Whilt there are many jailbreak techniques I still swear by the Pwnage way.

This system completely restores you iPhone to the current Apple ispw by creating a custom ispw which you point to when restoring through iTunes.

I have used this way on each and every upgrade since the iPhone came on to the market particularly in Australia where the 2G iPhone has never been supported.

The one and only site other than the Dev Team’s is iClarified where you can choose whichever tutorial suits your particular situation.

The PwnageTool is the best and safest way to jailbreak/unlock your 2G iPhone. The one PwnageTool not only jailbreaks your iPhone but also unlocks it and the same time. No need to move from one jailbreak method to another to get it unlocked.

Once you have chosen your preferred way to go on iClarified the step by step tutorial is a clear and easy way to follow.

Stick with PwnageTool for all your upgrades and you’ll never be out of luck.

it appears pwnage tool is only for Mac… and I have a PC.

thanks for your reply, though!

1.) I put in my Tmobile SIM.

2.)I put it in DFU mode, and shiftclick restore to the 3.1.2 ipsw file.

3.) After it “restores”, close itunes and open and run blackrain (which will hacktivate and jailbreak my phone)

4.) When the iphone reboots, it should now allow me to get past the emergency calling screen. Open blackrain, install cydia and find an unlocker from cydia to unlock to tmobile.

Do i have all those steps in the correct order? I want to make sure becuase it seems like I might only have 1 shot at this from an unactivated phone…

Everbody appears to have some problem or other but there is a foolproof way to make sure everything runs the way it should.

Search for iclarified on the way and look at jailbreaking and unlocking. The instructs also allow for downloading the correct software to do the job.

However, make sure it is the Pwnage Tool 3.1.4 which is specifically for upgrading to Apple 3.1.2.

Pwnage Tool allows for a complete system restore by which it is unlocked and jailbroken.

I have used Pwnage for my 2G iphone since the very beginning and have 100% success each time.

Follow the instructions on iclarified which are very clear but again make sure it’s Pwnage 3.1.4.

Good Luck

It says that before starting blackrain, make sure to update the iphone to 3.1.2 through itunes.

But my iphone 2g has NEVER been used before. How would it be possible to upgrade the firmware when all it can do is make emergency calls (still in sealed box until i confirm I can make this work for me)?