How to Jailbreak iPhone 3G 2.1 Firmware with QuickPwn 2.1 (Windows)

By Gary Ng on September 22nd, 2008 707

If you’ve recently updated to firmware 2.1 (click here for undocumented 2.1 features) and lost your jailbroken status, you’ve most likely heard that the Dev Team has released QuickPwn 2.1 for Windows users! Some of you have already jailbroken your iPhone 3G on 2.1 firmware when QuickPwn and Pwnage Tool for Mac was released.

The file itself is about 16MB and you can click here to download via Bit Torrent. Click here to download QuickPwn 2.1 from an unofficial download mirror.

Update: This tutorial should work for jailbreaking an iPhone on 2.2 firmware. Download the updated versions of QuickPwn below:
Click here to download QuickPwn 2.2 for Mac OS X
Click here to download QuickPwn 2.2 for Windows

How to Jailbreak iPhone 3G 2.1 Firmware with QuickPwn 2.1 (Windows)

I just finished using QuickPwn 2.1 to jailbreak my iPhone 3G on 2.1 firmware and it was the EASIEST jailbreak yet! Check out the following video tutorial of the jailbreaking process. It was very straight forward and the entire process took about 8 minutes or so. In a nutshell, here’s what you need to do:

1. Download QuickPwn 2.1 for Windows.
2. Update to 2.1 firmware via iTunes.
3. Run QuickPwn 2.1 and follow the instructions. You’ll need to know how to put the iPhone 3G into DFU mode.
4. Enjoy the jailbreak! Let the customization begin again!

I must say I did miss having my iPhone jailbroken. I love being able to customize the iPhone to my liking using Winterboard. It makes my iPhone 3G stand out from the rest of the gazillion other iPhone 3G users out there! Expect some more jailbroken app reviews coming your way.

As for my first gen iPhone, it hasn’t changed since I last updated the firmware from 1.1.4 to 2.0.1 via WinPwn. I’ll update it to 2.1 firmware in the near future so stay tuned for that!

Remember, we are not liable for any damage you might incur by jailbreaking your iPhone!

Are you on 2.1 firmware on your iPhone 3G? Watch the following step by step video tutorial to see what’s involved…enjoy everybody!

PS – excuse the shaky camera work during DFU mode…I had to act quickly!

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  • jitterbug

    I have seen a lot of emails here concerning not getting a network after jailbreaking using pawnage on the windows side. Also reading a lot of email abut sound issues with the I phone .
    Well I had the same problem (no sound and no clicks or camera shutter sound and only some sounds when ear buds were in ) and it was really bugging me so I reset my phone to factory settings and no fix phoned apple no fix set a date to go to apple store thinking it was a hardware issue walking in to the store and a guy in a orange shirt listens to my story and the first thing he says is turn your mute button off lol fixed the problem.
    Now I have no jailbreak phone can’t use my most fav app pda I tried 5 times on the mac side going through all the steps always getting an error never being able to open Itunes in dfu mode .So I went to the windows side that was easy got it the first time but no network,tried reseting network setting ,tried 4 or 5 times ever time jailbreak was no problem but no network .hmmm so I went back over to my mac side with my jailbroken I phone with no network went through pwnage and when it came to the part where it says “is your phone jailebroken does it have a pineapple” I clicked yes and bingo I tunes let me install the firmware and I solved the network issue works great hope this helps some people

  • jitterbug

    I have seen a lot of emails here concerning not getting a network after jailbreaking using pawnage on the windows side. Also reading a lot of email abut sound issues with the I phone .
    Well I had the same problem (no sound and no clicks or camera shutter sound and only some sounds when ear buds were in ) and it was really bugging me so I reset my phone to factory settings and no fix phoned apple no fix set a date to go to apple store thinking it was a hardware issue walking in to the store and a guy in a orange shirt listens to my story and the first thing he says is turn your mute button off lol fixed the problem.
    Now I have no jailbreak phone can’t use my most fav app pda I tried 5 times on the mac side going through all the steps always getting an error never being able to open Itunes in dfu mode .So I went to the windows side that was easy got it the first time but no network,tried reseting network setting ,tried 4 or 5 times ever time jailbreak was no problem but no network .hmmm so I went back over to my mac side with my jailbroken I phone with no network went through pwnage and when it came to the part where it says “is your phone jailebroken does it have a pineapple” I clicked yes and bingo I tunes let me install the firmware and I solved the network issue works great hope this helps some people

