Monday, November 12, 2007

iPhone: Jailbreaking 1.1.2 – This time it WORKED!

by Michael Sheehan on November 12, 2007

in Apple, Cellular, Gadgets, General, iPhone, Software

My previous post showed how I failed miserably with the Jailbreak process on 1.1.2. Now I have done some research and have tried it again…and it WORKED!!!

Success

UPDATE on 11.13.07 @ 3:45pm – added some screenshots of the iNdependence MobileFramework stuff at the end of the post.

UPDATE #2 on 11.15.07 @ 10:30am – added instructions on how to put the “libreadline.5.2.dylib” into the proper directory on your Mac 

So first, here are the files that I used for this: [click to continue…]

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iPhone: Jailbreaking 1.1.2 iPhone firmware DID NOT WORK FOR ME!

by Michael Sheehan on November 12, 2007

in Apple, Cellular, Gadgets, General, iPhone, Software

What started out as what I had hoped to be a relatively pain-free process has made me wince with TONS of pain. Listed below is what I TRIED to do to get my iPhone jailbroken on 1.1.2. IT DID NOT WORK FOR ME! Others may have had success, I did not. It could have been that I’m on Leopard and running iTunes 7.5 and using a beta of iNdependence but despite my best efforts, I have [sigh] failed. What I have listed below are the steps that I have taken to only fail in the end. I am posting this to show users how something can go wrong. Bottom line, just read this but don’t do it (yet).

Broken iPhone

UPDATE 11.12.07 @ 10:45 PM – I got it to work. I have posted my steps here.

I decided to hold off on installing 1.1.2 on my jailbroken iPhone until there was an “easier” process to do this. Since it seems like the iPhone developer community is getting better and better at this, the time I have to wait has become much shorter. Here is the process that I followed to get to the latest iPhone firmware released by Apple. First, here is my environment and associated files:

  • iPhone running Firmware 1.1.1 (3A109a) with Jailbreak in place and 3rd party apps installed
  • iPhone modem firmware version 04.01.13_G
  • iPhone activated through AT&T
  • iTunes (Mac) version 7.5 (19)
  • iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 downloaded (160 MBs) here called “iPhone1,1_1.1.2_3B48b_Restore.ipsw”
  • 1.1.2 Jailbreak application (download here) – note this is Intel-only right now for Mac
  • OktoPrep (version 1.0) installed on iPhone
  • libreadline.5.2.dylib (download here) installed into /usr/local/lib
  • Restore version of Apple iPhone firmware 1.1.1 is here called “iPhone1,1_1.1.1_3A109a_Restore.ipsw”
  • iNdependence (I used 1.3b2 and installed the appropriate MobileDevice framework located here) located here

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