How to Update Your 2G iPhone to 3.0?

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June 17th, 2009 by Mojtaba

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This is an important note for those looking to update their 2G iPhone to the 3.0 firmware without losing their activation and unlock.

If you click the Update button in iTunes to install the 3.0 firmware you will not loose your unlock. (2G iPhones ONLY).

HOWEVER, if you are using the 2G iPhone on an unofficial carrier you may loose your activation. This means that will your network will be detected but you will not be able to use your iPhone.

You will loose your activation if you used QuickPwn to jailbreak your iPhone. If you used PwnageTool you will not.

If you are super excited about iPhone 3.0 and wish to update immediately, either make sure you jailbroke with PwnageTool or rejailbreak using PwnageTool and then do the update.

Otherwise wait for a little bit and the iPhone Dev-Team will release new PwnageTool and QuickPwn utilities shortly.

[Via iClarified]

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Virtualgeezer writes:
June 17th, 20099:21 PMat

…Oh and Cydia and Installer disappear aswell which is kinda expected!

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Virtualgeezer writes:
June 17th, 20099:08 PMat

Good news, it works on my Pwnaged 2G iPhone (via Mac)! I had trouble with iTunes as it kept saying Activation server was down, so I tried again but switched off wireless. This time it went through the motions and came out the other side with V3.0, and still unlocked and still activated, awesome!!!!

The only issue I can see is Youtube doesn’t work like many have said!

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Mojtaba writes:
June 17th, 20098:48 PMat

@Virtualgeezer – Sorry! but i can’t update to 3.0 yet, “downloaded file was corrupted…”

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Virtualgeezer writes:
June 17th, 20098:39 PMat

Does this seriously work? I just tried it on my 2G iPhone and unfortunately the Activation Server was down, so I couldn’t test it. Has anyone else tried this on their 2G, otherwise I think I’ll wait til friday!

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