The iPhone dev team recently reported that, with the help of the chronic dev team, “This means iPhone unlockers can safely restore to a custom 4.2.1 pre-jailbroken IPSW and retain their current baseband and unlock”.
PwnageTool also supports all the other 4.2.1 devices other than iPod touch 2G:
- iPhone3G
- iPhone3GS
- iPhone4
- iPhone4-Verizon
- iPod touch 3G
- iPod touch 4G
- iPad
- AppleTV 2G
Other improvements:iBooks has been fixed to work with books protected by DRM.
- The wifi problem on AppleTV 2G was fixed as well.
Thank you Dev Team!
Official Bittorent Releases:
PwnageTool_4.2.dmg -> PwnageTool_4.2.dmg.6176918.TPB.torrent
SHA1 Sum = af365f5de19d7ee19cbe1c67b2f226996a46b3ac
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All serious jailbreakers know that SSHing is an essential.
Here is a little walkthrough on how to install OpenSSH:
- Open Cydia and scroll down the main page to where it says “OpenSSH Access How-To.” Tap that option.
- On that page, click the blue linked text “Open SSH” in the first step. You’ll be presented with the OpenSSH package page. Click the install button in the top right corner, confirm when it’s finished, and return to Cydia.
- Open the Settings app from your home screen and go into your Wi-Fi settings. Click the little blue arrow next to the Wi-Fi network you’re currently connected to. Make a note of your IP address in the “IP Address” field (it should start with 10 or 192).
- To connect to your iOS device from your computer, use an SSH-capable application like Terminal on OS X or puTTy on Windows. Type
ssh root@YOUR_IP_ADDRESS(replacing YOUR_IP_ADDRESS with your actual IP address). When prompted, enter your password. It’s alpine by default. Once finished, you’re connected! You can also use an SFTP application like Cyberduck to connect as well, but that’ll limit your interactions to pretty much only file transfers.
- Lastly, you want to change your password. To do this, type the passwd command. You’ll be asked for a new password. Type it (nothing will show up for privacy reasons) and press enter. Type it in again to confirm it. Assuming you type your password correctly, you will be told it was changed successfully.
That’s it! Enjoy SSH’ing with your iOS device.
IMPORTANT:
Make absolutely certain that you alter the password of the mobile account! As mentioned above, by default it is “alpine”, but until the root and the mobile account passwords are changed, your phone is at high risk!
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Apple is preparing on launching iOS 4.3 either today or in the very near future. Good news: it’s already be jailbroken! PwnageTool has already jailbroken the iOS 4.3 beta and is therefore believed to be able to jb the final version as well.
The Jailbreak works on the iPhone 4, iPad, iPod Touch 4G!
This is a semi-tethered jailbreak! It is also not that easy so be wary!
All Downloads can be found at the bottom of the file
Good Luck
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1. Download PwnageTool bundle for your version of iOS device
2. Extract and end up with these two files: CydiaInstaller.bundle and a .bundle file, for this guide, we are using iPhone 4 bundle iPhone3, 1_4.3_8F5148b.bundle. Move all these files to your desktop.
3. Download PwnageTool 4.1.2 and copy it to your desktop. Right click, and then click on “Show Package Contents”
4. Navigate to Contents/Resources/FirmwareBundles/ and paste iPhone3, 1_4.3_8F5148b.bundle file in this location.
5. Now go to Contents/Resources/CustomPackages and here replace the CydiaInstaller.bundle file with the version that you downloaded in Step 1, and then simply close this folder.
6. Download iOS 4.3
7. Start PwnageTool in expert mode and select your device
8. Find your ipsw and select it
9. Select Build
10. Quite PwnageTool
11. Download Ramdisk_Maker.zip, extract the file, and move the folder to your desktop
12. Now open ramdisk_maker.sh file, and edit the paths required in a program like TextEdit, as shown highlighted in this screenshot.
