How to Update Your 2G iPhone to 3.0 Without Losing Activation, Unlock
June 18, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News
If you click the Update button in iTunes to install the 3.0 firmware you will not loose your unlock. (2G iPhones ONLY).
HOWEVER, if you are using the 2G iPhone on an unofficial carrier you may loose your activation. This means that will your network will be detected but you will not be able to use your iPhone.
You will loose your activation if you used QuickPwn to jailbreak your iPhone. If you used PwnageTool you will not.
If you are super excited about iPhone 3.0 and wish to update immediately, either make sure you jailbroke with PwnageTool or rejailbreak using PwnageTool and then do the update.
Otherwise wait for a little bit and the iPhone Dev-Team will release new PwnageTool and QuickPwn utilities shortly.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
i have Windows so my iPhone will be deactivate yes?
June 17th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
No if your iphone is activated and unlocked all you have to do is either download the 3.0 update and hold shift then click update and go to the 3.0 software you downloaded and install or you can just click on update and it will update your iphone 2g and it will stay activated. I warn you that you will lose all your cydia apps and you will not be able to jailbreak until tonight
June 17th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
why until 2night?
June 17th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
if i update to 3.0 i have a 1st gen iphone " not 3g"
and i jailbroke it with pwnage tool .
will it remain activated or?
June 17th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I think that is when the dev team will release the 3.0 jailbreak, they mey even release it on the 19th not today
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
If you are not on at&t you can tap on update and it will update your phone and it will stay activated. Do not restore if you want to keep your iPhone activated, instead of clicking restore click update. I do warn you that you will lose cydia and any jailbroken apps you have installed.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
oh ic ..
you know who tried it but cos im a bit scared xd
June 17th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
You can go to xsellize forums and check it out over there. People are talking about it now
June 17th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
im about to press update…
June 17th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Network wise your iPhone 2g will always be unlocked and if you lose the itunes activation all you have to do is put an at&t sim card in your phone and open itunes, it will read the card and activate. Thats if it fails which Im sure it won't
June 17th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
thanks my friend:)
June 17th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
no prob. enjoy 3.0
June 18th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Let me see if i get this straight. I have a first gen iPhone (not 3G) running firmware 2.2. I jailbroke, unlocked and activated it using QuickPwn. If i hit update in itunes, will it stay unlocked but deactivate? (e.i. be stuck with an activation screen on the phone)
June 18th, 2009 at 11:02 am
ETA i’m not an at&t user
June 18th, 2009 at 5:04 am
No it will stay activated and everything will work fine.
June 20th, 2009 at 3:17 am
BS. all of this applies to a mac only, if you orginially unlocked with quickpwn (windows), it will not get past activation.
June 20th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Hey check out the first page of the site, the official iphone 3.0 is out and all jailbroken links are posted there.
June 21st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
i updated my Iphone, but it now tells me to activate my phone. what to do????
June 29th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
my iphone is unlocked i have an 8gig so if i just click the update button it will work no porblems.