In this post we will be using a free software called blackra1n to jailbreak your iPhone 3.1.2. Please note that jailbreaking voids our warranty, and we are not responsible for anything that happens to your iPhone as a result of following this tutorial.

Warning: If you have an iPhone 3GS it will be tethered, meaning you will need to connect your device to your computer and run blackra1n again every time you reboot (turn off and turn on) your iPhone.

1. Download the free iPhone OS 3 toolbar (on Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari) and install it.

2. Click the Downloads button and click on the Download blackra1n RC3 link to download it.

3. Connect your iPhone to your computer and open the blackra1n application.

4. Click the make it ra1n button.

5. blackra1n will now put your iPhone in recovery mode and display the above image of Geohot. While in recovery mode, blackra1n will jailbreak your iPhone.

6. Once blackra1n is done jailbreaking, your iPhone will reboot and you should see the blackra1n icon on your iPhone screen.

7. Tap the blackra1n icon to open it. You have the option of installing either Cydia, Icy, or Rock. Select the applications you would like to install and then click the Install button to install them.

8. Once you’ve installed the applications, restart your iPhone. To do that, just hold down the top button until the Slide to power off message appears. Slide the button, and wait for your device to turn off. Turn on your device and you should now see the applications you selected on your iPhone.

Congratulations, you have successfully jailbroken your iPhone, give yourself a pat on the back! Now you have access to a lot more applications and modifications that you will never see in the App Store. We will be covering a lot of cool jailbreak apps in future posts, please subscribe to our newsletter if you found this tutorial helpful. If you liked this, feel free to pass on this information to people you know!

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Disclaimer: We are not responsible for anything that happens to your iPhone 3GS as a result of using this software. Jailbreaking your iPhone 3GS will void your warranty.

purplera1n RC 2 will only work on the iPhone 3GS 3.0 firmware!

First download the purplera1n RC2 software for either Windows or Mac from here.

1. Open the purplera1n program

2. Click the “Make it Ra1n” button

3. The purplera1n window will have a “Waiting for iPhone” message. Your iPhone 3GS will go in to recovery mode and you will notice a picture of Geohot next to an iPhone 3GS. purplera1n is working in the background. Once your iPhone 3GS is successfully jailbroken you will see a “Done! Wait…” message in the purplera1n window. Your iPhone 3GS will reboot and you should see an icon on your iPhone 3GS springboard that says “Freeze“.

4. Tap the Freeze icon to launch the Freeze app. The Freeze app will allow you to download and install Cydia. Tap the “Install Cydia” button to install Cydia. Make sure you have internet connection!

5. Your iPhone 3GS is now downloading the Cydia application, once the download is complete you will need to reboot your iPhone 3GS.

6. After you’ve successfully downloaded the Cydia application and rebooted your iPhone 3GS, you should see the Cydia icon on your SpringBoard.

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iPhone 3GS jailbreak

I can’t remember the number of times someone has e-mailed me saying “Can the iPhone 3GS be jailbroken?” Apple has put too many restrictions on the iPhone so iPhone users these days need to jailbreak or PWN their iPhone in order to customize it the way they want to. The Dev Team have previously confirmed with us that the jailbreaking of the iPhone devices can be permanently blocked with a simple hardware upgrade, so it made sense for us to believe that Apple would block the jailbreak on the new iPhone 3GS.

Thankfully, Geohot (the first person to ever create an iPhone 3G Unlock) has been working hard on figuring out whether or not we can jailbreak iPhone 3GS. I have good news to share with iPhone 3GS users. The iPhone 3GS can be jailbroken! Geohot confirmed this in his recent blog post. The iPhone 3GS is vulnerable to the same 24kpwn exploit that is in the iPod Touch 2G. Here is what Geohot said:

With the help of chronic, posixninja, and pod2g, I verified that it is still vulnerable to the 24kpwn exploit present in the iPod Touch 2G. This is great news for all of you. Basically, this means if someone makes a tethered jailbreak, it becomes untethered, because the boot chain is broken. Expect big things soon =)

iPhone 3GS users, don’t worry. Looks like Geohot or the DevTeam will be having an iPhone 3GS jailbreak and iPhone 3GS unlock for us very sooner than you think! Planning on jailbreaking/unlocking your iPhone 3GS? Scroll up to the top and subscribe to our newsletter. We’ll have a full guide up for you once it’s out.

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