So its ok to update itunes to 8.0.2?

Its the same story again – follow the same steps.

Thanks for the quick reply…

So do you advise following all these steps (pasted below) from your guide ands using quickpwn, or making a custom restore with pwnagetool then the steps 6 and on? – trying to make it less time consuming than the 2.1 upgrade :-) hahaha

Steps from your guide +++++++++++++++++++++
Step 3) Restore your firmware. If you are upgrading to the latest version of firmware you can just let it download and restore. To do this, click “restore” and wait. If you would rather download the firmware manually, you can get all firmwares here.

Step 4) At this point, if you are a contract subscriber (AT&T or such) you need to activate your device in iTunes. Just hook it up and wait, it should auto activate allowing you to slide to unlock to icons. If you are unlocking, you probably see “slide for emergency” only. Do not do anything else in iTunes at this point. Disconnect your device from your computer. Do not restore your backup, do not set up as a new phone, just remove the device.

Step 5) Do not restore your backup in iTunes yet. Instead, jailbreak your device now. I suggest using quickpwn. You can follow my guide here.

Step 6) Using Cydia, install aptbackup. This is the most important part, do not skip any of it. The rest of this step will allow you to correct any problems you encounter in the next steps.
a) Install open SSH.
b) If you had 5 icon dock installed before the upgrade, install that now also.
c) Install BossPrefs

Step 7) Restore your backup from iTunes. Just hook back up to the computer and when asked, restore as a backup from whichever iPhone you had.

Step 8) iTunes will restore your settings, contacts, notes, pictures, and all your apps. Now to restore the rest of your Cydia installs. Open aptbackup and hit restore. It should reinstall all your packages from Cydia. If aptbackup is now hidden (missing icon) after your iTunes restore, load BossPrefs, go to hidden icons, and unhide it. You can also unhide any other hidden icons here.

****!!!
now i am a dumb fucker! i only went updated my jailbroken in itune yesterday didnt i!!!
now that sucks big time.
so in short i can get 2.2 jailbreak on my 3G, but no network/phone??? so its gonna be like a ipod touch?

thanks

yay!!! im jailbroken! 2.2 and i still got my o2 network. now i will die a happy man!

maybe i misterstood the process.

@ Plotkin,
are you the one who updated 2.2 in itunes? cos if you are then you baseband already been updated, then you might as well use quickpwn 2.2
AT&T would not be locked on 2.2 jailbroken.
also you can do a custom update, once people start uploading thier own custom firmware, thats been pwnaged on a mac. then you can download and choose that file in quickpwn on windows.

if im wrong about anything in this post, please please please correct me!!! im only saying whay i read in other forums

In USA, what other 3g provider is there anyway? If you aren’t planning to unlock in the near future, I would not worry about it.

But your analysis is correct. If you want to unlock in the future, it is advisable that you do not use these methods on windows, or update at all in iTunes.

After upgrading to 2.2 my swirlyMMS now crashes upon loading. It will stay open for about 3sec and then crashes. I tried reinstalling swirly in case it didnt load correct the first time but it didnt fix it. I did a full restore and then used windows quickpwn in order to upgrade. Everything else seems fine. Is anyone else having problems with swirlymms?

does anyone know the details about why you can’t use the new MacBooks to go from stock to pwnd? i was curious and tried it with a virgin iPod touch and it definitely doesn’t work

Apple blocked the dfu driver.

One bad 2.2 Firmware Update story.

Not even jailbroken yet. Just did a restore on iPhone 3G 2.1 JB to fresh new 2.2 through iTunes was going to run for a while without JB.

Now my 3G is totally dead. I can make calls, I can use internet with 3G turned off. But using the iPhone with 3G turned on means spinning circles until error network/server stopped responding.

This is seriously f*****d

JB 2.2 worked fine for me, but cydia is crashing :-(

I got the stderr of it:

2008-11-23 02:09:26.699 Cydia_[379:613] *** -[UIKeyboardImpl setSoundsEnabled:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x25d020
2008-11-23 02:09:26.723 Cydia_[379:613] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInvalidArgumentException’, reason: ‘*** -[UIKeyboardImpl setSoundsEnabled:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x25d020′
2008-11-23 02:09:26.736 Cydia_[379:613] Stack: (
808221155,
806100816,
808224837,
807957033,
807851552,
96360,
85196,
816779748,
807923363,
816120032,
816527948,
816526220,
816520628,
816266512,
816212020,
816814004,
816216936,
816224008,
827742428,
827752732,
837327104,
821391952,
807840887,
807836793,
807834407,
827735648,
816119480,
816158236,
120348,
11404,
11048
)
terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘NSException’

Hello,
Before updating from 2.1 to 2.2 I followed your advices to backup apps. BUT AppBackup doesn’t back up CydiaApps, only “officials one” from Apple Store. How could I restore the apps I paid for (SwirlyMMS and PdaNet) ?
Many thanks for your help
Memo

I screwed up…I updated my downlaoded and installed the update in iTunes last night and thought I would be re-jailbreaking this morning..I can’t get it to go into DFU mode. Then I read here that Apple blocked the DFU driver? Is that true? Can anything be done?

