What would happen if you jailbreak your iPhone 3G?
- The warranty for the iPhone is scrubbed the moment you jailbreak your iPhone. Apple is no longer responsible for replacing or repairing your device after pwning.
- You might not be able to launch any applications downloaded from the App Store before jailbreaking. Even those applications that you installed before the jailbreak would freeze. You’d need to re-download the all the apps, if this happen.
- Many problems will surface if you restore the backup you took before the jailbreak.
- You’ll be able to download third party apps that are not in the App Store.
Now you regret that you made your phone somewhat useless and want to de-pwn? How to do that?
Open iTunes, click on Store and Deauthorize your computer from iTunes and Sync your iPhone. When the syncing is done, reauthorize your iTunes and sync your iPhone again. That’s it, never jailbreak your iPhone 3G again.
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Is this a joke? All apps downloaded from the App store work perfectly fine on a jailbroken 3G iPhone. The app store is accessible and you can purchase or download free applications from the apps store.
If you decide to revert back just do a full restore from iTunes.
If you’re iPhone needs to go in for warranty just backup, restore and turn in for warranty repair. When you get it back, jailbreak and restore from backup.
Hi John,
. Thanks for the comment
Your experience, applications working on a jailbroken iPhone 3G sounds strange. For some reasons, it doesn’t work for me, may be something is wrong
I just jailbroke my 3G in 2.1 and my old apps work perfectly fine. Cydia, Installer, and the App Store are all on my home screen and all fully functional. I haven’t needed to restore from a backup of my jailbroken iPhone so I can’t speak to that issue.
I think this article is Apple propaganda to the extreme cause non of the original post is true at all.
I jailbroke my Iphone 3g 16g about 2 months ago it’s been great I have tons of new apps, till recently my phone cant make no calls check my voicemail or look at my contacts, everything else works, fine I can recive calls only, can any one tell me what’s wrong with it how can I fix this pls asap….
Restore back to original OS using iTunes. Then jailbreak again and restore from backup. Although I would look at any apps you have installed recently that may of caused your phone to stop functioning.
hey chris i know what your going through a word of advice… STOP JAILBREAKING YOUR IPHONE!!! i did that i restored and restored and restored and guess what my phone does not work…and iTunes8 blocks the restoring of a jailbroken iphone/ipod touch! i need to get it fixed but dont know how
chris a i think i experienced the same problem. what i did was i uninstalled all the apps i had installed before the problem surfaced. and i discovered that it was the program kate. uninstall kate and youll be fine.
kate caused my iphone 3g to have problems with the contacts as well. deleted it and now everything is fine.
The same thing happened with my iPhone 3g after I installed Kate but I restored it and works again and you can restore a jailbroken iPhone 3g using iTunes 8
My apps did stop working once I jailbroken my phone, but once a downloaded a new apps from the apples store they all worked again and I have and iPhone 3G.
This HAS to be a Joke…The Pwnage Tool Was released by the iphonedevteam and works perfectly with ALL apps from app store and cydia sources. This is Apple propaganda if you ask me
pretty sure this was tongue in cheek, guess it worked
hey guys. i just jailbroke my iphone 3g and it worked perfectly for one night, the day after (today) it just freezes after 10 seconds of reboothing .. what should i do ??
I definitely believe the part about this possibly voiding your warranty with Apple, but with an iPhone 3G running 2.2 jailbroken by QuickPwn, you can still download apps from the appstore and use them. What may happen is that apps you have already downloaded will open and crash. To fix this, delete the app by going into shaky icons mode and clicking the x. You can then re-download the app through the appstore – the appstore even remembers apps that you’ve already purchased and gives you a simple confirmation screen to confirm that you want to download them again. No worries.
My iphone 3g starting going bad after Kate too.. If i restore do i lose the saved information in my programs??? I have sync it before the jailbreak
I jailbroke my Iphone, and now I cant restory it, wont even turn on till the main screen. error code(1611)from itunes, any1 knows how to fix it?
Kate is what causes it. Worked fine after uninstalling it and rebooting.
Hi all,
After experiencing many frustrating reactions from iphone . i would suggest all of u to simple take a back up of ur iphone b4 installing any new app or version and if it doesnt work do a “RESTORE” … thats the only way to bring ur iphone back to its normal working condition otherwise it suckss
I really wanted to pwn my iphone 3g 16g because my friend pwned his itouch. It asked me for my computer admin account which i did not know. i looked up youtube how to hack a mac admin account and did and used time machine to get everything back. i got my iphone pwned and about 3 days later it started freezing and crashing. I want to restore my iphone but none of my backed up files are on itunes or in my computer. i really dont want to get the apps again and set it up again so what do i do? please help.
hi i jailbroke my iphone with OS 2.2.1 and firmware 2.30.03.
