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Upgrading, Jailbreaking and Unlocking my iPhone 2G to 2.1 firmware on Mac

October 30, 2008 · 1 Comment

Seems easy if you follow these intstructions from iClarified. The problem is, it doesn’t unlock the iphone. it just jailbreaks it so you won’t get a signal if you’re not on AT&T.

The next problem would come in because of iTunes 8. You would get the following error while restoring from a custom firmware:

  • The iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored. An unknown error occured (1600).
  • The iPhone “iPhone” could not be restored. An unknown error occured (2001).

I was able to fix this by doing the following steps:

  1. restore using default firmware of iTunes
  2. jailbreak using quickpwn
  3. use pwnagetool to create the custom firmware
  4. restore firmware using itunes again, this time using the alt-click button to use the custom firmware
  5. start using your unlocked iphone 2g on 2.1 firmware, yey!

Categories: Gadgets

1 response so far ↓

  • carrine // November 28, 2008 at 6:37 pm | Reply

    thnk u so much for reading my post regarding the story of Eloisa.. and iam so happy that people like u still existing.. i mean having a gud heart to share their blessings and willing to help people who are in need. more power to u and more blessings to receive..

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