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How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Posted August 30, 2008 at 8:47pm by iClarified
These are instructions on how to unlock and jailbreak your 2.0.x 2G iPhone using WinPwn 2.5 for Windows. They have been updated for iPhone firmware 2.0.2.

To follow this tutorial you will need to have iTunes 7.7 installed (make sure to reboot). Also, you may need to download and install .Net Framework if you are on Windows XP. Finally, make sure you completely uninstall any previous version of WinPwn. Thanks to cmw for all his hard work on this!

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This tutorial has been updated to get around the WinPwn bug that causes ipsw creation to crash in simple mode. We have also updated the link of Beta 2 of WinPwn 2.5
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Step One
Create a folder on your desktop called Pwnage. In it place Winpwn 2.5 (mirror), 3.9BL , 4.6BL, and the latest 2.0 firmware.

2.0.2 (2G): iPhone1,1_2.0.2_5C1_Restore.ipsw
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Two
Install WinPwn by double clicking the downloaded executable. Once WinPwn has been installed it will put a shortcut icon on your desktop. Double click to launch the application.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Three
Once WinPwn has opened click the Expert Mode switch to turn Expert Mode ON.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Now click to select the iPhone 2G.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Four
You will then be asked to select the firmware you would like to use. Do this then click the green right arrow at the bottom right of the window.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Five
You will then be asked if you would like to unlock the iPhone. Most likely you will want to click the green thumbs up button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Six
You will then be asked if you would like to delete BootNeuter after it completes. Most likely you will want to click the green thumbs up button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Seven
WinPwn will now ask if you want to activate your iPhone. If you are not on an official carrier then you will want to click the green thumbs up button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Eight
You will now be asked if you want to install YouTube activation. Again if you are not on an official carrier then you will want to click the green thumbs up button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Nine
You will be asked if you wish to install Cydia. Click the green thumbs up button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Ten
Next you will be asked if you want to install Installer 4. Click the green thumbs up button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Eleven
WinPwn will then ask if you wish to resize the root partition. Click the green thumbs up button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Twelve
If you want to wipe data when doing the restore click the green thumbs up button. Note: this will take longer and I clicked the red thumbs down button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Thirteen
WinPwn will then ask if you would like to use custom boot/recovery images. Click the green thumbs up button if you would like to.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Fourteen
You will now be asked to set the size of your root partition. Move the slider to select a partion size of 800mb.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Fifteen
You will now be able to select your custom images. Click the iPhone on the left to select your boot logo. Click the iPhone on the right to select your recovery logo.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Remember the rules for them: RGB or Grayscale format with Alpha channel and dimension bellow 320x480. If you would like to use the iClarified ones they can be found here: Boot Logo, Recovery Logo

Click the green arrow button to continue.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Sixteen
WinPwn will now ask you to select a location to save the Custom IPSW. Navigate to the Pwnage folder you created on your desktop and click the Save button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Seventeen
WinPwn will now search for your ipsw firmware file. If it cannot find it you will be asked to search manually. Click the green thumbs up button then navigate to the Pwnage folder on your desktop and select the ipsw you downloaded in Step One.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Eighteen
WinPwn will now build your custom ipsw.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Nineteen
WinPwn will then prompt you to connect your iPhone via USB and make sure its turned off. Do this then click the green thumbs up button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Twenty
WinPwn will then say its ready to start Pwnage. Click the green OK button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Twenty One
Be ready to follow directions now. It will ask you to hold the home button and the power button for 10 seconds. Then, you will have to release the power button and hold the home button for 10 seconds to enter DFU.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Twenty Three
Once you iPhone is in DFU mode WinPwn will begin the pwnage process.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

You will be informed when pwnage is complete.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Notice your iPhone will show a message saying, "Ready to Restore Custom IPSW".
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Step Twenty Four
iTunes will now prompt you that you are in recovery mode.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Hold down Shift and click the Restore button in iTunes.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

