Just recently, Geohot made the Mac version of purplera1n available, and well this is the one I had been waiting for. So without much of a wait, I went ahead with the jailbreak. The overall process was really simple, and at least in my case it was very quick. All said and done, it look me about 5 minutes to complete the process.
Just in case anyone was going to purplera1n for the Mac, here is a step-by-step guide of the steps that I did to complete the jailbreaking process.
- Download “purplera1n” from purplera1n.com
- Unzip
- Run the purplera1n app
- Click the “Make it ra1n!” button
- Wait. (then) Done! Wait…
(in the meantime you can enjoy looking at the image of Geohot in purplera1n that appears on your iPhone.
- iPhone comes back and begins syncing with iTunes
- After sync is complete, disconnect iPhone and run the newly installed Freeze app on your iPhone
- After that launches, tap the “Install Cydia” button
- The download of Cydia then begins
- Downloading…
- Then a quick Unpacked, Cleaned and Finished!
- After that just click the home button to exit the Freeze app
- Then reboot your iPhone 3GS, at which time you should see the Cydia app
- Run Cydia and install any necessary updates
- Now you can enjoy having a jailbroken iPhone once again
Now for the warning: So far the jailbreak and my iPhone 3GS seem to be OK, but as with any jailbreak and/or unlocking, make sure you have all your data backed up before you begin.
Finally, enjoy your jailbroken iPhone 3GS, but remember to than Geohot and his crew for purplera1n.
July 5th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Thanks for posting this.. I’ve been trying to follow several long threads about jailbreaking and this summed everything up well and I went ahead and jailbroke my 3GS. It worked great for me.
July 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I jail broke my iphone 3gs. I then installed the appulous source. Then i installed installous. I then tried restarting my iphone but it just keeps freezing at the apple logo. Any ideas
July 24th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Rick, did you get it running again? I had my 3GS jailbroken this week, but was told to be VERY careful as if the phone goes to reboot, it will be BRICKED and that there is No way to unbrick it. This is with 3.0. Can anybody out there confirm this?
August 6th, 2009 at 10:15 am
I bricked a 3G by trying purple rain.. A restore from DFU mode didn’t even pop it out. I’ve tried iRecovery and fsboot reports a failure to mount filesystem. Any ideas? Please hit me up on twitter @padrelife
September 26th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Nice tutorial and well done but maybe next time you mentioned this Break is not for OS 3.1 on 3GS
October 29th, 2009 at 4:51 am
I accidently “restored” my phone to factory settings before I had a chance to sync all my data. I have very important pictures, etc from a family vacation on my phone. Is it AT ALL possible to get that information back?!?!
All/any help is more than appreciated!