Tutorial: How To Jailbreak Your iDevice on 3.0 Firmware

**The Experience of Jailbreaking with Red Snow**

For those who are new to jailbreaking their iOS devices using Red Snow, this guide is designed to walk you through the process step by step. The entire process can take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour, depending on the complexity of the device and the user's level of experience.

**Turning off the Device**

The first step in the jailbreaking process is to turn off your device. This may seem like a simple task, but it's essential to ensure that you're not interfering with any ongoing processes or data transfer operations. To turn off your device, simply locate the power button and press it until the device shuts down completely.

**Plugging in the Device**

Once your device is turned off, plug it into your computer using a USB cable. Make sure the device is properly connected to the computer before proceeding with the jailbreaking process.

**Shutting down the Device (Again)**

Before proceeding with the jailbreaking process, you need to shut down your device again. This may seem like an unnecessary step, but it's essential to ensure that your device is completely powered off. Press and hold the sleep/wake button until your device shuts down completely.

**Entering DFU Mode**

Once your device is turned off and plugged in, you need to enter DFU mode. This mode allows you to update or restore your device without overwriting any of its data. To enter DFU mode, locate the power button on your device and press it for a few seconds until the "Slide to Power Off" slider appears.

**Starting Red Snow**

Now that you've entered DFU mode, you can start the jailbreaking process using Red Snow. Open Red Snow on your computer and click on the "Next" button to begin the process.

**Navigating through the Jailbreaking Process**

As you progress through the jailbreaking process, you'll need to navigate through a series of menus and options. These menus will guide you through the installation process, which may take anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour depending on your device's specifications.

**A Bump in the Road**

Unfortunately, I encountered a bump in the road during my testing process. My device froze during the reboot process, requiring me to restart it multiple times before it could be completed successfully. This issue is not uncommon and can be caused by various factors such as incompatible firmware or outdated drivers.

**The Final Steps**

Once you've navigated through the menus and options, you'll reach the final steps of the jailbreaking process. At this point, your device will be fully jailbroken, and you'll have access to a wide range of features and apps that are not available on iOS devices without jailbreaks.

**Precautions**

Before proceeding with the jailbreaking process, I recommend taking several precautions to ensure a smooth experience:

* Make sure you've downloaded and installed Red Snow from a trusted source.

* Ensure your device is compatible with Red Snow and has been properly updated.

* Create a backup of your device's data before proceeding with the jailbreaking process.

**Restarting Your Computer**

After completing the jailbreaking process, I recommend restarting your computer to ensure that all updates are installed correctly. This step is also essential in case you experience any issues during the installation process.

**Downloading Firmware and Updating Drivers**

To ensure a smooth experience with Red Snow, it's essential to download the latest firmware for your device and update your drivers accordingly. You can find these updates by visiting the official website of Red Snow or searching for them online.

**Additional Tips and Resources**

For those who are new to jailbreaking their iOS devices using Red Snow, I recommend checking out some additional resources to help you get started:

* Visit z.com for a wide range of iPhone and iTouch news, tutorials, and app reviews.

* Follow me on Twitter at @blazingdreams for the latest updates and information on iOS jailbreaks.

