iPhone Dev Team Releases RedSn0w To Jailbreak iPod Touch 3.0 Firmware

After the release of PwnageTool for Mac yesterday, the Dev Team just announced the release of of RedSn0w, a jailbreak method that will work for iPod Touch, iPod Touch 2G, iPhone, and iPhone 3G. RedSn0w can also unlock the iPhone 2G.

RedSn0w, which works on both Mac and PC, provides similar functionality to QuickPwn, which makes me wonder whether or not the Dev Team will update QuickPwn, or simply replace it with RedSn0w.

According to the Dev Team:

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1. GOLDEN RULE: If you are using a 3G iPhone with yellowsn0w and rely on yellowsn0w to obtain cellular service, then you should NOT use redsn0w right now. Ultrasn0w (the 3G carrier unlock) is not included with this release and therefore your baseband will be locked and unable to use an operator other than the official one it was bought for. UltraSn0w will be released via APT (cydia and icy) soon. If you have an original iPhone (1st generation) then 3.0 carrier unlock works with this redsn0w release.
2. Yellowsn0w in its current form will NOT work with the baseband version that is present in the 3.0 update, you will need Ultrasn0w, which will be released sometime soon, Ultrasn0w will work with all iPhone 3G models (but not 3GS), even ones that were previously unlockable, Ultrasn0w (when available) will be released via APT (this means you will be able to get it via Cydia or Icy).
3. Please read all parts of this post before downloading and using these tools.
4. Read items 1, 2 and 3 again and again.
5. At the bottom of this post are the bittorrent files for the latest version of redsn0w.
6. This app is suitable for the recent 3.0 release
7. redsn0w will NOT work for the iPhone 3GS.
8. redsn0w WILL work for Original iPhone (1st Generation), Original iPod touch, iPod touch 2G and the iPhone 3G (not the iPhone 3GS).

To use redsn0w simply upgrade the device in iTunes to firmware version 3.0 and run redsn0w to activate and jailbreak the device (and if you are using an original iPhone 2G, it will unlock it too!)

The Dev Team also suggests to use PwnageTool on Mac to build custom firmware files with more flexibility.

SHA1 SUMS

• SHA1(redsn0w-mac_0.7.zip)= 284639d37fd6675056814b6c8a5b0583ad91c370
• SHA1(redsn0w-win_0.7.1.zip)= e264e44954aa417a3eb12ed29770790a30f85a66

Official Bittorrent Releases -

• Mac OS X torrent
• Windows torrent

UnOfficial Mirrors

Mac

• http://g.appleguru.org/redsn0w-mac_0.7.zip
• http://download.server-land.com/redsn0w/redsn0w-mac_0.7.zip
• http://therepository.binarytide.com/redsn0w/redsn0w-mac_0.7.zip

Windows

• http://g.appleguru.org/redsn0w-win_0.7.1.zip
• http://theiphoneproject.org/windows/redsn0w-win_0.7.1.zip
• http://www.chemicalwebs.com/redsn0w/redsn0w-win_0.7.1.zip

Note that UltraSn0w, the iPhone 3G jailbreak, hasn’t been released yet. Also note that there is currently no way to jailbreak or unlock the new iPhone 3G S.

UPDATED: Ultrasn0w is available now via Cydia!. Check out my post here on how to unlock iPhone 3G using Ultrasn0w.

Updated: Checkout my post here on guide to jailbreak and unlock iPhone 2G for 3.0 firmware using Redsn0w.