PwnageTool 5.0.1 Released — How To Create Custom IPSW To Preserve iPhone Baseband For Unlock

ive got a question. Before that thanks for the effort and this jb.

so is there any way to activate the firmware also along with JB and preserve baseband? I dont have at nt sim with me and if i upgrade from 4.3.2 to 5.0.1 it will require activation. ( i assume)

if i have windows can i do it with Redsn0w 0.9.10b1 and will it work??

Does it unlock baseband 4.11.08? The device is already jailbroken.

surely doesnt . u must preserve bb . thats the only point of preserving baseband

Run snowbreeze that it will activate in th options. Just one question can i just update from 4.3.3 to 5.0.1 or i need to pass through to 5.0.0 ?

how do you preserve the baseband?

dude. the entire article is about preserving baseband:) on the other hand if you already on 4.11.08 you cannot downgrade the Baseband anymore. unfortunately u stucked and there is no firmware solution for unlocking available ( as far as i know) there is a guy who offers something changing the basebans chip ( bejingiphonerepair or something similar his name google it.)

how can i go back frm 4.11 to 4.10 is ther some trick or anythng? please help if any1 knows, ryt now i am trying untethrd jailbrak if some1 can help me in baseband thng i wil b thankful

neverrrrr

yes of-course:)do you need help?

can’y get rid of the 1600 error. i’m on a mac.

i have a iphone 4 running 4.3.3. baseband 4.10.01 its unlocked and untethered so i could use it on tmobile. i dont know how to upgrade to 5.0.1 and saving by baseband so i could continue to use my gevey sim for tmobile please help thx in advance

I don’t get why us Windows Users have to wait for Sn0wbreeze to create a custom IPSW. Doesn’t Sn0wbreeze v2.8b11 preserve basebands for 5.x.x? and also doesn’t Redsn0w have an option to presrve baseband in the EXTRAS section? Are they not working?

me neither…on Windows…even after I enter DFU mode correctly using iReb

Jake Loover help me! i created a custom IPSW to preserve my baseband using Redsn0w but when I try to restore it I keep getting 16xx errors on itunes. Any thoughts?

My itunes keeps getting error 1600!!! ive tried redsn0w and pwntool both in DFU mode! any suggestions?

Mine too…let me know if you get a solution please

Same Problem

I got it! Download the latest version of TinyUmbrella and it should give you two messages. The second one tells you to uncheck an option in the advanced section of you iDevice. Once you do close out of it. Enter DFU once again and try to restore to your custom IPSW. It worked for me…Good Luck!

turn off your tiny umbrella by unchecking the last 4 in advance.. hope it help

no, when you jailbreak an iphone, it automatically gets hacktivated.

you can update from 4.3.3 to 5.0.1, however, remember that updating is not recommended when you r jailbroken. its better to do a restore using custom firmware….

my iphone 3gs boots up to a white screen…. how can i fix?

also made a custom ipsw with Pwnage Tool and gives me an error 28, but still showing white screen

Hi Teja Chillarige I keep getting the itunes error 10 when it restores, tried both pwnage tool and redsnow and both end up erroring out when it starts restoring. It goes for a bit on the little meter and always stops in the same place with the same error. any advice?

then it ends up in recovery loop
: (

thanks Frank.. after such pain I was finally able to restore my custom firmware!!!

try old version of redsn0w like 0.9.9bd for to put your mobile in DFU, error 1600 clearly means that your phone is not going properly in Pwnage DFU mode…

worked the update out..needed to upgrade itunes : S

Hi ,
I am currently using Iphone 4 with ios 5.0 preserving BB 4.10.01(using Gevey Sim for unlock), I want to update to 5.0.1 unthethered Jailbreak while preserving baseband ……I am a windows user, please suggest met the tools(Redsnow, Pwange tool) and the steps to jailbreak and preserve BB on windows …..PLease suggest !!!!!!

how did u make it worked .. i am also stucking with error 10 after updating itunes any help plzzzzzz

i think gevey users have to wait for the pwnage tool for windows, unless youre a mac user.

iphone4 4.33 bb 4.10.01 using givey while using custome ipsw ios 5.0.1 with redsnow and doing restoring with the latest itunes i found error 1600 i solve it by using IREB now i am facing error 10 . can anyone help plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

UPGRADE ITUNES! the dude himself wrote the solution x) ^

restore it using itunes first to 5.0.1 then do jailbreak

I have the same issue but couldn’t solve the error 1600 ..can you please guide how to solve this ?

