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Tuckmonster

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Dec 16, 2007
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a friend of mine came up on a basically brand new 3g and i have attempted to jailbreak it with the latest firmware. any suggestions? is this thing un-jailbreakable because it has the latest firmware and baseband? can i find out which baseband it on? i cannot get into the phone so i cant check. only can run dfu mode and when i go to select newest custom firmware it rejects it.. help
 
a friend of mine came up on a basically brand new 3g and i have attempted to jailbreak it with the latest firmware. any suggestions? is this thing un-jailbreakable because it has the latest firmware and baseband? can i find out which baseband it on? i cannot get into the phone so i cant check. only can run dfu mode and when i go to select newest custom firmware it rejects it.. help

Hummm.... sounds like the phone is locked. And your friend came up on this how ?
 
Try putting the phone in recovery mode instead of dfu mode and then restore to the custom firmware.

For some reason that worked for me.
 
said he bought it on ebay
if i do the upgrade that itunes is offering it will defintely mess up the baseband right??
 
a friend of mine came up on a basically brand new 3g

said he bought it on ebay

i cannot get into the phone

Well it looks like your friend either stole the phone or bought it stolen off EBay. Either way sounds fishy. Otherwise, I'm sure you both would have clued in that MAYYYBE you could contact the seller and tell them that the phone is locked and you need the passcode.

Nice try though!
 
Well it looks like your friend either stole the phone or bought it stolen off EBay. Either way sounds fishy. Otherwise, I'm sure you both would have clued in that MAYYYBE you could contact the seller and tell them that the phone is locked and you need the passcode.

Nice try though!

My suspicions also.
 
there is a misunderstanding. i am now into the phone. i dont roll like that.
NOW if u guys could help the phone is in 3.1.2 and the 5.11 baseband. i just ran black rain and its not giving me cydia...
 
did you see geohots picture on the phone while running blackra1n?

If you didn't the phone is not jailbroken
 
there is a misunderstanding. i am now into the phone. i dont roll like that.
NOW if u guys could help the phone is in 3.1.2 and the 5.11 baseband. i just ran black rain and its not giving me cydia...


There should be an app called "Blackra1n" on the springboard. Run it and you will be able to install Cydia, Rock, or blacksn0w from there.
 
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