Now we have not only one, two but more than four ways to jailbreak our iPhone 3GS and latest addition in the list is the tool from George Hotz called PurplesnOw. We have a tool for the same purpose earlier from same developer called Purplera1n but was limited to windows only. According to developer blog, this tool is better than the UltrasnOw released by iPhone Dev Team. Here is the quote:
“First off, what is purplesn0w? It’s a soft unlock for your 3GS that I’d actually use day to day. It’s not a daemon that takes any resources, and it doesn’t add a task to your baseband. It’s very close to a true unlock. All it does is patch three files, CommCenter, lockdownd, and your wildcard activation plist(which you need, activate w at&t sim first, no hacktivation support yet). That’s it, no other files are installed. Props to Oranav for the at+xlog exploit!”
He has also posted nice set of instruction for you to keep in mind before using this tool.
Be sure to have legit activated 3GS
Disable 3G if you don’t have it(like T-Mobile).
Add apt.geohot.com to Cydia
Install com.geohot.purplesn0w
Watch for success output in Cydia
Reboot, and enjoy your unlocked iPhone
(via iPhoneHacks, Geohot Blog)
Tags: iphone 3gs, iphone-hacks
