How to jailbreak with redsn0w
If you want to jailbreak any current iPhone or iPod Touch devices running on iPhone OS 3.0, you must use redsn0w. This post will show a step-by-step tutorial on how to jailbreak your device with redsn0w.
You can download redsn0w for Windows, Mac, or Linux here.
redsn0w 0.8 will only work with iPhone 3.0, iPhone 3G 3.0, iPhone 3GS 3.0, iPod Touch 3.0, and iPod Touch 2G 3.0.
1. Download the iPhone OS 3.0 IPSW file for your device and save it to your desktop. Here are the file names for each device, make sure you have the right one:
- iPhone 2G – filename: iPhone1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw [download link]
- iPhone 3G – filename: iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw [download link]
- iPhone 3GS – filename: iPhone2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw [download link]
- iPod Touch 1G – filename: iPod1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw
- iPod Touch 2G – filename: iPod2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw
2. Open the redsn0w 0.8 application.
3. Click the Browse button.
4. Locate your device’s IPSW file that you downloaded in step 1 and click Open.
5. The redsn0w window will have the “IPSW successfully identified” message. Click the Next button to continue.
6. redsn0w will ask you to “Please select which options you would like to have“. Make sure the Install Cydia box has a check on there and then click Next.
7. redsn0w will ask you to make sure your device is both OFF and PLUGGED IN to your computer. Make sure you plug in your device in to your computer and then turn it off. Click Next once you have done this.
8. redsn0w will now ask you to connect your device in DFU mode.
- Hold down the Power button for 3 seconds
- Without releasing the Power button, also hold down the Home (bottom center button) for 10 seconds
- Without releasing the Home button, release the Power button BUT KEEP holding the Home button for 30 seconds
- If you don’t do this properly you will get a DFU Mode Failed message and you’ll have to go back to step one.
9. Once your device has successfully entered DFU Mode, redsn0w will show the following message: “Please wait while your device is being jailbroken. Waiting for reboot.” Your device should reboot after this.
10. Once your device has rebooted redsn0w will start uploading the RAMDisk and kernel.
11. After everything has been successfully uploaded to your device, redsn0w will have; the “Done!” message. Your device will now reboot and you should see the Cydia app on your SpringBoard.
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315 Comments
Hey so its stuck on the rebooting phase and a pop up says that it has encountered a problem and needs to close…what do i do? i tried doing it 3 times and it still doesnt work
Men if i have a ipod touch 3G. what i need to do? Because you only talk about the 1g and 2g…
use blacksn0w
doesn’t work, goes dark and doesn’t come back and when i disconnect from the computer turns back on and cydia doesn’t appear FYI.
Everytime I download the ipsw file, redsn0w cannot identify it when I click “browse.” Please help.
same thing is happin to me also
This isn’t working for me. I have an iPhone 3G and I’ve tried this Jail Break 3 different times, and it never installs Cydia, nor does it even Jail Break the iPhone. I’m using ‘redsn0w 0.8′ and ‘iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore’. Tell me if I am doing something wrong… maybe this Jail Break is only for 3GS iPhones?
use Blackra1n.com
dont use this my ipod is broken cuz of it it wont load my ipod on i tunes after i restore it dont use it my ipod is garbage now its for sale for 20$ now i cant get it to load apple wont fix it cuz i tryed to jailbreak it so its for 20$
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will c if i can fix my own iphone with parts of yours!
regards
me again! sorry mate just read: u killed ur ipod! :-( bad luck
Hey…work fine with my 1g 16g ipod touch…if your stuck on “Waiting for reboot”… stay on redsn0w, disconect your ipod and conect it just after. press power.
the prosess will finish.
It works Titi. Now, it is going to the next step, downloading jailbreak data…
but… how long does the process? It have been 15 min and still downloading…
could you help me… Thank You
i tried that and it still didnt work…wat do i do???
The program does everything correctly up to the point where it’s halfway through the kernel, and then it says,”redsn0w 0.8.exe has stopped working. Checking for a solution,” and then it crashes. I am running Windows Vista and I am trying to jailbreak a 2nd generation iPod Touch.
Same thing happened to me. I just installed all the updates Vista found and then i tried all again. Well it hasn’t actually worked yet. But on the iPhone it says: Downloading jailbreak data… ;p
Sorry my english.
its saying that my ipod needs to be restored i dont no wat to do
Hey, my iphone 3G wont stop “downloading JAilbreak data” because i have pressed the done button on redsn0w and now my phone is just loading, what should i do? dissconnect the phone or just wait?
i have download arount 200 aps but i can not download the file :iPod2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw help me plz :(
hi guys , use redsn0w-win_0.7.1 it works for me , I have ipod 2g with firmware 3.0 final , I jailbreak it with redsn0w-win_0.7.1 with windows vista ,but when I used redsn0w-win 8 it say ,”redsn0w 0.8.exe has stopped working. Checking for a solution,” good luck :)
I downloaded it but when it told me to browse icouldnt find the file it wanted me to luk for please help me I don’t want to have to u iTunes because I’ll be taking a huge risk with my moms credit card
how long does it have to be “Downloading Jailbreak Data…” for? because I have tried twice on an iPhone 3g and it’s been about fifteen minutes already. thanks.
mine the same, is still “Downloading Jailbreak Data”, been doing it for 15 min and I am leaving it, what shouls I do?
download everything, reboot but doesn’t have the Cydia app on my springboard and show “no service” when I insert another sim card?
I have an ipod touch 3rd generation 8gb how can i jailbreak it without using blackra1n?
Also i heard that you can’t turn off your ipod if you use blackra1n is that true?
i tried several different and not luck yet, i have a ipod touch 2nd generation 8g…i say screw this, i love my ipod too much to kill it…ill stick with what apple meant to have on there!!
how long does the jailbreak data… install typically take?