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How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Posted December 27, 2011 at 9:12pm by iClarified
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These are instructions on how to perform an untethered jailbreak of your iPhone 4 on iOS 5.0.1 using PwnageTool for Mac. PwnageTool will let you customize your IPSW to prevent baseband updates and include Cydia packages.

Step One
Make a folder called "Pwnage" on the desktop. In it, you will need a couple of things. PwnageTool 5.0.1 which can be download from here.

You will also need the 5.0.1 iPhone 4 firmware which can be found here.


When downloading the IPSW file, it is best to download it with Firefox since Safari often auto extracts it!
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Two
Double click to mount PwnageTool then drag the PwnageTool icon into the Pwnage folder.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Then from the Pwnage folder double click to launch the PwnageTool application.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Click Ok if presented with a warning.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Three
Click to select Expert Mode from the top menu bar
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Four
Click to select your device. A check-mark will appear over the image of the device. Click the blue arrow button to continue.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Five
You will be brought to the "Browse for IPSW" page. Click the Browse for IPSW... button.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

From the popup window select your firmware from the Pwnage folder then click the Open button.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Six
You will then be brought to a menu with several choices. Click to select General then click the blue arrow button.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

The General settings allows you to decide the partition size. Check Activate the phone if you are not with an official carrier then click the blue arrow button.

NOTE*: Deselect Activate if you have an iPhone legitimately activated on an official carrier.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

The Cydia settings menu allows you to create custom packages so you do not have to manually install the necessary them later.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Click to select the Download packages tab. Then click the Refresh button to display all the available packages. Double clicking the package you want will download it and make it available in the Select Packages tab.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Checkmark the ones you want then click the blue arrow button.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

The Custom Packages Settings menu displays listed package settings for your custom IPSW. For know leave these settings as is. Click the blue arrow button to continue.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Seven
You are now ready to begin the pwnage process! Click the Build button to select it then click the Blue arrow button to begin.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Eight
You will be asked to save your custom .ipsw file. Save it to your Pwnage folder you created on your Desktop.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Your IPSW is now being built. Please allow up to 10 minutes.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

You will be asked to enter your administrator password. Do this then click the OK button.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Nine
Once your ipsw has been built you will be asked to connect your iPhone to the computer. Once it detects your device PwnageTool will guide your through the steps to putting your iPhone into DFU mode.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Press and hold the power and home buttons for 10 seconds.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Then release the power button and continue holding the home button for 10 seconds.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Once your iPhone is successfully in DFU mode, PwnageTool will prompt you to launch iTunes.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Ten
Once In iTunes, hold the Alt/Option key and click Restore.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Eleven
Navigate to the Pwnage folder on your desktop using the dialog window that appears. Select the custom IPSW that was created and click the Choose button.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool (Mac) [5.0.1]

Step Twelve
iTunes will now restore the firmware on your iPhone. This can also take up to 10 minutes. Once done you will be rebooted into jailbroken iOS 5.0.1!