By following these steps and taking the necessary precautions, you can successfully jailbreak your iOS device using Red Snow.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys what is up it's Duncan and today I'm really excited to announce that the 3.0 jailbreak is out for the iPhone 3G the iPhone first generation and both the iPod Touch first and second generation uh do note this is not for the iPhone 3GS the dev team is still working on that but it is out for all the devices probably most of you guys will have one of these so this should get you setup um yeah this is going to be a really simple video I want to get you guys out this jailbreak and I'm going to give you a tutorial step byep how to do it so let's get this one started okay so the first thing you want to do is I will have in the description over here you go ahead and go in the description and I will have the link to the iPhone Dev team uh blog they will have and then there you can get the link to the torrent to get red snow which is the new uh which is the new way to jailbreak okay so go ahead download that it shouldn't take you long it is a torrent I'm sure you guys most of you guys have uh torrent uh reader I'm I went blank but yeah so basically once you get it download onto your desktop go ahead and open it up and it will be a zip file so you guys go ahead just you know all you got to do is unzip it and it's very simple just unzip it once this finally loads and uh yeah I will say this is a very simple it's a uh jailbreak here guys uh shouldn't be at all basically what I want you to do is once you unzip it go ahead and open it up and go into red snow just application and by the way I'm sorry I forgot to mention this is for both uh this is both for Windows and Mac the jailbreak um the jailbreak uh it's not actually working uh I mean the individual file you'll have to download different for Windows and Mac but yeah okay now next what you'll need to do is find your uh 3.0 firmware I've got right here um I had a video showing you guys how to do it I'll have more links for it if you guys are already running 3.0 it's no problem just find the firmware if not you're not doing 3.0 you will have to go ahead and get get 3.0 on your device and then do it um I'll have links for all of the uh firmwares in the description anyway so what you do is just hit browse here and just go in here real quick select your firmware no big deal give it a second to process the firmware which would just take a minute um now at this point you guys will uh well actually probably you should have done it well you my iPod is hooked up right now you want to go ahead and get it before you open up Red Snow um I mean you could go ahead and do it now but you will want to go ahead and have it plugged in just you know make sure nobody tries to jailbreak without you know having firmware anyway so it will say that the uh software is successfully identified you go ahead and hit next okay now next it will go ahead and download all of your data that will be needed to jailbreak you see it's you know pretty standard stuff um you know I'm really uh I'm really uh really impressed with how the dev team got this out so fast uh I'm it's it's very cool I mean 3.0 has not been out for that long anyway so basically select with options basically it's install City or not obviously that's the whole point so just you know don't mess with anything and hit next basically what you do is you need to have turn turn it off and plug it in basically it's very simple all you got to do is just turn it off you're not you're not putting into any different modes whatever basically you need to make sure it's plugged in and turn off all you have to do is just hold the uh power button or the sleep wake button whatever you want to call it slide the power off and give it a second that's what I'm doing right now so just hang with me for just a second um basically it's very simple now that my device is off uh now I will say make sure that you already had you make sure that your device is plugged in and then go ahead and shut it off now once it's off and plugged in do make sure it's not you know there's not it's not the screen is not on and the little loading it's absolutely off you look at the screen and everything okay so go ahead and hit next and basically you need to do dfu mode whoops okay now basically you would go ahead and uh I'm going to have to do this without hang on guys I gotta okay I'm going to set down the microphone right now and go ahead and do this so one second you basically will need to put it on to dfu mode okay guys um sorry about that um yeah I actually had a pretty big problem here um when I hit it and I hit to go ahead and continue it loaded made it look like it was run fine until it hit waiting for reboot and then it froze and I've spent the past couple hours trying to fix it I redownloaded the program everything when up having to do was basically just go ahead and shut down the uh shut down go ahead and re re Bo my computer and uh it seemed to work okay then so uh I was expecting that all but guys you might want to go ahead and reboot your computers before you use red snow just heads up but anyway after uh I tried a couple of things it really wasn't to kept just hanging but uh all I did was I went ahead and rebooted my computer and it work no problem so you guys might want to go ahead and try that anyway so um once I got it done seriously it's been maybe 5 minutes since I decided to redo it and it's it ran no problem um now basically what it does is even though it looks like this I'm looking at my device right now and it's it's basically just just like on uh it's basically just jailbreaking it um so even though it says done whatever you do do not click this don't click finish or close whatever look at your device wait for it it'll have a it'll have a progress bar on the bottom basically just wait for it to finish out so I'll go ahead it'll probably be another couple minutes we'll go ahead and cut it here and I'll be right back we really are done it only took just a couple minutes now we can go ahead and just finish this close it and we're done um basically the uh it's you're jailbroken no problem uh Cy is should be on here everything is no problem and yeah it's very simple um there's nothing to it uh yeah if you guys have that problem go ahead and let me know I was not expecting that I haven't heard of anybody else having that problem but uh yeah uh sorry about that I guess I definitely recommend going ahead and restarting your computer um probably go ahead and download or find your firmware make sure you on your desktop go ahead and download red snow and go ahead and restart your computer um like I said I haven't seen anybody else with the problem so you might be okay but I mean that's that's what it did for me so um yeah anyway that's just about it um I will definitely have lots more videos showing all the cool stuff you've got on 3.0 it's jailbroken hey guys be sure to go check out z.com we've got all kinds of iPhone and iTouch news jailbreak tutorials and lots of really good app reviews in