I did this on Windows 7 and it didnt install Cydia. Whats up? I’ve never run into this issue…

download IREB R4 it will solve this problem

i am using the latest itunes :s

I see it upgraded my BB also, so something didn’t go quite right. I’m going to downgrade tonight and then try again… :-/

I used powned tool on mac osx

Using redsn0w 0.9.9b7 to enter DFU mode. It works for me after spending the whole damn morning to try ripping off 1601, 1600, 21 errors.

nice .. i thought u r on windows

I tried again but failed with error 1600 ..any suggestion?

Awwww!! I’ve done all the process and it says “SIM not valid” using Gevey Ultra… should I try it with an original SIM?

Awwww!! I’ve done all the process and it says “SIM not valid” using Gevey Ultra… should I try it with an original SIM?

im using gevey sim for my iphone 4 to unlock is it 100% sure that i can preserve my baseband following this

I preserved BB via the redsn0w custom IPSW yesterday… and everything seems to work fine with gevey (the blue one) maybe you will have to repeat the unlock procedure, but that’s it

frank I don’t understand why you create IPSW to preserve your baseband

I haven’t done this yet but I’m using pwnage tool to keep my BB and update from 4.1 to 5.0.1, one of the options was activate the phone. Will that actually activate the phone? I’m using tmobile and not have a ATT sim card. Thank you

Getting desperate: if I use RedSnow or PwnageTool to go to DFU mode I get error 11 and if I don’t I get error 1600. TinyUmbrella seems to work fine, but the problem looks more like it’s the iPhone itself not going into proper DFU mode.
Can anyone help?

I have an Iphone 4, I’m using gevey and have not been able to update to 5.0.1, with snowbreeze or redsnow, getting error 11 everytime with itunes 10.5… need help

I too am running the old school 4.1 firmware with 01.59.00 baseband? I’m thinking of upgrading to the latest 5.0.1 but w/ custom IPSW and kind of afraid due to all the error messages people have been getting…

Can anyone confirm this has worked while preserving your baseband??!!

thank you…

where are the links, i have already downloads an ipsw file that wasn’t recognised by ifaith??? (iPhone3,1_5.0.1_9A405_Restore.ipsw) WTF

I already updated my ipsw and preserved baseband with no problem using redsn0w, but when I went to jailbreak, the build that redsn0w wanted to confirm ended in _09404 instead of _09405, quick research shows 404 is a beta build. Looks like the dev team forgot to update redsn0w for this. But it has me with an updated phone, with no jailbreak.

So, I look at this tutorial, and looks like I do the same thing with pwnagetool, but I’m worried about it matching.

how can i activate iPhone 3gs on 5.0.1 without original simcard ,its jailbroken with the new redsn0w .
i tried to pas the activation menu to call 112 and i got cydia working en ultrasn0w everything is ok but i got the activation page every time back
please help !!!

Dear all,
I have an iphone 4 on baseband 4.10.1 and using gevey sim to unlock.
if i used the above PwnageTool to create a custom 5.0.1 ispw will i be able to unlock it using the same gevey, or can i unlock it with Ultrasn0w?
or is there any way to upgrade the base band to a supported base band example:
01.59.00
04.26.08
05.11.07
05.12.01
05.13.04
06.15.00

Thanks a lot

For all You with restore error 10. Use ‘STITCH’ option in Redsnow to ‘connect together’ SHSH blobs with custom firmware. It works

according to what i have read these 2 days , seems we have to be able to unlock it with Gevey since the baseband should be preserved with custom IPSW 4.10.1 as it was befor, i have teh same situation as you but i have not tried it yet

Frankie boy! you are a genius!
Did exactly what you said and GOT IT!

I long to nestle in your thighs your lordship.

Can I Jailbreak it with 04.11.08 baseband?

Can I Jailbreak it with 04.11.08 baseband?

