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Apple Counters PwnageTool In iTunes 8, Patches Well Under Way

Submitted by Edward Kirk on September 11, 2008 - 9:47am.
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While the Dev Team asserts that there is nothing Apple can do short of changing their hardware to remove the bug exploited by their Pwnage Tool, they did try in iTunes 8. The team wrote in their blog today that the new iTunes software will detect when a Pwnage exploit is taking place and prevents it from going through.

Currently, if you connect an un-Pwned device to iTunes 8 and try to Pwn it, you will get the following message:

The Dev Team says they will be working on a complete set of patches for all of the devices to counteract Apple's counermeasure for the next week, and already have the one for the iPod touch finished.

Submitted by deise boy on September 11, 2008 - 10:15am.
bollox

Submitted by deise boy on September 11, 2008 - 10:38am.
anyone ancy 7.7.1 again .. why not itunes 8 although backuos in a few minutes its no big deal ..
but a big deal to us looking to make the iphone our phone??????

http://www.mininova.org/det/1653528

Submitted by deise boy on September 11, 2008 - 10:40am.
sorry about the spelling i was in a rush

Submitted by Bojan (not verified) on September 11, 2008 - 10:53am.
Actually I did manage to bypass the iTunes 8 error, during my third try to jaibreak iphone using Pwnage Tool and custom restore file. So don't give up, keep trying and custom restore will get through.

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on September 11, 2008 - 3:45pm.
Yawn

iTunes 8 and iPhone pwned

Submitted by Unregistered (not verified) on September 13, 2008 - 11:09am.
I got the message box but quitted iTunes, disconnected iPhone, plugged back in and started iTunes. Had no problem syncing. This was on a mac.

A way to circumvent the problem with iPhone SW 2.1 and iTunes 8

Submitted by doctorb on October 13, 2008 - 3:24pm.
If you do the pwnage process with PwnageTool (v2.1), put your iPhone into recovery mode and try to restore via iTunes 8.x, you'll end up with the error message that has been written about multiple times.
Try the following: Disconnect the iPhone and quit iTunes, start the iPhone - it should still boot on the previous SW.
Then connect to iTunes again and choose "set up as a new iPhone", unselect all options and click "continue".
You now have an "untitled playlist" or whatever you chose to call it.
After reconnecting again, you have the option to restore the iPhone without going though the recovery mode.
Option-click the "restore" button, navigate to you custom-IPSW made with PwnageTool and off you go!
This worked for me several times with an unlocked and jailbreaked US-iPhone (1st gen, 2G) that otherwise I could not get onto iPhone SW 2.1