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I Pwned my iPhone!

The pwnage application was finally released today, and I jumped on it as soon as I could. It took a while to get started since I decided to update my 1G iPhone to version 2.0 first. That took a while, but at least it worked and didn’t complain about anything.

Then, I had to download the ipsw file, which was 214M. With that file downloaded, along with some bootloader files, I was ready to rock. The pwnage application looked nice, but the verbiage was a little confusing to me. It asked, “Are you legit iPhone?” I restored my phone back to normal with iTunes, so I wasn’t sure if I was still “not legit” since I was using t-mobile with all the usual unlocked goodness. After reading someone’s guide, I was able to confirm that legit = at&t activated, which I definitely wasn’t.

Then, it asked if I had been Pwned before. I didn’t have a pineapple as they mentioned, but I was unlocked, so I was also a little unsure about this. I don’t know if iLiberty was similar enough to the original pwnage app, so I wasn’t sure if this would make a difference, but since it said I could click “No” if I was unsure, it didn’t seem like it’d matter a whole lot.

When Pwnage started to do it’s thing, I thought everything was cake. Oh, was I wrong. I got a DFU error, and I couldn’t tell by their picture what I was supposed to do. I did various things, and all those things just sent me back onto the same path. I also got a 1600 error that others also got, but I also got a 1601 error that seemed a little more rare. The worst of it was when my iPhone went black. I couldn’t push any buttons to bring up anything, and so I rebooted my laptop. Then iTunes noticed my iPhone was in restore mode, so I thought I was safe and could just restore and restart. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case, and I couldn’t even restore to the regular Apple approved version. Yeah, that was scary.

I was probably just trying everything at this point, and I think I must have just gotten lucky and held down the home and power buttons for enough time for the system to totally reboot. Once I saw the familiar screen with the earth and the iPod cable, I knew that I was out of danger. After that, everything started to go smoothly, and I was soooo relieved! Now, I have an unlocked 1G iPhone again with a bunch of new apps! Yahoo!