The iPhone Dev Team wrote a post on their blog earlier today and shared some good (and some would say bad) news with us. With Christmas right around the corner, the Dev Team will be giving iPhone 3G users a nice Christmas present that has been long awaited. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for those with the 2G iPod touch.
Continue reading for the full story.
iPod touch 2G:
Not much has changed since we last talked about this, but the iPhone Dev Team has given more details about why they aren’t looking at a 2nd-generation iPod touch jailbreak. For sure, they won’t be looking at this during the 2008 calendar. In a post written on their blog, they said that “if we do look at this device it will be sometime in the New Year”.
They’ve mentioned that this isn’t because their mean, but because only one of the Dev Team members owns a 2nd-gen iPod touch. But, they also hint that Santa might be nice to them this Christmas, so who knows. Basically, the team is just trying to get across that they’re not doing this on purpose, or to aggravate anyone, and are trying to reiterate the fact that they’re the iPhone Dev Team. That said, the iPod touch isn’t their absolute top priority.
iPhone 3G:
It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. The iPhone Dev Team have completed their unlocking method for the 3G iPhone which should be available New Years Eve 2008. The team will push out a user-friendly tool similar to QuickPwn and BootNeuter, which will have the ability to unlock the 3G iPhone. It’ll also be available on Cydia, so it doesn’t matter whether or not you have a Mac or a PC.
Unlocking your 3G iPhone gives you the ability to use the device on a network other than the exclusive carriers in your country, or none at all. Up until now, 3G iPhone users in the United States were stuck with using AT&T as their wireless carrier because they’re the exclusive carrier of the phone in the United States. But that’s about to change.
Codenamed “yellowsn0w,” the 3G unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone that has 2.11.07 baseband or earlier. The iPhone Dev Team advises 3G users not to upgrade their baseband at this time as they will be giving detailed instructions on New Years Eve. MuscleNerd from iPhone Dev will show a live demo of the 3G unlock on Qik sometime before Christmas, and you can follow up on his updates by visiting his Twitter page.
Kudos to the iPhone Dev Team for all their effort, we appreciate it!
hmm. well dev team i got a new ipod touch 16 gigs and its 2g 2.2 firmware. Now theres no jailbreak out there and please make one, lots of people are waiting on your break through.
thank you
December 25th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Yeah for real.make that jailbreak for the 2nd gen iPod touch it would be really helpful
December 26th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
PLZ DEV TEAM many people near me own ipod touch 2g and all of them are waiting for your jailbreak plz help plz
December 30th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
hey dev team, i wanted to say that i just got the ipod touch 2g for my birthday, and i have been watching videos on how to jailbreak it. well i foun dout there all fake.. >:/ and i have stayed up countless nights searching the web for a 2g jailbreak. i really want the installe program and cydia, but it wont let me beacuse i havent jailbroken it.. so if you can please hurry on the jailbreak… it would be much appriciated by everyone with a 2g ipod..
thanks
~patrick
December 31st, 2008 at 5:05 pm
even though i dont got an iphone nice job to the dev team on the 3g and u guys should be praysing them not makeing request 4 the 2g let them take there time. i do have a 2g touch and really hope for a jailbreak though cuz its all i got
January 1st, 2009 at 2:19 am
OH, PLZ PLZ PLZ make a jailbreak for de ipod touch 2g firmware 2.2…………PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ and THX!
January 1st, 2009 at 2:50 am
So, I got the iPod Touch 2G for xmas, and after 2 - 3 days I was just like “Is that it, man i gotta jailbreak it!”
So I hope that the Dev Team makes it so we all can jailbreak our freakin’ iPod’s !! ^^,
January 1st, 2009 at 6:50 am
i also have an ipod touch 2g and im really lokin forward to jailbreaking also my cousins has an iphone 3g and is very aggravating because he brags that he can jailbrake and i cant so i got tired of him and knocked his tooth srry to get so violent l0l but plz make a jailbreak for ipod touch 2g and is it true that chronic dev team is working on ipod tough 2g jailbreak?
January 1st, 2009 at 9:53 am
Hi. I got a ipod touch 2g for x-mas and I NEED THE JAILBREAK. Please come out with it SOON.
January 1st, 2009 at 10:46 am
Are you working on it
January 1st, 2009 at 10:48 am
Give me an estimate about when you are going to come out with a jailbreak
January 1st, 2009 at 10:50 am
When I thought those videos were real I tried to download quickpwn for the iphone because that’s what they said to do. So when I tried it kept on saying error. I’m afraid that this will happen when the iPhone dev team comes out with a jailbreak method. Please help
January 1st, 2009 at 10:37 pm
are they going to start with it now? they are ready with 3G
pls send me a mail to pieter.willems6@gmail.com
January 1st, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Chronic Dev is working on a 2G jailbreak everyone.
The iPhone Dev Team who made the other one for the original iPod touch, iPhone and iPhone 3G aren’t.
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:23 am
So then around when will they come out with it
January 2nd, 2009 at 4:30 am
Mike, they keep saying that they don’t know yet.
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 am
at this point i have lost all hope with the iPhone Dev Team but i still do have hope that Chronic Dev will
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I got money for christmas and spent all of it on the ipod touch 2G thinking it was jailbreakable because i had a 1st gen but sold it to my sis. I dont care for the appstore att all I just want to be able to customize it a lot more. app should have came out with a app like winterboard or customize. Those apple people dont really know what we all want in one hand. We all just need to suport the chronic dev team and dont give them crap its not a simple as it sounds.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 am
Hi when is the chronic dev team coming out with a jailbreak?
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:13 am
Joe, not for at least a month is what we’re hearing.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Guys calm down the team are working hard on trying 2 jailbreak it so jst give them your support and stop critisising them. Remember they jailbroke the 1st one and im sure they can do it again!
And even if they have a jailbreak it may take several weeks to check for bugs or fault cuz if they didnt u would complain about that.
So give them time!
January 6th, 2009 at 1:30 am
hey wats up enter this on your safari on ipod touch 2G ok and search this
“ipod.uuuq.com/ i hope u will be happy
January 10th, 2009 at 4:46 am
I have a feeling 2G ipod touchy owners will be waiting quite some time before they can jailbreak
January 10th, 2009 at 5:28 am
Ipod.uuuq.com is a fake
January 13th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
СДЕЛайте jailbreak!!!!!!ЧЕРТ ВОЗЬМИ!!!!
January 15th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Hili I’m sure u have something smart to say but please put it in English
January 15th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Hi
January 15th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
i got the ipod 2g 2.2 but im tired of paying for all of the apps so it would be greatly appreciated if you could jailbreak it.
p.s. if u do jail break it will it work in windows or only mac
January 19th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
When the hell is redsn0w coming out?
January 20th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
hi they say that it might be out sunday
January 24th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Is one really coming out tomorrow ive been waiting an waiting for one to come out so dev team plzz hurry with the jailbreak
January 24th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Yah hurry the fuck up or are you that lazy to let another dev team take the cred
January 27th, 2009 at 3:20 am
they say the 30th of this month, but it’s just a rumor
January 29th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Ok ppl can u just give them timethey are human not robots ok they are not perfect nobody is ok it takes time to make it and have yall ever think of helping them make the quickpwn or pwnage tool well? no ok stop tripping ok well dev team hope u make a quickpwn . o nice work on the other versions u did for other people one of thoses ppl u helped out was my cousin well thanks =D
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 pm