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Straight on the heels of last week’s iPhone OS 3.1.3 update from Apple, The iPhone Dev Team hackers have released an updated Pwnage Tool to jailbreak the new release. But, there are a few catches.According to 9to5 Mac, the Justice League of iPhone hackers -- you know, the collective known as The iPhone Dev Team -- have made available Pwnage Tool 3.1.5, which adds the ability to jailbreak the latest iPhone OS 3.1.3. But unlike previous versions, the Dev Team is actually encouraging most users not to update this time.
“iPhone 3G and 3GS unlockers should always be very wary to update their firmware,” the Dev Team blog warns. “This is no exception. If you make a mistake along the way you may find yourself updating to official 3.1.3 in which case you will lose your unlock, possibly forever.”
The reason for the warning is that iPhone OS 3.1.3 is such a minor update, with an improvement in the reporting of battery use percentage on the iPhone 3GS being touted as the biggest “new feature.” The problem is that Apple is now signing all firmware updates via iTunes, and shortly after iPhone OS 3.1.3 was made available, Cupertino began denying users the ability to install OS 3.1.2 on their devices.
If you’ve previously jailbroken your device and opened the Cydia program, you have a bit less to fear about the ability to go backwards, thanks to the app’s ability to grab “SHSH hashes” from your iPhone, which get around Apple’s draconian signing of the firmware.
“iPhone 3GS users (regardless of unlock) should stay away from this and all 3.1.3 jailbreak tools unless you know you have your ‘SHSH hashes’ backed up via Cydia,” the team writes. “That’s because if you make a mistake you may find yourself stuck at official 3.1.3 with no way to jailbreak or come back down to 3.1.2 to jailbreak.
“If you really truly feel that you need to update, this version creates a custom 3.1.3 IPSW for you to restore to on your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS with early bootrom, iPod touch 1G, and iPod touch 2G with early bootrom. If you don’t know if you have an early bootrom or not, please avoid updating until you learn more.”
Sounds to us like it’s not worth the trouble -- for now there aren’t any App Store apps requiring OS 3.1.3, so if you enjoy the extra capabilities of your jailbroken device, we’d stay at OS 3.1.2 for now. The more adventurous among you can hit up the Dev Team blog and download Pwnage Tool 3.1.5 absolutely free… but don’t say we didn’t warn you, m’kay?
(Image courtesy of 9to5Mac.com)
jailbreak for 3.1.3 without shsh files being saved!!
Submitted by iMoChapa on Wed, 2010-02-10 22:37.
i am an iphone addict and just have to say that i love and depend so much on this device and i think i speak for many iphone users! coincidentally on the day the new 3.1.3 firmware came out my iphone for some reason decided to freeze up and not work at all!!( apps did not open at all)i would press icon and at launch would just show my wallpaper.. strange i thought and resprung my springboard. to my dismay it did not work. to make a long story short i sync with itunes and nothing i had read several forums and many mentioned to reset all settings on iphone... i did and what a mistake that was i tried blackra1n to revive it and that did not work at all..my device was just stuck in recovery mode at first then emergency mode..thought maybe i could restore on itunes from a recent back up....mistake number 2 and procedded to restore, needless to say i was restored with 3.1.3 and was stuck in emergency mode. i have tried everything now to bring it back even borrowed at&t sim card and was able to bring it back only to research there is no jailbreak and no unlock. i have tried sn0wbreeze, redsn0w 09.4 and all and none work. i have no shsh files backed up either. i read in forums that my iphone may possibly be unjailbroken and unlockable forever!! talk like that scares the living shit out of me, because i paid full price for my 3gs and am past the 60 day return!! i need this device and i know that sounds bad but i do!! why cant the iphone be like anything else we purchase like our computers and cars and homes if i may say so, once u buy it u should be able to WHATEVER U WANT WITH IT. WHY MUST APPLE HAVE THESE DAMN RULES ON SOMETHING WE OWN AND PAID GOOD MONEY FOR!? I AM SO WEARY OF BUYING A MAC NOW FOR FEAR THERE WILL BE RULES ON THAT TOO AFTER I PURCHASE IT. i know i messed up royally and know that and believe there is someoneout there who will be able to develop the jailbreak tool and unlock tool for 3gs 3.1.3 users that did not save their shsh files on cydia....i did not know that i was supposed to, seriously! before we knew to save shsh files and updated someone was able to create the jailbreak and unlock for 3.1 and so on... someone out there posseses the talent and skill to create these tools for the many iphone users along with myself that need and depend and most likely now will know to back up shsh files for future use! if anyone out there is reading this thread i hope a genius out there can develop the jailbreak for the many in my situation!! please "we" ask for salvation to have our devices ooperable once again! i believe salvatiion is near!! if you agree please reply and share your thoughts! iMoChapa
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Jailbreak for 3.1.3 itouch 3g
Submitted by oomairimtiaz on Mon, 2010-04-12 22:43.
Hey there I know my itouch is prOBABLY nothing COMPARED to your iphone 3gs but I have exactly the same problem. I upgraded to 3.1.3 by mistake without saving SHSH files to cydia. I too am looking for a way out of this because jailbreaking is a beautiful thing and i SWEAR i cannot live without it!!!! Please let me know if you have found something to save "our" lives....thanks a lot
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