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* December 21 -- MuscleNerd, of [[the dev team]] does a live demo of the 3G unlock, dubbed as 'yellowsn0w': http://qik.com/video/729275
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* December 21 -- [[MuscleNerd]], of [[the dev team]] does a live demo of the 3G unlock, dubbed as 'yellowsn0w': http://qik.com/video/729275
   
 
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Revision as of 18:16, 6 January 2009

2009

January

2008

December

August

  • August 18 -- The dev team releases QuickPwn, a 2.x pwnage/ramdisk combination exploit that allows jailbreaking without needing to create custom IPSWs.

July

  • July 22 -- TA_Mobile hardware dumps the 3G baseband (bootloader 5.8 & FW 1.45.00) by desoldering the NOR.
  • July 19 -- The dev team releases PwnageTool 2.0, jailbreaking and unlocking the 2.0 software on the iPhone 2G and jailbreaking the 2.0 software on the iPhone 3G.
  • July 11 -- iPhone 3G is released.

June

April

  • April 3 -- Dev team releases PwnageTool 1.0, making use of the ramdisk exploit, to write to the kernel, to write to the NOR.

March

February

  • February 11 -- Zibri releases ZiPhone, the first all-in-one unlock, activate, jailbreak solution.
  • February 8 -- geohot releases software unlock for 4.6, Apple states 25% of phones were never activated with AT&T.

January

  • January 28 -- Dev team releases soft upgrade jailbreak for 1.1.3.
  • January 18 -- Geohot and his friends unlocked 1.1.2 OTB 4.6 by test point, the unbeatable version at that time.
  • January 18 -- Dev team posts YouTube video of a jailbroken 1.1.3, which was made possible by the dual boot jailbreak from bgm.

2007

November

  • November 15 -- New baseband bootloader (4.6) comes out, new iPhones can't be unlocked.
  • November 2 -- Jailbreakme is released, bringing jailbreaking to the mainstream iPhone user.

October

  • October 23 -- iPhone-Elite Team releases the Virginizer.

September

  • September 11 -- The dev team releases iUnlock, first free software unlock.
  • September 10 -- IPSF releases first paid software unlock.

August

  • August 23 -- geohot and team release hardware unlock method.
  • August 21 -- Installer.app is released, first GUI apps are distributed.

July

  • July 23 -- First phones are used with other carriers by means of SIM hacks.
  • July 20 -- nightwatch adapts a toolchain to the iPhone. The first apps are compiled.
  • July 9 -- The dev team releases a jailbreak method. The first use of this is ringtones.
  • July 3 -- DVD Jon first cracks activation. People can use the apps on the phone without a subscription.

June

  • June 29 -- iPhone is released. World's most hyped consumer product.