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[subgenious]

Bah, upon reading more closely it looks like I'd have to put the phone into recovery mode to do this check and I'm really not interested in messing with the firmware again now that it's working how I like it.

I had read several places that devices with serial numbers having the 4th and 5th digits 40 or higher included the new bootrom. Mine is 41. Anyone know if it was a hard changeover at a certain number? I certainly don't want to be spreading bad info, but this is very curious and it would seem odd for some devices with significantly earlier serial numbers to have a new bootrom version while later ones are still sneaking by on the assembly line.

[Ipheuria]

yeah I don't think that was a hard fact just a very educated guess. If we wanted to know for sure if pwnage tool escapes the bootrom which I seriously doubt we would just find someone currently on a tethered JB and get them to try JB with pwnage tool. I think your phone is just one of the rare exceptions

[chowcjc]

hey guys...

i used blackrain on my iphone 3gs i bought last week... the 4rth and 5th digits on the serial number is 48, and blckrain just tethered jailbroke it...

and so i tired using pwnage. i got through the process with no problems...until the iphone reboot... the pineapple logo shows for a second and then nothing.. just a blank screen... itunes recognizes the phone to be in restore mode but my iphone doesnt have any display on it..

so i restored my phone using itunes...
and did the whole process again...
but alas.. same ****...

so im using a tethered, black rain jailbroken iphone 3gs...
and i need to use my mac everytime i reboot my phone, which is so inconvenient...

i hope anyone could share some light on this... any advice on what i should do to have a jailbroken iphone would be great...

[LVCIFER]

There's nothing that CAN be done man. Tethered jailbreak for new 3G[s] is just how it is right now.

BUT, thank you for being the test subject. Now, we KNOW that Pwnage Tool will not give a standard jailbreak to newes 3G[s] models.

Thank you.

[Ipheuria]

Yeah figured that was the case since blackra1n is released after pwnage tool and is newer. So if anything blackra1n would have been the newer one. Anyway now we know, sorry man but yeah you've got a newer 3G[s] so tethered JB.

[chowcjc]

oh well, at least i confirmed that this is the case for the new iphone 3gs's...
hope anyone out there who is confused about this got some help from this thread...

i will just have to wait till a new tool is out for a fix this problem,

im kinda new to the iphone so this forum is so helpful... thanks guys...

[subgenious]

I agree, even the dev team's blog isn't clear on this issue. Thanks for setting me straight guys! I'm glad I squeaked by before the axe dropped with my phone...

[jrdave2304]

I'm set to get my 3GS today and have been doing a lot of reading on the jailbreak process (especially that pertaining to the new iBoot-359.3.2 bootrom). Came across an article on iClarified which basically re-states what you guys have been saying (edit: www DOT iclarified DOT com/entry/index.php?enid=5560)

I really hope I get lucky so I can use the pwnage tool for an untethered jailbreak.