How To Unlock iPhone 3G

Easy Guide to Unlock your iphone 3G / 3Gs

THis guide wont work with the stock 3.1.3 iphone 3gs. it needs to have the older bootrom.

Ipod touch 3g is currently not supported.

BIGSTEP 1: Jailbreak Your iphone

1.-.Get your stuff updated. Update Itunes to the latest version, and make sure your iphone runs the latest iphone firmware 3.1.3.

2.- Sync and Backup everything!: This step is very important if you have lot of photos, data, etc. in your iphone. Start itunes and sync with your iphone.

3.-Download Sn0wbreeze, have it on your desktop.

4.-Start Sn0wbreeze, and select simple mode.

5.-Snowbreeze will ask you for your iphone firmware, search it in your computer and select it. its the ipsw file.

6.-Unlock your iphone. Click on yes or no when snowbreeze ask for activating your iphone.

7.- Wait. sn0wbreeze will create the custom firmware for you.

8.- Now, go to itunes and select your iphone. Press restore while pressing shift, and you will be asked to locate a file. locate the file created with sn0wbreeze.

9.-Wait until itunes finishes, be patient.

10.- After its unlocked and jailbroken, you can restore your backup that you made before.

How To Unlock iPhone Firmware 3.0 With RedSnow

READ FIRST PLEASE!!!!!
The devteam has released a tool for jailbreaking and unlocking the iphone 3.0 firmware, this works just in the iphone 2g, ipod touch 1st and 2nd generation, but it doesnt work on the iphone 3gs. and it doesnt unlock the iphone 3g, it just jailbreaks it. if you want to unlock your iphone 3g you will need to wait for “ultrasnow” witch will be released soon.


Here are the instructions to jailbreak/unlock the 3.0 firmware.


Download your firmware for your device.
iPhone 3G (Download)
iPhone 2G (Download)


then download redsnow.
RedSnow for mac (Download)
RedSnow for windows (Download)


Then download the bootloaders here if you dont have them. extract them with winrar for windows, or the unarchiver for mac.


Open your itunes 8.2, detect your iphone and click on restore as you press shift. in mac, press and hold alt when you click restore.


Choose the firmware that you downloaded in step 1 and wait for the iphone to be restored.

Your iphone will reboot and will be locked. dont worry, its time to use redsnow.

open it, and browse for the firmware that you have downloaded.
check options install cydia and unlock if you want.


If you want to unlock your iphone 2g, you will be asked for the bootloaders that you downloaded in the first steps. browse for them. now, redsnow will ask you to turn off your iphone. follow the instructions to have it on dfu mode.
now redsnow will do its work. you are done....!!

If it worked for you, dont forget to say.......Thanks!