The ‘baseband’ is the generic nickname given to the internal components of the iPhone that handle the phone calls and Internet access. This ‘baseband’ is a tiny and unique independent computer system that runs inside your iPhone , it is separate to the main system that handles the applications (such as email and google maps) and it talks to the main part of the phone over an internal communications network.
Think of it like a cable modem (more…)

“Users first receive an e-mail offering a link that promises a new version of an iPhone unlocking application to overcome vendor set network restrictions. People clicking the link are then directed to a webpage which provides instructions on how to download the unlocking application.
After being urged to connect their iPhone to a PC, users are then instructed to download the “new modified” application and run it on the iPhone . However, once downloaded (more…)

MuscleNerd, member of the iPhone Dev Team announced on Twitter:
“redsn0w 0.9beta3 results were good, may as well take it out of beta:

http://is.gd/7ppQO

Redsn0w 0.9 supports:
Apple firmware 3.0 and 3.1.2
It will also soon run on the PPC OSX, and Linux platforms.
According to the Dev team, redsn0w is different from Geohot’s popular
It installs Cydia and afc2 without needing separate downloads. Because they're all installed in (more…)

“Warning 3g and 3gs unlockers, do not upgrade to 3.1.2 using iTunes if you want to keep your unlock. Baseband cannot be downgraded. Check out the dev team's offerings. Also blackra1n doesn't hacktivate”
If you are one of those looking for a method to unlock basebad 05.11.07 that was bundled from iPhone OS 3.1 onwards, then there is now reason to cheer. Geohot has revealed yet another impending update called Blacksn0w, that will enable iPhone (more…)

The iPhone dev team has published the following details on their blog about PwnageTool 3.1.4:
If you’re already jailbroken (by whatever means), you don’t need to mess around with DFU mode at all. Just create (or get from a friend) your custom IPSW and Option-Restore (Shift-Restore on Windows) to it via iTunes. Don’t enter DFU mode at all. Please
you are restoring to the custom IPSW, not the stock one from Apple ! For best results, use the (more…)

Snow Leopard, the OS released for Mac on Friday, poses no new wrinkles for the redsn0w jailbreak or ultrsn0w unlock.
You can use redsn0w to jailbreak any iPhone or iPod Touch using OS X, Windows, or Linux. For both 3.0 and 3.0.1 firmwares, you should point redsn0w at the 3.0 IPSW. If you see it hang at “waiting for reboot”, just unplug and replug that USB cable.
You can use ultrasn0w to unlock the iPhone 3G/3GS, or BootNeuter to unlock the (more…)