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The iPhone 3.1.2 update that Apple released last week required users of jailbroken iPhones or iPod Touches to wait for a new jailbreak software to be released before updating. There was no jailbreak available until Geohot released his new blackra1n 1 click jailbreak software. The blackra1n software is available for both Windows and Mac users, but it only supports iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPod Touch. blackra1n does not support...

First Create a Folder named “Pwnage” or whatever you like. Download iPhone 3GS 3.1 Firmware and PwnageTool 3.1.3 into that folder. Also do not forget to download Latest Version of iTunes, if you don’t have itConnect your iPhone to iTunes. Launch PwangeTool from the folder where you downloaded it.Now click on the “Expert Mode” and select your device “iPhone 3GS” in this case and click on the Blue Arrow.In the next step, Pwanage Tool will automatically find the ispw file, if it doesnt then browse for it and select the proper...

Apple released their iPhone 3.1 firmware on September 9, and now the iPhone Dev Team has released their Pwnage Tool 3.1 software which can jailbreak iPhone 3.1. There is no Windows Pwnage Tool 3.1, it only works for Mac. If you’re a Windows user then you’ll have to wait for the iPhone Dev Team to release redsn0w. If you’re a Mac user, then follow the steps below to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1. The Pwnage Tool 3.1 software only works on the...

A bsdiff patch to apply to CommCenter in 3.1.2 to re-enable tethering is available here for the 3GS and here for the 3G. It's just a 2-byte patch as shown below (and an appropriate readjusting of the mach-o's codesign hash): USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! Your carrier may end up charging you for unauthorized tethering access. Update #1 It looks like a lot of people have been looking at CommCenter lately because IRC user CleanAir had a similar tethering patch. Meanwhile over in the 2G CommCenter, WhiteRat and geniusan have...