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Purplera1n 3Gs jailbreak for Mac is out

Enigmafan420 said:
It sounds like you have not had to do this:
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=4400

This is the process to back up certain temp files from itunes.

Does anyone using purplera1n have to do this?

Why is this such a big deal for dev team? They provided the link to the tutorial for it. If purplera1n doesn't need it, why are people backing these up?

Help! :confused: :confused::confused:
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These files are important if you upgrade to 3.1 (which has a new baseband).

For now, you don't need to do anything other than follow this

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone...n-mac-released-jailbreak-your-iphone-3gs.html

The whole process took under 10 mins.
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS (White, 32GB): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7C97d Safari/528.16)

I've already installed 3.1b on one of my 3GS' ... Will I be able to JB it using purplera1n?
 
Has anyone had any problems installing Cydia? I have been trying to download it from freeze for over a half an hour now. I am out of the US with no cellular data plan, but my wifi is fast. The bar at the bottom of the screen has moved a couple times but it is still on 1/4 of the way across. It used to take 20 seconds on my old 2G iPhone. Any thoughts?
 
I don't understand the necessity of those steps either. I updated to 3.1B, downgraded back to 3.0 but retained the new baseband, and was still able to jailbreak. It's probably for unlocking, which I don't really care about since I'm on AT&T.
 
Will doing this unlock the phone? I am over seas and need to make this phone work with any SIM card, pretty much just want to text and use the phone!
 
In regards to the slowdown questions:

there is zero difference in speed between my jailbroken 3gs and stock one. This is how jailbreaking is meant to be.
 
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qpid360 said:
I don't understand the necessity of those steps either. I updated to 3.1B, downgraded back to 3.0 but retained the new baseband, and was still able to jailbreak. It's probably for unlocking, which I don't really care about since I'm on AT&T.
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Is it necessary to downgrade to 3.0 to use purplera1n?
 
works!! :)

i tried unlocking on my windows xp desktop but that failed (only jailbreak worked). finally tried on my macbook pro and it works! i had to reboot and insert the att sim card and finally worked with my t-mobile sim. just be patient!!

lovin my 3G S with t-mobile :)
 
mavis said:
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS (White, 32GB): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7C97d Safari/528.16)



Is it necessary to downgrade to 3.0 to use purplera1n?
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I believe so. I don't know of anyone who's actually tried it though.
 
Tadow said:
Has anyone had any problems installing Cydia? I have been trying to download it from freeze for over a half an hour now. I am out of the US with no cellular data plan, but my wifi is fast. The bar at the bottom of the screen has moved a couple times but it is still on 1/4 of the way across. It used to take 20 seconds on my old 2G iPhone. Any thoughts?
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I'm having the same problem, can't get it to install after starting freeZe. Anyone have any suggestions. Let me know if you get yours to work.
 
mavis said:
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS (White, 32GB): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7C97d Safari/528.16)



Is it necessary to downgrade to 3.0 to use purplera1n?
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YES. this is a 3.0 jailbreak.
 
Tadow said:
Has anyone had any problems installing Cydia? I have been trying to download it from freeze for over a half an hour now. I am out of the US with no cellular data plan, but my wifi is fast. The bar at the bottom of the screen has moved a couple times but it is still on 1/4 of the way across. It used to take 20 seconds on my old 2G iPhone. Any thoughts?
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Reboot your phone and try again. I was having the same problem, and doing that worked for me.
 
labman said:
but clearly the choice is up to a individual. they have said to wait and that it might risk if you want to jailbreak in the future, nobody knows not even the DEV team and probably not Apple. Purplerain is not from the Dev team from a 19 kid. I have seen multiple thread some with succes other bricking there phones with purple rain what you do is up too you and 1st you unlock then you Jailbreak if you don't know how then it's at your own risk and still even so!
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i had to read that thread a couple times before i could understand it!! ESL much!?


as for your insight! stop sending bad info man... if you dont know what your talking about than ****!

theres nothing in Geohotz JB that RISKS the devs teams jailbreak (if they're even able to do it)... as long as you have your iBSS and iBEC then your okay. if you do geohotz JB (Which works wonderfully!) you can restore to a fresh 3.0 and do Dev Teams JB (when and IF it comes out)... as for me ill be enjoying my 3GS geohotz jailbreak!!

and theres no way to 'brick an iphone' its always and i repeat ALWAYS fixable!

and your wrong again! FIRST YOU JAILBREAK then you UNLOCK!!!

duh!
 
i have tried numerous times on osx. it reboots and goes to the connect to itunes screen and that's it. guess i'll give up on this.

btw, is this only for 3gs or 3g too? i have both but was just trying the 3g first.
 
3g s worked perfect. Its freezing in recovery mode on my 3g. Any work around for this.
 
yes you installed voipover3g or tricker3g. no mobilesubstrate apps work at this time. you cannot use skype over 3g or sling over 3g until the mobilesubstrate is fixed. i have heard reports that a new jailbreak will be needed to repair it. just uninstall and appstore/skype/sling will work fine again.

-jenzo
 
I downloaded and unzipped the file for purplera1n but when i try and open it the icon briefly appears on my dock and then disappears and i get no option to "make it ra1n" does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong?
 
^ A small window shows up for me in the left corner of my screen.

I jailbroke my friends 3GS today, was pretty quick. There was no sim in it, and we needed wifi for it to install cydia. It's way faster than my 3G, and I'm not eligible to upgrade yet :(
 
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