iPhone v2.0 Unlock/Jailbreak

Thanks to the people who wrote Pwnage, upgrading my 2g iPhone to v2.0 and subsequently unlocking it and jailbreaking it was pretty easy.

I just followed these steps:

How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0 2G iPhone (Mac) over at iClarified and all was good.

Well, there were a couple of moments where it seemed like it had all gone to hell in a handbasket but that was down to me not making sure it was in DFU (device firmware update) mode at the correct time and another time the device just sat at the Pwnage pineapple start screen forever but perseverance paid off.

After I applied the custom restore ipsw (iphone firmware update file) Pwnage creates, iTunes wouldn't let me add applications - without any reason or reaction, they just never made it to the device, but thankfully after walking through the custom restore procedure a second time that problem disappeared. There are quite a few interesting, new free apps at the iTunes AppStore, it's worth the effort upgrading your iPhone. Kudos to the iPhone Dev Team.