, 2009 at 3:22 am

Riyad

Thanks for your response. Just to close this off and hopefully help others, I read through the notes again and noticed that running the jailbrak without the SIM card in the phone seemed to help some people.

I tried it and hey presto, it worked. Phone now fully unlocked and running on both Virgin and Vodafone networks as well as O2.

Thanks for you efforts in this area, it is really appreciated by us all.

Geoff

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 14th, 2009 at 6:55 am

Joe & Geoff — Great suggestions, I’ve updated the guide with those extra bits of info in strategic places to hopefully help other folks running through this process.

Leland — No I don’t think it’s suppose to take 20 mins, the whole process maybe takes 20 mins (lots of waiting) but not that 1 step.

JASON Says:
May 14th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Riyad,
Quick question for you, I have a 3G and with ATT, but i want to be able to at least jailbreak it. Install Cydia & Installer, but my question is do I follow the same procedure as if i was unlocking it?? meaning will itunes read my current version and let me just install them, if not what exactly changes on my part??
Thanks..

babayaga20000 Says:
May 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

JASON, what you can do is download the latest quikpwn or pwned and update your iphone with itunes normally, since you already have ATT you dont need to unlock, just jailbreak, so

Harry Says:
May 16th, 2009 at 7:06 am

Worked flawlessly… Great Tutorial!

Mazen Says:
May 16th, 2009 at 7:41 am

Dear guys,

I have been upgrading my iphone for all previous version until did the last 2.2.1 where my battery is draining like hell in less than five hours. I have heard Raghev is having similar issue in blog above. Could anyone help me why?

I have now version 2.2.1 5H11 working but have the battery problem only. Please help !!!!

AAA Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 7:07 am

ok, im pretty young and the jailbreak thing is pretty new to me, but im great with comps, ive read all your instructions, and i want to make sure if this would work on my 1G 8Gb Iphone, that already has version 1.1.3 unlocked on a fido plan?

Just making sure becuase ime seeing alot of people having trouble

thx

AAA Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 7:08 am

ps im trying to upgrade it to 2.2.1 from 1.1.3

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 9:00 am

Mazen,

Make sure WiFi is off and turn off Push if you don’t need it — turning those two things off increase my battery life 2-3x what it normally is. Push wakes the phone up every 10 seconds or so to check for incoming data — you can hear it if you are wearing headphones… there is this light static sound like a call is about to come in, then it goes back to sleep.

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 9:03 am

AAA,

Yes, a handful of people have done that exact upgrade and it worked fine.

AAA Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

lol thx just kinda hesitant…

AAA Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 5:08 pm

hold up. i tryed the process and the quick pwn wouldnt open ???
suggestions

(the application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.

so i did and every time i try to open it

it will not work…

bikedogrun Says:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:20 am

THANK YOU / THANK YOU!!!

Had used a different set of instruction to get from 1.1.4 to 2.2 with lots of issues, having to re-do 3-4 times, take out the sim etc.

Your instructions worked PERFECTLY the 1st time, taking me quickly and painlessly up to 2.2.1

You are to be congratulated for taking the time and putting in the energy to help others far less technical than you take this (sometimes) scary step with their beloved iPhones!

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 19th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

bikedogrun,

Excellent news, I’m glad it worked for you!

m Says:
May 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

Hi,
I hope you can help me with an unusual iphone problem. I have tried to find solutions all over the Internet but haven’t seen anyone with the same problem. I use a 2G iphone on Vodafone in Australia and I unlocked and jailbroke it with quickpwn and firmware 2.2.1. It works fine for 3,4 days, then it freezes and locks up again. Then I have to restore it with itunes and unlock again. This happens every time. Do you have any advice? Thanks

Deep69 Says:
May 20th, 2009 at 3:24 am

thnks dude!!

Maria Says:
May 20th, 2009 at 8:01 am

I am trying to update to 2.2.1 firmware. I update 2.1 successffuly. When i downloaded the 2.2.1 restore folder, and i extracted all the files. The ISPW file does not show up so i can restore my phone in itunes and update it. Why is that? What should i Do? Help would be appreciated. Please email me at marysiad@gmail.com.

Thank you,
Maria

Mazen Says:
May 24th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Dear Riyad,

Thx for hte help but it didn’t solve. I had everything off and still battery drains too fast. I googled the problem and it seems common for some folks.

I have been using my iphone for a year now and upgrading each new version using iclarified tutorial and yours with no problem.

I discovered that if I put hte iphone in airplane mode the battery will function normal. Once I insert my sim card, the phone will start draining the battery like hell and within short time off…. another thing is whenever I receive a call the phone shuts down.

I really like iphone and so dependent on its use. Please I need guidance on how to fix this probelm. Tried to downgrade the probem persist even before restoring my data.

I thought at once that my battery is the problem but when I switched airplane mode things were different.

my email is mazen_yehia@hotmail.com please I need all the help available.

Great day.

Chris Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

Hi. I did the process and everything went fine except now the phone just stays on the boot screen- the black one with the white apple logo. it vibrates twice every 5 minutes or so, but stays on the boot screen. how long is it suppose to stay like this. It’s going on 20 minutes.

Scargo Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Chris and everyone else don’t cha think the author is getting tired of answering the same questions over and over? I wrote this back in April!!

Hey Everyone, I would just like to say that YOU NEED TO READ THIS BLOG FIRST!!! before asking questions. SECONDLY READ EVERY POST by the users because chances are your question has already been answered. I DIDN’T WRITE THIS BLOG!!! EVERYONE with a 3G Iphone YOU are taking a chance of LOCKING your Iphone to the AT&T network. RE-read the beginning of this blog again about the baseband.

The BEST thing to do is PRINT THE DIRECTIONS OUT FIRST read and re-read them until you understand them.
Make sure ITUNES is updated to the LATEST VERSION and your iphone is recognized
Make sure quick Pawn is unpacked and looks like a pineapple in the downloaded files you will use and you know where they are
Make sure your sim card is not locked with a pin # in Settings
Make sure to turn passcode required off in Settings

Randone Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

Ok so I’m not sure if this was covered in the guide somewhere but when I right clicked to update my firmware to 2.2.1 it started updating it and then all of a sudden it said it had an error and now my phone won’t show up in iTunes anymore. The screen on my phone just keeps showing the USB socket and a little iTunes logo. Any ideas on what to do?

Raghav Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 6:40 pm

HI Randone,

Try restarting the computer and connect…You can ping me on Raghav_vicky23@yahoo.co.in for help.

Maria Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

Why isn’t anyone helping me?

Thank you,
Maria

Randone Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 11:26 pm

Ok, so with the help of Raghav, i’ve gotten as far as getting to the part in Quickpwn where you can choose the bootloaders. After it gets to the screen where you end up putting your phone into DFU mode, I can’t get it to progress past the first step where it says “Wait for your iPhone to connect in recovery mode.” The screen on my phone shows that it’s in recovery mode and iTunes will tell me that there is an iPhone connected in recovery mode, but QuickPwn will not progress past that first step. I’ve tried with the Sim card in and with it out, multiple times. Does anybody have any helpful suggestions?

Randone Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 12:08 am

Ok cool. I had to use multiple computers to get this to work, installing the update on one and then using QuickPwn on another, but it finally worked. Thanks Raghav for your help, and thanks Riyad for the walkthrough. Great work.

Rajen Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

Hi Riyad,
I have IPhone 8GB which was unlocked and was working okay until I have downloaded and installed the new version of software from apple.com thru itune. Now the phone is showing SIM is not supported and allows only emergency no. I want to know what next to be done. Do you think the procedure you have mentioned in this blog can work ? Do I need to Restore it to factory level ? It will be a great help if you can let me know….

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 10:40 pm

+1 to what Scargo said, I know it can be time-consuming and dauting when you have a dead iPhone in your hand — but I *think* all the info everyone is asking for is either in the original post (I’ve included updates as folks have provided corrections) or down in these comments which have been an awesome source of info for different ways to get things going.

Rajen Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 1:34 am

Hi Riyad, Thnx for the messgae reply, I tried to reset the phone and then reload as mentioned above. Congrats buddy, it worked in 1st shot….
Thnx for helping the community and breaking the monopoly of the MNC’s.
Hv a great day…..cheers

Scargo Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 8:11 am

Maria, How about you try DOWNLOADING the files again to a folder on your desktop or use a different computer to download them and copy them to a flash drive.Read all the post on this blog, then maybe you will figure it out.

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 9:06 am

Rajen,

Glad to hear it worked!

marco Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

Thank you!!
I get really upset when I saw that “I don’t like your SIM” msg!
It really Helped!

Thank you!

ramesh Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

we 2g iphone but that was one problem it’s not working apple symble only come to not on that mobile

eva Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 1:26 am

i have a 8GB unlocked iphone 2G version 1.1.2 and want to update to version 2.2.1. Will I not lose my SMS messages, contacts and photos if I follow the steps above? Thanks a lot in advance.

Riyad Kalla Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 10:31 am

eva,

If you have iTunes setup to sync your Photos and Contacts from your iPhone you should be fine there, but you will loose your SMS messages.

Good question, I haven’t seen anyone ask that one yet.

m Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

Hi, I asked for help earlier but no one answered. It looks like there is no solution to my problem…?
I just want to add that I tried to restore my 2G phone with firmware 2.1, unlock it with Quickpwn and then upgrade to 2.2.1 But that relocked the phone. I also tried restoring with 2.2.1 firmware directly, but that had the same result. What could be wrong with the phone? Hardware/software fault? As I said before, it works perfectly for 2,3 days and then it freezes and locks up again. Also, can I restore from itunes directly, or do I have to use custom firmware?

Scargo Says:
May 30th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Hi M,
Maybe you can find some answers at one of these two websites!
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ or try this one http://iclarified.com/
for your current problems or maybe someone can help you,Good Luck!!!

stephan Says:
June 1st, 2009 at 8:00 pm

hey i got the iphone unlocked but the data is not working from the tmobile network is there a way to fix that…. email me at triniboy24@gmail.com with your answers

Riyad Kalla Says:
June 1st, 2009 at 10:04 pm

Guys,

For anyone having data problems it seems that the APN has changed to:
internet2.voicestream.com

I’m still able to use the old APN referenced in this original article, but some folks I know on T-Mobile in the US on iPhone have had to change it to that new APN to get EDGE data working.

Hope that helps.

hernan Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 7:53 pm

Hey, i need help!
when i go to the second step in quickpwn the check for the unlock phone is not there, i just have cyndia and installer and the replace boot, but the unlock the phone one never comes up.
What do i do? plz
THanks you

suhesh Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 10:27 pm

Sarah Says:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:36 am

If I have and unlocked and jailbroken 1st Gen iPhone and am on already using an AT&T sim, would I be okay with upgrading to the 2.2.1 update? I would not care for the jailbreak but would like my unlock to stay in place. Also what will happen with all the jailbroken applications already installed on my iPhone?

islandzboy Says:
June 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am

hey riyad

i have an ipod touch 1G 16 gb. When i press shift and click update, an error pops up saying “the ipod could not be updated because the firmware is not compatible”

please help me…. hope u will reply soon…

thanx…
islandzboy

Anthony Says:
June 13th, 2009 at 6:29 am

i have a unlocked iphone wit 2.2.1 firmware, and i cannot go online it was working lioke a week ago and now i cant download anything from cydia or anything someone please help.

Riyad Kalla Says:
June 14th, 2009 at 11:15 am

Anthony,

It could be your APN settings — search this page for the phrase “APN”, there is the well-known one for T-Mobile and then a newer one as well I posted a week ago if you are having trouble connecting to the normal voicestream one.

Riyad Kalla Says:
June 14th, 2009 at 11:23 am

islandzboy,

Ahh! Yea you don’t want to use these firmwares linked in this story, they are for iPhones.

You *might* be able to go grab the official 2.2.1 iPod Touch firmware and still use the rest of this guide, I’m really not sure, I’ve never tried it.

I’d suggest googling for “iPod Touch quickpwn” and see if people say that is the way to jailbreak the Touchs… if it is, this guide should work.

Walid Baalbaki Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 6:44 am

Hi Riyad ,
If i press Shift > on restore not on Update , and choosing ur same file , it will work ?

Thx

Walid Baalbaki Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 6:49 am

If my SIM card is MTC Touch Lebanon , does that work ??

vinay Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 7:48 am

hi i unlocked successfully but my phone not recognizing the sim card what what the steps i have to follow for that

JJ Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:56 am

Hey Riyad,
Do you know when you’ll be able to break down for us “how to install 3.0″
Thanks!!

Riyad Kalla Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

JJ,

In about 2 weeks I’ll write a new guide for iPhone OS 3.0 — right now early jailbreaking is working, but I haven’t gotten a definitive thumbs-up on the base-band unlocking so folks can run on un-authorized networks.

Once I see the all-clear there I’ll get to work and get you guys a new guide.

JJ Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:22 am

Hey Riyad,
Thanks for the quick response. will the same procedure apply to the new 3G S the 32G?? just wondering if that one is going to be jailbroken soon.. Again thanks for the response.. JJ

Linda Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

Hi, Did this tutorial a few months ago, worked GREAT and loved it… until recently. Strange things started happening: first, the icons would wobble – pretty often – for no reason, it’s SUPER s-l-o-w, and takes time to load everything, and now today all my voicemails, both new and saved were erased. I was dealing with all this stuff but decided to downgrade after deleting the few apps and screensaver didn’t help. Any info on how to do this downgrade to my older, jailbroken (1.3, I believe) version without losing my unlock (I’m w/T-mobile) would be greatly appreciated. If it can’t be done, I’ll continue to plod along.

Baby steps would be appreciated (similar to the tutorial) for me.

