A few of us here on Gear Diary have jailbroken our iPhones.  I’ve personally always had my iPhone jailbroken and can not imagine using the phone any other way.

Lost in all the hype around the release of Apple’s new operating system Snow Leopard yesterday was the iPhone Dev’s Team jailbreaking tool code named “Redsn0w” and whether or not it would be compatible with the new OS.

Good news is, it indeed is.  The Dev Team released the following statement on their blog.

Snow Leopard, the OS released for Mac on Friday, poses no new wrinkles for the redsn0w jailbreak or ultrsn0w unlock.

We’re glad to see Apple joining in on the “snow” theme.   If only Apple had called their new OS “Sn0w Leopard”!

To summarize the status of our tools (all of which are available through the links at the left):

-You can use redsn0w to jailbreak any iPhone or iPod Touch using OS X, Windows, or Linux.  For both 3.0 and 3.0.1 firmwares, you should point redsn0w at the 3.0 IPSW.  If you see it hang at “waiting for reboot”, just unplug and replug that USB cable.

-You can use ultrasn0w to unlock the iPhone 3G/3GS, or BootNeuter to unlock the iPhone 2G.  Both ultrasn0w and BootNeuter are available via Cydia.

-You can use PwnageTool for Mac to create custom IPSWs with pre-installed packages.

-For detailed guides on how to run any of these tools, sites like iClarified have some great tutorials.  For specific help on any problems, feel free to use our comment system below.  angiepangie and Confucious are your friendly moderators and they’re joined by a number of other very knowledgeable commenters too!