Blackra1n Full Jailbreak Available

[Bill Boulware]

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Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware with blackra1n

By Taimur Asad | October 11th, 2009

George Hotz (aka geohot), the kid who was the first to unlock the original iPhone back in 2007 and then iPhone 3GS in July of this year is back! This time he is the first one to release jailbreaking solution for the new iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware for all devices through his new tool called blackra1n. blackra1n is a software tool which can jailbreak (not unlock) all iPhone’s (iPhone (Edge), iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS) and iPod touch’s (iPod touch 2G and 3G) running on firmware version 3.1.2. blackra1n is currently for Windows only, a Mac version of this app can be expected soon.

So, what is blackra1n? blackra1n is a 30 second ALL device 3.1.2 jailbreak. Even the ipt3, but the ipt3 is tethered. In order to boot it, just rerun blackra1n.

Image via ModMyi

Follow the steps below to jailbreak all iPhone’s and iPod touches on OS 3.1.2:

Note for iPhone 3G and 3GS: Do NOT upgrade to iPhone 3.1.2 yet if you want to keep yourunlock as doing so will result in upgrade of your baseband which will make it almost impossible for you to unlock.

Step 1: Download and install the latest version of iTunes (download link given below).

Step 2: You will now need to first update/restore to the original iPhone OS firmware 3.1.2 on your iPhone by using the latest version of iTunes. Download link for iPhone Firmware 3.1.2 is given at the end of the post.

Step 3: Download blackra1n for Windows (download link at the end of the post).

Step 4: Start blackra1n app. If you are on Windows 7 or Vista, run the app with “Windows XP Compatibility” mode by enabling it from the “Properties” tab to avoid any errors during the jailbreak process.

Step 5: Click on “make it ra1n”:

Step 6: Let the app do its thing and wait for the phone to automatically reboot.

Step 7: You should now have “blackra1n” in the list of applications on your iPhone. Run “blackra1n”, download Cydia and let it install it.

Image Credit: elmarseillais

Step 8: Finally reboot your iPhone. Voila! You should now have fully jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch running on firmware 3.1.2.

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[Prokic Roger]

Who has done this to their 3GS with 3.1.2?

I am considering it, but need to know if it will work using Parallels on my Mac.

Roger

[Bill Boulware]

Nope did not work on parallels, I had to fire up laptop. 

Sent from my iPhone

[Prokic Roger]

Damn.  I have no access to a real windows machine.

Roger

[Bill Boulware]

I would suspect a Mac version will be out Monday, Tuesday by the latest - it really does only take one minute.  You can try Parallels, it didn't work for me, but I do think I had iTunes open on both the Mac and the Virtual XP Box which may have stopped it from working - you just have to make sure that your iPhone is visible to the "Virtual" partition - the problem I ran into is when Blackra1n went to put the phone in Recovery mode only the Mac copy of iTunes recognized it instead of letting me choose if I wanted it to be the Windows or the Mac version.  Bootcamp would definitely work and Parallels might, just make sure you backup first and if your phone appears to "hang" on the USB cable iTunes logo recovery screen (more than a few minutes) unplug it and hold down home/power until it shuts off then turn it back on - it doesn't really need to be 'recovered' just a hard reboot.