Thanks very much
Linda

Riyad Kalla Says:
June 18th, 2009 at 5:48 am

JJ,
My expectation is that yes the same process will be pretty similar to what we do for the 3G S — I’m just waiting for the whole process to get rolled into QuickPwn so we can make it dead-easy with no fancy hacking required.

Linda,
Sorry to hear the phone has gone wonky — it doesn’t sound like the upgrade did that though, your voicemails are stored server side so if those got erased something might be going on with your account. If you’ve never hard-restarted your phone before, that might be a good idea. Hold down power button for 8 secs and slide it to off then back on.

The other option is to do a totally clean reinstall of 2.2.1 to see if it’s cruft on the phone causing all the weird behavior (it is basically a little computer, so sometimes an OS reinstall can help).

Or you can hang in there another few weeks and we’ll get a 3.0 guide out an you can upgrade to that

Linda Says:
June 18th, 2009 at 7:16 am

Riyad,

Thanks so, so much – again!! I did the off 8 second trick and that seemed to have speeded up things a bit. I’ve also tapped & tapped and so far, no wobbly icons so hopefully it fixed that issue too. I’m sure you’re right about the voicemail server thing since these other 2 issues seem ok (for now) with the hard restarting; I’ll play with it today to see if the wobbly icons come back. I’ll also check back and probably do the upgrade to 3 when your guide comes out. Thanks again for all the great work you do and help you give here.

Linda

RoAdHoGg Says:
June 19th, 2009 at 3:03 pm

Hi I have just purchased a 1st gen 8 gig Iphone and didn’t realise it was jailbroken 1.1.2 and unlocked, I Just want to install OS 3.0 and I’m not botherd about being unlocked or jailbroken. I’m I going to brick the iphone by installing the official 3.0 update

Pepe Says:
June 19th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

I hope this helps someone.
while doing the update, at one point I got an error 14 message, then i could update anymore, i only had the option to restore.. i tried to do that and an error 13 popped up, so i couldnt restore any way, and the iphone was stuck in some screen…
reading around i found out for some reason the process can get messed up if you are connecting your iphone to the pc via a USB port in the front of your PC, so I switched to one on the back, and voila, worked like a charm…
just thought I’d post it for anyone with a similar prob

Pete Says:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:46 pm

Hi Riyad, your instructions worked great when I updated my iPhone 2G to 2.2.1. Any chance you’ll do the same for the iPhone 3.0 software that’s just been released????

Kevin Says:
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm

I am trying to upgrade a 2nd Gen that was on 1.1.4, but when I tried to bring it to 2.2.1 I got an error 14. Itunes now states that I have to restore to original factory settings. Do I have to download an older firmware file, or can I just continue on with the 2.2.1 file I downloaded at the top of the instructions?

Do you have to be connected to the net to be successful?

Kevin Says:
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:40 pm

I restored using the 2.2.1 file I downloaded at the top of the file. That worked OK. Other problem I encountered was during QuickPwn. I ntever went into recovery mode so it never advanced the “button sequence”. I exited out of quickpwn and rebooted the iphone. It automatically rebooted into recovery mode and quickpwn did its thing. Another successful unlocked Iphone. Thanks for a great tutorial Kevin.

Loso Says:
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 am

Ok I have a 1G iphone with T-mobile and it has been working beautifully. I recently made an ass outta myself and updated it to 2.2.1 from i-tunes. I read up top that it will be “uncrackable”?? Does that mean I can’t re-unlock it?? I have two jobs (probably like everyuone else) and I heavily rely on my phone day to day. I really need my phone up and runing again!! Please help!!!

Riyad Kalla Says:
June 30th, 2009 at 8:45 am

Pete, absolutely. Should have it written this week.

Riyad Kalla Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 10:08 am

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone for being patient, the new iPhone 3.0 Firmware jailbreaking/unlocking guide is now up!

irena Says:
July 21st, 2009 at 11:51 am

i updated my phone long time ago and i followed the exact steps but something happened and now i have to install it again but it takes forever to connect my phone to recovery..its been almost 20 minutes and nothings happening…any ideas?

zoomi Says:
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:53 pm

hi everyone…..everything went right but the quickpwn is not giving me the option of unlocking while i m getting other three option….cydia, installer and reboot logo……any idea….is it something relted to quickpwn….where should i get the latest one which will work with my firmware 2.2.1.
thnx

Riyad Kalla Says:
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:05 am

zoomi,

I’ve not heard anyone complain about that before (not seeing the Unlock) — are you sure you grabbed all the resources linked from this guide?

Also, don’t forget, we put up a guide for installing, jailbreaking and unlocking iPhone 3.0 OS on your iPhone just recently if you want to follow that one instead.

ehsan Says:
July 27th, 2009 at 9:01 pm

it doesn’t worked
It says
firmware error string

zoomi Says:
July 28th, 2009 at 8:14 am

hi riyad

thanx for ur reply…..last time my frend unlocked iphone and he was told not to upgrade it further bcoz his iphone wont work anymore….is it right?…….and secondly i have already done jailbroken and unlocked and using it on unsupported network but now my iphone just got froozen on the apple logo……so i followed ur instruction to reboot it may be thats y quickpwn is not giving me option of that unlock……should i proceed further if i m not getting this option???????is it safe?

Riyad Kalla Says:
July 28th, 2009 at 9:34 am

@ehsan,
I *think* you get that error either when your firmware download is corrupted, or you downloaded the wrong firmware for your device. Double-check to make sure you grabbed the correct firmware for your device (for example, you don’t want to grab the 3G iPhone firmware for a 1st generation, 2G iPhone)

@zoomi,
If you follow the new iPhone 3.0 guide, you start off by doing a factory restore of the phone with the official iPhone firmware — and then you crack that open with redsn0w… I think that might be the way to go since your phone is currently in a funky state.

zoomi Says:
July 29th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

hi riyad….

if i dont see the unlock option in quickpwn…..should i proceed further….wt will happen????

Riyad Kalla Says:
July 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

zoomi,

You’re killing me buddy… I have no idea what will happen if you proceed with QuickPwn not showing you the “Unlock” option, nor do I know why it’s not showing you that option — that’s why I’ve recommended using the iPhone 3.0 firmware guide we put up instead.

Rom Says:
August 17th, 2009 at 11:05 am

Hi folks, i have recently bought a jailbroken 2g iphone off someone, so it did not come with a T-mobile sim card. Would i be able also to do the above mentioned upgrade. I am running 1.1.4 firmware.

Rom Says:
August 17th, 2009 at 11:17 am

update my to earlier enquiry…..

as a mater of fact the guy took out his phone card…so it really didn’t come with any phone card in it! I already have a sim card, so do i just put in the sim card i have and try the upgrade?

Riyad Kalla Says:
August 18th, 2009 at 8:39 am

Rom,

Put the SIM card in, make sure the phone actually works first. If it doesn’t, or says something like “incompatible SIM”, then it may be jailbroken, but it’s not unlocked (to work on other networks).

If the phone works great, then yes, you can follow this guide. But if you are going to upgrade anyway, I’d just recommend following the iPhone 3.0 firmware guide instead and get the latest.

Rom Says:
August 19th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Thanks a mil Riyad Kalla , iT wokred just the way u said it should. You guys are the best.

Let the iphone irock(LOL)…WAAPPAXXX

Riyad Kalla Says:
August 20th, 2009 at 6:06 am

Rom, glad to hear it man, have fun!

Shariq Says:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:24 pm

I made mistake and realease home button when quickpwn was asking to hold it.I tryed so many time from the begning but it always struck on the same promt saying ‘wait for your iphone to connect in recovery mode… Now i cant connect to itune to install the firmware again because it does not connect to my iphone.pls Help

Zimyad Mastoi! Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 8:43 am

Thankssssss alot……………………
i have upgraded now its working bt how can i open menu??????
menu is not opening i am just receiving msgs n calls nothing more

J.D. Says:
October 28th, 2009 at 9:04 pm

Riyad,
I have a iphone 2g, if my phone is already unlocked and jailbroken w/winpwn to 2.02 can I just restore it to 2.2.1 in? itunes or do I have to unkock it again w/QuickPwn?

Riyad Kalla Says:
October 28th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

J.D.,

As soon as you do the restore in iTunes, it’s wiping out the unlock and jailbreak on the phone and laying down the official operating system (firmware) again — so you’d have to re-unlock it and re-jailbreak it.

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thanks alooooooot! works great!!!!!!
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 14th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Good deal, glad to hear it!
n00b Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
The guide works flawlessly
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
n00b,

Good deal, happy iPhone-ing!
christine Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
excellent post again, updated with ease! thanks again!
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Thank you for the kind words Christine.
will Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I did everything just like above, i got my phone unlocked, but it keep saying wrong sim card, it reads t-mobile on top, but i can only make emergency calls only, what can i do to change this and use the phone to dial out and use the features?

Thank you for everything, this has helped me alot.
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Will,

I know in the 2.1 guide some folks actually removed the SIM card, and then went through the entire Firmware upgrade process and then running QuickPwn and then after it was all done, putting the SIM card back in and it worked.

BEFORE you do all that though, hold down the power button and do a full power off… wait for a few mins, then power it back on and see if that clears it’s state.
jamunyea Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Hi Riyad:
I use a 2G iPhone. My phone is unlocked, but I am stuck in the emergency screen as Will mentioned above. I checked my version on the iPhone and it says 2.2.1 (5H11). I have a couple of questions 1) Did you apply the firmware update using the old SIM? There is no way I can go to the iPHone summary page on itunes using my T-Mobile SIM. The moment I have my T-Mobile SIM, I see the scary looking page (Unsupported SIM Card). Also does it make a difference if the OS is updated using iTunes or do I run the downloaded version that you have above.
I am stuck in the emergency screen since yesterday and have tried doing this at least 5 times.
Thanks in advance for your help
Jamunyea
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Jamunyea,

I have the 2G iPhone as well (1st gen) and did this whole guide with the T-Mobile SIM in, never removed it and all was right with the world.

That being said, are you sure during the QuickPwn stage you selected the “Unlock” checkbox?

Also have you tried doing a hard-power down as I mentioned to Will, waiting and then powering back on? I saw some people online say that worked for them… you could also try the whole procedure of installing the firmware then quickpwn’ing it with the SIM out.

Also, I *believe* you can use the normal “Restore” button in iTunes to install the firmware, but to be on the safe side I’d suggest using the link in this post to grab it locally first, then use Shift-Click to select it.
jamunyea Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Hi Riyad:
Thanks for the note. Well, I got it to work now. I think a lot of us who are stuck in the emergency screen are there because we do not seem to be updating the Firmware from this blog. Unless the phone is restored to factory settings, I think the rest of the process is not going to work completely. So the most important first step is to update the Firmware using the download link mentioned above.
Regards Jamunyea
will Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I have try every possibly scenerio, i have follow every step, i have restore numerous times, in the end is the same thing, i cannot possibly get this iphone unlock, i keep getting the same problem, what else can i do, i have been goin on this for 2 days over 10 each day, with every single one giving me the same result, i had this phone unlocked before, now that i updated the thing, it wont let me unlocked it again, help please.
rubeN Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I’ve just got done doing this and it works good. I have a prepaid Tmobile SIM card and my carrier message icon says “no service” I’m thinking maybe the card is not working or expired.

I don’t get the nagging wrong SIM message though when that SIM is inserted.
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Will, you don’t have a 3G iPhone by chance do you?

rubeN, keep us posted if a new SIM gets you service again, want to make sure you’re up and running.
rubeN Says:
February 18th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Nah, its a regular 1G 8GB phone. I had tmobile pre-paid running before when I was at 1.1.4. I then have ATT but I will probably have to go back to Tmobile.
will Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Riyad Kalla, thank you for your reply, but still stock with no luck, I have a first generation iphone 4gb, I had it unlocked before, I have follow everything by the T, the last attempt, i turn off the phone, then when i restarted all the programs were gone, so i restore it again, I do everything with the t-mobile sim card in, but still does not read the sim card, I downloaded all the programs from here, i try different computers, what do you think is the problem.
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Will my only suggestion at this point would be to try the process with the sim card out and also make sure you are using the firmware linked in this article and not just clicking the “restore” button from inside iTunes.

All the rest of it should work
jamunyea Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Hi Riyad:
Did you manage to access internet using Edge on your iphone with T-Mobile. I did not realize until I stepped out that edge was not working, at home it picks my wireless so did not notice the difference.

Regards
Jamunyea
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Jamunyea,

Yes it’s been working fine, are you sure the APN is still set and you have the BlackBerry data plan?

If you used to use the T-Zone hack, you might need to pull that hack app back down again — I don’t have experience with that.
jamunyea Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
HI Riyad:
I do have the blackberry plan, but I am not familiar with APN, what is it?

Regards
Jamunyea
jamunyea Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Hi Riyad,I also forgot to ask you above visual voice mail. Is it something we have to give up, even this does not seem to be working.

Regards
Jamunyea
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Jamunyea,

Unfortunately, yes you have to give up visual voice mail.

As far as APN, go to Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network, and under “APN” use “wap.voicestream.com” for T-Mobile’s BB Data plan, then you should get edge.

If it doesn’t work right away, try restarting the phone. Look for the “E” up in the header bar.
Lucky Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Worked like a charm, now I can use that snow and ski report I downloaded. Thanks!!!
jose Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:00 am
ok so i had to downgrade my iphone to a crappy phone but i want to still use my iphone i jailbroke my phone and also tried unlocking it with quickpwn i have 1g iphone with 2.2.1 firmware i did everything with quickpwn used the bootloaders and all and even though i clicked on the unlock box whenever i try switching sims i get the wrong sim message can i actually use another at&t sim or not? maybe thats the problem..? someone help
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 7:06 am
@Lucky, sweetness. Glad it worked!

