DISCLAIMER: Unlocking iPhone is illegal in many countries and violates copyrights of Apple Computer, Inc. This post here is meant to be used by those unlucky people who got hold of an expensive iPhone but can’t use it with their desired cellphone networks without paying incredible charges for the genuine use. By providing this Post, I’m in no means encouraging every iPhone user to unlock their iPhones. The decision to unlock/jailbreak the iPhone is entirely by the User of the iPhone and any consequences therefore should be liable on that User only.

iPhone 2G 2.1 Firmware Update

After searching in internet for various times and provided with loads of steps that either failed to work or entirely different when you try to execute them, I’ve finally hacked my iPhone 2G to the latest 2.1 Firmware by using the basic methods that are supported and reproducible at any point of time. For the benefit of Info Scraps readers, here is the full step by step guide to unlock your own iPhone 2G to 2.1 Firmware on Windows. Please NOTE that these steps may or may not work for iPhone 3G. Particulary the QuickPwn for Windows version mentioned here was not programmed to work with iPhone 3G according to the developers. So, please use these methods ONLY in iPhone 2G and of course on Windows only. Mac OS X users obviously have better and easier ways to hack the iPhone 2G or 3G which I will write in another post.

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