Where you will find a solution please reply me here. cause i am desperate too

jake – without custom IPSW how can we preserve our baseband … I think you can preserve bb only if u upgrade using custom IPSW

guys i have managed to use the above to update the iPhone 4 to ios 5.0.1 keeping the baseband 2.10.4 and the Gevey work like charm note it is the old Gevey sim not the ultra.
so i’m happy

where is the link of step one?

Hey, I just did this on my 3GS that had 4.3.5 on it, first I jailbroke it and upgraded the Baseband to 6.15.0 to make it unlockable, then I created a custom 5.0.1 IPSW through Redsnow in Windows and restored through Itunes. It got all the way finished(no itunes error) then did not restart.. tried doing the just boot through redsnow with no luck, also tried this on my mac with the same results now Its stuck in Recovery mode.. Anyone else have this issue? Any Ideas?

this also happened to me. just put your iphone on dfu mode using redsn0w (MAC). close everything unplug you iphone, restart your MAC plug the phone in another USB port. this works for me after trying everything. hope this helps.

You can jailbreak 04.11.08 you CAN NOT unlock it.

I ran into the same issue and still looking for a solution. It’s frustrating. I had 4.3.3, iphone 4

do U have a link where i can download pwnagetool 5.0.1 ??

I need help… I jail broke my iPhone iOS 5.0.1 to install an application I had to transfer from my Mac desktop. I uploaded the application from my Mac to my iPhone using Cyberduck, and it got installed successfully into [folder]/private/var/stash/Applications. But when I go to my iPhone trying to find it, I can’t. Where did it go? How can I find it?

Hi Sumit,

Did you gevey work ? I have some situation but not tried to update the iOS ..please advice

Me as well

I used the latestest pwnagetool to put it into DFU but I used a custom IPSW from redsnow to keep the baseband. Seems to have cleared the 1600 error.

Hi there ive never jailbroken my iphone 4 before however I have modem firmware 04.11.08. Would I still be able to jailbreak my phone?

cheers people

wil this erase any info on my phone?

yes it will,

I used pwnage to preserve my 01.59.00 baseband, but I click on Cydia and it doesn’t work. Any suggestions?

Dear Asaad,

When you have used the AT&T sim?
After the restore?

how about 04.11.08 baseband????

i have IPhone 3GS, IOS 5.0.1 with 6.15.00 baseband, and i installed ultrasn0w from cydia and My I phone just searches for service and ‘No Service’ help me please..

hi just reinstall ur ipad baseband use redsnow and ur service will come back for sure:) been there done that

I’ve same problem “SIM not valid” please help

it will be unlocked using gevey, just follow the above.

If Kat’s advice doesn’t work, try re-installing ultrasn0w, than turning airplane mode on and off.

did you

Did you find any solution , I’m getting the same error

did you find a fix for it???

Thank you. This worked perfectly for me on a 3GS with baseband 5.13.04, but I did need to borrow someone’s AT&T sim card after installing the new firmware to “activate” the phone.

da hell wit dis shit is there any way i could go bak to my regular baseband and ios……im on 6.15.00 but dis shit is givin me a hard time i jus wanna go bak to 5.16.05 is this possible

Got my iPhone working using iReb R5 yesteryear day. Worried like a charm!

Hi, i try to unlock with redsnow my iphone 3gs 5.0.1, i didnt make custom ipsw because was enable, and now i have my phone in recovery mode, when i open itunes dont recognizes the iphone and is imposible to restore.. error -1
Please help me

I know its better costume restore but im trying all the time i get some itunes error and then i fix them with ireb or redsn0w 0.9.10b4(newst) and still cant restore on 5.0.1? any idea???????????? plzzzzzzzzzzzz

hi, i want to try my phone 3gs old boot bb 04.26.08 from iOS 4.3.2 to 5.0.1.
how to update and unlock??

no it is not. not yet, and probably never will be

only way at the moment is to open up your phone and manually, physically, replace the chip with one you’ve bought somewhere. like that’s gonna happen.