@Jose, if you are on AT&T, you actually don’t want to “Unlock” the phone, that cracks the baseband to remove the binding to the AT&T network — in your case, if you are on AT&T, you want to leave that intact.

Go back through the firmware install and the QuickPwn process again, but don’t check off “Unlock”. Then you should be all set.
will Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I have tried with the sim card out, i used everything from this website, i have done everything right, I am really good at this things, but for some reason it just not doing it for me, even if i do it with the sim card out, as soon as i put the T-mobile one in does not work, I don’t know if i should give up, but i been at this for 3 days now, i keep getting the same results no matter how i try it, i have put over ten hours each day, good think im unemployed during the day or else when would i have the time.
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Will,

That really sucks man, I thought we would have gotten it figured out by now… you don’t have any other friends with SIM cards do you on T-Mobile *just* to pop in temporarily and check to see if it registered theirs?

You are also making sure to try hard power-downs and power-ups when putting in the SIM card to make sure the phone reboots right?
michael Says:
February 21st, 2009 at 10:47 pm
upgraded to 2.2.1 with no flaws so far… problem i am having now is itunes wont let me add or delete or drag songs or anything to the ipod. any ideas?

thanks,

-michael
michael Says:
February 21st, 2009 at 10:49 pm
nevermind. i got it. i had the ipod synched to anotther computer all i had to do was delete and sync with this computer. Thanks for everything
christine Says:
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 am
Hey quick question for you,

Ever since updating my phone I havn’t used Cydia or Installer to get any applications or anything, but I was curious as to waht was available and checked it out, and all of these updates came up. Is it safe to update Cydia and Installer?
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 am
Christine,

Yes it’s fine. Both Installer and Cydia do a bunch of self-updated — either catalogs or minor software updates. You can go ahead and let them do their thing.
Kai Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 am
i got to the part where itunes says it is setting up my phone for update and then it just gives me a message saying this iphone could not be updated. an unknown error occured. (1602)
Kai Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:51 am
would be grateful for help,
phone is jailbroken, sitting on ver. 1.1.4,
i personally dont care if its j/b or not,
juss would rather have it on ver. 2.2.1
someone PLEASE help me.
oreo_WC@hotmail.com
jose Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
hey Riyad i did what you told me to i didnt check the unlock box did everything with quickpwn but still every time i switch at&t sims i still get the whole wrong sim message or whatever… is there anything i can do about that?
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Blast!

Jose there is 1 other thing you could try… you can try normal left-click “Restore” from inside iTunes, this will install the AT&T/Apple standard firmware.

After that is installed, put in your SIM — if it doesn’t even work then (AT&T phone, with AT&T firmware, with AT&T Sim) then there is something wrong with your SIM.

If it *does* work, you could try QuickPwning that firmware to jailbreak it, but not Unlock and that might do the trick.
jose Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
actually riyad i tried it the same day i downgraded my iphone to my other phone before jailbreaking and unlocking it and it didnt work =/ thats why i decided after to jailbreak and unlock my phone because maybe that would be the only way i could have it back but it never worked so im pretty much stuck till i can upgrade it back or i find a way to pass that “incorrect sim connect to itunes” screen/message
elizabeth Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 3:57 pm
How many times does the phone reboot itself after the final step? Mine has rebooted several times now, certainly more than twice, and continues to do so– and it doesn’t go past the white apple loader. I don’t want to interrupt the process if this is normal but I don’t want to keep waiting around if there is a problem.

( I have a first gen iphone with tmobile)
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
elizabeth,

I think I saw mine reboot twice during the whole process, but I never saw it reboot at the white Apple… each time it rebooted it had just finished up some custom QuickPwn GUI, like unlocking the baseband or jailbreaking the phone — there was already some custom UI that it would show or run through and then reboot.

I never saw it get to the normal iPhone desktop and then reboot from there.
elizabeth Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
apparently this has happened to other people ie. endless rebooting after process appears to have worked properly–they said you have to do a restore to factory settings from recovery mode, then restore to last good back-up, then do quickpwn…but isn’t this missing a step? wouldn’t you have to either update or restore to the new firmware and then run quickpwn? I’m freaking out.
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
elizabeth,

I can’t really say — I am not familiar with the process of getting a phone out of endless rebooting cycles.

But yes, I agree, it does sound like it’s missing a step.
Harris Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Hi Riyad,

I have an iphone 3g 2.2 already unlocked/jailbroken and I’m on AT&T. Is there a way for me to update to 2.2.1 without losing the unlock or screwing up the phone permanently. I also have Cydia and “installer” installed.

Let me know at harris.najib@gmail.com

Thanks

Harris
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Harris,

Are you sure about the unlock on the existing phone? The reason I ask is, if you are already on AT&T, why do you need the unlock? The baseband unlock is only necessary when needing to run the phone on unauthorized networks.

So incase you *don’t* have the unlock, and it’s just Jailbroken on AT&T so you can install custom software and the like, using the steps above and QuickPwn *will* still allow you to Jailbreak the phone for 2.2.1 on the 3G iPhone — what it won’t do though is be able to re-unlock the phone if it is infact unlocked.

So if the phone is unlocked and you need it that way — don’t follow this guide — QuickPwn cannot unlock the 3G iPhone yet. But if you don’t need the unlock and just need the JailBreak, you can follow this guide and JailBreak it — putting Installer and Cydia back on it.

NOTE: I would throw out a disclaimer again though — that’s not to say you can’t still bork your phone in the process. I’m not a firmware expert and would hate to have you come back after trying this with news like “turns out I need unlocked baseband, how do I do it?!” and me not really have any help to offer.

If you were on a much-older firmware I’d say it’s worth it, but if you are already on 2.2.0, 2.2.1 won’t help much but it will give you the Exchange sync support that Google is using to provide GCal and Contacts synchronization — so if you don’t need that, no need to upgrade to 2.2.1 right now.

– Out of curiosity, how have you done the firmware upgrades in the past? You said you are on AT&T — did you buy the phone and have just been doing normal upgrades via iTunes? If so, your phone isn’t unlocked and you should be fine with just the JailBreak after the upgrade (which QuickPwn will do for you).

Hope that helps.
Harris Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Riyad, thank you very much for the prompt reply. I just got the phone today on Ebay. I am on AT&T, and I travel quiet often. Therefore, I needed a phone that would work on networks outside the US.

The phone came with 2.2 version of the software, and I was prompted to update to the newer version. I actually wanted to update and clicked the “update” button. LUCKILY my internet connection was disrupted and the update was unsuccessful. After reading all these articles about unlocked iphones going useless after the update, I was terrified (imagine my iphone going flat on the very first day)

On the other hand, I do want to keep up with software updates and want to use the phone outside the US. Do you think that any solution is coming up quickly?

Thanks again and good job in addressing so many questions/problems.

Harris
Riyad Kalla Says:
February 24th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Harris,

Thanks for the clarification. Definitely don’t upgrade it yet — and yes I imagine a resolution to the problem is around the corner. Those iPhone hackers function at an incredible rate. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t already cracked now (I haven’t gone digging) but if not now, then in a week or so.

Either way you aren’t going to be stuck on 2.2 forever.
JOse Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 11:58 am
well i did the update on the firmware and everything i dont know how to upload the firmware from i tunes do i use the old sim card first or what am i suppose to do to get it to do the firmware threw itunes.?
Lucky!13 Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Dude im only 15, and i did this as easily as pie…. Awesome thanx alot!!!!
Julian Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I already updated to 2.2.1 on the itunes update, but is there anyway that i use the custom restore that it will work and unlock?
Bryan Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
You know…….an odd thing happened…..i followed your directions exactly. I downloaded the firmware through your link…..but after shift-clicking update i selected the firmware…..and after updating i didn’t get the scary message! It was still unlocked without even using quickpwn…..and i don’t think that mine is factory unlocked because when i ulocked it on 2.0 it wouldn’t work before i unlocked……i just thought i would share that…..anyone else have the same thing happen?
Bekir Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
I have installed jailbroke 2.2.1. and before I have upgrade my phone with itune. My network is not working. How can I fix it?
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 10:01 am
@Bryan that’s pretty sweet… no idea why that happened. I’ve seen it *once* when I originally upgraded from 1.1.4 to 2.0, didn’t need to do the unlock, had no idea why, figured it was some firmware magic.

@Bekir, do you mean WiFi or EDGE? If it’s EDGE, make sure you go back to your APN settings and setup the right APN. Instructions here.
Kesha Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I just wanted to say thanx for everything. I followed the step by step instruction and it worked flawlessly. I have the 2G Iphone and I paid somebody to unlock it for me at first. I’ve paid $45 and the idiot downgraded my phone to a 2.0 firmware and he told me that to have it upgraded, I will have to pay another $45 because it will lock the phone again and he will have to unlock and jailbreak it again. And he said that even if he was to upgrade it, my phone will not work n e more. So, I took it upon myself to upgrade it since I was missing the Cellular Data Network setting for my T-mobile data plan. N E way. Everything worked and I still have all of my old information. Thanx again guys for everything. I’ve also learned how to put ringtones on the iphone using itunes for FREE!!!! N E way, thanx again guys….you are a life saver………..bye
Adel Hallak Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 6:50 pm
You are a freakin GENUIS Riyado!!

Ana Bahobak Ya Wahesh!!

Thanks pal!
incognito Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 7:17 pm
thxxxxxxx a lot. i had some troubles with my iPhone that wasnt booting but it fixed it. many thx man. very clear
Fuzz Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Riyad,

Fist off thanks for creating such an easy guide to follow; I was trying to upgrade from 1.1.1 on my 1G and during the process of installing the firmware version from the link I got an error message and my phone just displayed the iTunes symbol (not even emergency call). I restored it and it downloaded the newest firm ware from apple and I get the “SIM card is not supported” window because I have my SIM card in from a carrier that doesn’t have iPhones in Canada. How do I install the firmware from the link from this window?

Thank you very much,
Fuzz
Adel Hallak Says:
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 am
I hate it when people ask stupi’ questions. Your answer is up there in this article man, just read it and re-read it carefully. Gosh!

You are a freakin GENUIS Riyado!!

Ana Bahobak Ya Wahesh!!

Thanks pal!
Fuzz Says:
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Weird, I looked through the article again and I still didn’t see that I needed to enter DFU mode by holding home and power for 10 seconds and then releasing the power button but continuing to hold home for another 10 seconds. Then hold shift and hit restore in iTunes and follow the rest of the instructions. I must be retarded cause I still don’t see that in this thread, but thanks Adel for wasting everyones time with your useless post.
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Guys I’m really glad it helped, and Kesha I’m *really* glad you didn’t have to cough up another $45 for that guy to upgrade your phone for you.

Fuzz, did you get things sorted out by chance? It sounded like you did but I wanted to make sure.
Devak Says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:08 am
hey i have a question- ok i have heard that if you have att and you unlock it, the att sim wont work but other sims will, well i unlocked/jailbroke my iphone but when i put my att sim in the phone its stuck at the connect to itunes/slide for emergency but when i slide the bar and type a number in it calls, i also recive txr messages and i recive calls, will left-clicking the restore button on itunes restore my iphone so that i can use my att sim?

ps i have gone through itunes to activate my phone after unlocking but it doesnt load after the verifing your number page) thanks for your help
hani Says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:21 pm
when i downloaded the bl-39.bin and the bl-49.bin they dont have that orange icon in my download window like yours did. mine only shows a blank page icon. Why are the icons different?
hani Says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
also when i downloaded the two bin files they are labeled as BIN Files under type and under yours I see it is labeled VLC Media File. Did i download them wrong?
Ramsey Says:
March 4th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Ok, I have the 1st generation iPhone (2G) and I have AT&T contract. I jailbroke my iphone first with the 2.2.0 firmware and also unlocked it. Now I wanted to upgrade the firmware to 2.2.1 and followed the steps. The step where it was supposed to tell me that the sim is unrecognized… I didn’t get that screen. It totally recognized my phone in iTunes. But it did tell me this: “An update to the carrier settings for your iPhone is available. Would you like to install it now?” I pressed cancel and continued the whole instalation with quickPwn and everything worked fine. However my phone was restored to the original way of looking, it doésn’t have all my themes and everything I had before. The only thing that is saved is all the recent calls, texts and that kind of stuff. It does tell me that the phone is now updated to the 2.2.1 firmware. But if I press the button “Check for updates” it keeps telling me that previous message about the update of the carrier settings…. What is that message? If I press update, then it gives me this error and it doesn’t work…..What’s that message? and shold my phone look like the original look after this whole process or not?
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 4th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Hani, you’re fine, I just have VLC (it’s a movie player) installed and it *thinks* those BIN files are movies, they aren’t obviously.

On a clean Windows install I’m sure it would just show the blank-page icon.
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 4th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Ramsey,
Any customizations that aren’t supported by iTunes (like customizations done through Jailbroken software) will be reverted to the defaults. Also, as far as the carrier updates… not sure what that is — but the phone works fine right?
Ramsey Says:
March 5th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Thanks for your reply. The phone works fine, with no problems. I hope it is unlocked… I will only be able to check when I get out of the country with a new sim. I reinstalled all my themes and features I had before no problem. However, I still get that message about carrier settings update every time I hook the iPhone to the iTunes. If I accept to download, it just gives me an error saying it couldn’t do it… that’s all. I guess I shouldn’t worry too much.
Thanks
Liam Duffy Says:
March 5th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Hi Riyad, one quick question….
I currently hav an unlocked and jailbroken first gen iphone running on firmware 1.1.4. I am wondering, because my phone has already been unlocked, if I follow your steps, will I be able to reunlock my phone????
hani Says:
March 6th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Riyad. I did it and it worked flawlessly. Everything is perfect. Lovin my iphone once again.
Frank Says:
March 7th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Great tutorial, upgraded in 20 minutes, piece of cake!
thanks guys.