It went well and phone works still but i want to restore it back to factory settings.
Should i have jailbroke in the first place with that OS and firmware? and if not, will there be problems restoring? and if left jailbroken is it a matter of time before it breaks anyway. Thankyou in advance for any responses.
hi i’m using a jailbroken iphone the old one with the new software but when i put my orange sim card in it wont let me authorize it how do i get this to work let me know asap
Wait… does it actaully return the warranty after you restore it?
LISTEN UP!!!!!
I have worked for Apple for the last 8 yrs and moved on.
Jailbreaking is NOT ILLEGAL… Apple lost the court battle.
How ever if you Jailbreak your Iphone and it messes up with viruses or whatever. You can just restore it using Itunes Restore and it brings the phone back and you have to re-jailbreak it again.
Everything is backed up in Itunes or use an external drive to backup.
For Warranty yes if you bring it back in a Jailbreak mode you are screwed. You must remove all evidence of jailbreak software on your phone. (Restore it brings it back and bring it back for warranty)
However the 4g iphone due out summer 10. Apple has a new software system that can shut your Carrier down and the phone.
But wait. Are there back doors.. Yes.
hey im trying to get a 3gs that was in jailbroken with a 6.1.5 baseband ipad hack working again… it was connected to a non updated itunes account. so now it is in recovery mode and wont restore, do you have any advice. help would be much appreciated. i have pwnage tool 4.1.2 with both the right ipad and iphone 3gs firmware do i need to make a custom ipsw?
hey i got a question i jailbreak my phone my wife took it back to apple they gave her a new phone they went to put the contacts for the phone and it got the apple freeze i didnt took the jailbreak off will they notice later that it was jailbroken and contact me or once they have given me the new phone is ok? would thy have told me then it was out of warranty or could they contact me later and tell me ?
No they wont , dont worry
I jailbroke my iPhone using pwnpage, it worked good but somewhat slower so I decided to restore to factory settings trhrough itunes. It prompted me to update to firmware 3.1.3 and i did so.. Something went wrong and my phone was unable to restore. It got stuck in recovery mode. I’ve tried everthing, jailbreaking it again using different tools (redsn0w, blacra1n) but it didn’t work. I’ve tried resetting it with power and home button but still nothing. When i do iTunes restre it gives me “error code 6″. I removed iTunes and it’s files, restarted pc, re-install iTunes (new version) and still nothing…. Anybody knows shat should I do next……? Thanks
original firmware was 3.0
Hey
I just jailbroke my iPhone 3g with 3.0 firmware, and it got stuck before it even got to the homescreen. how can I restore or reset my phone without it turning on?
Although I liked jailbreak my iphone, I am facing some problem:
1. every time I call/receive it shows Call Forwarding active.
2. Sometime my it goes completely blank, not able to hear from or doesn’t go my voice too.
I did restart the 2nd problem gets solved but the annoying message doesn’t go. 2nd thing is Cydia, which ever app you want to see it shows lot of big advertise which obviously uses your data plan(although you are paying same price) but it kind of annoying that even you want to scroll down/up it gets clicks and opens up unnecessarily.
just bought jailbroken iphone 3g and guy restored before I got it now it will not go pass the reboot screen any Ideas??????????????????????????
Apparently I’m the only one in the world with common sense, but how about you just NOT mess with the phone at all?
Just use it for what it’s there for. It seems to me that people just HAVE to modify things for their own personal ignorance. I have an iphone, and have NO NEED to have it jailbroken. You didn’t make the phone, so why think your someone important by hacking it, then coming up here like you know all about it just because you googled a guide on how to do it?
All I’m saying is, stop rebelling on everything in life. It’s typical and predictable. Just be happy you have a phone that can do what it does, period.
Why do that?…freedom
hi i just tryed to jailbreak my phone and it has gone off and wont come back on what should i do please help me
i need help..i have iphone 3g..and when i deleted some applications..i want to get it back so i decided to click on restore after doing that an error occur ” The iphone could not be restore. Unknown error occures 1015″..
how can i fixed this?
Such a dumbass: never jailbreak your iPhone 3G again