WinPwn 2.0.0.4 Out

[aboudiiiiii]

Right when it's adding installer package and almost finalizing setup (custom IPSW building), it CRASHES!! I tried to change the location where winpwn is installed and also the location where I'm installing the custom-ipsw file (system drive or external drive)! .... still CRASHES at the same part of the installation process...

PLEASE HELP!!!!

Regards,

Abe

[MetallicaFan1991]

winpwn never works for me. When i get to the advanced tab the only thing that is checkable is activate and no wipe. Nothing under that is checkable....not the bootloaders or anything. And i've tried every combination of checked things and everytime i restore to it....i dont get any service..what is going on.

i gotta white 3g

iPhone 3G can not be unlocked, so most of things to check will be faded. You can only jailbreak it yet.

[Midoe]

OK first off you are going to love me and hate me. Here is your solution.
1. Put phone in DFU mode and re restore it to the custom ispw. Sorry that's the hate me part.
2. When done restore to back up. This will get you all of your contacts ect.
3. When that is done hopefully you have made it back from church safe and sound. #2 takes time. You will think your computer rebooted or something because you will be back at the same screen that gave you the choice of restoring from back up or setting up a new phone. Pick set up new phone. Don't worry this will only take a few minutes. When done you will have e-mail and all of your contacts ect.

4. thank me JK only if you'd like.

I'll try to do that now.. Thanks

[problem9]

WinPWN 2004 is very buggy with Iphone 2G 2.0.1, tons of people are reporting problems related to errors during Ituns Restore... not all due to DFU mode or anything other than WinPWN itself.. I played with it for hours until finally changing partition size and that alone let me install cydia AND restored without any errors (including my Error 6).

My Story to get it to work WITHOUT ERROR 6 is:
1) set Partition size to 1000mb (would not work even at 750mb) and cydia would cause WinPWN to crash unless increased to 1000mb (maybe smaller would work also).

I did all the other tricks as far as switching USB ports, WinZP and VISTA on two different machines.. everything acted the same even Itunes 7.7 and 7.7.1

confirmed, this only works for me, everything else failed with error 6

[DAFTEK]

First time i lost the phone so then i removed the "sim" card and all went perfect, on a side note i see some people are partitioning over the 550mb and i thought i share this from: » Winpwn 2.0 Guide - iPhone News & Review

Step 8: Partition resizer. Here is the partition resizer screen. With the current version fo Winpwn, move this to 550 mb. The extra packages will fill the root partition before Cydia gets to run and move things about. Do not make it any larger though because Cydia moves your apps around properly to the larger partition so if you resize this larger here you are just losing space.

[rkswat]

Windows Vista
16g 3g
used 512mb
cydia only (finally worked)

Tried many times kept getting different errors. Un-click installer and I'm now restoring on a successful pwnage. Will try with installer when it's 100%.

[DAFTEK]

I used 547MB and all is working....

[Muggz5]

hmm...having two iphones running 1.1.4 and 2.0.1, winpwn worked just perfect...what I am wonderig about, when scrolling contacts.cydia packages on 2.0.1 its still not smooth as on 1.1.4, its the same as previously on 2.0....anybody ideas? same issues? anything else just works fine...
thx for replies...
_peace_

Install BossTool and relocate your fonts. Also in BossPrefs go to the "more" tab on the top right and "fix user dir permissions." these are a couple things that may help, I know relocating fonts will help.

[Midoe]

I'll try to do that now.. Thanks

problem still exists!

cant check my mail.. app always crashes!

trying to restore for the 3rd time..

[pfcfury]

LOL man a lot of people experience errors. Do you guys even read up on it before doing it? Or you just assume that everything will do itself for you?

I have to admit I like reading News here, but man it gets annoying as hell when about 90% of the posts in these threads are all the same. Error this, error that, what is DFU?

I always read up on what to do and never have a problem because it's DONE RIGHT. EDUCATE YOURSELVES BEFORE SCREWING WITH YOUR IPHONE!!

LOL

Haha <3 this post..... Couldnt agree more.... you guys gotta know it doesn't always work on the first try. Just redo the steps and try again. perserverence pays off

[oSyl2uS]

Ok i have jailbroken my 3g white 16 but i'm not getting a cell signal and it does not say at&t at the top left of the phone. Can anyone help me with this? Please

[imagineThiss]

Ok i have jailbroken my 3g white 16 but i'm not getting a cell signal and it does not say at&t at the top left of the phone. Can anyone help me with this? Please

I know this sounds silly, but did you try to restart your phone, i had the same problem once i restarted it, all was fine ! anyways good luck !

[jiggajuggawugga]

cool

[oSyl2uS]

Still nothing

[darcus]

Must admit, this was the easiest one to sort out. I've tried pwning before - never worked well for me.

I have Vista and an 8gb iPhone 3g on firmware 2.0.1
I followed BigBoss guide on the winpwn 2.0.0.4. As I am on O2 with iPhone contract, i simply ticked cydia and installer only. Left everything else blank. Built the .ipsw and used itunes. Might help, as on the bigboss site there are two ways of getting into DFU. I used the phone off first method. Worked like a charm, no errors at all.

The only error I encountered was when I tried to reinstall my backup - it didnt work and kept giving me an error.

All runs fine now though.

[pho1982]

Still nothing

Did you check on the activate phone option in ipsw builder?
You should uncheck and build the ipsw..
I had a same problem and it solved mine.(Since I have ATT i thought i didn't need that option to be added..)

[imode]

problem still exists!

cant check my mail.. app always crashes!

trying to restore for the 3rd time..

Don't restore from backup after pwning. Just setup as a new phone. You won't lose contacts or music since iTunes will sync those back. You'll have to setup the mail account again but it will work.

can someone please tell me how to get from the usb and itunes logon on my iphone to DFU mode. i always get the error 6

I'm not a PC person but I believe Error 6 relates to a failure in USB communication with the iPhone (i.e. the connection drops with the phone). Of the various solutions, switching USB ports, especially do not use a hub and connect directly to the PC seems to work best. Also, uninstalling iTunes, removing the "CProgram Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support" directory and then reinstall seems to always work.

One trick to set the partition size to something large is not a reasonable solution and I believe it to be a coincidence.

[zlx]

Pretty great however when I tried to restore a sync from my backup and the one which is there doesnt seem to work, and there several last time i looked bad times I say.

[yunier2002]

Don't restore from backup after pwning. Just setup as a new phone. You won't lose contacts or music since iTunes will sync those back. You'll have to setup the mail account again but it will work.

For everyone having problems with the Mail try this first before restoring again and again:

Install BossPrefs from Cydia if you don't have it already, there's an option in BossPrefs to fix the User permissions in the iPhone.

Do that and your Mail should work again, that fixed it for me.

[imode]

For everyone having problems with the Mail try this first before restoring again and again:

Install BossPrefs from Cydia if you don't have it already, there's an option in BossPrefs to fix the User permissions in the iPhone.

Do that and your Mail should work again, that fixed it for me.

Doesn't always work for everyone but worth a try anyway. In my case it wasn't due to file/directory permissions but to a change in the plist schema (i.e. the 1.1.4 library wasn't compatible with 2.0)