Frank
pilotsethnorris Says:
March 7th, 2009 at 11:45 am
I’m just gonna say this, you are the man!! Thanks for this awesome tutorial! Works perfectly!!!
Adel Says:
March 7th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I Love You Riyad.
ria Says:
March 8th, 2009 at 9:34 am
HELP ME PLEASE!!!!
I AM ONLY AT THE UPDATING IPHONE STAGE AND THE CONNECTION FROM MY CONPUTER TO MY IHONE WAS LOST. NOW MY PHONE IS IN “RECOVERY MODE” SHOULD I RESTORE MY PHONE THROUGH I TUNES HELP ME!PLEASE! WHAT SHOULD I DO?????
esra Says:
March 8th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Perfect! Also works for Turkcell in Turkey. Thank you very much!
andy Says:
March 8th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
The Title of this blog, “How to Install iPhone 2.2.1 Firmware on Jailbroken and Unlocked T-Mobile iPhone” is very misleading. The instructions are for UNLOCKING an iPhone.

Don’t you just use PwnageTool 2.2.5 to install the 2.2.1 firmware and restore the baseband. Why do you still have to go to the unlocking process if it is already unlocked?

Please clarify. Thanks.
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 9th, 2009 at 8:25 am
@Liam, yes if it’s a 1-st gen iPhone (which mine was and yours sounds like it is too) you can re-unlock it using the steps above. So you should be all set.

@Hani, pilotsethnorris, Adel, thanks for the kind words guys!

@esra, excellent news, I’m glad it helped!

@andy, that’s true we do cover a bit more information here in the blog — I just didn’t want to leave anyone hanging incase they were in my situation as well and needed more information. As far as PwnageTool, if you are on a Mac yes you can use it and do different Steps IIRC, I’m not sure, I don’t have a mac and haven’t run through that flow — so I just documented everything I could to avoid anyone getting stuck.
Fuzz Says:
March 9th, 2009 at 10:56 am
ria,

I had a similiar problem, what you want to do is:

put the phone in DFU mode by holding home AND power for 10 seconds and then releasing the power button but continuing to hold home for another 10 seconds.

You should then be able to plug your phone into iTunes and it won’t recongize it ie. Name: iPhone

Then hold shift and hit restore in iTunes (if your using Vista; no idea with Macs) and it will ask you what file you want to use to update with. Choose the ipsw file that you downloaded above and click open. Then follow the rest of the steps outlined above. Hopefully you had all your contacts backed up or else they will be gone.

Cheers,
Fuzz
Valerie Says:
March 10th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I updated my phone and it worked, kind of.
I had to restored my contacts and texts, but my phone wont read my t-Mobile SIM card anymore. Any suggestions?
Valerie
haris Says:
March 11th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Dear Riyad,,,thank a lot for being such a great teacher and guide…helps clear out the jitters for us non-technology types….one quick question…my iphone on being connected to itunes shows that itunes doesnt recognize it and that I should restore it through itunes…can i unlock it through this step too??i mean by pressing SHIFT key and following it from there as in ur guide….
I have a 2G , ver 1.1.4 unlocked iphone ,
Matt Says:
March 11th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Hello,

Has anyone tried this using a Mac? I have a 2G iphone that is already unlocked and jailbroken, however, it is running the 1.1.4 Firmware and I’m thinking of taking the plunge and upgrading to 2.2.1. If anyone has used this guide to upgrade firmware using a Mac…I’d love to hear any tips or tricks you may have.

Thanks,

Matt
Anthony Says:
March 12th, 2009 at 6:41 am
ok i unlocked my phone but i cannot get onto any network i install the apn settings to my phone from cydia but when i look to find it Settings>General>Network there is nothing there what should i do? plese help
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 12th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Haris, thank you for the kind words. I’m not sure why iTunes doesn’t recognize your iPhone. A few things to clarify first… does the phone work properly? You can make calls, check contacts, etc? If so, that’s good. Also, does iTunes not recognize your phone as a valid device, or does it not recognize that it’s been synced to that PC before, sort of like “This iPhone has not bee synchronized with this iTunes library” sort of thing? If it doesn’t recognize it as a valid device — you can try to do the upgrade and continue from the Shift-CLICK portion just like you said, but I would stay vigilant, making sure each step works correctly since I’m not sure why it wouldn’t recognize the phone unless something was wrong. I’m basically worried that you could get to the firmware portion and it could barf half way through then you’d be phoneless.

Also, when you said 2G, you meant “EDGE” and not “2nd generation” as in the 3G iPhone right? I get so confused — so I just wanted to make sure. If it’s the 1st gen iPhone, even if you do the upgrade and need to re-unlock it, you can. It’s just if it’s a 3G (2nd generation) iPhone, you’ll be stuck.

NOTE: Given that you are still on 1.1.4 — I’m pretty sure it’s a 1st gen iPhone and you are OK, I just didn’t want to leave that to chance.
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 12th, 2009 at 8:49 am
@Matt, if you have a Mac look at using PwnageTool — it’s an even easier process from what I understand.

@Anthony, no need to do anything fancy from Cydia to get your APN settings installed, just drill down to Setting > Network > Cellular Network settings and manually set the APN using the normal iPhone user interface. I posted instructions here as well.
onestici Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 5:25 am
hi, i have unlocked my iphone, and it works perfectly but from time to time it shows an error message saying: Your Cellular network is lost, please go to settings and select a different network”… and i have no service…. can you help me on this?
haris Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 10:33 am
thanks a ton Riyad for the prompt reply…turns out…with ur software links , i followed the instructions and got my phone updated and working a lot better and faster than before on the 2.2.1
the problem initially was that my phone was working properly but on connecting it to itunes it was saying that itunes needs to restore this phone through the apple site…
anywayz ,,i restored it and used the link that u gave us…worked like a charm…
thanks again
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 14th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Haris, glad to hear it man, happy iPhone-ing!
haider Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
hey mate can you help me am a fresher and i simply upgraded the iphone 3g from 2.2. to 2.2.1 and now its showing me that invalid sim enter sim which with no sim lock to unlock you iphone plz help me with this am stuck badly ..
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
haider,

Unfortunately I don’t have details or instructions on how to re-unlock a 3G iPhone — I mentioned it a few times in the guide. Sorry
haider Says:
March 16th, 2009 at 1:36 am
so is there no way to unlock my iphone, and i can only see it from now on …
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 16th, 2009 at 7:10 am
haider,

Not a way that I know of, but if there is anyone that knows how to do it, it’s the iPhone hackers. I’d suggest starting here and just reading around the web to see if it’s been cracked yet.
Matt Says:
March 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Thanks Riyad…you’re right, the Pwnage Tool is the way to go for Mac users. I successfully upgraded my 1st Gen iPhone to the 2.2.1 firmware using the Pwnage Tool today. If any other Mac users stumble onto this page and are looking for a guide to using Pwnage Tool on a Mac, this is a good one:

http://www.hackthatphone.com/20/pwnagetool_2_2_1_1st_gen_iphone_expert.html

I used this guide and had my 1st gen iPhone upgraded to the 2.2.1 firmware…and running with a t-mobile sim card in about 15 minutes.

Cheers,

Matt
Haider Says:
March 16th, 2009 at 10:57 am
thnks for the help … but tell me that i have to unlock it at mac or windows … and i have downloaded quick pwn from diff site but its not working at my computer what is the problm guys …
khan Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
hi.
i have done all the step as you said i update to 2.2.1 by firmware but its not showing unlocking option.
what should i do now
jojo Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
good day.i got i lil problem.i folowed the steps above.everything went great.but went i went the iphone rebooted after finishing the progres,the phone says:”different sim detected please connect to itunes”.itunes says sim card not supported.what to do i can’t even go in menu only emergency calls,the phone isn’t a brokn 1.please help
jojo Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
oh yes yes yes.sorry guys i found it out.i restored the firmware i removed the sim then quickpwn it again,after finished put sim back and voila.everything works like it should.thanx guys
Ken Ken Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
hi all, i am using 2.2.1 & 2.30.3 as well.Are u guy saying that i had to use QuickPWN 2.2.5-2 for Windows to unlock my iphone with a simcard NOT insert in the phone, i try to do that With a simcard inserted, but funny that the unlock icon did not show up in the QuickPWN manual, does anyone which step i miss, and is my 3Gphone with (2.2.1 & 2.30.3) can be UNLOCK with sofeware NOW, is that possible, a million thx.
rpg40 Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Awesome guide… upgrade my iphone 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 without a problem…
thanks… after you done this guide go to this site for all who have
a problem on “unable to verify unable to install” on itunes you need
mobile installation for iphone firmware 2.2.1
Here:
http://rdsbc.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-install-cracked-ipa-file-to.html
haider Says:
March 18th, 2009 at 10:03 am
hey guys i have jail break my iphone 3g 2.2.1 with modem 2.3 but i cannt unlock it help me with this issue now
DK Says:
March 19th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Hi!
Just want to thank you for this helpful guide…
I was really worried, after I read that many people had problem and ended up with a brick in their hand… but now I am all but relieved. From 1.1.4 I (with this guide only!) made a 2.2.1, working perfectly and … I am in love again with my phone!
A Hungarian guy with a Hungarian T-Mobile SIM.
THX
Julian Says:
March 19th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
i bought a rebel sim card on ebay yesterday, that shit better work!!!!!
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 20th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
DK,

Really glad to hear it helped!
Hani Yousri Says:
March 20th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
It’s Working Greatly thanks guys,

I did it two times, in the first time i’ve skiped the first restore step, but it didn’t work, second time i did every step and it worked
read carfully,
Bye
Sana Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Hi I am trying to unlock, jailbreak my iphone 3G on windows vista. I downloaded everything but BL-39 and 46 are blank icons on my computer and it does not look like the cone icon that is shown on your pix. Because I cannot open the two files, when I am using QuickPwn I don’t have the “unlock” option. How can I open these files and I am doing something wrong?
Farhan Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Worked like a charm. Excellent set of instruction very well explained.

Two additional information which might be useful for people.

1. Works fine with any other carrier.
2. Make sure you follow the instructions with newer version of iTunes I did it on 8.1
dinoix Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:50 am
sorry when you unlock the iphone you can use any network ? or only t-m >???
lina Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 am
hi
thanx 4 guid us but ido what u say its work good but the QuickPwn didnt ask me for the Bootloader v3.9 and Bootloader v4.6 files that we downloaded from earlier and the sim dont work now what can i do help me plz iam from ksa
Scargo Says:
March 26th, 2009 at 10:03 am
When I upgraded my T-Mobile iphone the other day to 2.2.1 it got stuck on that white apple. When i would hook up to itunes it would say it couldn’t do anything until I put the pass code in I couldn’t put the pass code in because it never got to that screen. I took the sim out had it hooked up to computer and itunes on put it in DFU mode then it wanted to do restore mode (on a unidentified iphone) so I hit shift and restore and pointed it to my downloaded upgrade 2.2.1 and it ran it again. After the upgrade it asked for my sim card and then I ran Quick Pawn. I think i had screwed up on first try with Quick Pawn on holding down power button and home button. Anyway it worked the second try but had erased my contact list and all personal stuff. It reinstalled all my applications even the ones I tried to get but had to have the upgrade to get. I have a 1st gen 8 gig IPHONE. It works great Now, but I was freaking out when that happened. Now Itunes say I have the latest upgrade. Also if you haven’t upgraded itunes you probably need to the latest version. I did that first before I tried to restore phone. I meant to take the pass code out before upgrade but for got to and by taking out sim card it thought it was a new Iphone.
Scargo Says:
March 26th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Also when I was running Quick pawn i don’t know what happened when i was suppose to hold home and power button(which i did ) it threw up a box saying quick pawn has experienced an error and needs to close. But I saw it continuing in the back ground and i let off the buttons as directed and ignored the error( didn’t close it or say ok)it finished and rebooted the phone and went to home page all is well. I didn’t close anything
( like error message) until it finished.
Ashish Says:
March 26th, 2009 at 11:45 am
very very useful method to unlock iphone and upgrade the firmware within an hour which i had wasted time experimenting methods and downloading diffrent softwares from other sites for past 1 week…..now i had upgraded to firmware 2.0.1 ……thanks…..
TR Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 6:56 am
I read your blog. I have an Iphone w/ At&t that is 1.1.3 will this process help me upgrade to 2.2.1 I want to know this before I start upgrading. Thanks.
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 7:26 am
TR,

If you have an iPhone on AT&T already (the official US network) why not just use iTunes to upgrade the firmware? Or is the phone JailBroken?

If the phone is JailBroken, then yes you can use this guide. If it’s baseband is unlocked AND it’s a 1st gen iPhone, then yes you can use this guide.

If you have an official contract with AT&T and are already a customer, no need to do any of this stuff, just update it through iTunes.

(NOTE: This is all outlined in detailed in the first few paragraphs of the guide)
TR Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Yes the phone is “JailBroken”. I didn’t want to pay for the data plan, or the 2 yr contact. My phone is “1st gen iPhone”. When I do the upgrading would I have to unlock again? This phone has been unlocked w/ 1.1.3.
Thank you very much.
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 27th, 2009 at 8:34 am
TR, ahh then you are all set. You can follow this guide just fine and fully upgrade, JailBreak and Unlock the phone.

