Jailbreaking with blackra1n - 3.1.2

One of the main ways to enhance your iPhone or iPod Touch experience is to do something called Jailbreaking. Many hundreds of thousands of people do this to their iDevices.

The reason it is so popular? It allows for infinite customisation and unlimited apps from third party sources that Apple wouldn't agree to. It can also be used to add stuff into other apps and integrate better as the developers are not limited to the API's that Apple provide in their SDK for iPhone.

I will be using blackra1n - the newest and what i see as the simplest way to jailbreak. It seems just as safe as every other method. More info on it is available at geohot's blog.

BEFORE I START - DISCLAIMER
I am not responsible for anything that happens to your iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPod Touch 1st, 2nd or 3rd Gen. Be warned that using the jailbreak breaks your warranty with Apple - use it at your own risk.

Back to the good stuff.

Simply plug in your device into your computer, running iTunes 9.0.2 and your iPhone running 3.1.2. It works on Mac OSX and Windows. Proceed to blackra1n.com and click on the logo for your operating sytem at the bottom. Also donate money to him, he puts lots of time and effort into his work for his community.

Once you have dowloaded the file, simply run it and click on the big button that says - make it ra1n.

Your phone will reboot into a recovery mode, which most people who have jailbroken their device before will know all about.

Let it do it's thang, a picture should come up of geohot and some iPhones. Once it has rebooted, enter your pin and passcode if you have one and find the big black raindrop on it, with "blackra1n" under it.

Press the magic button. Now, if you want the unlock as well as the jailbreak, install the sn0w package on this screen. But I recommend you install Cydia and Rock. I haven't used Rock at all but have heard great things about it. Cydia is the package manager known to all, as created by saurik, one of the biggest names in the jailbreak community.

Any problems, head to hackint0sh.org and find the section of the forum that is suitable for your device. The community there is great and am an active member myself. Don't email me about your specific problems, i will just send you back a sarcastic link.

Good luck with your jailbreak!