Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 confirmed working -- with screenshots!

It appears some Russian hackers have released an updated version of QuickPwn which works on iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2! This is not an official release from the iPhone Dev Team and using this unofficial release will kill yellowsn0w and any possibility of a software unlock -- maybe FOREVER.

You can grab the 3.2MB installer from here. Do note that we have only tested this on an iPhone 3G and found it to be working as advertised; your mileage with beta software will as always vary and the possibility of bricking or otherwise fscking your device till the point of no return is high - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. The installer linked above has been scanned with Sophos Anti Virus for OS X with the latest definition update files and no viruses or other nasties were found. As to where you're going to find the actual 3.0 beta 2 .ipsw file, we shall leave it to you to figure out.
The QuickPwn installer that has been distributed is a Windows .exe and there appears to be no version for the Mac at the moment. As we didn't have a Windows machine available, we decided to try our luck in a virtualized environment using Windows 7 Build 7000 running in VMWare Fusion 2.0.2 (147997). We're happy to report the pwnage process works perfectly even in VMWare however if you're running OS X 10.5.6 you'll need to reactivate DFU mode on your in order to continue. There are two ways to go about this - You can either use a powered USB hub between your device and your machine or replace the USB kext files from 10.5.5 (there are some further instructions and various Automator scripts to do this).

Getting your pwn on

As mentioned, the entire pwnage process was run in VMWare on Windows 7 Build 7000 and as the README file stated that iTunes is required, we installed the latest 8.1 version. Do ensure that your device is linked to the virtual machine (In VMWare, click on Virtual Machine, USB, Connect iPhone).

There are only 2 files in the .zip package - a README and QuickPwn.exe. From the README: "QUICKPWN (Codename "Pwnmetheus") 0.3.0-2 (fw v3.0 7A249g support by Vortex) This is a GUI created by poorlad for the iPhone Dev Team's QuickPwn tool." (Incidentally the README should said 7A259g instead).

Fig 1: The QuickPwn installer screen

Fig 2: IPSW selection screen

Fig 3: Settings selection - we chose only to jailbreak

Fig 4-7: Pwnage process running

Fig 8: Pwnage complete

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Fig 9: The first thing you'll notice once your device restarts is two new icons on the home screen - Icy (a really nifty looking software installer which does pretty much the same job as Cydia or Installer.app) and a bookmark to the iPhoneApps.ru website (not shown in this screenshot).

Fig 10: The Icy categories listing

Fig 11-13: Naturally we had to get SSH installed :) The package installed however we could not SSH in without installing Core Utilities. Prior to which, SSHing in would result in the following error:

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _login
Referenced from: /usr/sbin/sshd
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

SFTP worked without a hitch. Apart from SSH, we tried installing various other add ons including Mobile Substrate (works), MobileTerminal (opens and closes), MySMS (works) and Backgrounder (works).

So is it worth installing this jailbreak? Yes, if you're a software developer and want to see if your application functions any differently on a jail broken device - not really if you're just an end user; there will be at least a few more beta versions of firmware 3.0 before its released in June; as such you're going to find yourself re-jailbreaking each beta as they come along which is going to get tiring really quickly; but to each his/her own :)