13. Now start Terminal and run the following commands:
cd desktop
cd ramdisk_maker
./ramdisk_maker.sh
14. Follow directions that pop up in terminal:
15. First, create a folder on desktop named My_Ramdisk. Then change the extension of the original iOS 4.3 Beta file from .ipsw to .zip, and then extract this .zip file.
16. Here you will see a file named 038-0408-002.dmg. This is the file we need. Copy this file to My_Ramdisk folder that you created on desktop.
17. Once you have done that, you will notice that Terminal screen will automatically move to the next step.
18. Now go to ramdisk_maker folder that you saved earlier on desktop, here open the fileOptions.plist in a program like TextWrangler (available for free on the Mac App Store). Here change the <integer></integer> value under SystemPartitionSize <key></key> to 1116
19. Now save this Options.plist file and move it to My_Ramdisk folder. At this point, you will once again notice that Terminal will automatically move to complete the process.
20. Once done, you will now notice a new file named final_ramdisk.dmg in My_Ramdiskfolder. Rename this file as 038-0408-002.dmg
21. Now change the extension of the custom iOS 4.3 Beta firmware file that you created earlier from .ipsw to .zip, and then extract this .zip file.
22. Here, replace 038-0408-002.dmg file with the one you created in Step 19 above.
23. Now select all files, and click on “Compress 9 Items” so that it is converts back into .zip file. Now change the extension of this .zip file to .ipsw and you are done making the custom firmware, with fixed ramdisk.
24. Start iTunes, click on your iOS device icon from the sidebar in iTunes. Now press and hold left “alt” (option) button on Mac, or Left “Shift” button if you are on Windows on the keyboard and then click on “Restore” (Not “Update” or “Check for Update”) button in the iTunes and then release this button.
25. This will make iTunes prompt you to select the location for your custom firmware 4.3 file. Select the required custom .ipsw file that you created in Step 24 above, and click on “Open”.
26. wait
27. Since it is semi-tethered you will need tetherboot to help here. So download Tetherboot and extract it
28. First, we will need three files from the original iOS 4.3 Beta firmware namely:kernelcache.release.n90, iBEC.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu, and iBSS.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu.
Change the extension of the original iOS 4.3 Beta file from .ipsw to .zip, like you did in Step 15 above, and then extract this .zip file.
Now copy kernelcache.release.n90 file, and then copy iBEC.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu, andiBSS.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu files which are found under /Firmware/dfu/.
Move all these three files, and tetheredboot utility to a new folder named “tetheredboot” on the desktop
29. Now to boot your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into tethered mode, connect it with your computer and start it in Recovery Mode by holding Home and Power buttons until the connect to iTunes screen appears on your device.
30.Start Terminal and run the following commands:
sudo sh
enter your administrator password, then:
cd desktop/tetheredboot
./tetheredboot iBSS kernel
31. At some point you will be asked to enter DFU mode
32. Wait
33. Have some food and take a break that was kinda ridiculous! You’re done though so also have some fun!
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Downloads:
Download tetheredboot.zip
Download Ramdisk_Maker.zip.
Download PwnageTool 4.1.2 for Mac
Download Ramdisk_Maker.zip
Download iOS 4.3 Beta
Download iTunes 10.0.1 for Windows and Mac OS X
Download iOS 4.1 for iPhone 4, 3GS, 3GS and iPod touch 4G / 3G
Download iOS 4.1 for Apple TV 2G
Download iOS 3.2.2 for iPad
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Well, going with the “no device left behind (un-jailbroken) advocacy, eighteen-year old James Whelton as well as DarkMalloc have successfully brought about the cracking of the iP od Nano. Apparently, on his flight home from a trip, he decides to play with the device and see if its hackable:
“It was just a product of boredom,” he told Ars. “All the factory-installed stuff was seemingly boring to me, and I had time to kill, so I started playing with it.”
It seems the chip that powers the nano is very similar to the SoC used in the 4th gen iPod Nano and 2G iPod Touch.