A popup window will appear asking you to select your firmware. Select the Custom firmware file we created using WinPwn from the Pwnage folder on your Desktop then click the Open button.
How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0.x 2G iPhone (Windows) [WinPwn 2.5]

Your iPhone will now be restored unlocked to the jailbroken 2.0.x firmware of your choice!
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help!
help! - February 21, 2011 at 1:48am
WinPwn 2.5 is getting stuck at: 'The device is prepared for PWNAGE... but does not go to following screen, stuck at 100%. I'm trying to update an iPhone 2g 1.1.4 to either 2.01 or 2.02... The log: Rebuilding Root FileSystem (This will take a while) Writing IPSW (This also will take a while) IPSW builder finished Starting Pwnage! Getting iPhone/iPod status... device connected in dfu mode Status = 1 Any suggestions?
Linda
Linda - June 10, 2009 at 11:47pm
Hey I was wondering if this tutorial for unlocking and jailbreaking will work for my phone. I live in Canada and I have version 1.0.2 (yea I know really old!). Please let me know if it'll work.
Yahya
Yahya - September 21, 2012 at 10:18am
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Laiq
Laiq - April 15, 2009 at 5:08am
on the 23 step my windows gave error for the winpwn and i tried many times but could not go futher then that stage what is the solution for this problem. waiting for urgent reply pleaseeeeeeee.
georgios
georgios - April 25, 2009 at 4:41pm
hi man, i had exactly the same problem as u it said that a problem occured then it closed but if u carry on to the next step ur iphone will be unlocked, i in the otherhand i bought the iphone fully unlock but you know first time first use it asked me to download a firmware or something, me thinking yay must be something good that will make my iphone work better, downloaded it then it said problem with sim card i tried vodafone,orange,virgin,o2,t-mobile,3. nothing worked still the same mesege followed the guide and then it gave me the shit in the end, followed that after the next step and everything worked out! now im using my ihpone fully unlocked and working exxelently!
Amy
Amy - September 26, 2009 at 11:52am
i have exactly the same problem, did you ever find a way to fix it because i don't know how too?
djbrown
djbrown - March 29, 2009 at 6:46pm
worked for like charm
mohammad
mohammad - February 14, 2009 at 4:36am
i had a problem at first then i worked it out, my iphone is 2g and the firmware was 1.3 when i tried to upgrade using pwnage the itunes stoped restoring for an unknown error, and the iphone could not reboot any more, i tried several times to restore and did 'nt work, so i restored the iphone using itunes with the original firmware and again restored it using pwnage and it worked perfect, if any one have this problem please do like i did
mohammad
mohammad - February 14, 2009 at 4:29am
this tutorial is great, thank you all
Ahmad
Ahmad - January 31, 2009 at 2:18pm
anything similer to this for windows to unlock/jailbreak 2.2 and 2.2.1?
Gaetan
Gaetan - December 19, 2008 at 1:20am
Just wanted to thank you for your tutorial. I attempted to unlock my phone using WinPwn prior to reading your tutorial -- the program crashed and left my phone in a non-operational state. I thought I had bricked the phone. I was using version 8 of iTunes. You can imagine my relief when I learned how to recover the phone. It's working fine now. Thanks again!
Max
Max - January 27, 2009 at 12:17am
i used this software and i made a mistake of using version 8 and it crashed while pwning and now i think im stuck in DFU mode that cant be detected by itunes and thus i cant restore/revert or do anything with my iphone can someone advice me on how to proceed to restore my iphone. it was unlocked/jailbreak from 1.1.3 ziphone itunes updated to 2.2 using restore from iclarified restore copy then it crashed and I cant get to use my iphone now. Any help will be much appreciated
Robert
Robert - November 12, 2008 at 9:42am
I'm currently on unlocked 1.1.3. Do I upgrade to firmware 2.0 before following this guide or can I go straight to 2.0 using this guide?
mfrimu
mfrimu - November 9, 2008 at 10:47pm
