Trying to make sense of it all, PWNage or iLibertyX or Ziphone. Which to use.

Well i have spent the last 3 nights reading over countless forums and wiki’s all trying to find out what is the best.

Honestly I should have done this when i first got my iPhone but hell I just wanted it hacked so I could start messing around.

So here is my take on it after all these hours of reading……

ZiPhone - which i used version 2.5 - is a hacked up version of the original Dev-Teams release anySim. Zibree took their code and messed with it to make his own then released his version. It evidently downgrades the bootloader if you use it to Unlock (which i did not do thank god) and once its downgraded you cant upgrade back, this voids your apple warrenty if they find you have a miss matched bootloader.

My bootloader is A-OK at 4.6 which it came installed with - 1.1.2 OTB iPhone.

iLibertyX - latest greatest version for unlocking, the devs spent more time before releasing (unlike zibree) and have a very stable product that will jailbreak and unlock and install a custom bootloader that is upgradeable.

And now there is PWNage - this is the hard work of the dev teams that allows for installing custom firmware from within iTunes instead of using a 3rd party app for the Hack. It has the baility to jailbreak, Unlock and even run other OS’s when they get them going - i hear Linux for the iPhone is already in the works.

So…. Whats this mean for me and my iPhone…

I’ll keep using the Ziphone hack that I installed for a few more days until i figure out which I want to do more.. Learn about ipsw and make my own custom or just use iLibertyX.. im leaning more for learning about the ipsw files and customizing my own.

On a side note - I got the latest version of the iPhone SDK - so i can start learning how to develope for the iPhone in all its glory!

Heres to lots of reading over the next few weeks!