  • jitterbug

    I have seen a lot of emails here concerning not getting a network after jailbreaking using pawnage on the windows side. Also reading a lot of email abut sound issues with the I phone .
    Well I had the same problem (no sound and no clicks or camera shutter sound and only some sounds when ear buds were in ) and it was really bugging me so I reset my phone to factory settings and no fix phoned apple no fix set a date to go to apple store thinking it was a hardware issue walking in to the store and a guy in a orange shirt listens to my story and the first thing he says is turn your mute button off lol fixed the problem.
    Now I have no jailbreak phone can’t use my most fav app pda I tried 5 times on the mac side going through all the steps always getting an error never being able to open Itunes in dfu mode .So I went to the windows side that was easy got it the first time but no network,tried reseting network setting ,tried 4 or 5 times ever time jailbreak was no problem but no network .hmmm so I went back over to my mac side with my jailbroken I phone with no network went through pwnage and when it came to the part where it says “is your phone jailebroken does it have a pineapple” I clicked yes and bingo I tunes let me install the firmware and I solved the network issue works great hope this helps some people

  • jitterbug

    I have seen a lot of emails here concerning not getting a network after jailbreaking using pawnage on the windows side. Also reading a lot of email abut sound issues with the I phone .
    Well I had the same problem (no sound and no clicks or camera shutter sound and only some sounds when ear buds were in ) and it was really bugging me so I reset my phone to factory settings and no fix phoned apple no fix set a date to go to apple store thinking it was a hardware issue walking in to the store and a guy in a orange shirt listens to my story and the first thing he says is turn your mute button off lol fixed the problem.
    Now I have no jailbreak phone can’t use my most fav app pda I tried 5 times on the mac side going through all the steps always getting an error never being able to open Itunes in dfu mode .So I went to the windows side that was easy got it the first time but no network,tried reseting network setting ,tried 4 or 5 times ever time jailbreak was no problem but no network .hmmm so I went back over to my mac side with my jailbroken I phone with no network went through pwnage and when it came to the part where it says “is your phone jailebroken does it have a pineapple” I clicked yes and bingo I tunes let me install the firmware and I solved the network issue works great hope this helps some people

  • jitterbug

    I have seen a lot of emails here concerning not getting a network after jailbreaking using pawnage on the windows side. Also reading a lot of email abut sound issues with the I phone .
    Well I had the same problem (no sound and no clicks or camera shutter sound and only some sounds when ear buds were in ) and it was really bugging me so I reset my phone to factory settings and no fix phoned apple no fix set a date to go to apple store thinking it was a hardware issue walking in to the store and a guy in a orange shirt listens to my story and the first thing he says is turn your mute button off lol fixed the problem.
    Now I have no jailbreak phone can’t use my most fav app pda I tried 5 times on the mac side going through all the steps always getting an error never being able to open Itunes in dfu mode .So I went to the windows side that was easy got it the first time but no network,tried reseting network setting ,tried 4 or 5 times ever time jailbreak was no problem but no network .hmmm so I went back over to my mac side with my jailbroken I phone with no network went through pwnage and when it came to the part where it says “is your phone jailebroken does it have a pineapple” I clicked yes and bingo I tunes let me install the firmware and I solved the network issue works great hope this helps some people

  • mitchell

    hey, i was wondering if you knew whether this would work on an iphone in the UK?
    also can you get any app from the app store with it?

  • mitchell

    hey, i was wondering if you knew whether this would work on an iphone in the UK?
    also can you get any app from the app store with it?

  • mitchell

    hey, i was wondering if you knew whether this would work on an iphone in the UK?
    also can you get any app from the app store with it?

  • mitchell

    hey, i was wondering if you knew whether this would work on an iphone in the UK?
    also can you get any app from the app store with it?

  • mitchell

    hey, i was wondering if you knew whether this would work on an iphone in the UK?
    also can you get any app from the app store with it?

  • mitchell

    hey, i was wondering if you knew whether this would work on an iphone in the UK?
    also can you get any app from the app store with it?

