Fake 3.1.3 Baseband 05.12.01 Jailbreaking Apps- Gull1hack, SpartanBr3ak and br0k3n_appl3

[WIDOW]

All the iPhone and iPod Touch users who desperately wanna Jailbreak their phones on 3.1.3 firmware beware of the dramatically increasing fake Jailbreaking utilities for 05.12.01 baseband on the Internet. These fake Jailbreaking tools run malicious code on your computer or handset that not only affects the performance but also fills-in various viruses into it causing great horrid!

Most notable recent fake Jailbreaking utilities include Gull1hack, SpartanBr3ak and br0k3n_appl3. Gull1hack developed by an eighteen-year-old German is one messed application that boosted the possibility of jailbreaking devices running on the new 05.12.01 baseband. The iPhone-Dev Team has confirmed Gull1hack as a fake tool. Though not an harmful tool (Thanks to the developer!) once downloaded, Gull1hack disables your mouse for 30 seconds and then opens a page full of Google Ads, thus fooling around people and requesting them not to run programs without properly knowledge on the functions or producers of the applications.


Boosting many great aspects, the SpartanBr3ak that requires .NET framework and 1GB RAM to be downloaded, is a Jailbreaking tool for iPhone or iPod Touch currently under maintenance. Based on observations made, this utility is not approved by the iPhone-Dev team and according to many tweets it a harmful application that would severely affect the performance of your iPhone and iPod Touch handsets. Br0k3n_appl3 application is another failbreaker that might adversely affect the performance aspects of your iPhone or iPod Touch. All these fake jailbreaking tools promise you the possibility to unlock iPhone 05.12.01 baseband.

Few tools like redsn0w, sn0wbreeze, PwnageTool, ultrasn0w and blacksn0w confirmed as working properly can be utilized for Jailbreaking and Unlocking your iPhone and iPod Touch handsets. On the other hand, there are various untrusted and unverified applications in the Internet that cause adverse affects to the core handset features, hence we suggest all the Jailbreakers to be very cautious whilst downloading these malicious tools!

from the devteam: added by turkish
While Apple’s 3.1.3 firmware was minor in terms of new features, it’s had the side effect of opening up a huge market for scam sites. These sites will promise you a 3.1.3 jailbreak for newer devices like the iPod touch 3G, or a baseband 05.12 software unlock. Those desperate enough to “just give it a shot” will find, 100% of the time, that they were misled. After money has changed hands they’ll be told “well the 05.12 unlock is coming, in the meantime here’s the 05.11 unlock” (of course the 05.11 unlock was intended to be free, as you all know). They’ll hold your money until one day the 05.12 unlock does come out, even if that’s months later (and of course it’ll be released for free). In the meantime they’ll be able to claim they gave you part of what they advertised, and keep at least part of your money (in actuality they’ll usually keep all of it).

Don’t fall for these scam sites! None of them have a 05.12 unlock, none have the 05.11 unlock working on 3.1.3, none have a 3.1.3 jailbreak for newer devices like the ipt3G. They’re trying to capitalize on your upgrade mistake, and they only need a very small percentage of people to fall for them to make their money and run.

Those following twitter may have seen some recent very early developments in the 05.12 unlock situation. One of our more helpful commenters sherif_hashim (at a rating of 84p you know he’s helped others much already!) found what looks like a very promising crash in the new baseband. He’s put in a lot of work looking for crashes over this past year, and he’s still looking for more! We’ve started to look at his crash but it’s a long road between any given crash and a fully working unlock, and we couldn’t put an ETA on it even if we wanted to. It’s not even guaranteed that an working unlock will come from this particular crash — it’s just too early to tell.

In the meantime, please stay vigilant against these scam sites. Don’t be part of the small percentage of people that fall for them because that small percentage is all they need.

[amm451981]

is there any genuine jail breaker for iphone 3gs 3.1.3 new bootrom ?

[WIDOW]

Not as yet

[darkrom]

Suckers beware.

Do people honestly think they found a secret tool that no one else posted anything about? Common sense people. If your not smart enough to know what an app does...then your not the lucky first person to hear about it lol.

[WIDOW]

Originally Posted by darkrom

Suckers beware.

Do people honestly think they found a secret tool that no one else posted anything about? Common sense people. If your not smart enough to know what an app does...then your not the lucky first person to hear about it lol.

Still people need warning as some of these have at the beginning rumored to be true !

[ongxa]

yes thanks for the info. this is a nightmare for all unfortunated people.

[wesdogy]

Good to know I had a feeling none of them were legit will be waiting for the real deal thanks

[redmoonshine]

And this is y i mess with sinful thanx WIDOW good shit

[valheru]

works great

[docker_007]

Thanks bro...... Really appreciate your info.
For me, I only trust Dev Team & GeoHot.....
So, whatever the new shit, I will surely wait for those Genius comments and approval......

