Comments on: New MacBook and MacBook Pro breaks iPhone Jailbreak – Pwnage Tool pwned by MacBook

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:27:12 +0000

For thise having error 1600 / 1604 etc when you try to restore from custom firmware…

Instead of using DFU mode – just leave the phone one & restore from the custom firmware.
Remember to hold down option & click restore – navigate to your PWNEd custom firmware & go. VOILA!

Hope you spend less time trying to figure it out than I did!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:54:35 +0000

I used the rock band Usb hub also. lol!

By: Groponyet

Groponyet — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:34:24 +0000

Yeah , i’m still having this error popping up when i try to jailbreak my Iphone on my new MB, i heard that i need to either downgrade the Iphone’s firmware or get a usb hub . can i just jailbreak this damn thing by using a PC ? I could use my bro’s PC and see if it works without having to downgrade the firmware !

By: chuny

chuny — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:14:22 +0000

you guys are all smart. god bless you guys

By: Piet

Piet — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:18:01 +0000

Thank you so much for the USB hub tip.
It didn’t make any logical sense, but worked perfectly.

Thanx a mil guys!

By: Will Park

Will Park — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:42:53 +0000

So you used the RockBand guitar as a USB hub? That’s geeky-cool!

By: roger

roger — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:38:05 +0000

Wow… after a couple of hours of frustration and having a “what the fuck” look on my face, I finally did the jailbreak on my iphone 3G… so yeah thanks for all your responses and answers here. It was totally the USB problem… but here’s a funny story,

so I read through all your guys’ answers and it seemed it was a USB problem (more like the OSX problem) Anyways, I saw fiermai’s link and was like… wow so easy right? But I wanted to try something out. So I’m an avid gamer and I own an Xbox 360 (yes, a clash between apple and microsoft) but hold on! It gets better. So I’m reading on and on and on… and I read that this problem is fixed via a USB hub… and I’m like… USB Hub? Gee, I don’t have one of those… and it occured to me. AH HA! So in relation with owning a Xbox 360, I also have Rockband and that’s where things got rolling. The connecter for all the instruments IS A USB HUB!… so I used the USB HUB and it worked like a charm…

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By: thomas

thomas — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:35:44 +0000

It’s not only in the new macbooks, its in every mac that has mac OS X 10.5.6 update…

By: fiermai

fiermai — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:05:49 +0000

hey spoke to soon. here is the link that i just used.

no credit to me whatsoever.

have a beautiful day.

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/12/19/reenable-jailbreakunlock-mac-os-1056/

By: fiermai

fiermai — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:50:29 +0000

hi. this is exactly what happens. quick pwn is about to modify your iphone…and then 80 years later its still getting ready. pretty much this is bull. but no worries i will get around it tomorrow.

ladies and gentlemen unitl the geniuses of DevTeam fix it for us, the only way is to use a friends mac.

sigh.

By: Rita

Rita — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:13:07 +0000

So I got really exited about jailbreaking my iPhone 3g, and didn’t realize until after hitting the Build button and getting this error message (”An iPod has been detected, but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the iPod, then try again. An unknown error has occurred.”) that it wouldn’t work on the newer macbook models. We do have an older macbook in the house that was purchased back in February 2008 that I’ve been told it would work on, but I’m wondering if I should redo the whole process from scratch, or do something different since I’ve already done the whole QuickPwn thing. Any suggestions?

I was also told that there’s a risk of your iphone turning into a brick- is there anything I should be aware of to avoid this? I already updated to the 2.2 firmware and iTunes 8.0.2.

Thanks for the help guys!

By: Marcello

Marcello — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:52:44 +0000

Hi guys, I just jailbroken and unlocked my iphone 3g 2.2 using the New Macbook aluminium!!!

After hours and hours, I tryied with the external USB hub (cheap one, anyone!!) and it worked stright away!! fantastic!!!

By: Hammy

Hammy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:35:59 +0000

It is possible there are various applications for both mac and windows that are available for download and installation that will a) give you jailbroken firmware either for 2g or 3g phones. There is also apps for mac to overcome the DFU mode issue on all macbooks/air/pro . See DevTeam for these apps.

http://xbox-360den.blogspot.com

By: Gurj

Gurj — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:21:20 +0000

I have successfully applied QuickPwn to My 2.2 (locked) 2G iPhone on the new macbook.
Just follow the instructions by odotan @ http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=594878&page=2

The issue is the usb driver…

By: Ursbru

Ursbru — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:40:15 +0000

This is probably a case of newly designed hardware inside the unibody macbook. Some programs will break if they adress the ports directly…so they have to be rewritten.

By: Shrini

Shrini — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:39:43 +0000

I was having same problem. I tried Warren;s suggestion to use a USB hub.. VOILA!!! It works like a champ… Thank you!!!!

By: C. Garofani

C. Garofani — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:49:15 +0000

Yeah it’s happening to me. Tomorrow I’ll try pwning it on my roomate’s old Macbook Pro and see how it goes – but so far, the only thing that I see that can be preventing the pwnage is the aluminum MBP. Shame

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:06:30 +0000

Try a cheap usb hub inline with iPhone. I noted a comment on another board about this and tried it. Quickpwn 2.2 with my new 13″ Macbook works fine with the hub and not at all without it. I used an unpowered cheap 4-port hub. Not sure why….. but it works!

By: brucebrendon

brucebrendon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:21:56 +0000

same. (on already JB’d 3G 2.1)

MB doesn’t like and dropped carrier, not impressed.

HOWEVER, created .ISPW fine and put this onto (non-intel) iMac and ALT click located said new custom .IPSW WITHOUT putting into recovery mode! I’d kept trying in recovery mode, which was messing it up with ‘Error…’s

Sorted. Hope this helps someone.

By: areena

areena — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:46:18 +0000

Same thing… on my lovable new MB after 4 hours of trying to restore… Hope solution will be in the future… don’t want to stuck with one and only one theme for iphone..