  • stephanie

    Mine iphone 3G froze and blinked and vibrated for an hour. I finally tried to jailbrake it again. Except this time when it was asking for me to hold the home button down and then both I just ignored it and opened itunes real fast! Itunes recognized it and let me restore. The it was like a new iphone with no music or video on it so I jailbroke it! Worked in seconds!!! Now I am going to add my applications and music/video!!! After an hour of blinking and vibrating and restoring it is not going to work! Just restore and don’t have any data on it and it will be ready in no time!!!:) Now I can not find the iphonemodem app on cydia! Whole differant problem!!! Can anyone help?

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    Mine iphone 3G froze and blinked and vibrated for an hour. I finally tried to jailbrake it again. Except this time when it was asking for me to hold the home button down and then both I just ignored it and opened itunes real fast! Itunes recognized it and let me restore. The it was like a new iphone with no music or video on it so I jailbroke it! Worked in seconds!!! Now I am going to add my applications and music/video!!! After an hour of blinking and vibrating and restoring it is not going to work! Just restore and don’t have any data on it and it will be ready in no time!!!:) Now I can not find the iphonemodem app on cydia! Whole differant problem!!! Can anyone help?

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    Mine iphone 3G froze and blinked and vibrated for an hour. I finally tried to jailbrake it again. Except this time when it was asking for me to hold the home button down and then both I just ignored it and opened itunes real fast! Itunes recognized it and let me restore. The it was like a new iphone with no music or video on it so I jailbroke it! Worked in seconds!!! Now I am going to add my applications and music/video!!! After an hour of blinking and vibrating and restoring it is not going to work! Just restore and don’t have any data on it and it will be ready in no time!!!:) Now I can not find the iphonemodem app on cydia! Whole differant problem!!! Can anyone help?

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    Mine iphone 3G froze and blinked and vibrated for an hour. I finally tried to jailbrake it again. Except this time when it was asking for me to hold the home button down and then both I just ignored it and opened itunes real fast! Itunes recognized it and let me restore. The it was like a new iphone with no music or video on it so I jailbroke it! Worked in seconds!!! Now I am going to add my applications and music/video!!! After an hour of blinking and vibrating and restoring it is not going to work! Just restore and don’t have any data on it and it will be ready in no time!!!:) Now I can not find the iphonemodem app on cydia! Whole differant problem!!! Can anyone help?

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  • Eyecon

    Hey everyone, I am having the same problem with being stuck on the apple logo after quickpwn finishes, what is the solution…..Please help.

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    Hey everyone, I am having the same problem with being stuck on the apple logo after quickpwn finishes, what is the solution…..Please help.

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    Hey everyone, I am having the same problem with being stuck on the apple logo after quickpwn finishes, what is the solution…..Please help.

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    Hey everyone, I am having the same problem with being stuck on the apple logo after quickpwn finishes, what is the solution…..Please help.

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    Hey everyone, I am having the same problem with being stuck on the apple logo after quickpwn finishes, what is the solution…..Please help.

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    Hey everyone, I am having the same problem with being stuck on the apple logo after quickpwn finishes, what is the solution…..Please help.

  • Peter

    Hey everyone, I am having the same problem with being stuck on the apple logo after quickpwn finishes, what is the solution…..Please help.

    Has happened to me a few times, all i do is unplug the phone from the USB cable and it kicks it back in to life ?

  • lordoffelony

    If I purchased a new sealed iPhone does anybody know what firmware version it’s now shipped with? In other words would I be able to do jailbreak a brand new handset with this method? Also once jailbroken would I be able to connect it with iTunes (without downloading any updates obviously) and put any official apps and games on there too?

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  • Mitesh

    cn anyone please tell me …
    afta jailbreaking da iphone 3g will my phone get slow than before???
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    which one is the best to jailbreak???

  • Mitesh

    cn anyone please tell me …
    afta jailbreaking da iphone 3g will my phone get slow than before???
    and can i cancel the jailbreak to normal???
    which one is the best to jailbreak???

  • Mitesh

    cn anyone please tell me …
    afta jailbreaking da iphone 3g will my phone get slow than before???
    and can i cancel the jailbreak to normal???
    which one is the best to jailbreak???

  • Mitesh

    cn anyone please tell me …
    afta jailbreaking da iphone 3g will my phone get slow than before???
    and can i cancel the jailbreak to normal???
    which one is the best to jailbreak???

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    cn anyone please tell me …
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    and can i cancel the jailbreak to normal???
    which one is the best to jailbreak???

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    which one is the best to jailbreak???

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  • Bryan

    i am having the same problem did you figure it out?

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