The iPhone Dev Team recently unveiled the release of their Windows tool, WinPwn 2.0. The WinPwn tool allows users to Jailbreak their 3G iPhone devices, however the initial release of the tool had an issue which caused the Ipwner component to crash.
The new version, WinPwn 2.0.0.3 is now available and contains a number of fixes for that and other issues.
Jailbreaking your iPhone 3G will give you full read/write permissions to the file system and the ability to install unofficial 3-rd part applications and tools.
Here's some details from the 2.0.0.3 release:
- You must do a full uninstall of winpwn before installing the new version
- Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes ( Currently 7.7)
- WinPwn uses 300MB of ram at peak due to the ipsw being extracted in memory
- You must first click browse and load an IPSW to use WinPwn
- For 2.0 only the *5A347_Restore.ipsw files are valid. The 345 image will not work
- If you see “Failed to load image catalog/payload catalog”, ignore it
- If you already have service with AT&T do not activate or install Youtube Fix