WinPwn 2.5 is getting stuck at: 'The device is prepared for PWNAGE... but does not go to following screen, stuck at 100%. I'm trying to update an iPhone 2g 1.1.4 to either 2.01 or 2.02... The log: Rebuilding Root FileSystem (This will take a while) Writing IPSW (This also will take a while) IPSW builder finished Starting Pwnage! Getting iPhone/iPod status... device connected in dfu mode Status = 1 Any suggestions?
alvin
alvin - November 1, 2008 at 1:00pm
its great. thanks loads. i got stuck at step 23 as well and my iphone went blank with a white screen. However, i proceeded with the next step which is restoring from iTunes and soon after, my phone was working again (:
titan
titan - November 1, 2008 at 3:01am
hello guys, Noone mentioned problem with "No Service", I had 2.1 firmware and changed to 2.0.2, because there is no pawntool for 2.1 version. I did all steps described in tutorial, everything was fine, without any problems, but at the end I came up with "no signal" if anybody had same problem, please help me.
yasmina
yasmina - October 28, 2008 at 3:52pm
i did all the steps with version 1.1.2 iphone, upgradin to 2.0.2. the same exact thing happens to me - the screen goes white and blank and at the same time WinPwn freezes and my laptop ends the program... even then i went to my Pwnage folder on my desktop and double clicked the custom iphone 2.0.2 restore and i restored my iphone on itunes. It does everything right and then at the very end it says that i don't have a supported sim card carrier. i have the AT & T sim card but i didnt activate it and im using another sim card cuz i live out of the states. what do i do then? whats the solution here? this is so annoyin please help. future reference for anyone considering upgrading their iphone - DON"T DO IT. its fine the way it is if it was working perfectly before. DON'T UPGRADE IT. it causes way too many problems and now im prolly gona go to the apple store and pay a gazillion pounds to fix my iphone. thank you itunes, tellin me to upgrade my iphone and not sayin anythin about what exactly that means.
cellularry
cellularry - October 28, 2008 at 8:51am
i have the same problem as tjara11. always when i start the restoring with itunes 1604 error appear and the iphone will disconnect.
Tameena
Tameena - October 6, 2008 at 5:55pm
I'm using WinPwn 2.5 for my 2.1 2G iPhone. On this guide when I put the iphone in recovery mode and complete those steps the screen on my iphone goes white and WinPwn stops working..I've increased the root partition to 900 but I have the same problem. Can you help please? Email me at tammyh_180@hotmail.com
msp
msp - September 28, 2008 at 12:53pm
up and running. from start to the end. i f'ed up restored my phone to 1.1.4 and lost all my stuff. once again i f'ed up and updated it to 2.0.2 downgraded it to 1.1.4 using the tutorial from iclarified.com using itunes 8.0 i runned winpwn 2.5 just as the tutorial above. winpwn 2.5 crashed while preparing the phone to restore opened itunes and restore it (shift+restore) selecting the custom ipsw created in winpwn 2.5 it took from 30 to 40 mins to finish it up now up and running thx a bunch to the team that made all this possible.
msp
msp - September 28, 2008 at 12:33pm
just a few comments... it is written in pwn.hlp that this soft is supposed to be used to unlock and jailbreak iphones running on 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 (jailbroke and unlocked or not), so if you updated your iphone using itunes you will need to downgrade it and restart. 2nd it seems that this soft was written to work with itunes 7.7.1.1 i tried it with itunes 7.5 7.7.0.4.3 and with 8.0 and it crashed on step 23. i'm trying right now to restore it in itunes using the custom file written, jumping a few steps of the tuto.
gatorgee
gatorgee - September 26, 2008 at 6:15pm
Running on 2.0.2 from 1.1.4 ziphone! Worked like a charm, no problems. Hooray App Store!!
gatorgee
gatorgee - September 26, 2008 at 3:24pm
Anyone done this from 1.1.4 ziphone to 2.0.2?
subodh
subodh - September 26, 2008 at 6:17am
Hi! thanks from bottom of my heart.... i unlocked my iphone 2g with firmware 2.0.2... thanks.... i follow same steps as you stated above.....
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