[risingkazuya05]

i too had to be careful when looking around for various jb/unlock tools online. although my mine reason for upgrading to 3.1.3 is because of my signal and wifi issues after using
blackra1n/blacksn0w, i just had to be patient and wait for a stable unlock from DevTeam or a more "bug-free" hack from Geohot. I just downloaded the Fake 3.1.3 pkg from Cydia so that I can run Apps that are requiring the 3.1.3 update

[mafaveli]

is it possible to jailbreak an iphone 3gs on the old bootrom (359.3 i believe) that has been upgraded to the official 3.1.3 firmware? i dont have any ECID.SHSH file for the iphone from 3.1.2 firmware

[WIDOW]

Should be no prob with old bootrom look at the help sections

[mafaveli]

but its an MC model (withe old bootrom oddly enuff) and iv tried using the prepared custom firmware and i keep getting 1604 error... not sure if im doin anything wrong or its just not possible

[Damon_Harrison]

Thanks for this information, I'm just glad that I'm still on 3.1.2 firmware and don't have to deal with that for the time being.

[friscoplayrsf]

Originally Posted by WIDOW

All the iPhone and iPod Touch users who desperately wanna Jailbreak their phones on 3.1.3 firmware beware of the dramatically increasing fake Jailbreaking utilities for 05.12.01 baseband on the Internet. These fake Jailbreaking tools run malicious code on your computer or handset that not only affects the performance but also fills-in various viruses into it causing great horrid!

Most notable recent fake Jailbreaking utilities include Gull1hack, SpartanBr3ak and br0k3n_appl3. Gull1hack developed by an eighteen-year-old German is one messed application that boosted the possibility of jailbreaking devices running on the new 05.12.01 baseband. The iPhone-Dev Team has confirmed Gull1hack as a fake tool. Though not an harmful tool (Thanks to the developer!) once downloaded, Gull1hack disables your mouse for 30 seconds and then opens a page full of Google Ads, thus fooling around people and requesting them not to run programs without properly knowledge on the functions or producers of the applications.


Boosting many great aspects, the SpartanBr3ak that requires .NET framework and 1GB RAM to be downloaded, is a Jailbreaking tool for iPhone or iPod Touch currently under maintenance. Based on observations made, this utility is not approved by the iPhone-Dev team and according to many tweets it a harmful application that would severely affect the performance of your iPhone and iPod Touch handsets. Br0k3n_appl3 application is another failbreaker that might adversely affect the performance aspects of your iPhone or iPod Touch. All these fake jailbreaking tools promise you the possibility to unlock iPhone 05.12.01 baseband.

Few tools like redsn0w, sn0wbreeze, PwnageTool, ultrasn0w and blacksn0w confirmed as working properly can be utilized for Jailbreaking and Unlocking your iPhone and iPod Touch handsets. On the other hand, there are various untrusted and unverified applications in the Internet that cause adverse affects to the core handset features, hence we suggest all the Jailbreakers to be very cautious whilst downloading these malicious tools!

from the devteam: added by turkish
While Apple’s 3.1.3 firmware was minor in terms of new features, it’s had the side effect of opening up a huge market for scam sites. These sites will promise you a 3.1.3 jailbreak for newer devices like the iPod touch 3G, or a baseband 05.12 software unlock. Those desperate enough to “just give it a shot” will find, 100% of the time, that they were misled. After money has changed hands they’ll be told “well the 05.12 unlock is coming, in the meantime here’s the 05.11 unlock” (of course the 05.11 unlock was intended to be free, as you all know). They’ll hold your money until one day the 05.12 unlock does come out, even if that’s months later (and of course it’ll be released for free). In the meantime they’ll be able to claim they gave you part of what they advertised, and keep at least part of your money (in actuality they’ll usually keep all of it).

Don’t fall for these scam sites! None of them have a 05.12 unlock, none have the 05.11 unlock working on 3.1.3, none have a 3.1.3 jailbreak for newer devices like the ipt3G. They’re trying to capitalize on your upgrade mistake, and they only need a very small percentage of people to fall for them to make their money and run.

Those following twitter may have seen some recent very early developments in the 05.12 unlock situation. One of our more helpful commenters sherif_hashim (at a rating of 84p you know he’s helped others much already!) found what looks like a very promising crash in the new baseband. He’s put in a lot of work looking for crashes over this past year, and he’s still looking for more! We’ve started to look at his crash but it’s a long road between any given crash and a fully working unlock, and we couldn’t put an ETA on it even if we wanted to. It’s not even guaranteed that an working unlock will come from this particular crash — it’s just too early to tell.

In the meantime, please stay vigilant against these scam sites. Don’t be part of the small percentage of people that fall for them because that small percentage is all they need.

I bought another Iphone with the old baseband. I have another Iphone that my girl is waiting for when the new unlock comes out.

[reveinx]

ye the web is filled with blood suckers..some people just google unlock and find paying links to unloch their fav fone and just do it

[tavon333]

Thanks alot guys

[lyje17]

As long as they do the necessary homework and research before they click the damn update / restore (without the shift / option) button, they would not have to resort to using these 'new' jailbreaking programs or paying for an unlock or jailbreak.

[hoodbro7]

this almost happened to me