Pwnage 2.0 – Getting it to work

The Pwnage 2.0 tool is out and 1st generation iPhone users around the world can now go out and upgrade to the 2.0 firmware. The path however, is littered with a few little traps.

1. It is a mac only app for the moment. Either go borrow your mates computer for an afternoon or slip in to an Apple store and use one of theirs!
2. No Installer support
3. It won’t unlock a 3G iPhone

At the moment, installing the 2.0 firmware on your 1st gen iPhone will not give you support for our very loved old friend, Installer. It does however give us access to Apple’s shiny AppStore which has newer versions of most of the gadgets we know and love.

I found my copy of the Pwnage tool as a torrent, but I’m sure hundreds of people have mirrored it over the web by now. You really shouldn’t have any trouble finding it. The supporting files you also need to grab are pretty easy to find too. I simply let iTunes download the freaking mammoth 220MB iPhone 2.0 firmware ipsw file, and found the other parts using the Google-searches built in to the application.

Once everything was together I fired up Pwnage and tried to get it all working. It found the ipsw OK, found the other required files and compiled the new ipsw without any hassles. When it came to loading it all on to the iPhone however, it all fell apart.

The error that everyone has been googling since the tool was released: “Failed to enter DFU mode”

The fix for this was difficult to find. There are hundreds of posts out there from people trying to find answers, but very few useful solutions. However, the solution is a simple one:

Fire up Terminal on your Mac and fire of these two commands:

cd ~/Library/iTunes
mkdir “Device Support”

 

No idea why creating a directory fixes the problem, but it does. Now off you go, go grab some shiny new apps from the AppStore!!

Thanks to Joe Shaw for the answer – I’m sure his ISP is having a fit right about now… linky.