Dev Team: Redsn0w Users, Stay Away from IPSW 3.1

The well-known iPhone Dev Team has updated its blog with a post reminding Redsn0w users to refrain themselves from updating their phone’s software as soon as Apple releases new versions. It is the case with iPhone OS 3.1 Beta released recently to developers enrolled in the iPhone Developer Standard or Enterprise Program. Softpedia doesn’t condone jailbreaking / unlocking Apple devices.

As a developer, and one who unlocks his / her iPhone using Redsn0w, the iPhone Dev Team says you should stay away from Apple’s latest firmware update (at least for now), should you want to keep using your phone in its current, unlocked state.

“You’ve seen us give this warning before, and there are only so many ways to say it or come up with a clever title,” the Team’s message goes. “But here it is: ultrasn0w users must stay away from any firmware updates past 3.0 (including today’s 3.1 beta) until we release the tools that let you update the firmware without updating the baseband. For most phones out there, baseband updates are irreversible and you’ll lose ultrasn0w.”

The Team also pinpoints that, “The 3.0 jailbreak was one of those (rare) times where both the jailbreak and the unlock coincided (the only other time was 2.2).” As such, “It’s important that people realize that *most* firmware releases aren’t like that, and you need to take steps (via the tools) to separate the firmware update from its included baseband update,” the Dev Team claims. “This warning does not apply to the iPhone 2G, which uses BootNeuter for the unlock, not ultrasn0w,” the message ends.

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