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How to Jailbreak Your iPhone 3G[S] On 3.0 Using PurpleRa1n (Intel-Mac Only)

Article by on Friday, 18 September 2009

Here is a very detailed guide on how to Jailbreak your iPhone 3G[S] using PurpleRa1n and OS 3.0. Source thanks to iClarified

Step One
Open your web browser of choice and navigate to http://www.purplera1n.com. Click the Apple logo at the bottom of the screen.

Step Two
When prompted save the download to your desktop

Step Three
Double click the purplera1n archive to extract the application. Then double click the purplera1n application file from the desktop to launch the program

Step Four
Click the large make it ra1n button

Step Five
You iPhone will now be placed in recovery mode. You will see a picture of GeoHot that replaces the regular recovery mode screen on your device.

purplera1n will run and then your device will reboot.

Step Six
Once your device reboots you will see a new icon on the SpringBoard entitled Freeze. Press it to continue.

Step Seven
Once Freeze opens tap Install Cydia.

Step Eight
Once the Cydia installation has completed you must reboot your iPhone.

Step Nine
When you iPhone has rebooted you can run Cydia. Let it do all the necessary updates then follow our Unlock tutorial to finally unlock your iPhone 3GS.

NOTE*: To remove the Freeze icon from your desktop you can install CyDelete from Cydia then use it to delete the application. We will post a tutorial on this shortly.

THANKS*: A big thanks goes to GeoHot for his work in making this jailbreak possible. Also thanks to others who contributed such as chronic and the dev-team.


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Nazaroth

Admin & Editor-In-Chief, Apple fanboy and guru. Creator of MyStrings and SIGnify tweaks in Cydia. "This is my iPhone, her name is Charlene. There are many like it, but this one is mine....."

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