Jailbreak Your iPhone 3GS Using PurpleRa1n (Windows)

These are instructions on how to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS using PurpleRa1n
for Windows. Once you have completed this tutorial you will be able to
unlock your iPhone 3GS using this
tutorial.

This is a preliminary jailbreak and thus some apps such as Winterboard
will not work. You may want to consider waiting for the jailbreak release
from the iPhone Dev-Team if this is important to you.

This tutorial works great with Windows XP; however, we have not succeeded
with Windows Vista. You can try with Vista but if it does not work you
may have to do a restore.

Step One

Open your web browser of choice and navigate to http://www.purplera1n.com.
Click the Windows logo at the bottom of the screen. Or Download it from
here.

Step Two

When prompted save the download to your desktop

Step Three

Double click the purplera1n.exe file from the desktop to launch the application

Step Four

Click the large make it ra1n button

Step Five

You iPhone will now be placed in recovery mode. You will see a picture of GeoHot
that replaces the regular recovery mode screen on your device.

purplera1n will run and then your device will reboot.

Step Six

Once your device reboots you will see a new icon on the SpringBoard entitled
Freeze. Press it to continue.

Step Seven

Once Freeze opens tap Install Cydia.

Step Eight

Once the Cydia installation has completed you must reboot your iPhone.


Step Nine

When you iPhone has rebooted you can run Cydia. Let it do all the necessary
updates then follow our Unlock
tutorial to finally unlock your iPhone 3GS.

NOTE*: To remove the Freeze icon from your desktop you can install CyDelete
from Cydia then use it to delete the application. We will post a tutorial on
this shortly.

THANKS*: A big thanks goes to GeoHot for his work in making this jailbreak possible.
Also thanks to others who contributed such as chronic and the dev-team and to
Mateen for the nice screenshots!

Source: iClarified

3 Comments
July 4, 2009 in Unlock iPhone

3 Responses

  1. my iphone 3gs ver 3.0 i upgrade to ver 3.1
    now is lock the screen in activate and emergancy call
    what can i do ?
    plz answer

  2. Follow steps of this to upgrade versions of your iPhone 3gs

    http://www.iphonefirmwares.com/?p=502

  3. To unlock follow step of this post http://www.iphonefirmwares.com/iphone/?p=460 after jailbreaking your iphone with PurpleRa1n

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