About half way through the guide I have a screenshot that shows the different checkboxes you select in QuickPwn, that is where you can choose to Unlock the phone (and install “Installer” and “Cydia” which will jailbreak the phone).
Linda Says:
March 28th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Hi,

My iphone is exactly like yours – I think. Iphone first gen., already jailbroken and unlocked using T-Mobile, currently on V. 1.1.3. I decided to finally take the plunge again for the apps. However, I noticed your guide has one extra step that another guide does not: the bootloaders – the other guide I saw on the internet somewhere has the exact same files and steps EXCEPT it doesn’t say to load any bootloader files. Therefore, the steps concerning that aren’t listed. Any info as to why this is needed here would be appreciated (mostly for my own info). Your guide looks easy enuf and I can’t wait to try it.

Thanks
Linda
Linda Says:
March 28th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Please use this email address to respond to above comment – sorry for my error.

Thank you
Linda
Scargo Says:
March 29th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Hi Linda, I upgraded my iphone to the 2.0.1 version months ago and recently I decided to upgrade to the current version because new app’s available require it.I have 1st gen 8gig with T-Mobile. Back then I think I had to do it 3 times before I got it right (the Quick Pawn tool pressing home and power part)and doing recent upgrade to 2.2.1 had to do that twice.(print out the directions)The Quick pawn tool will ask you for the 3.9v bootloader and 4.6v exactly like the screen shots in this guide.I think this step by step guide is the best one and it works!!Just don’t give up if it doesn’t work the first time because you may have skipped a step or didn’t do it right, just try again. Make sure you know where your downloaded files are and that Quick Pawn is unpacked and looks like a pineapple.
haider Says:
March 29th, 2009 at 8:47 am
hey there all …

am still stuck at the point of upgrading the iphone from the itunes and it is jail broke but my sim card is not working in it … help
ann Says:
March 29th, 2009 at 10:35 am
my phone is currently unlocked and jailbreaked. if i want to unjailbreak but make sure it’s unlocked, can i just upgrade to 2.2.1 through itunes? i have the iphone 2g and i don’t really use the jailbroken features.

thanks !
Linda Says:
March 30th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
First of all, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, TY, TY, TY – can’t say it enuf. I’ve researched the internet and different guides and youtube, etc., etc. for literally about 20 hours trying to make up my mind whether I wanted to go through this again (it’s already jailbroken, unlocked on T-mobile). Well your guide looked like the easiest and I just did it and I have to say it is absolutely the best guide out there – very baby steps – great for someone like me!!!

I only have two questions:

1) T-Mobile goes in and out sporadially and doesn’t seem quite as stable as before although it is working now. Could this just coincidentally be that I’m having bad service at this time? I can make and receive calls – just data/internet is either non-existent or real slow and at one point it was “searching” in network settings and never could come up with anything. (I have my APN as internet2.voicestream.com).

Secondly, I note that my Navizon is gone. Is there an alternative that is just as good or better for me to download? I’m assuming it’s missing because it was an app installed from the first jailbreak???

Scargo, thanks for your post – it was really the post that pushed me over the edge to get up the nerve and go ahead and just do it.

Linda
Scargo Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 6:20 am
Your Welcome Linda, I like this one cuz it looks easy enuf and if you make a mistake you get do overs, which I needed and really appreciated. My T-Mobile signal fades in and out but it always has because I have lots of tree’s around me.I use wifi mostly for internet access.
I looked up Navizon it sounded like maybe that is why you were getting a better signal before.
Apparently the 3G’s have the GPS chip and older Iphones don’t but Navizon sounds like a great app maybe we can find it through Cydia.( I’d like to get it too) Don’t forget to get all updates thru Cydia too.
Riyad Kalla Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 7:55 am
Linda,

I’m glad we I could help. To address your questions:

1. I have another friend complaining about this as well up in Phoenix but I don’t experience it at all down here… INSTEAD I get dropped-calls constantly when I’m in a moving vehicle… but he doesn’t. I think there are small nuances with the different phones depending on the internal revision they are. I don’t think it’s related to the firmware as we both experienced these crappy behaviors back on the 1.x firmware before upgrading them. So I think you are OK, just having some crappy iPhone service like we have from time to time.

2. Not sure, never used it. If you put Installer and Cydia back on the phone I’m sure you can just go grab it again or whatever the official replacement for the Firmware 2.x series is for it.
Scargo Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 8:12 am
Hi Linda, I checked Cydia and Navizon (jailbroke version) is there under sections, all packages,click n,( or you could scroll thru every screen, but finger and eyes would get tired) and scroll to it,install and confirm. Easy to get.Also you could download it from navizon.com, navizon lite is free but navizon premium cost $10.
Scargo Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 8:33 am
Gee I wanted to THANK YOU Riyad Kalia!!! for this EXCELLENT guide AND SCREEN SHOTS you simplified it so much probably a monkey could do it successfully.
Anyway THANK YOU SO MUCH and I am so happy I came across this site first before the others and chose it to follow. It’s just EXCELLENT!!!and THANK YOU AGAIN and AGAIN!!!
Linda Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 9:32 am
RIYAD,
Thanks for your response above – I agree that it’s probably the service. I’ve been playing with it for the last few hours and have downloaded a few apps over wi-fi and LOVE it!!! Thanks for the Cydia-Navizon tip.

SCARGO,
Thank you for your response also and for the exact directions to get Navizon. Got it and it’s back on my phone.

Linda
Paul Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 8:33 am
I’ve got my fingers crossed and hopping for the best, but I do have one question before I click abyware…. I do have iTunes 8 and a 1st gen 8Gb iPhone 1.1.4 that as been jailbronken and unlocked.. therefore I do not see the “Restore” buttom cause the phone/sim is not recognised by iTunes. Any help would be appretiated. Keep up the good work..
Paul

PS: I’m using a totally different sim from what you’re use to…. see I’m in Angola-Africa, don´t know if that helps.
Paul Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Riyad (I’ve tried to reply..didn´t work)

Thank you for the prompt response…. and..yes it does.. but right next = to the “iPhone” screen, another one pups up and says :It appears the = you’re using a Sim that is not …bla..bla..bla…! or something like = that…
I really want to do this upgrade, but have no way around this…

Thanks again

Regards

Paul
Hawaii808 Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Hey all,

It states that this is written for Windows users. Are these the same steps for Mac users? Just wanted to make sure before I started.

I’m on 1.1.3 still. It’s been working fine, but it has been really laggy.

Will I notice a big difference? Thanks.
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Paul,

Odd… what happens if you pull the SIM? Can you see that screen OK then?

Hawaii8080,

You’ll want to grab PwnageTool, that’s the Mac-centric tool and I think the process is even easier… just hookup and run from what I’ve heard.
tsalmon Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I got a question. I just got a iphone yesterday and i just got it unlocked. I am using t-mobile and everything is working great other then the internet. I have the data package that i used on my blackberry before but it dosent work with the iphone. Before i knew that you were able to use t-zones for $5.99 but now t-mobile dosen’t offer t-zones anymore. I want to know if there is anyway to get internet for my iphone and how do i do it? Please help!
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 5:50 pm
tsalmon,

You can use that BlackBerry data plan on the iPhone, I posted instructions on how to set that up in this comment.
tsalmon Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 6:29 pm
The E shows up in the top left but i still cant get on the internet. When i go through the steps that you told me i don’t have APN in the cellular data network. so i don’t know what to do.
Paul Says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 am
Riyad..

Negative…. it says the same thing…. and I can’t think o anything = else to do…..

Need help with this one….

Regards

Paul
Paul Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:20 am
Riyad

..Finally got it…. took the Sim out and it started the upgrade. Just letting you know that it work as you said it would, except for one thing…. it cleaned the iPhone apps, music, photos, contacts….all!!!!! Eveything is gone…..I´ll have to re-install all of them..but that’s Ok…

Thanks
Paul
Noelm Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:33 am
Thanks a million man!!! it worked smothly and wow, you have outlined the steps clearly. Thanks again
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:22 am
Paul, glad to hear you got things working, sorry to hear it required a bit extra elbow grease.

Either way, welcome to 2.2!
TR Says:
April 6th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I did the firmware 2.2.1 the phone worked fine for about 9 days. Now when I start the phone after 3 seconds it will restart by it self. Could there be something that I downloaded from Cydia. Before everything went down I was trying to send an video record from I-phone to e-mail then everything went down…Can I redo everything I did to upgrade to 2.2.1 would that do anything?

Thanks.
BBasmedi Says:
April 7th, 2009 at 12:57 am
TO WILL
“I have tried with the sim card out, i used everything from this website, i have done everything right, I am really good at this things, but for some reason it just not doing it for me, even if i do it with the sim card out, as soon as i put the T-mobile one in does not work, I don’t know if i should give up, but i been at this for 3 days now, i keep getting the same results no matter how i try it, i have put over ten hours each day, good think im unemployed during the day or else when would i have the time.”

i had the same problem n i took a few hrs but i have been able to solve it.
start the whole process again this time on the summary page of your iphone in itunes choose shift and restore at the same time it will give you the option to browse n choose where to restore from. choose the ipsw you downloaded from this website n then follow up with the rest as directed. wish you all the best. worked fine for me.
Hitesh Says:
April 8th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Hi Riyaad,

i am from india and i have a 8 GB (Non -3G) unlocked i phone.

i dontknow that which software was used to unlock the phone. have a Vodafone prepaid connection which works fine at this moment.

Presently on version 1.1.3 – want to upgrade on 2.2.1….

what i wanted to check before i go through the entire process is that “Will my i phone be updated to the latest version and work fine ????”

please advice.

Regards,
Hitesh
TR Says:
April 8th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I did the restore and I got the phone to work again.
Thanks.
Samuel Says:
April 9th, 2009 at 12:14 am
I unlocked and jailbreak my 1st gen iphone and it reads my sim card and everything but none of my numbers saved to my card are showing up. When I put the card in another phone they show up. Why is this?
Stephen Arnolds Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 9:11 am
I crashed my iphone 16gb using the initial firmware 1.1.14 and i upgraded it to the 2.2.21v
I followed the instructions and my phone came alive
I lost all my contacts which is all good whoever wants to reach me will just have to call first
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
haider Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
hey Stephen Arnolds

please give me your contact number i have upgraded my iphone 3g 16gb from 2.2 to 2.2.1 and now its locked please tell me the way to unlock it … please
waiting man … please

haider
chew Says:
April 12th, 2009 at 10:20 am
help!! followed instructions to the tee and managed to updated my 1g 1.1.4 jailbroken to 2.2.1 BUT now the bloody phone wont recognize the sim. urgently need help please……………….
Scargo Says:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Hey Everyone, I would just like to say that YOU NEED TO READ THIS BLOG FIRST!!! before asking questions. SECONDLY READ EVERY POST by the users because chances are your question has already been answered. I DIDN’T WRITE THIS BLOG!!! EVERYONE with a 3G Iphone YOU are taking a chance of LOCKING your Iphone to the AT&T network. REread the beginning of this blog again about the baseband.

The BEST thing to do is PRINT THE DIRECTIONS OUT FIRST read and reread them until you understand them.
Make sure ITUNES is updated to the latest version and your iphone is recognized
Make sure quick Pawn is unpacked and looks like a pineapple in the downloaded files you will use and you know where they are
Make sure your sim card is not locked with a pin # in Settings
Make sure to turn passcode required off in Settings

Lastly the guy who can’t see his contacts from his sim card go to settings-Mail,contacts,calenders click on import sim contacts.
Reve Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Very detailed and helpful tutorial you have here Riyad, thanks a lot.
I just want to confirm whether all the basics apps icon will appears because in my iphone 2G the apps store icon doesn’t show up(or deleted ?). Just fyi, I got my iphone from 2nd market.
Secondly, whether it is still compatibile with all the apps downloaded from itunes store?

Thanks in advance
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Reve, thanks for the kind words. I have a 1st-generation (non-3G) iPhone and the App Store icon is there — also all the apps I’ve downloaded (free) have worked fine… Facebook, Pandora, Google Earth, etc.

So I’m not sure why you are seeing a difference on your 3G iPhone (2nd generation).
adamar Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
i was really looking for a guide like this. i was planning to get an iphone 2g for my birthday but was worried that i would have a hard time unlocking and putting jailbreak on it. since i found your guide, it actually made me excited to get my iphone now. thanks a lot for this awesome guide.
Raghav Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
HI Riyad,

First of all, Thank you so much for the unlock/jailbreak guide
it worked fine to get on my 1st gen iphone to 2.2.1. The problem is wifi is not detecting any hot spots
this was a problem while i was on 2.0.1 as well.That’s the reason i decided to upgrade to 2.2.1 but unfortunately he same here. Any suggestions are truly appreciated. Thanks a million for ur wonderful guide again
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Raghav,

That’s a tricky one… turning WiFi on is pretty straightforward… the Wireless-B/G antenna kicks on, detects a connection and lists them.

Is it possible you are in an area with Wireless-A or N signals and that might be why you aren’t seeing a signal?
Sylvia Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
FIRMWARE STRING ERROR !!!!!!!
I upgraded my 2G iphone to 2.2.1 from version 1.1.4. I tried to unlock my iphone using quickpwn but when i give the path of the firmware bundle that i have downloaded from this site. Surprisingly, it couldn’t verify the file. it said firmware string error. I double checked the firmware file, it is same, iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw file for first generation iphone. I am using Vista. So can anyone help me to fix this issue??????
Please………
Thanks,
Sylvia
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Sylvia,

Very strange… you’ll notice that the IPSW (iPhone firmware) download links are directly from apple.com — if you ended up with a corrupted firmware, try and download it again.