***THANKS: Thank you to iPhone Dev-Team, Chronic Dev-Team, Geohot, and pod2g for their hard work in making this jailbreak and tutorial possible!
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jojovan
jojovan - April 23, 2012 at 2:51pm
Is this method updating baseband? And which version of baseband comes with 5.0.1 on iphone4? Now I'm unlocking phone with gevey and I wouldn't like to lose unlock possibility after updating.
Barbatozer
Barbatozer - February 13, 2012 at 9:28pm
People, I just followed this tutorial and I made sure to check for "activate my phone" in PwnageTool, and it DID NOT end up activated. For everybody depending on an activate option make sure this might put you in a tough spot without the original SIM card.
Vishal
Vishal - January 23, 2012 at 2:57pm
I have unlocked iphone 4 version 4.3.3 bb 1.59.00 can I use this guide to update to ios5.0.1 please reply thanks.
Eifan
Eifan - January 22, 2012 at 6:35pm
Hi! The jailbreak didn't work for me. It says on iTunes that "This device isn't eligible for the requested build". I have a iPhone 4, it was on 4.3 i thing, I don't remember. But anywho.. Someone please help me.
Ido Ran
Ido Ran - January 22, 2012 at 6:53pm
It is possible that you run TinyUnmbrela and it add some lines to you /etc/hosts file. Open it and removing lines that point to address like gs.apple.com Ido
Eifan
Eifan - January 22, 2012 at 6:55pm
WhaT? I really don't understand.
Ido Ran
Ido Ran - January 22, 2012 at 9:28am
I have install iOS 5.0.1 on my iPhone 4. The installation complete successfully. After that I've restore my data using iTunes but the process stuck in the middle due to insufficient disk space. This cause my iPhone to go into recovery loop and restore did not work from that point on. After many failed attempts I finally found a solution: Download the latest redsn0w (0.9.10b4 at the time I wrote this), inside the application click on Extra and select Recovery Fix. This will run only the part of the jailbreak that fix the recovery problem. This fix all the error inside iTunes suck as error 1604, 1600, 21, 27 etc. Ido.
anonmyousse
anonmyousse - January 19, 2012 at 10:01am
I keep getting 1600 error when trying to restore the custom IPSW I cooked using pwnagetool. How do I fix this?
Lefex
Lefex - January 24, 2012 at 1:54am
the same thing is happening with me, any help?
max
max - January 17, 2012 at 9:59am
Don't do this. iTunes go to the Internet and says: "This device is not eligible for upgrade". iPhone 4 4.2.1 iTunes 10.5.2 TinyUmbrella helped me kicked device from recovery mode.
Ecua4ever
Ecua4ever - January 14, 2012 at 11:30am
I'm personally love pwnage tool I use this tool all the time to update my iPhone 4 with out updating my baseband thanks DEV TEAM!!!!
Menon
Menon - January 2, 2012 at 10:15pm
I was on an iPhone 4 with an unsupported carrier and on Gevey Supreme SIM. This worked like a charm. And yes, activation doesn't work, so make sure you have any supported sim nearby (AT&T in my case) You will lose all Cydia apps. iOS Apps will be back after a restore. The only reason I did this was because being stuck on a tethered jailbreak WITH A Gevey SIM was painful!
Vrabie
Vrabie - April 27, 2012 at 9:07am
!A few questions: 1.) Where can I buy one of those MicroSIM to SIM-card arotpads you used in this video when you removed your MicroSIM from the iPhone 3G?2.) in an earlier video, you showed us a SIM to MicroSIM cutter that? looked something like a stapler. Where can we get one of those?3.) What camera do you use to film your videos?Thanks!!
Ruwan
Ruwan - January 1, 2012 at 6:57am
hey guys...any updates about the ultrasn0w???...has any one successfully updated to 5.0.1 preserving bb (i.e 1.59)...and then unlocking sucessfully thru ultrasn0w??
ken
ken - January 1, 2012 at 4:20pm
no, i'm at the same step as the guy below (SEW). i did a custom upgrade using pwnage, then ran redsnow to jailbreak & unteather and at the very end when u would think ios 5.0.1 would come up i get asked if i want to A)set up as new iphone, B)restore from icloud backup, C)restore from itunes backup either way, i can't get to cydia to add ulstrasnow repo and i'm really nervous that i might have lost my old BB 01.59.00 which i was running on 4.3.3 anyone else get to this step and have this problem? oh, also, the first time i ran pwnage i accidently selected "activate my iphone" in the general setting right before the build. i'm hoping that isn't the cause of these problems or worse, updating my baseband!
SEW
SEW - December 30, 2011 at 8:42pm
I go through this but at the end iTunes wants me to restore from a backup to do a setup (instead of just "booting into 5.0.1"). What am I doing wrong?
SEW
SEW - December 30, 2011 at 8:45pm
ok, if I choose to set up as a new phone I see Cydia. If I restore I don't. But now I have to reload all my apps and email and everything. Maybe this step should be added to the tutorial.
ken
ken - January 1, 2012 at 4:13pm
hey SEW, so if u choose "set up as new" it'll get u to cydia and ur able to add the ultrasnow repo? are u on BB 01.59.00 and did "set up as new" option afect ur BB at all? thx! anyone else wanna chime in too that'd be great.
Dersadut
Dersadut - April 27, 2012 at 5:17am
FOR EVERYONE WHO GOT STUCK WITHOUT A SLIDER!!! turn off completly and turn on and the lock kbreoayd will automaticly appear without a sliderTHIS HAPPENS BECAUSE THE SLIDER IS OFF ON DEFAULTand the? turn the slider on in ilock options (where to turn the slider on/off is in the video)RE-SPRING FOR THE NEW SETTINGS TO TAKE PLACE!!!THUMBS UP SO PPL CAN SEE!!
David
David - December 30, 2011 at 4:27am
Anyone else having problems downloading pwnagetool. I download it but it downloads as a torrent. Then i use tomato to open it but nothing. Thanks for the help
Ajay
Ajay - December 29, 2011 at 5:02pm
I have iphone 4 on 5.0.1 I was trying to jailbreak it and downloaded the correct ipsw file from your site (iPhone3,1_5.0.1_9A405_Restore.ipsw) but it gives me an error saying "wrong firmware bundle selected". Appreciate any tips.
Duder
Duder - December 29, 2011 at 3:34pm
Has anyone had 100% success jailbreaking this? I haven't seen or heard of anyone successfully doing this.
yaya
yaya - December 29, 2011 at 12:25pm
hi, ip4 4.2.1 upgraded to 5.0.1 with custom 5.0.1 IPSW using PwnageTool_5.0.1. JB ok, ip4 work.. But I'n not able to use some apps like Facebook, Xing ... They crashes right after starting up .. Any help ?
lee
lee - December 29, 2011 at 10:18am
thank you for good explanation.
Fubkalot
Fubkalot - December 29, 2011 at 1:19am
Cant activate my phone.....I had checked the option in cydia but did not work.... Dam, cant use my phone... Any suggestions???
Funkalot
Funkalot - December 29, 2011 at 3:33am
I meant pwnage tool
Hernan
Hernan - December 28, 2011 at 1:07pm
DEV TEAM PLEASE COULD YOU UPDATE CYDIA PACKAGES ULTRASN0W IS NOT WORKING When I update the sources say this Posix Operation time out Failed to fetch http://cydia.zodttd.com/repo/cydia/dists/stable/Release.gpg POSIX: Operation timed out http://cydia.zodttd.com/repo/cydia/dists/stable/main/i18n/Traslation-en_US.bz2 POSIX: Operation timed out http://cydia.zodttd.com/repo/cydia/dists/stable/main/binary-iphoneos-arm/Packages.gz POSIX: Operation timed out Please please please I need my iPhone back update the sources thanks dev team
Roy
Roy - January 16, 2012 at 6:20am
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John
John - December 28, 2011 at 11:54am
I just update my iPhone 4 without updating baseband but I can't install repo666.ultrasn0w.com says time out please I need help to solve the issue thanks
macoi
macoi - December 28, 2011 at 8:55am
did any of you guys encounter an error 1600? i followed the instructions but i encounter that error. also, i'm from outside the US, so i need to tick the activate radio button right? thanks.
Seth Rah
Seth Rah - December 30, 2011 at 12:36am
I have the same problem (error 1600)...help please. iPhone 4 GSM.
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