Comments on: HOWTO : Upgrade to iPhone 3.0 on your Unlocked iPhone

By: Horst

Horst — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:32:50 +0000

Some month ago I updated my first generation and unlocked iPhone to firmware 2.2.1 using the steps described by Setu (http://woikr.com/apple/iphone/how-to-upgrade-and-unlock-your-iphone-2g-using-quickpwn/) on 01.27.2009 which worked fine and let me with the new firmware, unlocked and jailbroken.

Can I use the procedure described above to update to 3.0 and still keep it unlocked and jailbrocken? If the answer is yes, will I keep Cydia and Installer?

Thanks for your answer

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:15:20 +0000

Hi, I’m using an unlocked, jailbroken iPhone 2g on 2.2 and would like to upgrade to 3.0, whilst keeping my phone as is, could you assist or offer any advice please?
Thank you so much
Stu

By: Mihir S

Mihir S — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:17:57 +0000

Hello,

I followed the steps provided by Varun and i was able to upgrade it to 3.0 without any single problem. The only problem i have now is that i do not have cydia any more and youtube does not work but other than that the above steps are perfect.

Special Thanks to Varun.

By: Iris

Iris — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:05:24 +0000

I bought an unlocked Iphone in France in April. I would like to upgrade to 3.0 without locking up my phone can this be done??

By: C S Rao

C S Rao — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:01:08 +0000

Sir,

I got I phone on road wchich have version 1.1.4 Its a jailberak hand set. I want to upgrade with version 3.0 for I phone I request you is there any problem If I upgrade phone with I tune is they record ip address of mine? I had not yet upgrade phone is anybody can answer it?

Rao

By: sasan

sasan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:16:38 +0000

I can’t do step 9
please help me

By: Varun

Varun — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:12:25 +0000

girish,

do u have the official 3,0 firmware downloaded ?

did u try on win xp ?

im not sure if redsnow works on vista

By: girish

girish — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:09:37 +0000

Please advice how can i unlock the phone …..

I cant find ipsw file….

Thanks

Girish

By: girish

girish — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:42:46 +0000

Hi,
I was on 2.2.1 version and updated my phone with itunes .
but it has locked i can get call and make emergency call.

I downloaded the redsnow thing but cant find the ipsw file .

I am on vista.

Please help.

thanks and regadrs
Girish

By: Schwanns

Schwanns — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:59:09 +0000

I used redsnow to jailbreak and unlock 3.0 on iPhone 2G yesterday and it works A-OK.

Couple of points to add for the instructions posted by Vinay above
1. Use Itunes to backup your data first
2. For iphone 2G, you need to restore (basically format) to the 3.0 version. (shift + click on restore in Itunes). Choose the 3.0 software downloaded earlier. I suggest you use this option. Otherwise Itunes will try and download a 250MB file and I’m sure none of us have a superfast net connection.
3. After restore, follow the steps using Redsnow.
4. After its done, use Itunes to restore the backup.

It did hang a bit after the unlocking when I tried to restore the backup from Itunes. But a hard boot solved the issue.

Backup your songs separately as they will be wiped out after these steps.
Any other apps installed earlier like OpenSSH, Bossprefs will have to be reinstalled again – which is not a big deal.

Rest of the data (sms, contacts, notes, bookmarks etc) will be restored by Itunes in the last step.

Its working great on Vodafone India. Needed to tweak the carrier.plist file to get the Edge option visible in the ‘Settings’ section. Other than that, love the new featues.

Tip : The 3.0 OS will seem very very slow. You need to Disable Push for Mobile Me.
On another Iphone forum someone also suggested to Install Mobile Substrate from Cydia (dunno how this will help)

Anyways the 3.0 is back to its snappy, fast self just like the 1.1.4 and 2.0.

Cheers.