My 3GS Jbed with ios5 boots untethered

[voltes]

What's going on? I just hard rebooted it twice and came up normally so now I'm not sure if i have a half-baked jb or a miraculous 3gs . Downside is I don't have it unlocked and I can't since the baseband has been updated to 5.16.05

Anybody heard of something similar or possible reason this could happen?

 

[Applejuiced]

Early bootrom.

 

[Crystal-RX]

Like Apple-pie said (sorry bro, just tease your name a bit ), you have a 3GS Iphone with old bootrom. You can find it out by downloading Idetector onto your computer, hook it up and run a test to prove it.

 

[voltes]

Explains it. I did check it and it was before the 45 week window. What are the other perks? Still no cigar with the baseband?

 

[aziatiklover]

old bootrom for the win!

 

[Applejuiced]

Explains it. I did check it and it was before the 45 week window. What are the other perks? Still no cigar with the baseband?

That's the only perk.
Untethered Jailbreaks for life.
Nothing to do with unlocks.
And yes, Apple pies rule

 

[scirica]

I was kind of surprised myself when my 3GS booted untethered. Kept rebooting over and over just to make sure it was real! Old bootroms rule!!