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the iPhone Dev Team has now gone live with their redsn0w iPhone 3GS jailbreak, something they were holding off on doing and waiting for the iPhone OS 3.1 update reports Intomobile.

Redsn0w replaces QuickPWN and preserves the iPhone 3.0 baseband for future iPhone OS releases which is important for people who want to unlock their iPhones at a later date. Once you have jailbroken you can then use ultrasn0w to unlock your iPhone.

We have a video demonstration for iPhoners on unlocking the iPhone 3GS, which can be viewed below, so hit it up and enjoy.

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Cydia Store

The Cydia Store launched its first product on March 07, 2009. Cyntact sold sells for a buck, and was the first paid package through the Cydia Store. It allows you to see profile pictures in contact lists. While not the only 3rd party application store for the iPhone (Rock Your Phone also exists), it is definitely the most popular one, largely due to Cydia’s immense popularity as the source for jailbreak packages (items you can only get when jailbroken – like themes and apps such as GV Mobile, recently kicked out of the AppStore).

Now, 4 1/2 months later, “the Cydia Store has had ~53,000 purchases for a grand total of ~$210,000 spent,” said Jay Freeman, creator of Cydia, known as saurik to most in the jailbreak crowd. And for a good while, packages weren’t even being accepted into the store other than a few beta packages, which he used to live test the service after the initial offline testing. (Packages are now being added more and more as the service matures – use our Cydia submission form if you’ve got an application you’d like ModMyi to host (we’re not your only option), and we’ll be in touch).

Until March, the AppStore was the only sustainable way for a developer to sell their app. There were a few ambitious apps which were freely available in lite versions from Cydia, and had their own built-in payment systems

(PdaNet comes to mind, although that whole move to paid was a bit controversial and actually made me completely revise our update approval process for the MMi repo). ZodTTD created an “invite-only” repository where only donaters could access, with unique URL’s for the repo depending on your device, email, etc. Both these methods were hacks (however elegant) to get around the glaring issue – no way existed for jailbreak developers to make any income from their work, forcing scores of developers to either give up on the jailbreak community, never get involved to begin with, or save their best for AppStore, while releasing lesser quality (and lesser time-consuming) packages on Cydia.

The Cydia Store brings a whole new market as a viable option. Freeman states “In the last day, ~470,000 unique devices reported into my server

(when I last checked, months ago, this figure was ~350,000). In the last week, ~1.5 million. In the last month, ~3 million. In the last two months, ~4 million devices. To be honest, this actually surprised me: I thought the jailbreak community had a higher attrition rate: that I’d be seeing a much smaller percentage of ‘identifiers of jailbroken devices that were seen in the last two months’”. That’s a decent audience. The method of sale is well thought-out, too. Your Cydia Store account is tied to either a Facebook account or a Google account, much like your AppStore account is tied to your iTunes account. Sign in once, and your info is saved unless you log out. Same with payment info – associate your device with your payment method once, and its saved for future purchases (of course with an option to turn it off).

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Basically, what purplesn0w will do is unlock your iPhone 3GS after you have already jailbroken it using purplera1n. According to Geohot, purplesn0w is;

“A soft unlock for your 3GS that I’d actually use day to day. It’s not a daemon that takes any resources, and it doesn’t add a task to your baseband. It’s very close to a true unlock. All it does is patch three files, CommCenter, lockdownd, and your wildcard activation plist(which you need, activate w at&t sim first, no hacktivation support yet). That’s it, no other files are installed.”

• Be sure to have legit activated 3GS
• Disable 3G if you don’t have it(like T-Mobile).
• Add apt.geohot.com to Cydia
• Install com.geohot.purplesn0w
• Watch for success output in Cydia
• Reboot, and enjoy your unlocked iPhone

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People Jailbreak their iPhone for many different reasons, my main reason was for video recording using CyCorder, which is a great app.  I also loved to use backgrounder, it did hurt the battery some but was a nice addition to the iPhone.

Disclaimer – Neither ATi nor I take any responsibility for any problems, issues, bricking/etc. that may occur while using this software to modify your iPhone.  This will NOT work with iPhone 3GS.

Tools Needed:

iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw

Jailbreak Process:

Follow the directions on this link.  I was working on my own but found this one and it’s more detailed.