Hi There,
I have an iPhone 4 with IOS 4.3.3 with baseband 4.10.01 unlocked with Gevey sim. As a trial, I decided to update to IOS 5.0.1 as I heard that is more stable and my shsh was saved on this version. Downloaded the Pwnage 5.0.1 and stock firmware. Created custom firmware and tried to update using iTunes. It stopped with and error 10. Updated my macbook pro to 7.2.2 from 7.2.1, didnt resolve the issue. Later tried with my Windows pc with iTunes 10.5.2.11 and it went like a charm. Activated using an AT&T sim and restored from backup. Used my same Gevey sim.. Voila. I am on it 5.0.1.
Bottom line: There is no software unlock for iPhone 4 after 01.59.00. If you are less than 04.10.01 then you can unlock using Gevey sim upto IOS 5.0.1 if your shsh are saved.

i have i phone 4g bb 4.11.08 firmewear 5.0.1 at &t, u.s.a give me unlock method plz

i can’t download pwnage tool 5.0.1 on mac … plz help me

It took my a while to find it but I got it eventually. By the way read my name a reply

I have the same case! Any solution?

after following the whole process above, my 3GS is still not activated. i connected it to iTunes after cfw restore, it keeps on popping up this message on my iTunes “The sim card inserted in this iphone does not appear to be supported” My iphone 3GS remained un-activated. I dont have any official sim card. so i’m stock with this issue and not knowing how to resolve it. pls I need an urgent help from any geek.

I was having Error 1600 on a Mac too until I decided to re-build the custom IPSW and enter DFU mode via PwnageTool instead of manually. That cleared Error 1600 right up!

i m stuck on a problem i bought a used iphone 4 yesterday and it was unlock working on Gevey ultra pro( pro written on back side) and bring it home and turned it off then while switching it cannot boot showing apple logo(bricked)
What i collect from my memory and it was on ios 4.X.X i m not sure, cydia was there! ..i don’t know the baseband..
now how will i restore? The only clue i have cydia was there and it was working with gevey..
what methord will i use?..i feel like blind because i dont know any info about the phone…PLEASE HELP..;Thanks

just jailbrake your phone it can be activated without orignal simcard

i get the ssame error and i cant use ireb5 becaus it isnt on mac!

hi … i have iPhone 4 version 4.0.2 at bb 01.59.00 … can i upgrade to 5.0.1 with the above method as i just wanna make sure before hand if some one of you had a bad experience with this version and bb or everything just goes smoothly. thanx

I have a iPhone 4 with iOS 4.0.1. Jail broken and unlocked, but when I reset and erase all, it got hang on the apple logo and keep looping…. I then restore with custom Ipsw iOS 4.0.1 and after complete, the device reboot and hangs in dfu mode …. The iPhone is tied to US at&t and with sim locked …. Trying restore again with custom Ipsw but still stuck in blank dfu …. It is safe to restore to custom Ipsw with its 5.0.1 which preserve the baseband and possible to unlock with ultra snow 1.2.5 ? I need help before I proceed with the restore to higher iOS version…

So i don’t know if I did it correctly my iPhone restored and everything and my version is 5.0.1 and my firmware is 04.11.08 but however cydia is not present anywhere on my phone. I just wanted to unlock this for GSM so I can use it in Japan. Please help!!

jailbreak for G3 with iOS 5?

I’m on o2 in the UK. I’m getting stuck at activating my iPhone 3GS because I no longer have a valid o2 SIM (I upgraded to iPhone 4S). I’m trying to activate the 3GS so I can unlock it to use an Orange SIM card so my partner can have this 3GS phone. Any ideas?

Also, someone mentioned that when they have done the Pwnagetool they get “No service” error, I’m getting this too. Someone mentioned to open RedSn0w and use an iPad baseband. I looked into doing this but I’m getting a warning stating that because my iPhone 3GS is past week 35 (mine is 56) that it won’t be suitable and it’s recommended that I do NOT continue.

Not sure what else to do to unlock this iPhone and have it jailbroken too. Any help appreciated.

Pwnage tool needs my iphone firmware files and i cant download them or locate them on my hard drive anywhere, were are they?

When I tried clicking on the software it said it wasn’t the right firmware.

can i downgarde ios 5.1 baseband 4.12 to baseband 4.10

no bacebands are non downgradeable