14 DAY TRIAL // In their latest update for the jailbreak community, the infamous iPhone Dev Team explains how iPhone users can upgrade to the new iOS 4, unlock their baseband, and use the phone with multiple carriers. While this doesn’t ensure a jailbreak, unlocking an iPhone under iOS 4 seems like a true privilege for these users.
“As you probably know by now, ultrasn0w has been updated to cover all basebands from 04.26.08 onward,” reads the latest Dev Team update. They credit sherif_hashim for finding the crashing command that the new ultrasn0w 0.93 uses, explaining that “He worked hard at finding the crash, and he kept it confidential until the right time to use it.” Kudos for oranav, as well, the Team says. The hackers credit the latter for finding a certain crash. The Team then proceeds to explain what iPhone unlockers need to do to get back on the train after updating to iOS 4 (emphasis ours).
“iPhone 3G and 3GS baseband unlockers (those who rely on ultrasn0w to make phone calls) should always be very wary to update their firmware, however our Ultrasn0w application will unlock all recent (including the current) 3GS and 3G baseband firmware versions. Once you are jailbroken using PwnageTool 4.01, install ultrasn0w from Cydia and you’ll be unlocked”.
PwnageTool is the Team’s popular jailbreak application for the iPhone community. Updated to version 4.01 this week, it can effectively break the shackles off iOS 4, enabling iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 2G users to access a wide variety of content, not limited to the official iTunes App Store.
“Remember! This baseband unlock situation is rare, should you upgrade your iPhone blindly at the next iOS release please don’t expect an unlock - but for now you are OK (whatever state your baseband is in)”, the Team concludes.
Earlier this week, the Dev Team revealed that PwnageTool 4.01 didn’t support certain devices, one reason being that they are not supported in iOS 4 at all. They promised to try and find ways to get past these restrictions.
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