Here are the official instructions, it is a bit technical so… be careful:
Well, here are instructions on how to mount the resource partition.
1. Download me please (I’m the 1.0 Nano firmware)
2. Rename: iPod_1.0_36A00403.ipsw to iPod_1.0_36A00403.zip and unzip
3. Download me as well
4. Use terminal to “cd” to the same folder that contains these files and build it using the following command: make -f Makefile
5. Find the file called “Firmware.MSE” in the folder “Pod_1.0_36A00403″ and drag that into the same folder as your built Extract2G file
6. In terminal, while in the same folder go to ./extract2g -A -4 Firmware.MSE
7. Now run this command: “dd if=rsrc.fw of=rsrc.img iseek=2 count=284672
8. This creates a filed called rsrc.img which you can find in finder. Merely click it to mount it.
Have fun!
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Well, according to Dissident, the Mac App Store has been cracked with software called Kickback.
Kickback will be available sometime in February and was created, not surprisingly, by Hackulous, the same community that cracked Apple’s DRM system in iOS.
Kickback will actually allow you to get any software available on the Mac App Store for free but it’s release is being postponed for these reasons:
We don’t want to release kickback as soon as the [Mac App] Store gets released. I have a few reasons for that.
Most of the applications that go on the Mac App Store [in the first instance] will be decent, they’ll be pretty good. Apple isn’t going to put crap on the App Store as soon as it gets released. It’ll probably take months for the App Store to actually have a bunch of crappy applications and when we feel that it has a lot of crap in it, we’ll probably release Kickback.
So we’re not going to release Kickback until well after the store’s been established, well after developers have gotten their applications up. We don’t want to devalue applications and frustrate developers.
Apparently, other supporters and advocates of Kickback say that it is attempting to promote Apple’s use of demo’s and trial periods (something not currently available) . . . hahaha
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due to the recent drought in jailbreaking news I have a few tidbits to share on the world of Apple:
1. Mac App Store is here!
However trite you may deem it, I see this launch as a very monumental one. . . especially for all those hackers out there. For the official assembly of all that software can certainly be made into an opportunity for those that seek to hack that software. This release also brings us that much closer to the Cydia App store!
2. New iPad design rumors seem right on the money!
According to a recently released CES iPad 2nd generation case mock-ups, the spec rumors previously posted seem to be very accurate:
- A Facetime Camera for video calls
- Design: Thinner from front to back and supposedly skinnier from side to side as well.
- New High Definition screen
- Much needed, much better speakers.
- The new back is more flat and iPod Touch Like with a reduced size of 239 mm by 186 mm which means a slight decrease in the size of the bezel.
- The sides of the iPad 2 should be flat, like the iPhone 4, making it easier to hold.
3. Verizon iPhone
Don’t get too excited yet but I think that if it’s going to happen, it will happen sometime very soon. The CES event today went as expected, the Verizon CEO did not mention anything about the iPhone. Although this may sound like bad news, I’m sure that Steve would have wanted to announce the news were it a reality. It was however announced that something big was primed for 1/11/11.
Some additional evidence has been brought to the table (very idealistic). It seems that Apple has limited retail store staff vacations for the coming months . . . for a big launch perhaps??
4. More Social Network stuff
Although personally not excited about more Ping-like experiments, I am social and I do love music and I believe, therefore, that there can be a good combination. It seems Apple is moving towards trying more social networking things this year.
5. The year of the Tablets
Many are calling this the year of the tablets . . . great news I say. As seen in the phone market, competition like the android market has forced Apple to keep moving, I’m hoping the same happens in the tablet arena. What I’m especially excited for is Android Honeycomb (check out a video here)
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Saurik, the incredible creator of Cydia has decided that, as Apple rolls out with the Mac App store, that Cydia needs to find its way to the mac platform as well. It’s really exciting to think of the possibilities that Cydia could bring to the somewhat uncustomizable (or at least, not easily customizable) mac interface. This new Mac Cydia will allow users to find and install both open source as well as proprietary mods created especially for jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches. We all know how careful the Apple app store hands out approvals and I’m very excited to see what imaginative and useful mods will come to the mac.
