A few hours back, we informed you about the arrival of iPhone 3.1.3. Once it arrived, one thought that remained in my mind was how soon will a jailbreak tool will be released to jailbreak the latest firmware. No, a new tool hasn’t been rolled out. But what has happened is this, the recently released redsn0w 0.9 jailbreak tool has been confirmed to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.3 on certain devices. The devices that have been tested successfully include iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G (if you leave the unlock part) and iPod Touch 1G.

Here is what the iPhone Dev team has shared with us:

  • PwnageTool and redsn0w are not yet compatible with 3.1.3
  • There is no estimated release time for compatible tools (please don’t bug us about this).
  • Any information we have regarding this update will be posted here.
  • You can also follow us on twitter – @iphone_dev

Update 1:  [Don’t go near this if you have 3GS, newer ipt2G, or any ipt3G] Thanks to daring experimenters in the comments, we can confirm that yesterday’s redsn0w works for today’s 3.1.3 update for iPhone 2G.  Just point it at the 3.1.2 iPhone 2G IPSW after doing update or restore to 3.1.3.  So far we’ve only confirmed this for iPhone 2G.  (Note that if this does work for iPhone 3G too, you can *only* use it if you don’t care about the unlock.)

Update 2: [Don’t go near this if you have 3GS, newer ipt2G, or any ipt3G]Can confirm that this method works for iPhone 3G and iPod touch 1G too.  Don’t do it for iPhone 3G if you need an unlock though (really, don’t!). For older iPod touch 2G, we’ll need a small (1-character) change in redsn0w source.

I am sure that we will be getting an iPhone 3.1.3 jailbreak tool pretty soon from the likes of Geo Hotz and other geeks.

You might want to check out the following links:

iPhone 3.1.3 released, brings bug fixes only

redsn0w 0.9, the iPhone 3.1.2 jailbreak tool released for Windows and Mac

How to convert your iPhone/iPod Touch into iPad (visually)

Fring brings 3G enabled voice and video calls for iPhone