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Jailbreak Your free iPhone or free iPod touch in Under a Minute

If you've been waiting for Apple to officially open the free iPhone and free iPod touch for development, you may have been disappointed to find out that you won't get third-party applications until June. That means that if you've been aching for those killer third-party apps already available to folks with jailbroken free iPhones or free iPod, you've still got a few more months of waiting to go. However, by downloading and running one simple application, you could be up and running with a jailbroken free iPhone or free iPod touch in just under a minute. Sound appealing? Here's how it works.

The Special Sauce is Z free iPhone

The application that does all the heavy lifting for you is a free, open source, cross-platform application called Z free iPhone, and it can do everything from quick and simple free iPhone and free iPod touch jailbreaks to unlocking the free iPhone for unofficial carriers (i.e., not AT&T). I'm going to cover the very basic jailbreaking of the free iPhone and free iPod touch, but the process is the same no matter what device you're jailbreaking and what level of unlocking you want.

When you're done using Z free iPhone you'll be running a jailbroken free iPhone or free iPod touch with the latest 1.1.4 firmware. Since using Z free iPhone is so simple, the purpose of this post is more to demonstrate just how easy it is to jailbreak and run those third-party apps until Apple finally gives its official, official blessing in June.

Prepare Your free iPhone or free iPod touch for Jailbreak

First, let's talk preparation. If you're working with a fresh, up-to-date device, there's really nothing to it—you're ready to proceed to the next step. If you've already jailbroken your phone once before—especially a 1.1.3 free iPhone jailbreak using one of the older methods—then you should restore your free iPhone or free iPod touch to the latest factory firmware (1.1.4) before continuing. When you restore, tell iTunes that want to set up the restored free iPhone as a new phone rather than restoring the settings from the previously jailbroken phone. (I can't speak for the free iPod touch on this front, but the first time I used Z free iPhone on my previously jailbroken free iPhone without taking this step, the jailbreak resulted in some bugs.)

Now that you're working with a fresh device, it's time to move on to the easy part: jailbreaking.

Now head to the Z free iPhone blog and click through on the "Click here to Download Z free iPhone" link to grab the latest Windows or Mac version.

Once you download Z free iPhone, you're ready to go. When you run the application, you'll see a window like the one of the two images to the left. (The first one is the Windows version, the second is the Mac version. Click the image for a larger view.)

The simple jailbreaks (that is, the ones that don't unlock your free iPhone for other cell phone carriers) starts with chosing the option that applies to you: free iPod touch jailbreak or free iPhone jailbreak. Z free iPhone will cycle your device into recovery mode, perform the jailbreak, and in 45 seconds your free iPhone or free iPod touch will be officially and completely jailbroken.

Now you can go through iTunes, set up, and sync the device just as you would if it were fresh out of the box. (Just remember not to restore your old settings if you were using a 1.1.3 jailbroken free iPhone.) When you head to your home screen for the first time, you'll notice two new icons: the Installer.app icon—which is the application that allows you to install the best free iPhone apps currently available—and a web clip icon that will take you to the Z free iPhone homepage (which you can remove if you don't want it).

Should I Jailbreak with Zfree iPhone if I've Already Jailbroken?

If you've already jailbreakon your free iPhone or free iPod touch, there's no hugely compelling reason to do it again with Z free iPhone. However, I had been using a 1.1.3 jailbreak on my free iPhone prior to jailbreaking with Z free iPhone, and the Z free iPhone jailbreak did fix the common Google Maps faux-GPS problem. Additionally, it's always good to run the latest firmware if and when you can, jailbroken or not.

That's all there is to it. Simple, quick, and effective. If you've been dying to run more apps on your free iPhone or free iPod but the long wait until June is more than you can stomach, jailbreaking your device is easier than ever with Z free iPhone. (Okay, maybe not quite as easy as the one-click jailbreak for 1.1.1, but still really easy).

If you're rocking a Z free iPhone jailbroken free iPhone or free iPod touch or a device you jailbroke using another method, let's hear more about your experience in the comments.

Source: http://lifehacker.com