These mods are based on a framework termed “MobileSubstrate” which enables the easy install and implementation of these mods. Mobile substrate allows for things such as Winterboard, SBSettings, and Commcenter. Saurik brings us CydiaSubstrate which enables these mods on both iOS as well as on OSX.
One handy feature that a desktop version of Cydia brings us is a much more connected Jailbreak process. The new Cydia will bypass updates and help jailbreak users stay safe from all sorts of Apple hazards. The entire tethering and syncing process will be revolutionized and bring ease and probably much more popularity to jailbreaking, yay expansion!
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Yesterday, the dev team announced its carrier unlock for the iPhone 3G/3GS for owners with a baseband later than 05.13.04!
Route #1 (redsn0w for OSX + Windows):
- If you have an old-bootrom 3GS and are already unlockable but want to get to 4.2.1, please wait til the dev team releases an “unofficial” bundle for you.
- Use redsn0w for OSX or Windows. Enable the “Install iPad baseband” option and accept the warning.
- When the redsn0w ramdisk is finished, install ultrasn0w via Cydia.
- Enjoy!
Route #2 (PwnageTool for OSX):
- If you have an old-bootrom 3GS and are already unlockable but want to get to 4.2.1, please wait til the dev team releases an “unofficial” bundle for you. Read no further.
- Download this IPSW
- Run PwnageTool to create a custom 4.1 IPSW. Tell it you want to use the iPad baseband you just downloaded. Restore to this custom IPSW.
- Install ultrasn0w through Cydia
- Enjoy!
download PwnageTool
download RedSnow:
- OSX (SHA1 a322ec2c9e91993eca21abaf2e655bb44de3d7d4)
- Windows (SHA1 7250416e17c3aea9838cdfc73712b38b025e2ed0)
DEV TEAM WARNING: If you do flash your baseband via redsn0w, please keep it plugged into USB the whole time. You don’t want your battery to die during the flash process!
ps. (Windows 7 and Vista users, please run redsn0w as Administrator in “XP Compatiblity Mode”)
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Apple has released iOS 4.2.1 and the dev team has snapped up the challenge and presents us with some Turkey Day Gifts!
UltraSn0w Unlockers – Beware!
Please Stay away from the official 4.2.1 firmware and wait for the ability to create custom 4.2.1 IPSW’s that will not update you baseband!
iPhone 3G
Rejoice, you are granted the full, untethered* Jailbreak.
iPhone 3GS
Rejoice, you are granted the full, untethered Jailbreak.
non-MC iPod Touch 2G
Rejoice, you are granted the full, untethered Jailbreak.
The Rest
Unfortunately, all of you’re jailbreaks remain tethered* But have no fear, @comex is working hard on making this jailbreak untethered.
The Dev team reminds you to, “please make sure you have your 4.1 SHSH blobs for all your devices. These will be important even for firmware beyond 4.1 (using both comex’s method and our alternative, depending on how each of them turn out.)”
ultrasn0w unlock: After redsn0w is officially released with the new Cydia and kernel patches, we’ll be able to assess the unlock situation. It’s already looking very promising though, so expect the unlock for the 3G and 3GS to be coming this week. The i4 unlock is taking more effort though, and no further concrete info is available about that yet.
Download
Remember to update to iTunes 10.1 for the best possible results!
Windows 7 users are also asked to run Redsn0w in “XP Compatibility” mode for similar “best results”
Mac
PC
* tethered vs untethered Jailbreak –
a tethered jailbreak requires the jailbreak to be re-configured upon every restart of your device while a untethered jailbreak, as follows logically, does not require this and needs only be jailbroken once.
