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Where do we stand with the new "jailbreak resistant" iPhone

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thundermustard

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Apr 21, 2008
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I have a replacement iPhone on the way.
I am hoping as per Apple's normal procedure I get a refrub that does was built prior to the 37th week of the year.
But if I don't, does BlackSn0w work on those? If not, what are my hopes for jailbreaking someday?
Any chance the refurb could have been given the new boot rom?
 
Blackra1n will jailbreak phones with the new version of iBoot. It is a tethered jailbreak, however, so the phone will not be able to boot on its own, but will need to be booted by connecting it to a computer and re-running blackra1n. There is no news on the potention for a new hack for iBoot.
 
still waiting for someone to figure out how to do an untethered jb. hopefully now that blacksn0w is out and the unlock is public, the focus can turn to the new devices...
 
My replacement phone is from week number 41 which I understand is with the new boot rom.
Anyway to verify that it is?
 
Carl G35c said:
are refurbd iphone 3Gs coming with the new BootRom? or is it just 3GSes?
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i can't confirm from personal experience, but I have read on this forum and the dev team blog that the 3G (not ) has not yet had the new bootrom issues.
 
Thankfully Apple is greedy enough to ship old refurbs to replace dead iPhones rather than new ones out of the box.
I had heard week 37 was the cutoff, then someone mentioned 40 now my week number 41 pushes that number out farther.
 
So just to make it official, week 41 is at the old bootrom and I am now jailbroken without being tethered.
 
thundermustard said:
So just to make it official, week 41 is at the old bootrom and I am now jailbroken without being tethered.
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I believe the change happened between weeks 37 and 40 and was different depending on which factory produced the phones. Some factories switched at week 37 and some switched several weeks later... So, weeks 36 and before are the only ones that for sure have the old bootrom... You are taking a chance with weeks 37 and after.
 
I found that if you go into DFU mode then go to System Profiler (on a Mac) it tells you the bootrom number. That is how I found my week 41 iPhone was on the old bootrom.
I don't know what happens if you try and use Pwnage on it, does it give you an error?
 
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