Get the iPhone 2.0 firmware early Video

Get the iPhone 2.0 firmware early Video Transcript

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>> Hey guys, it's Brian Tong from CNET.com and we know it's a day before the actual release of the iPhone 3G and also the official release of the firmware here in the United States. But you guys can get your hands on it because it's been leaked. Now we gotta give credit to our friends at MacRumors.com for doing the digging, but to make it easier for you, we posted the link to get the firmware file on our blog at blog.cnettv.com. So here's what you need to get started. The first thing is you guys gotta go and get iTunes 7.7. It's an update that's available for free. Go to the website or update it through iTunes and that's the first step. Now the second thing is you wanna click on the link in our blog and actually download the firmware file. Now the name of the file will start with this -- it's a long name, but it starts with iPhone1 comma 2 and it keeps on going, but what happens is that file that you're gonna download it ends with a dot ZIP extension, typically. Now if it does, you're gonna wanna change the last few characters of that file to actually say, dot IPSW. So you're gonna need to do that manually. First things first, let's connect our iPhone to our computer and let it sink to iTunes and once it does that you're gonna wanna click on this Summary tab. It has all the information about the iPhone and look for the button that says, Check for Update. Now in order for us to update the firmware, we're gonna have to manually do this. So on your Mac you're gonna wanna hold your Option key and then click on Check for Update. It will ask you to find the file that we just downloaded with the last four characters IPSW. So select that, let iTunes do its thing. It's gonna take some time to update the firmware, but once it's done, you have an iPhone with the latest 2.0 firmware. It has the app source, you guys can go crazy. So there you go, it's the Insider Secrets of how to get access to the firmware 2.0 early from Apple. I'm Brian Tong for CNET.com. ^M00:01:51 [ Music ]