I am not able to get the bootloader 3.9 to load correctly. I downloaded it multiply times and still have not got it to recognize the file. I am using a Macbook Pro (2 years old). I browse to the file and it does not open the file. It says “that file doesn’t appear to be the proper file”

I have been trying since last night to get the proper file.

BTW thanks for all the hard work on jailbraking the iphone. I have used jailbroke for several version before the 2.0 and would hate to go back to a “normal” unjailbroke phone.

use APTbackup, which is found in Cydia.

it’s a little late now, i think.

I had Cydia (and some other apps) put into the dock of my SBSettings when I backed up my phone before restoring to the new firmware and jailbreaking. After I restored from my backup the Cydia icon disappears so I can’t install AptBackup to get everything how it was. I found Cydia in my Applications folder using iPhone Browser, but still can’t figure out how to get the icon back. Any suggestions?

After several more tries, I finally got it to DFU mode..Got everything back the way it was before…

BigBoss, first of all, thank you for your help.
My case: 3G waiting to be unlocked, updated without problems (and maintaining 2.1 baseband).
However, mail app crashes once open and maps cannot localize mi iphone.
Any suggestion?
Thanks again. Gracias.

The problem was that my iphone was a 1st generation phone (2G). I found 2.2.1 version of quickpawn and it worked fine. Thanks again to all the hardwork of this site and the jailbrake team.

Hi BB:

I never had a problem jailbreaking or using aptbackup. I succefully jailbroke the phone then I used aptbackup to restore all the apps. It partially worked and when I run Cydia – the screen gets stuck on “Repairing” – do I have to run quickpwn again to start over?

Thanks!

Happy to report that I used another computer and all went well. Thanks BB and all the people that post with their help.

i wont let me Jail break the phone it just say Firmware error string.. whats that mean??

Hi bb
My iphone run perfectly with 2.2;-)
I wanted you always say: you are the best :-)
regards from germany :x

i just jailbreak my 2.2 3g iphone and everything work just like before thank you for the step

Alrighty, I think I got my Cydia back. =)

I tried restoring the iPhone 3G through iTunes (using 2.2) and then used QuickPwn 2.2 (with Cydia & Installer options of course) at least twice (both times, though, Cydia still wasn’t even showing on the phone, which made me think, “TRY, TRY AGAIN!!”) before my iPhone finally figured out that I REALLY wanted Cydia back. Apparently 3rd time’s a charm. =)

Just be adamant about restoring then pwning the iPhone. Hope this helps anyone else who loves Cydia as much as I do.

Big Boss, if I hadn’t met my husband before I met you, I would have told you that I wanted to have your babies (if you’re a guy, anyway).

But since I’m married, I can just say, with great sincerity, Thank You.

@ Lucee

Same here… everything works fine. Just the Keyboard sound is enabled in Cydia by no reason…

I think I start over again, and see what happens ;)

I upgraded my iphone 3G to 2.2 all worked good.I restore from back up OK. the problem is that I didn’t have any signal (no service). It worked for 5 seconds and disapper.Can you help please.

i HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE it worked for me.I could not jailbreak i kept getting post mortom debugger when trying to jailbreak.I tried jailbreaking without loading itunes 1st like quickpwn guide says and like i have done in past.It worked phone is now jailbroke.

Hi guys, I noticed that SSH is on after restarting the phone. Is it possible to add the no ssh on restart switch like in Bossprefs in SBSettings or is there any workarround with current version of SBSettings.

Thanks.

Hi
I tried to restore my 2.1 (1st gen iphone) to 2.2 like what I did for 2.1 , the restore process is stuck in “Restoring iPhone software…” I tried to do this again but itunes gave me error 5 until I put my iphone into DFU mode and tried again but again it’s stuck in “Restoring iPhone software..”

any idea?

Have you received a reply or found any information?

I’m in the same boat and am hoping someone comes up with a way for us Windows users to upgrade to 2.2 without changing/upgrading the baseband (in order to protect the opportunity to unlock one day)? Either a pwnage tool for Windows, or a Quickpwn option that would avoid the change to the baseband?

I understand that a CUSTOM ipsw file must be created with the pwnage tool to avoid the change to the baseband, but surely this “custom ipsw” file would be the same for the majority or all of us Windows users with a 3G phone, and the custom ipsw could be incorporated into a revised Quickqwn to allow us to upgrade, couldn’t it?

I am really stumped!
I have a first gen phone unlocked usin t-mobile with 2.0 firm.

i downloaded pwanage 2.2.1 to update but no matter what pwanage does NOT recognize the bootloader files. i have copied the program to the desktop but it in its own folder with all the files .. everything it just does not recognize it.. any help figuring out why this is happening or an alternative to get to 2.2 firm would be appreciate.

thanks

oli

Oh if anyones stuck and doesnt get a response or anything just hit me up ;)

Hello,
Thank you for a good stuff…

Thanks
SonyaSunny

Dear BB,

I have an iphone 2g with 2.2.

I am currently in Europe and want to unlock my iphone so i can use it here. I’ve done the steps

Restore to clean version of 2.2

then run quickpwn and unlocked the phone

try to replace sim with european one and the phone gives me this

“DIFFERENT SIM DETECTED”
connect to iTunes

i cannot seem to be able to get past the activation screen

any help would be great

Thanx

Did you ever fix this? How?