The muct awaited iPhone firmware 2.2 is here. We can hardly contain our excitement and we’d love to update to firmware 2.2 as soon as we can. Probably so are you.
But, we love jailbreaking and our beloved iPhone Dev-Team warns against updating to firmware 2.2 yet. In fact, this is what they say exactly
If you want to keep that option of a ’soft-unlock in the near future’ available but you want the new features of 2.2, you will be able to update to 2.2 using a PwnageTool created custom ipsw file that disables the baseband update. You will be able to do this using an updated version of PwnageTool that will be released sometime soon.
A few reasons they cite against updating to 2.2
- 2.2 firmware for 3G contains baseband update for the 3G iPhone
- PwnageTool & QuickPwn do not support his release yet, so don’t update to 2.2 via iTunes.
- Your iPhone could become deactivated and unusable if you had previously relied on PwnageTool or QuickPwn to activate and if you now applied this update.
- Non AppStore apps will stop working
- 2G (ist gen) iPhone users can theoratically be able to update to 2.2 via iTunes and preserve existing activation. But, if you restore to 2.2 iTunes, your iPhone will go to unactivated state. If in doubt, hold off for the updated PwnageTool or QuickPwn.
We will bring you the most current news on PwnageTool and QuickPwn as we learn. So stay tuned.
As you can see, our posts on jailbreak 2.1 & winterboard themes are the most popular in the site and firmware 2.2 will be no different. We will bring you detailed step by step instructions as we do it on our own iPhone 3G.
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I have just got a iPod Touch and iPhone. I have been reading the whole iPohone Jailbreak situation for a while and think I might give it a go in a couple of months time. Hopefully the Dev team will have got on top of the firmware updates and we can jailbreak the latest FW
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