iPhone Dev-team har precis släppt sitt upplåsningsverktyg yellowsn0w! Äntligen kan alla iPhoneanvändare världen över fritt välja vilken operatör dom vill använda. I sista sekunden innan verktyget släpptes kom en mycket välkommen nyhet, yellowsn0w skulle inte längre endast fungera på firmware 2.1.
yellowsn0w kommer endast att låsa upp telefoner med firmware 2.2 (baseband 02.28.00). Tidigare var det sagt att upplåsningen endast skulle gälla firmware 2.1 (baseband 2.11.07) eller tidigare.
Vi har inte själva hunnit testa yellowsn0w än och rekommenderar som vanligt att man tar det säkra före det osäkra och väntar tills man sett andra med lyckade resultat.
På sin blog skriver iPhone Dev-team:
- The unlock about to be released works exclusively with baseband 02.28.00. This baseband is provided by the latest firmware update (2.2) from Apple. You’ll need to upgrade to this release using iTunes and then use QuickPwn to activate etc. There are plenty of tutorials about this on iclarified, bigboss, and other established tutorial sites. Because it works on 02.28.00, it is available to everyone on the planet. This means we don’t need to unnecessarily expose holes in earlier basebands, which is an important concern.
- The application is a small daemon that is launched on boot. It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset. You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. It’s a small program and unobtrusive. There is no GUI (this is by design).
- yellowsn0w is completely removable through Cydia, the command line, and iTunes.
- After you install yellowsn0w via Cydia, you should return to the Cydia main menu then reboot your iPhone with the 3rd party SIM installed. Wait for the slide to unlock screen, then wait 10 or 15 secs more. If you don’t see your carrier name pop up, then remove your SIM, reinsert it, and wait 10 secs more. This is the step we’ll be working on eliminating next.
- The application is version 0.9.5. This is considered beta software, you use it at your own risk. You know the score.
- Direct linking to the repository URLs is prohibited, please only link to this post. We will be checking referers.
Då vi följer Dev-Teams begäran att inte länk direkt till deras Cydia och Installer repositorys får ni följa denna länken mer info.
Uppdatering:
yellowsn0w 0.9.5 är här på väg för att rätta till buggar. iPhone Dev-team skriver:
- Soon you’ll see yellowsn0w 0.9.1 in the repos. It uses a much longer delay to let your SIM card initialize. If you have problems with 0.9.0, try this one and wait a full minute after you see homescreen, then reinsert sim card. We need both success and failure reports to tune this across the world, so please be patient (but please also report result!) As of v 0.9.4 there’s no longer a one-minute delay step. If you don’t see your carrier when your homescreen comes up, you may still need a sim reinsert (for now).
- If you are in the U.S. and are trying this with T-Mobile, you must turn off the 3G switch in Settings. Also if you are good with the command line, you can make it much easier by adding the line <string>-q</string> right after the /usr/bin/yellowsn0w line in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.iphone-dev.yellowsn0w.plist (that’s and advanced tip, hopefully someone will make a boosprefs type of tool for it) The -q option is now deprecated in 0.9.4+ (it’s now always in quick mode, unless you use the -l option for long mode).
- No PIN support yet. Remember how we said this was beta? Well we’re still working out the flow for SIMs with PINs enabled. Please disable any PIN you may have on that SIM before trying yellowsn0w, for now.
- The unlock will silently quit on anything other than baseband 02.28.00. It detects the wrong version and just quits to avoid any damage. Please double check your Modem Firmware setting in Settings->General->About.
Uppdatering 2: 0.9.6 är nu släppt, inga nya funktioner utan endast buggfixar.