iPhone unlocks and jailbreaks continue to work after latest OS update, for a change of pace
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 1st 2009 5:51PM
posted Aug 1st 2009 5:51PM
Typically, official iPhone OS updates from Apple mean days of hand-wringing in the jailbreaking crowd while the iPhone dev-team and its contemporaries get cracking on updated cracks. Here's a refreshing change of pace, though: with 3.0.1, it's business as usual. Turns out that both redsn0w and ultrasn0w work every bit as well on the latest update as they did on 3.0 -- the only catch is that you currently have to point to the 3.0 file when you're prompted for an IPSW. Yeah, the dev-team says that it's working on an updated version of redsn0w that recognizes the 3.0.1 update, but really, it's a pretty minor inconvenience compared to the usual post-update unlock drama -- not to insinuate that we don't like a little drama from time to time, of course.[Via CNET]
They left it working because they didn't want all the unlocked iPhones that weren't going to be updated if they changed it, to be controllable in the ways of the sms exploit.
So that's why, because Apple doesn't want a bad name.
I would have said it's because they were in an urgent struggle to release this minor update, so they felt they would not need to include any jailbreak breaks (?) until they release 3.1 in September.
who cares about unlocking it, apple gave us all the features we will ever need! and by the fall AT&T will give us even more!
After the recent policy change on data plans for 2G iPhones, I am finally considering jailbreaking my 2G iPhones.
You used to be able to shut down the data plan on the non-subsidized 2G iPhone. My son, who has ubiquitous WiFi all over campus, and myself, who has city-wide WiFi, has no need of the data plan, but AT&T has changed the configurator to no longer allow removing the data plan, nor will customer support shut it off anymore either.
They also have no plans on returning the $400 difference between the $599 unsubsidized price of the 2G and the $199 subsidized price of the 3g/s.
Will jailbreaking (and some really kewl app then available) allow me to spoof the AT&T network into thinking the connected device is NOT an iPhone or is the IMEI database just gonna pick it up anyway?