Tonight I’ve used the brand new Pwnage Tool 2.0 and pwned my V1 iPhone with a custom build of the iPhone 2.0 software – hence the App Store and Cydia sitting happily next to each other in the above screenshot.
So I thought I’d share a few quick impressions of the new version of the popular Pwnage Tool, and some sceencaps of what you’ll see as you run through the latest pwning process …
The initial release of Pwnage Tool 2.0 is Mac only – so if you’re on Windows, sorry, hopefully a version for you is in the works.
This is not intended to be a guide to using the new Pwnage Tool – if you’re looking for that, I suggest this one – but just a quick run-through to give a feeling for how the new tool looks, and my thoughts on using it …
Before you get started with Pwnage Tool, you should try to make sure you’ve got the latest iPhone firmware restore file available on your Mac – it should be a file with a name like: iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw (for a V1 iPhone – for a 3G, the beginning of the filename would be iPhone1,2_ – and should be found under the path YourUsername/Library/ iTunes/iPhone Software Updates.
When you fire up Pwnage Tool 2.0, it first prompts you to choose which iPhone / Touch you’ll be working with:
I was doing my V1 phone.
You can choose Simple or Expert mode during the Pwnage process – the main difference being that Expert mode lets you make more manual choices, while Simple uses default sort of choices.
Once you choose your phone version, Pwnage looks for the firmware restore file, shows you it when it finds it, and lets you select it to continue on with the next steps in the process (indicating where the bootloader files are etc.)
When you choose to build your custom restore file (which will be a jailbroken version of the 2.0 firmware you selected), you can accept the default name for this custom firmware file or give it a unique name of your own choosing, and choose where to save it to (make sure you’re clear on where it’s being saved to, so you are able to point iTunes at it in the final restore step).
When the custom firmware is finished building, Pwnage asks if you have yet pwned the phone:
Once you click No at this stage, Pwnage does its final piece, pwning the phone. When it’s complete, it reports success, tells you to close out 
of Pwnage Tool, and run a normal restore via iTunes, clicking Option > Restore, and choosing your newly created custom firmware tool to restore with.
I was very impressed with Pwnage Tool whenever I used it with the 1.1.4 firmware – and this latest 2.0 version of the tool is even more impressive. It has bigger, bolder instructions and hints, offers a lot of help and guidance on getting the iPhone into DFU (recovery) mode that is required for the pwning process, and works quickly and well overall.
Once the jailbreak / pwning is done, for now there is not a lot of excitement if you’re longing for your old 1.1.4 sort of jailbreak environment – because there is no Installer app yet, just Cydia, and so far none of the popular 1.1.4 jailbreak apps seem to have made it over to the 2.0 scene yet.
Now we’ll have to wait to see how jailbreak developers do on porting their 1.1.4 apps across for 2.0 …
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