Also try upgrading to iTunes 8 incase there might be an issue there with an older iTunes.
Raghav Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Hi Riyad,

here’s the thing …i used 7.7.1 to upgrade to 2.2.1
May be that’s the problem
while i was on 1.1.4, iphone was in perfect condition
after upgrading to 2.0.1, it stopped working and my phone becomes so heat and the charge drains quickly. Then i upgraded to 2.2.1
I am on vodafone (earlier i unlocked and jailbroke iphone from 1.1.4 to 2.0.1
Now when i upgraded to 2.2.1, i wonder why it worked without unlock
My service is available, right after the upgrade. here’s what i did
1.updated ( shift+Restore) in iTunes 7.7.1
2. after the upgrade, my carrier still remains( apple and vodafone are now friends )
3. i launched winpwn and just jailbroken as it’s working fine
4.Just to clarify, i tried anoher sim and it’s detecting
Problems: it won’t detect any Wifi hotspots and the charge drains right after 5 hours
It’s not grayed out…jus the search wheel keeps searching searching and searching
I am quite sure that there are atleast 4 hotspos in my location
Laptop connects to the hotspot but not the iphone
i Wonder why?
Please help………….
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Sorry Raghav, I have no idea why it cannot find hotspots… as far as the battery draining, that’s because you have WiFi on in endless “detection” mode — it will drain the battery like crazy.

The only thing I could think of is to try and reflash the firmware again and see if that does the trick.

As a side note of “weirdness”, I dropped my iPhone the other day on a sidewalk… and now when I sync it it creates *duplicate* playlists (Gym, Gym, Fun, Fun, etc.) — if I remove the duplicates, synchronization corrupts my library and erases all the content on the phone…

So you not being able to find hotspots isn’t the *weirdest* thing I’ve seen, I’ve seen weirder
Raghav Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Hi Riyad,

can u please PM on Yahoo!

my ID is Raghav_vicky23@yahoo.co.in

can we do it now…becos i already charged iphone thrice today…it’s gone crazy

Please PM. You can even post ur IM id (Yahoo, Gtalk)…i’ll be waiting

Thanks and Regards

Raghav
Raghav Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Hi Riyad…can you please ping me so that we can fix the battery drain issue?

Please…i am totally tired of charging it thrice a day
Paul Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Hi…

I’m one of the that came here to look for help..(and found it, thank you) as upgrading my iPhone to the new firmware is concerning….!! I was so desperate (as most of you) that when I found all the information as well described and with all the help from the author, that I completly forgot everything else….(side efects)…! Theres more than a zillion arthicles on the “WiFi after 2.2.1″ issue, please Google it before doing anything else… as I said before, I came here for help and found it…! so I only have myselfe to blame!!! Please read as much as you can…!

Thank you
Paul
Tesh Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Dude you rock. I was able to upgrade and repwn my phone. I was having prolems with itunes seeing it.
THE KING Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
******NEED HELP****
I have a unlocked iphone (1st generation) I updated on itunes (I know I shouldn’t have) but anyway, My iphone works flawlessly, but Itunes won’t recognize the iphone at all. I am not sure what I need to do to get my itunes to recognize my Iphone. my version is 2.2.1 and of course it’s on T-Mobile..I also use a mac (If that makes any difference) any help would be apreciated.
Phil Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
So I had my phone unlocked for me to 1.1.4 by my cousin.
I decided it was time to upgrade it, so i attempted to use this guide.

but then something went screwy in the middle of the firmware update and now this comes up

itunes must check the iphone software update server to identify this device

what to do now?
Tako Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Need help please.

I had Iphone 1Generation, 4Gb, firmware 1.1.2 and using Itunes 8. I did follow instruction from this sit, It did no go to far, I have an error when I apply firmware update iphone 1,1_2.2.1 5H11. Error occur after the somewhere at the prompt for “Preparing iphone for software update” or thirth “Waiting for iPhone” display error prompt “Iphone could not update, an unknow error occurred”. And the second prompt “Iphone now is at recovery mode you must restore this iphone before it can be used with itune”. Should I restore it back? I just afraid that it will restore and update my iphone to 2.2.1 and lock my iphone for ever. Before I did download the firmware 2.2.1 from itune but I did not install it. Now i can not use my iphone it is still in update or recovery mode? it show connection icon when I turn on power. What should i do?

Thank you,
Phil Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
oof!

It looks like I made a silly mistake. I didn’t have the newest version of Itunes.
Once I did that I still got the message, but then i put it in DUF mode and then pressed check. Then Itunes recognized it was in recovery mode. Then I did shift+restore with the firmware from this website and followed the rest of the steps.

Easy as pie.
rezwan Says:
April 19th, 2009 at 10:22 am
i downloaded quickpwn and everything and followed everything step by step…. but when i try to load quickpwn i dont see the “unlock” option…..i dont know what i am missing here…hope somebody can tell me what i am missing..thanks
amar Says:
April 19th, 2009 at 11:42 am
hello, dear i try this but my itune pumps a msg (ipod coul not be udate because firmware is not compatible)
Quinn Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Does the 2.2.1 firmware have the option to edit APN settings? The 2.2 did not and I had to downgrade back to 2.0.2 to be able to use my Edge data network.
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Quinn,

Yes you can edit the APN on 2.2.1 — I just double-checked that for you.
haider Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 11:58 am
hey
can i downgrade my baseband of iphone 3g 2.2.1 in order to use it …

thanks
Quinn Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Thank you very much! Wow you’re being so helpful to everyone! =)
Scott Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
SUCCESS! i cant believe i actually paid for the software and all the bs. they were telling me to do the restore button on itunes. 1. for those who have questions, a. dont use the restore button. b. make sure the file you dl is the .zip file not a .rar, .rar is bs too. i left my t-mob sim card in the whole time, works fine now. i serious would like to kiss whoever posted this site and everyone who posted solutions to problems on the comments. anyone who wants a kiss, come to philadelphia pa and ask around for me.
Scarlet Says:
April 24th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
hii oki followed allof your directiong and everything worked perfectly except one thing in step where i had to put a check on add cydia and add installer well i didnt have unlock phone? for some reason idk why everythin worked great except that. can you please contact me and let me know. thank you for your help
Scott Says:
April 26th, 2009 at 2:40 am
make sure all your boxes are checked, unlock cydia and installer, you dont have to check off the boot logos and stuff. it should work from there. also, the thing i ran into iwas instead of clicking the “check for updates” button i was clicking the “restore” button and kept getting the same result as you were, or so it would seem.
victor uzunow Says:
April 26th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
if you update wont that erase all apps and themes you have downloaded from cydia too?
Rishi Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Hello Riyad
I have an iPhone 2G unlocked and jailbroken on 1.1.4 but I am in the UK. Does this guide work the same way for us folks here in the UK too? Do I have to make any changes in the process..??

And does this guide work for all iPhones, 2G of course, on any firmware (by any, I mean 1.1.3 to 2.1)?

Please do reply. Thanks
Peter Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
hey Riyad..
I have a brand new Iphone 3g (2nd Generation)..
It’s on 2.2.1 on AT&T.. I’m trying to unlock it to T-mobile

You suggest me to follow your steps posted?
I have no skills whatsoever in unlocking iPhones btw

Thanks Alot in Advance!
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 28th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Victor,

Yes it will. iTunes does not back-up those Cydia-installed apps or data, so doing the firmware upgrade is a lot like a OS reinstall followed by an iTunes restore — unfortunately it won’t restore the 3rd party/Jailbroken customizations.
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 28th, 2009 at 8:40 am
@Rishi, yes it should work just fine. We actually have a few other users in this thread from the UK, Australia and 1 gentleman from Turkey. You should be all set.

@Pete, trying to unlock the baseband on the 3G iPhone on 2.2.1 wasn’t supported when I wrote this guide (Weeks ago) — but I imagine it’s probably supported now. What you want to look into is the yellowsn0w application — I believe that’s the base application used to crack the baseband. QuickPwn may have been updated to utilize this to crack the 2.2.1-based 3G iPhone so you could just go through a nice GUI, but I haven’t investigated that yet so you might need to dig a bit.

Also with Firmware 3.0 looming around the corner, I think everyone is pretty much waiting on that to drop before continuing massive amounts of cracking work.
JoshVD Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Soo i have an unlocked iphone 2g.. 1st generation … firmware 2.2.1 … my poroblem is it wont show up that i have a tmoble sim card in my iphone.. how do i fix it so that i can make calls from it??.. i know the sim card is fine because it still works in my sidekick 2008… i just hate that phone and wanted to use this iphone.. plz help me out
Riyad Kalla Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 9:57 am
JoshVD,

Does iTunes complain about an “Unsupported sim card” like this?

If so, you just need to unlock the phone. Follow the rest of the guide from the QuickPwn portion down and you should be all set.
shaggy Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 11:01 am
the firmware is installed but the sim card is not showing any service but shows on other handsets.please reply me a solution please.
shaggy Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 11:17 am
i am a vodofone customer from india.but it is displaying ‘no service’message.the sim works on other handsets.please give me a solution.
justin Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
i used quickpwn but it keeps i believe for a year for starting quickpwn on your iphone.
help me plz.
justin Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
hi riyad!

i see most of the guys around there saying lots of thanks to you.

Can you help me plz?

I’m about to finish the unlocking for 2.2.1 using quickpwn 2.2.5 till it says starting
to put quickpwn on your iphone but when it will stops?

please help.
JJ Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Hey Riyad,
1st off great guide on the breakdown for 2.2
question; do you recommend installing the latest version of itunes b4 starting this process, or it doesn’t matter. Just want to get that out of the way, i read some of the posts but it’s not very clear if that matters or not? i’m currently running on 2.1 and i know a guy that’s charging me $50 to get the latest version, that’s why i went online to see if can do it myself, and with your great guide i’ll be saving some money (hell i’ll send you the money) for being so unselfish and helping people out.
Thanks for your time,
JJ
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 4th, 2009 at 10:00 am
JJ,

I would suggest atleast iTunes 8.0.1, I think it still works fine with 8.1 (is that the latest? I’ve lost track) but when I wrote the guide it was using 8.0.1.

Then you should be all set to save yourself some money

Enjoy
JJ Says:
May 4th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Thanks for the quick response Riyad, I appreciate your help.
Will you be doing the same thing once 3.0 comes out??
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 4th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
JJ,

I definitely want to, just depends on how the 3.0 rollout goes on the different models and off-network phones.

Gonna keep my ear to the train tracks and see what I hear
Luciano Says:
May 5th, 2009 at 8:55 am
I am using the 3G network with T-Mobile, If I buy an iPhone will I still be able to use my 3G on my new iPhone?

Please advice,
Luciano
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 5th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Luciano,

Unfortunately no, the T-Mobile 3G network using different frequencies than the AT&T 3G network, click here to read more details.
Craig Says:
May 9th, 2009 at 12:57 am
I’ve got a 1st Gen iPhone which was running 1.1.4. I downloaded all files and backed up before starting.

After selecting & opening the downloaded .ipsw file an error occurred around the “Preparing iPhone for software update” stage. The error message in iTunes said: “iPhone could not update, an unknown error occurred”. I didn’t grab the error number – sorry.

On the iPhone itself, there is now permanently a ‘connection’ picture of a USB cable and an ‘up-arrow’ pointing to an iTunes logo.

The iTunes error message eventually disappeared and was replaced with a message in iTunes saying “iTunes must check the iPhone software update server to identify this device. To enable automatic checking for updates, go to the General pane of iTunes Preferences and turn on “Check for updates automatically”. I get the option to either “Check” or “Cancel”.

I’ve tried ‘cancelling’ but the message just reappears. I have not selected “check”.
I’ve also tried a couple of full power-offs on the iPhone (both with and without the SIM installed and when connected via USB and when disconnected) but just get the same ‘connection’ picture again.
I can no longer see my iPhone as a device in iTunes.

What now? Should I opt to “check for updates”? I’m stuck.
Thanks for your help.
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 9th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Craig,

Shit man, I’ll try and help as much as I can. I think what you are going to need to do is get the iPhone to suck down the firmware update forcibly, the way to do that is put it into DFU Mode.

Here are instructions on how to do that. Once you’ve done that and the iPhone fully updates itself you *should* find yourself at this point and then you can continue the guide from the “Unlocking the iPhone w/ 2.2.1 Firmware” section on down.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed on this end that it helps, let us know!
Jade Says:
May 9th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Thanks so much, this worked very well for me! I didn’t know any better and i connected my jailbroken iphone to itunes and it updated my software to the 2.2.1. And I could no longer use my iphone with t-mobile I had to do a factory restore and then i followed your steps running the quickpwn program, but I had to skip the Restore.ipsw file step.
Thanks!
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Jade,
Glad it helped!
Craig Says:
May 10th, 2009 at 12:38 am
Riyad,
Thanks – appreciate your help. I saw your message arrive and got straight onto it. I am getting into DFU mode (screen stays black etc and I see it load as a USB device in DFU mode in the taskbar) but instead of my phone appearing in the device node in iTunes and getting the option to restore, I keep getting that dodgy message I was getting before asking to “check the iPod update server to identify…’

I’m on a PC running XP. I connected a new legit iPod Touch to iTunes a few days ago and haven’t registered it yet. I’ve tried a ‘System restore’ to a week ago in case that had something to do with it and reinstalled iTunes (now running 8.1.1.10 ) and rebooted a few times but unfortunately it’s still happening. Any more suggestions?
Craig Says:
May 10th, 2009 at 1:40 am
Hold the phone – it worked. At the error message asking to “check the iPod software update server…” I tried a ctrl+shift+click on ‘Check’ and it showed up and gave me the restore option in iTunes.

The rest worked just like you said it would. Thanks Riyad. Fantastic stuff!