addition be sure to follow me on Twitter twitter.com blazing dreams thanks for watchinghey guys what is up it's Duncan and today I'm really excited to announce that the 3.0 jailbreak is out for the iPhone 3G the iPhone first generation and both the iPod Touch first and second generation uh do note this is not for the iPhone 3GS the dev team is still working on that but it is out for all the devices probably most of you guys will have one of these so this should get you setup um yeah this is going to be a really simple video I want to get you guys out this jailbreak and I'm going to give you a tutorial step byep how to do it so let's get this one started okay so the first thing you want to do is I will have in the description over here you go ahead and go in the description and I will have the link to the iPhone Dev team uh blog they will have and then there you can get the link to the torrent to get red snow which is the new uh which is the new way to jailbreak okay so go ahead download that it shouldn't take you long it is a torrent I'm sure you guys most of you guys have uh torrent uh reader I'm I went blank but yeah so basically once you get it download onto your desktop go ahead and open it up and it will be a zip file so you guys go ahead just you know all you got to do is unzip it and it's very simple just unzip it once this finally loads and uh yeah I will say this is a very simple it's a uh jailbreak here guys uh shouldn't be at all basically what I want you to do is once you unzip it go ahead and open it up and go into red snow just application and by the way I'm sorry I forgot to mention this is for both uh this is both for Windows and Mac the jailbreak um the jailbreak uh it's not actually working uh I mean the individual file you'll have to download different for Windows and Mac but yeah okay now next what you'll need to do is find your uh 3.0 firmware I've got right here um I had a video showing you guys how to do it I'll have more links for it if you guys are already running 3.0 it's no problem just find the firmware if not you're not doing 3.0 you will have to go ahead and get get 3.0 on your device and then do it um I'll have links for all of the uh firmwares in the description anyway so what you do is just hit browse here and just go in here real quick select your firmware no big deal give it a second to process the firmware which would just take a minute um now at this point you guys will uh well actually probably you should have done it well you my iPod is hooked up right now you want to go ahead and get it before you open up Red Snow um I mean you could go ahead and do it now but you will want to go ahead and have it plugged in just you know make sure nobody tries to jailbreak without you know having firmware anyway so it will say that the uh software is successfully identified you go ahead and hit next okay now next it will go ahead and download all of your data that will be needed to jailbreak you see it's you know pretty standard stuff um you know I'm really uh I'm really uh really impressed with how the dev team got this out so fast uh I'm it's it's very cool I mean 3.0 has not been out for that long anyway so basically select with options basically it's install City or not obviously that's the whole point so just you know don't mess with anything and hit next basically what you do is you need to have turn turn it off and plug it in basically it's very simple all you got to do is just turn it off you're not you're not putting into any different modes whatever basically you need to make sure it's plugged in and turn off all you have to do is just hold the uh power button or the sleep wake button whatever you want to call it slide the power off and give it a second that's what I'm doing right now so just hang with me for just a second um basically it's very simple now that my device is off uh now I will say make sure that you already had you make sure that your device is plugged in and then go ahead and shut it off now once it's off and plugged in do make sure it's not you know there's not it's not the screen is not on and the little loading it's absolutely off you look at the screen and everything okay so go ahead and hit next and basically you need to do dfu mode whoops okay now basically you would go ahead and uh I'm going to have to do this without hang on guys I gotta okay I'm going to set down the microphone right now and go ahead and do this so one second you basically will need to put it on to dfu mode okay guys um sorry about that um yeah I actually had a pretty big problem here um when I hit it and I hit to go ahead and continue it loaded made it look like it was run fine until it hit waiting for reboot and then it froze and I've spent the past couple hours trying to fix it I redownloaded the program everything when up having to do was basically just go ahead and shut down the uh shut down go ahead and re re Bo my computer and uh it seemed to work okay then so uh I was expecting that all but guys you might want to go ahead and reboot your computers before you use red snow just heads up but anyway after uh I tried a couple of things it really wasn't to kept just hanging but uh all I did was I went ahead and rebooted my computer and it work no problem so you guys might want to go ahead and try that anyway so um once I got it done seriously it's been maybe 5 minutes since I decided to redo it and it's it ran no problem um now basically what it does is even though it looks like this I'm looking at my device right now and it's it's basically just just like on uh it's basically just jailbreaking it um so even though it says done whatever you do do not click this don't click finish or close whatever look at your device wait for it it'll have a it'll have a progress bar on the bottom basically just wait for it to finish out so I'll go ahead it'll probably be another couple minutes we'll go ahead and cut it here and I'll be right back we really are done it only took just a couple minutes now we can go ahead and just finish this close it and we're done um basically the uh it's you're jailbroken no problem uh Cy is should be on here everything is no problem and yeah it's very simple um there's nothing to it uh yeah if you guys have that problem go ahead and let me know I was not expecting that I haven't heard of anybody else having that problem but uh yeah uh sorry about that I guess I definitely recommend going ahead and restarting your computer um probably go ahead and download or find your firmware make sure you on your desktop go ahead and download red snow and go ahead and restart your computer um like I said I haven't seen anybody else with the problem so you might be okay but I mean that's that's what it did for me so um yeah anyway that's just about it um I will definitely have lots more videos showing all the cool stuff you've got on 3.0 it's jailbroken hey guys be sure to go check out z.com we've got all kinds of iPhone and iTouch news jailbreak tutorials and lots of really good app reviews in addition be sure to follow me on Twitter twitter.com blazing dreams thanks for watching