Hello, there. So, I bought this iPhone 2G from eBay for $45 with the intention of making one of my prominent “Is It Obsolete? ” videos Regrettably, I ran into a problem. I couldn’t get past this screen. When I connected to iTunes, it grumbled that I didn’t have a valid SIM card. After a rapid Google search, it was obvious that I’d have to jailbreak the phone.However, that proved to be an enormous headache, wasting almost an entire day. I read several websites that were out of date and commonly had burst joins for their downloads. I tried watching many misty, amateur YouTube videos describing the process that were hard to follow and often had out-of-date information. And eventually was foiled by a constant lapse theme in redsn0w saying “USB communication problem” on every computer I tried. So I decided to make this up-to-date video for anyone trying to jailbreak an original iPhone, sometimes referred to as the 2G prototype. So, you might want to make sure that you really have an iPhone 2G. Now, the best way to know is to only look at the back, it should be silver at the top and then a pitch-black sphere on the bottom. Okay, the first step is to download firmware 3.1.2 from Apple. Technically, 3.1.3 is the latest that works with this phone, but I can not be get that one to work and there’s almost no difference. You can get this firmware in many homes, simply Google for it. Make absolutely sure that it’s the 2G account. Okay, the next thing you need to do is open iTunes and connect to the phone. Tell it that you want to restore, but hold down the SHIFT key, or on a Mac, hold down the OPTION key when you click “Restore”.This path, it’ll ask you for an. ipsw folder to restore from, and you can locate the one you only downloaded. This will take several minutes, but eventually your phone will reboot, and now you’ll running around firmware 3.1.2. Okay, the next thing you’ll need to do is download a imitate of redsn0w. Yes, it has a zero instead of an O. However, the most current version don’t work right with the 2G. You’ll invariably get this USB communication error that I mentioned before even though the software clearly identifies the phone. So, what you’ll wishing is the older version 0.9.2. Okay, so once you get this downloaded, you’ll need to put your phone into DFU mode, or sometimes announced Recovery mode.It’s a little bit tricky, but here’s how you do it. Plug your phone into the USB port. First, you turn your phone off by holding down the sleep button until the shutdown alternative seems. Once it has completely shut down, hold down the sleep button to re-activate the phone and do not release the button. After three seconds, press and hamper the HOME button. You should be holding both buttons down at this station. After ten seconds, freeing the sleep button but continue to hold the HOME button for another five seconds. Hopefully, you’ll be in DFU mode now. If you mess up, really switch off your telephone by maintaining the sleep button for a while, and then try it again. Okay. Now, open redsn0w and click the “Browse…” button. Locate that 3.1.2 firmware that you downloaded earlier. Then sounds “Next”. If it’s the right register, it should say: “IPSW successfully identified.” So, it’ll make love thing for a moment. At this level, you’ll have various options to choose from, and I’m not going to go into all of them.In this case, I don’t want Cydia, since I’m just trying to get into the phone without a SIM card. This “Unlock” option will allow you to use other cellphone carriers besides the default. But, again, I don’t need that right now … Okay, clink “Next”. It will go you through putting your phone into DFU mode, but mine was already in that mode so it’ll just go straight through. Eventually you are able to see this screen on your telephone, which is a good sign that everything’s working. Next, you’ll construe the little pineapple chap while everything finishes up. Eventually it’ll reboot, and despite the letter about the SIM card, you are able to ultimately be able to get into the phone and do whatever you demand. Now, I would like to give one advising when it comes to downloading redsn0w … When I was using Windows, I continued running into downloads “thats been” full of all other kinds of unwanted application. And, uh, so … It took various assaults before I experienced time the redsn0w software without get all the malware and the visitation application wrap in with it, so … Time a alarming on that. Okay, so I hope that members can located this video beneficial, it’s probably the only … modern, up-to-date jailbreaking video for this older model iPhone that you can probably find on YouTube. I’m looking forward to impel the next video, where I’m going to run this iPhone 2G through its speeds, I’m going to carry it with me for a few weeks as my own phone…and I’ll get back to you with develops, and … Should be quite interesting ..
