How to Unlock iPhone 2.2 Firmware?
The new iPhone 2.2 firmware, which released a couple of days ago brings new eye-candy to the iPhone such as a Safari re-design, new notification icon for EDGE and other unique features such as Google Street View and Podcasts. I was able to get my hands on the new firmware and managed to unlock and jailbreak it right away. The method I will be sharing for unlocking the iPhone 2.2 firmware only works for iPhone 2G, however in one of my future posts I will be sharing a method to only jailbreak iPhone 3G for 2.2 firmware as the software unlock is still not close to reality. All you have to do is download the new Pwned iPhone 2.2 firmware and restore it to your iPhone using iTunes. Here are the steps in detail. • Download the Pwned iPhone 2.2 Firmware for iPhone 2G created using Pwnage tool (links provided at end of the post). • Extract the parts such that you get a file named iPhone1,1_2.2_5G77_Custom_Restore.ipsw (245MB). • Connect your iPhone to your PC via USB cable and open iTunes 8 (C
