The PwnageTool is an application developed by the iPhone Dev Team that offers Mac users an easy way to jailbreak their iPhone.
This tutorial will take you through the process of using PwnageTool to jailbreak your iPhone 2G running iPhone OS 3.1.3.
Some important points to note before we start:
- Please be forewarned that jailbreaking your iPhone may void your warranty and hence proceed only at your own risk.
- This guide is only applicable for iPhone 2G users. iPhone 3G users can refer to this step by step guide to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.3.
- Please take a backup of your iPhone, refer to this post for more details.
- After you have successfully jailbroken your iPhone, please checkout our article on tips to keep your iPhone secure and to change the password of your jailbroken iPhone.
- PwnageTool is only available for Mac users. Windows users who want to jailbreak their iPhone 2G can use Sn0wbreeze.