Cheers
Isabelle Says:
May 10th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Hey,
my iphone 3g has been jailbroken with pwnage. however, i made the mistake of updating the software to 2.2.1 with itunes. i was asked to insert a valid sim with no pin lock to activate iphone. and when i put my sim in, the message “the sim card inserted into this iphone does not appear to be supported” thus i can’t access the phone through the phone itself and through itunes. so i cant restore or do anything with it for that matter.

Any solutions?

Btw, i live in malaysia.
Shaggy Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 12:41 am
the jailbreak was done but the sim doesn’t work on my jailbroken iphone and the Wi-Fi doesn’t works.please suggest me a solution.thanks for the help given for jailbreaking.
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Craig,

Excellent news I’m glad that did the trick!
JJ Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Hey Riyad,
its JJ, got a question for you. I’m trying to help out my cousin with the jailbreaking, but here’s the kicker! he’s got a 3g. I’m not trying to unlock it (obviously) cuz he’s running with att already, but as far as jailbreaking it to install cydia & installer, is it possible??
Hit me back when you get a chance, thanks…
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
JJ,

From what I’ve seen Jailbreaking the 2.2.1/3G phones actually works fine, it’s the baseband cracking that has been tricky — but it sounds like you don’t need that since he’s already on ATT. So from what I’ve seen you should be all set with QuickPwn.

Hope that helps.
JJ Says:
May 11th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Riyad,
Thanks man!. So as far as the procedure, it basically remains the same, minus the installing of 2.2.1 right?? Just follow the remaining steps..
Thanks again!
Shaggy Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 12:43 am
hi RIYAD.
i can’t enter my Wi-Fi and bluetooth options because they are inactive after the jailbreak.please please help.
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Shaggy, sorry man I’m not sure why Bluetooth or WiFi wouldn’t be working on your phone… if you think it’s a software issue (e.g. it failed right after you did an update) you can try running through the guide again and make sure the update takes and crack works and see if that helps.
Geoff Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
HI

I have run through the process about ten times now with no luck, I always end up with the same result.

I have tried diffeent ipsw files as the one you link to here is rejected by my 2G phone (yours is a version “a” of the one I am using and the phone works with).

I am using a Virgin and a vodafone chip but the result is the same for both and also if I try to PWN it without a SIM in at all.

On completion I have a Virgin (or vodafone) network signal but the phone only shows the emergency calls screen and wont let me get to the normal desktop. When connected to iTunes it says “SIM not supported”.

I have even run the software three times with just the unlock section ticked. Every time Boot Neuter reports Fake Blank OFF but Unlock ON. Is that correct?

On completion I still get a message that says “Different SIM detected, please connect to iTunes”.

I connect to iTunes but cannot sync as the message “The SIM card inserted in this iPhone does not appear to be supported (etc.)”

HOWEVER, if I slide the bar across the screen on the emergency page and insert a phone number and ring it (even though it says emergency numbers only) it rings the line I entered. I can also call back to the iphone as well. So it seems it is jailbroken and unlocked but the phone still thinks it is not and prevents me getting to the home desktop.

Any ideas on what I should do?

Geoff
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Geoff very frustrating… this is basics-101 and you’ve probably done it 100 times already, but did you try and power off the phone and back on again when it’s in that psuedo-retarded state?

It’s almost like it doesn’t “get it”.

As far which IPSW to use, you’ve tried the one linked in this guide right? We’ve had a lot of success with those listed (there are ones listed above for both 1st generation EDGE-only iPhones and 2nd-generation 3G iPhones).

Whenever folks use “2G” I can’t tell if they mean “2nd gen == 3G phone” or “2G” like “not quite as good as 3G and I meant EDGE” so I’m just being extra-sure
alejandro de caprio Says:
May 12th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
help please..
i have 1st Gen iphone which have firmware 1.1.3 i bought in store here in the philippines, second hand. I’ve use almost 2 months and i download some apps on my iphone on cydia and intaller. but lately it prompt an error “need to restore, your iphone can’t make or recieved call. please contact http://www.iphone.com/support“.

Then i restore to 2.2.1 firmware,jailbroke and unlock using quickpwn 2.25 it works but the carrier dosn’t. I can’t make a call and send and recieve text messages. On Carrier it prompt “No Service” on the top left window..

What i have to do to fixed this. Sometimes if i insert a sim Smart or Globe still no service and if i refresh it repeatedly it prompt as i said “need to restore” and then if i restart it take a minuite and then it prompt as a virgin- like not jailbroken and unlock (”emergency call”) and then if I restart again its Ok again mean jailbroken and unlock but carrier are not.

there are times the carrier is ok it detect my sim i can recieve a text messages and recieve call but i can’t make to send text messages and make a call.

help me pls..what i have to do? and what program to use? please post your comment and suggestion here or send to my email at alejandro_decaprio@yahoo.com
Joe Says:
May 13th, 2009 at 9:45 am
works great. I updated my phone from 2.2 to 2.2.1 with no problems. I left my tmobile sim card in and followed the instructions. Although it should be mentioned that you’ll need itunes 8.1.1. My only complaint is that all my apps installed via cydia are now gone. =(
leland Says:
May 13th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Hey,

Is it normally supposed to take like….20 minutes at the “2009-05-13 21:29:14 – Successfully built Quickpwn Ramdisk file.” stage.?

1st gen iphone, using latest quickpwn on my mac. im still waiting..thanks
Geoff Says:
May 14th, 2009 at 3:22 am
Riyad

Thanks for your response. Just to close this off and hopefully help others, I read through the notes again and noticed that running the jailbrak without the SIM card in the phone seemed to help some people.

I tried it and hey presto, it worked. Phone now fully unlocked and running on both Virgin and Vodafone networks as well as O2.

Thanks for you efforts in this area, it is really appreciated by us all.

Geoff
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 14th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Joe & Geoff — Great suggestions, I’ve updated the guide with those extra bits of info in strategic places to hopefully help other folks running through this process.

Leland — No I don’t think it’s suppose to take 20 mins, the whole process maybe takes 20 mins (lots of waiting) but not that 1 step.
JASON Says:
May 14th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Riyad,
Quick question for you, I have a 3G and with ATT, but i want to be able to at least jailbreak it. Install Cydia & Installer, but my question is do I follow the same procedure as if i was unlocking it?? meaning will itunes read my current version and let me just install them, if not what exactly changes on my part??
Thanks..
babayaga20000 Says:
May 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
JASON, what you can do is download the latest quikpwn or pwned and update your iphone with itunes normally, since you already have ATT you dont need to unlock, just jailbreak, so
Harry Says:
May 16th, 2009 at 7:06 am
Worked flawlessly… Great Tutorial!
Mazen Says:
May 16th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Dear guys,

I have been upgrading my iphone for all previous version until did the last 2.2.1 where my battery is draining like hell in less than five hours. I have heard Raghev is having similar issue in blog above. Could anyone help me why?

I have now version 2.2.1 5H11 working but have the battery problem only. Please help !!!!
AAA Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 7:07 am
ok, im pretty young and the jailbreak thing is pretty new to me, but im great with comps, ive read all your instructions, and i want to make sure if this would work on my 1G 8Gb Iphone, that already has version 1.1.3 unlocked on a fido plan?

Just making sure becuase ime seeing alot of people having trouble

thx
AAA Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 7:08 am
ps im trying to upgrade it to 2.2.1 from 1.1.3
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Mazen,

Make sure WiFi is off and turn off Push if you don’t need it — turning those two things off increase my battery life 2-3x what it normally is. Push wakes the phone up every 10 seconds or so to check for incoming data — you can hear it if you are wearing headphones… there is this light static sound like a call is about to come in, then it goes back to sleep.
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 9:03 am
AAA,

Yes, a handful of people have done that exact upgrade and it worked fine.
AAA Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
lol thx just kinda hesitant…
AAA Says:
May 18th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
hold up. i tryed the process and the quick pwn wouldnt open ???
suggestions

(the application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.

so i did and every time i try to open it

it will not work…
bikedogrun Says:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:20 am
THANK YOU / THANK YOU!!!

Had used a different set of instruction to get from 1.1.4 to 2.2 with lots of issues, having to re-do 3-4 times, take out the sim etc.

Your instructions worked PERFECTLY the 1st time, taking me quickly and painlessly up to 2.2.1

You are to be congratulated for taking the time and putting in the energy to help others far less technical than you take this (sometimes) scary step with their beloved iPhones!
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 19th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
bikedogrun,

Excellent news, I’m glad it worked for you!
m Says:
May 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Hi,
I hope you can help me with an unusual iphone problem. I have tried to find solutions all over the Internet but haven’t seen anyone with the same problem. I use a 2G iphone on Vodafone in Australia and I unlocked and jailbroke it with quickpwn and firmware 2.2.1. It works fine for 3,4 days, then it freezes and locks up again. Then I have to restore it with itunes and unlock again. This happens every time. Do you have any advice? Thanks
Deep69 Says:
May 20th, 2009 at 3:24 am
thnks dude!!
Maria Says:
May 20th, 2009 at 8:01 am
I am trying to update to 2.2.1 firmware. I update 2.1 successffuly. When i downloaded the 2.2.1 restore folder, and i extracted all the files. The ISPW file does not show up so i can restore my phone in itunes and update it. Why is that? What should i Do? Help would be appreciated. Please email me at marysiad@gmail.com.

Thank you,
Maria
Mazen Says:
May 24th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Dear Riyad,

Thx for hte help but it didn’t solve. I had everything off and still battery drains too fast. I googled the problem and it seems common for some folks.

I have been using my iphone for a year now and upgrading each new version using iclarified tutorial and yours with no problem.

I discovered that if I put hte iphone in airplane mode the battery will function normal. Once I insert my sim card, the phone will start draining the battery like hell and within short time off…. another thing is whenever I receive a call the phone shuts down.

I really like iphone and so dependent on its use. Please I need guidance on how to fix this probelm. Tried to downgrade the probem persist even before restoring my data.

I thought at once that my battery is the problem but when I switched airplane mode things were different.

my email is mazen_yehia@hotmail.com please I need all the help available.

Great day.
Chris Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Hi. I did the process and everything went fine except now the phone just stays on the boot screen- the black one with the white apple logo. it vibrates twice every 5 minutes or so, but stays on the boot screen. how long is it suppose to stay like this. It’s going on 20 minutes.
Scargo Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Chris and everyone else don’t cha think the author is getting tired of answering the same questions over and over? I wrote this back in April!!

Hey Everyone, I would just like to say that YOU NEED TO READ THIS BLOG FIRST!!! before asking questions. SECONDLY READ EVERY POST by the users because chances are your question has already been answered. I DIDN’T WRITE THIS BLOG!!! EVERYONE with a 3G Iphone YOU are taking a chance of LOCKING your Iphone to the AT&T network. RE-read the beginning of this blog again about the baseband.

The BEST thing to do is PRINT THE DIRECTIONS OUT FIRST read and re-read them until you understand them.
Make sure ITUNES is updated to the LATEST VERSION and your iphone is recognized
Make sure quick Pawn is unpacked and looks like a pineapple in the downloaded files you will use and you know where they are
Make sure your sim card is not locked with a pin # in Settings
Make sure to turn passcode required off in Settings
Randone Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Ok so I’m not sure if this was covered in the guide somewhere but when I right clicked to update my firmware to 2.2.1 it started updating it and then all of a sudden it said it had an error and now my phone won’t show up in iTunes anymore. The screen on my phone just keeps showing the USB socket and a little iTunes logo. Any ideas on what to do?
Raghav Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
HI Randone,

Try restarting the computer and connect…You can ping me on Raghav_vicky23@yahoo.co.in for help.
Maria Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Why isn’t anyone helping me?

I am trying to update to 2.2.1 firmware. I update 2.1 successffuly. When i downloaded the 2.2.1 restore folder, and i extracted all the files. The ISPW file does not show up so i can restore my phone in itunes and update it. Why is that? What should i Do? Help would be appreciated. Please email me at marysiad@gmail.com.

Thank you,
Maria
Randone Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Ok, so with the help of Raghav, i’ve gotten as far as getting to the part in Quickpwn where you can choose the bootloaders. After it gets to the screen where you end up putting your phone into DFU mode, I can’t get it to progress past the first step where it says “Wait for your iPhone to connect in recovery mode.” The screen on my phone shows that it’s in recovery mode and iTunes will tell me that there is an iPhone connected in recovery mode, but QuickPwn will not progress past that first step. I’ve tried with the Sim card in and with it out, multiple times. Does anybody have any helpful suggestions?
Randone Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Ok cool. I had to use multiple computers to get this to work, installing the update on one and then using QuickPwn on another, but it finally worked. Thanks Raghav for your help, and thanks Riyad for the walkthrough. Great work.
Rajen Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Hi Riyad,
I have IPhone 8GB which was unlocked and was working okay until I have downloaded and installed the new version of software from apple.com thru itune. Now the phone is showing SIM is not supported and allows only emergency no. I want to know what next to be done. Do you think the procedure you have mentioned in this blog can work ? Do I need to Restore it to factory level ? It will be a great help if you can let me know….
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
+1 to what Scargo said, I know it can be time-consuming and dauting when you have a dead iPhone in your hand — but I *think* all the info everyone is asking for is either in the original post (I’ve included updates as folks have provided corrections) or down in these comments which have been an awesome source of info for different ways to get things going.
Rajen Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Hi Riyad, Thnx for the messgae reply, I tried to reset the phone and then reload as mentioned above. Congrats buddy, it worked in 1st shot….
Thnx for helping the community and breaking the monopoly of the MNC’s.
Hv a great day…..cheers
Scargo Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Maria, How about you try DOWNLOADING the files again to a folder on your desktop or use a different computer to download them and copy them to a flash drive.Read all the post on this blog, then maybe you will figure it out.
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Rajen,

Glad to hear it worked!
marco Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Thank you!!
I get really upset when I saw that “I don’t like your SIM” msg!
It really Helped!

