Sn0wbreeze

sn0wbreeze is a Custom IPSW Generator for Windows.It written in C# and is developed by theiH8sn0w Dev Team.

Models Supported

• iPhone 2G
• iPod touch 1G
• iPhone 3G
• iPod touch 2G
• iPhone 3GS
• iPod touch 3G

The iPod touch 2G iPod Touch 3G iPhone 3GS need to have the signature checks disabled beforehand by having a pwned iBoot either by jailbreaking using a iBoot exploit or using the iBooty method. The S5L8900 devices can enter DFU Mode and restore with iTunes without being jailbroken. The iPhone 2G, and iPod touch 1G users cannot use sn0wbreeze to pwn 4.x since Apple no longer supports these devices anymore.

iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4, iPad 1G

sn0wbreeze would be updated to support these devices as there is a bootrom exploit for these devices.

Devices with new bootroms

sn0wbreeze would be tethered on devices with a new bootrom, the reason being is because the bootrom exploit only allows unsigned code thru USB so it requires the computer to boot the device up.

Versions

sn0wbreeze was first released January 13, 2010 as a beta version. The following versions that are shown here are official, and sorted by compatibility with iOS revisions.

3.1.X

Version	Release date	Changes
Public Beta	January 13, 2010	Initial release Jailbreaks iOS 3.1.2 Only allows you to be able to select simple mode Taken down due to copyright issues with XPwn
1.0	January 16, 2010	Official release of sn0wbreeze
1.1	January 19, 2010	Fixes Cydia problems Fixes problems with NOR on S5L8900 devices Fixes custom packages not being installed
1.2	January 21, 2010	GUI fixes Fixed even more Cydia problems
1.3	January 23, 2010	fixes bug where some Cydia repositories could not be added and downloaded from
1.4	January 26, 2010	Fixed vital bug where deb files may not be added to the right place
1.5	February 5, 2010	Jailbreaks iOS 3.1.3 Removed verbose mode support
1.5.1	February 7, 2010	Removed blacksn0w due to CommCenter issues (fix being worked on)

4.X

Version	Release date	Changes
1.6	June 24, 2010	Jailbreaks iOS 4.0. Deleted ultrasn0w unlock option. Removed the option sn0wbreeze App
1.7	July 6, 2010	Added support for new bootrooms (tethered jailbreak)
1.8 Beta	July 16, 2010	Added Support for iOS 4.1 beta 1. Deleted hacktivation.
2.0	September 22nd, 2010	Added support for "MC model" iPod touch 2G (tethered using usb_control_msg(0xA1, 1) Exploit) Added Support for iPod touch 3G and iPhone 3GS (new bootrom) on iOS 3.1.2 Simplified the GUI Backward compatible with 3.1.X
2.0.1	September 22nd, 2010	Fixed Error 37
2.0.2	September 25th, 2010	Bug fixes

Problems

• There were some problems with blacksn0w on 3.1.3. These problems were caused because the 5.11.07 modem firmware requires CommCenter from 3.1.2, and when people would upgrade their firmware they would also upgrade their CommCenter to the version that came with 3.1.3. Thus disabling the unlock.

Use of xpwn

The backend of sn0wbreeze 1.x.x was xpwn, an open-source custom IPSW generator created by planetbeing in parallel with iPhone Dev Team developments of techniques and tools.sn0wbreeze 2 now custom generates IPSW without the use of ipsw.exe from xpwn.

Support

There are tools made for sn0wbreeze which help you restore to you custom ipsw. One of these tools is called iREB, it uploads file in DFU mode to help you restore to a ipsw, with less chance of error.

License

sn0wbreeze is a freeware.

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