Downgrade Baseband Now - Unlock iPhone in Future

Are you looking forward to downgrading your iPhone baseband? Do you really know why are you even doing this? Do you really know why there is a need to downgrade the iPhone baseband? I think you might be unaware of the reason, why you need to downgrade your iPhone baseband.

Why Should You Downgrade iPhone Baseband?

Apple has launched the new iPhone 3G and 3G S with a new baseband version to stop developers from unlocking the iPhone. Accordingly, they believe that the new baseband will NOT allow the users to upgrade their unlocked iPhones in the near future, and they are right. Since, the developers have not yet found the solution to crack this out. You will have to stick to an older version of the baseband that will allow you to unlock your iPhone for later versions of the iPhone software.

Step by Step Instructions

Below are given, step-by-step instructions on how to downgrade your iPhone 3G baseband to 2.28 using 5.8 bootloader. We will be using Fuzzyband to downgrade the baseband so that we can later unlock the iPhone using YellowSnow.

Step 1: Before you can downgrade the baseband, you must have Cydia installed on your iPhone. On the springboard, find the Cydia icon and tap it to open Cydia application.

Step 2: Once the Cydia application has opened up, tap on the “Sections” icon located at the bottom of the Cydia application screen.

Now, move down to the “System” section and tap on it to open the list of available packages in System.

Step 3: Now, scroll down to the list of packages to find “3G Fuzzyband Downgrader” and tap on it.

Press the “Install” button located on the top right corner of the screen. Now, press the “Confirm” button located on the top right corner of the screen to begin installation of the “Fuzzyband downgrader”.

Step 4: Once the installation is complete, press the “Return to Cydia” button to return to springboard.

Step 5: On the springboard, you will notice a new icon named “Fuzzyband”. Tap the icon to open the application. Once the application launches it will query your iPhone to locate the bootloader version, baseband version and the iPhone software version.

If the existing bootloader version of your iPhone is greater than 5.08, it will display a message “Not Supported” that means you will not be able to downgrade the baseband of you iPhone. Otherwise, all the details will be shown to you.

Step 6: Press the “Downgrade” button to continue downgrading the baseband of your iPhone 3G. Once the downgrading process has completed, you will be displayed a message “I Haz Downgrade”.