Thank you!
ramesh Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
we 2g iphone but that was one problem it’s not working apple symble only come to not on that mobile
eva Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 1:26 am
i have a 8GB unlocked iphone 2G version 1.1.2 and want to update to version 2.2.1. Will I not lose my SMS messages, contacts and photos if I follow the steps above? Thanks a lot in advance.
Riyad Kalla Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 10:31 am
eva,

If you have iTunes setup to sync your Photos and Contacts from your iPhone you should be fine there, but you will loose your SMS messages.

Good question, I haven’t seen anyone ask that one yet.
m Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Hi, I asked for help earlier but no one answered. It looks like there is no solution to my problem…?
I just want to add that I tried to restore my 2G phone with firmware 2.1, unlock it with Quickpwn and then upgrade to 2.2.1 But that relocked the phone. I also tried restoring with 2.2.1 firmware directly, but that had the same result. What could be wrong with the phone? Hardware/software fault? As I said before, it works perfectly for 2,3 days and then it freezes and locks up again. Also, can I restore from itunes directly, or do I have to use custom firmware?
Scargo Says:
May 30th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Hi M,
Maybe you can find some answers at one of these two websites!
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ or try this one http://iclarified.com/
for your current problems or maybe someone can help you,Good Luck!!!
stephan Says:
June 1st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
hey i got the iphone unlocked but the data is not working from the tmobile network is there a way to fix that…. email me at triniboy24@gmail.com with your answers
Riyad Kalla Says:
June 1st, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Guys,

For anyone having data problems it seems that the APN has changed to:
internet2.voicestream.com

I’m still able to use the old APN referenced in this original article, but some folks I know on T-Mobile in the US on iPhone have had to change it to that new APN to get EDGE data working.

Hope that helps.
hernan Says:
June 6th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Hey, i need help!
when i go to the second step in quickpwn the check for the unlock phone is not there, i just have cyndia and installer and the replace boot, but the unlock the phone one never comes up.
What do i do? plz
THanks you
suhesh Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Hey, i need help!
when i go to the second step in quickpwn the check for the unlock phone is not there, i just have cyndia and installer and the replace boot, but the unlock the phone one never comes up.
What do i do? plz
i to have same problem plzz help me yaar
Sarah Says:
June 12th, 2009 at 9:36 am
If I have and unlocked and jailbroken 1st Gen iPhone and am on already using an AT&T sim, would I be okay with upgrading to the 2.2.1 update? I would not care for the jailbreak but would like my unlock to stay in place. Also what will happen with all the jailbroken applications already installed on my iPhone?
islandzboy Says:
June 12th, 2009 at 10:21 am
hey riyad

i have an ipod touch 1G 16 gb. When i press shift and click update, an error pops up saying “the ipod could not be updated because the firmware is not compatible”

please help me…. hope u will reply soon…

thanx…
islandzboy
Anthony Says:
June 13th, 2009 at 6:29 am
i have a unlocked iphone wit 2.2.1 firmware, and i cannot go online it was working lioke a week ago and now i cant download anything from cydia or anything someone please help.
Riyad Kalla Says:
June 14th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Anthony,

It could be your APN settings — search this page for the phrase “APN”, there is the well-known one for T-Mobile and then a newer one as well I posted a week ago if you are having trouble connecting to the normal voicestream one.
Riyad Kalla Says:
June 14th, 2009 at 11:23 am
islandzboy,

Ahh! Yea you don’t want to use these firmwares linked in this story, they are for iPhones.

You *might* be able to go grab the official 2.2.1 iPod Touch firmware and still use the rest of this guide, I’m really not sure, I’ve never tried it.

I’d suggest googling for “iPod Touch quickpwn” and see if people say that is the way to jailbreak the Touchs… if it is, this guide should work.
Walid Baalbaki Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 6:44 am
Hi Riyad ,
If i press Shift > on restore not on Update , and choosing ur same file , it will work ?

Thx
Walid Baalbaki Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 6:49 am
If my SIM card is MTC Touch Lebanon , does that work ??
vinay Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 7:48 am
hi i unlocked successfully but my phone not recognizing the sim card what what the steps i have to follow for that
JJ Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Hey Riyad,
Do you know when you’ll be able to break down for us “how to install 3.0″
Thanks!!
Riyad Kalla Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
JJ,

In about 2 weeks I’ll write a new guide for iPhone OS 3.0 — right now early jailbreaking is working, but I haven’t gotten a definitive thumbs-up on the base-band unlocking so folks can run on un-authorized networks.

Once I see the all-clear there I’ll get to work and get you guys a new guide.
JJ Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Hey Riyad,
Thanks for the quick response. will the same procedure apply to the new 3G S the 32G?? just wondering if that one is going to be jailbroken soon.. Again thanks for the response.. JJ
Linda Says:
June 17th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Hi, Did this tutorial a few months ago, worked GREAT and loved it… until recently. Strange things started happening: first, the icons would wobble – pretty often – for no reason, it’s SUPER s-l-o-w, and takes time to load everything, and now today all my voicemails, both new and saved were erased. I was dealing with all this stuff but decided to downgrade after deleting the few apps and screensaver didn’t help. Any info on how to do this downgrade to my older, jailbroken (1.3, I believe) version without losing my unlock (I’m w/T-mobile) would be greatly appreciated. If it can’t be done, I’ll continue to plod along.

Baby steps would be appreciated (similar to the tutorial) for me.

Thanks very much
Linda
Riyad Kalla Says:
June 18th, 2009 at 5:48 am
JJ,
My expectation is that yes the same process will be pretty similar to what we do for the 3G S — I’m just waiting for the whole process to get rolled into QuickPwn so we can make it dead-easy with no fancy hacking required.

Linda,
Sorry to hear the phone has gone wonky — it doesn’t sound like the upgrade did that though, your voicemails are stored server side so if those got erased something might be going on with your account. If you’ve never hard-restarted your phone before, that might be a good idea. Hold down power button for 8 secs and slide it to off then back on.

The other option is to do a totally clean reinstall of 2.2.1 to see if it’s cruft on the phone causing all the weird behavior (it is basically a little computer, so sometimes an OS reinstall can help).

Or you can hang in there another few weeks and we’ll get a 3.0 guide out an you can upgrade to that
Linda Says:
June 18th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Riyad,

Thanks so, so much – again!! I did the off 8 second trick and that seemed to have speeded up things a bit. I’ve also tapped & tapped and so far, no wobbly icons so hopefully it fixed that issue too. I’m sure you’re right about the voicemail server thing since these other 2 issues seem ok (for now) with the hard restarting; I’ll play with it today to see if the wobbly icons come back. I’ll also check back and probably do the upgrade to 3 when your guide comes out. Thanks again for all the great work you do and help you give here.

Linda
RoAdHoGg Says:
June 19th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Hi I have just purchased a 1st gen 8 gig Iphone and didn’t realise it was jailbroken 1.1.2 and unlocked, I Just want to install OS 3.0 and I’m not botherd about being unlocked or jailbroken. I’m I going to brick the iphone by installing the official 3.0 update
Pepe Says:
June 19th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I hope this helps someone.
while doing the update, at one point I got an error 14 message, then i could update anymore, i only had the option to restore.. i tried to do that and an error 13 popped up, so i couldnt restore any way, and the iphone was stuck in some screen…
reading around i found out for some reason the process can get messed up if you are connecting your iphone to the pc via a USB port in the front of your PC, so I switched to one on the back, and voila, worked like a charm…
just thought I’d post it for anyone with a similar prob
Pete Says:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Hi Riyad, your instructions worked great when I updated my iPhone 2G to 2.2.1. Any chance you’ll do the same for the iPhone 3.0 software that’s just been released????
Kevin Says:
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I am trying to upgrade a 2nd Gen that was on 1.1.4, but when I tried to bring it to 2.2.1 I got an error 14. Itunes now states that I have to restore to original factory settings. Do I have to download an older firmware file, or can I just continue on with the 2.2.1 file I downloaded at the top of the instructions?

Do you have to be connected to the net to be successful?
Kevin Says:
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I restored using the 2.2.1 file I downloaded at the top of the file. That worked OK. Other problem I encountered was during QuickPwn. I ntever went into recovery mode so it never advanced the “button sequence”. I exited out of quickpwn and rebooted the iphone. It automatically rebooted into recovery mode and quickpwn did its thing. Another successful unlocked Iphone. Thanks for a great tutorial Kevin.
Loso Says:
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 am
Ok I have a 1G iphone with T-mobile and it has been working beautifully. I recently made an ass outta myself and updated it to 2.2.1 from i-tunes. I read up top that it will be “uncrackable”?? Does that mean I can’t re-unlock it?? I have two jobs (probably like everyuone else) and I heavily rely on my phone day to day. I really need my phone up and runing again!! Please help!!!
Riyad Kalla Says:
June 30th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Pete, absolutely. Should have it written this week.
Riyad Kalla Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 10:08 am
UPDATE: Thank you to everyone for being patient, the new iPhone 3.0 Firmware jailbreaking/unlocking guide is now up!
irena Says:
July 21st, 2009 at 11:51 am
i updated my phone long time ago and i followed the exact steps but something happened and now i have to install it again but it takes forever to connect my phone to recovery..its been almost 20 minutes and nothings happening…any ideas?
zoomi Says:
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
hi everyone…..everything went right but the quickpwn is not giving me the option of unlocking while i m getting other three option….cydia, installer and reboot logo……any idea….is it something relted to quickpwn….where should i get the latest one which will work with my firmware 2.2.1.
thnx
Riyad Kalla Says:
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:05 am
zoomi,

I’ve not heard anyone complain about that before (not seeing the Unlock) — are you sure you grabbed all the resources linked from this guide?

Also, don’t forget, we put up a guide for installing, jailbreaking and unlocking iPhone 3.0 OS on your iPhone just recently if you want to follow that one instead.
ehsan Says:
July 27th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
it doesn’t worked
It says
firmware error string
zoomi Says:
July 28th, 2009 at 8:14 am
hi riyad

thanx for ur reply…..last time my frend unlocked iphone and he was told not to upgrade it further bcoz his iphone wont work anymore….is it right?…….and secondly i have already done jailbroken and unlocked and using it on unsupported network but now my iphone just got froozen on the apple logo……so i followed ur instruction to reboot it may be thats y quickpwn is not giving me option of that unlock……should i proceed further if i m not getting this option???????is it safe?
Riyad Kalla Says:
July 28th, 2009 at 9:34 am
@ehsan,
I *think* you get that error either when your firmware download is corrupted, or you downloaded the wrong firmware for your device. Double-check to make sure you grabbed the correct firmware for your device (for example, you don’t want to grab the 3G iPhone firmware for a 1st generation, 2G iPhone)

@zoomi,
If you follow the new iPhone 3.0 guide, you start off by doing a factory restore of the phone with the official iPhone firmware — and then you crack that open with redsn0w… I think that might be the way to go since your phone is currently in a funky state.
zoomi Says:
July 29th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
hi riyad….

if i dont see the unlock option in quickpwn…..should i proceed further….wt will happen????
Riyad Kalla Says:
July 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
zoomi,

You’re killing me buddy… I have no idea what will happen if you proceed with QuickPwn not showing you the “Unlock” option, nor do I know why it’s not showing you that option — that’s why I’ve recommended using the iPhone 3.0 firmware guide we put up instead.
Rom Says:
August 17th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Hi folks, i have recently bought a jailbroken 2g iphone off someone, so it did not come with a T-mobile sim card. Would i be able also to do the above mentioned upgrade. I am running 1.1.4 firmware.
Rom Says:
August 17th, 2009 at 11:17 am
update my to earlier enquiry…..

as a mater of fact the guy took out his phone card…so it really didn’t come with any phone card in it! I already have a sim card, so do i just put in the sim card i have and try the upgrade?
Riyad Kalla Says:
August 18th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Rom,

Put the SIM card in, make sure the phone actually works first. If it doesn’t, or says something like “incompatible SIM”, then it may be jailbroken, but it’s not unlocked (to work on other networks).

If the phone works great, then yes, you can follow this guide. But if you are going to upgrade anyway, I’d just recommend following the iPhone 3.0 firmware guide instead and get the latest.
Rom Says:
August 19th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Thanks a mil Riyad Kalla , iT wokred just the way u said it should. You guys are the best.

Let the iphone irock(LOL)…WAAPPAXXX
Riyad Kalla Says:
August 20th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Rom, glad to hear it man, have fun!
Shariq Says:
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I made mistake and realease home button when quickpwn was asking to hold it.I tryed so many time from the begning but it always struck on the same promt saying ‘wait for your iphone to connect in recovery mode… Now i cant connect to itune to install the firmware again because it does not connect to my iphone.pls Help
Zimyad Mastoi! Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Thankssssss alot……………………
i have upgraded now its working bt how can i open menu??????
menu is not opening i am just receiving msgs n calls nothing more
J.D. Says:
October 28th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Riyad,
I have a iphone 2g, if my phone is already unlocked and jailbroken w/winpwn to 2.02 can I just restore it to 2.2.1 in? itunes or do I have to unkock it again w/QuickPwn?
Riyad Kalla Says:
October 28th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
J.D.,

As soon as you do the restore in iTunes, it’s wiping out the unlock and jailbreak on the phone and laying down the official operating system (firmware) again — so you’d have to re-unlock it and re-jailbreak it.

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