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Use redsn0w v0.8 to Jailbreak iPhone 3.0.1 Update

Apple released an update to its Apple iPhone OS 3.0. The latest update Apple iPhone OS 3.0.1 carries the fix for the SMS vulnerability earlier discovered.

If you are worried about the jailbreaking and unlocking after the latest update, there is good news for you. iPhone Dev-Team’s redsnow v0.8 can be re-used to jailbreak the iPhone OS 3.0.1 update.

In a blogpost, the team says

You can re-use redsn0w v0.8 we released a few weeks ago to jailbreak today’s 3.0.1 update.  Just let iTunes update or restore you to official 3.0.1 then run redsn0w.  The only “trick” is that when redsn0w asks you to identify the IPSW used, point it at the 3.0 IPSW instead of the 3.0.1 one.   After the jailbreak, reinstall ultrasn0w 0.9 if you need the unlock.

More details:

The 3.0.1 release is a “branch” from 3.0 that occurs (code-wise) before all the 3.1 betas.  The programs redsn0w needs to change for the jailbreak are identical when you compare the 3.0 and 3.0.1 versions.  It seems pretty much the only changes Apple made were for the SMS bug, which affects programs that redsn0w doesn’t touch.  That’s why you can re-use redsn0w 0.8 on 3.0.1 even though it was written for 3.0.

And since 3.0.1 doesn’t touch the baseband either, ultrasn0w 0.9 works for those needing the soft unlock.  Just install it from the repo666.ultrasn0w.com repository using Cydia as usual.

We’ll at some point fix redsn0w to recognize both 3.0 and 3.0.1 IPSW’s, but really that’s the only change that would be made to it.  Everything else would be identical, so there’s no need to wait for the “proper” version that recognizes the 3.0.1 IPSW as valid.

So if you were looking out for a jailbreaking and unlocking solution for your iPhone OS 3.0.1 , redsn0w is the answer. Learn more about redsn0w here.

Also Read: [How-To] Unlock Your Apple iPhone 3GS Using PurpleSn0w

[Video] Unlock iPhone 3GS using UltraSnow

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