Learn how to use, hack and mod the Apple iPhone, iPad & iPod touch
Restoring your iPhone can be very scary and may not always work unless you put the iPhone into recovery mode first. We will try to help you through this process. Here are the steps:
1. Connect your iPhone to your computer via USB cable.
2. Close iTunes.
3. Hold the home & lock button at the same time until you see the connect to iTunes symbol on your iPhone. [Read more...]
The Dev team has finally released the official 1.1.3 Jailbreak. Here is a link to the file: http://rapidshare.com/files/86954656/jb113.zip.
hackthatphone.com already has a guide out for it although the zip file above contains a readme file with instructions. We’ll try this one soon and let you know how it goes. So far, word is that Google’s Locate feature still doesn’t work…
*UPDADTE* Looks like the file is available in Installer via iPod Touch Fans Source: www.touchrepo.com/repo.xml
After receiving Doug’s enthusiastic text announcing the Jailbreak for 1.1.3, and his live-blogging, I decided I had to give it a shot too.
First off, I went and got Nate True’s new version of iBrickr, which comes in a zip file. Extracted all the contents of that zip to a easy-to-find folder on my desktop. Opened that folder and ran iBrickr.exe. [Read more...]
The early release of the jailbreak for 1.1.3 by Nate True has had it’s issues. Here are some easy fixes available in Installer.app.
Google Maps locate feature did not function – Installing Navizon and running once should cause this feature to work permanently.
Google Maps hybrid feature did not function – Installing Navizon and running once should cause this feature to work permanently.
iPhone doesn’t play ringtone when receiving call – Install 1.1.3 Ringtone Fix from the Installer.app via BigBoss source (sleepers.net/iphonerepo).
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I’ve decided I’m not happy with the 1.1.3 jailbreak. Too many features don’t work both on the new Apple features and third party apps. So, I’m going to restore to 1.1.1. I’m going to assume since my baseband wasn’t upgraded I should just be able to but the iPhone in recovery mode and use the shift+restore feature in iTunes. Let’s see what happens:
12:55pm – SSHing in to remove the nate true install file of approx 300MB from the /var/root/media/softupdate folder. The file name is 113_upgrade_image.bin
1:00pm – Putting iPhone into recovery mode by connecting it to the PC via USB. iTunes is closed.
1:02pm – The connect to iTunes image has appeared, opening iTunes.
1:02pm – iTunes is updating it’s Library due to the upgrade to 7.6 last night.
1:07pm – iTunes detected iPhone in restore mode. I held shift key and clicked restore. Chose 1.1.1 restore file from c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates\
OK, so we did the 1.1.3 jailbreak using a previously jailbroke 1.1.1. Below are some of the things we learned. We do plan on adding screenshots to this eventually! If you would like to see the live blog from when we upgraded click HERE.
Things that do not work so well:
~ Google maps Hybrid feature does not work…either does the Location feature (it just spins)
UPDATE: Locate and Hybrid View in Maps.app can be fixed and does work! See comments 10, 13, and 14 below! ~Jacob
~ Edge symbol does not show up though it seems Edge is working
~ Previously installed 3rd party apps do not show up on SpringBoard though they are in the Uninstall list in the Installer.app – you have to go in and uninstall and reinstall them all.
~ Cannot OpenSSH into the iPhone even after reinstalling BSD Subsytems. HOWEVER, we finally got it to work after installing MobileFinder and using it to delete LocalPackages.plist in private/var/root/Library/Installer/. We could then install BSD Subsystem and OpenSSH and were able to OpenSSH into the iPhone. Note: Deleting your LocalPackages.plist removes all of your installed apps and you will have to install everything again (which you have to do anyway so that they will show up on the SpringBoard).
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Jailbreak for 1.1.3 is out for the iPhone (this doesn’t work on the iPod Touch yet…) and I will be live blogging my experience here at AppleiPhoneSchool.com. Once I have it figured out see our Mod/Hack page for steps to Jailbreaking 1.1.3!
Here is the link to iBrickr Special 1.1.3: http://devices.natetrue.com/iphone/ibrickr-jb113.zip
5:46pm – connected 1.1.1 jailbroke iPhone to XP Pro PC via USB cable & dock; syncing my iPhone with iTunes 7.5.8.20 (just in case…)
6:11pm – Updating iTunes to 7.6 (64.99MB)
6:22pm – PC Powers off during iTunes Download/Upgrade; restarting.
6:28pm – Syncing to iTunes 7.6 (just in case…) Brooke just reminded me to check if iTunes actually upgraded, it did not. Trying again.
7:08pm – iTunes upgrade successful [Read more...]
Great news! 1.1.3 has been jailbroke. Here’s the info I have so far. Basically they (the iphone dev team and elite team) have both the iPhone and the iPod Touch jailbroke but are holding off the release until the SDK release in February, that way Apple can’t create a fix. The goal is to make is so you can have apps released through Apple and Installer.app together on your jailbroke iPhone. We will still need to jailbreak iPhones after the SDK to install apps not approved by Apple, to install themes, wallpapers, alternate sounds, etc. Also games like NES, adding ringtones without buying them on iTunes, or hacked text messaging tools are why we need jailbreaking. Here are some links and a video:
1.1.3 Jailbreak Achieved – not public yet – modmyifone.com
JailBreak 1.1.3 is real – hackint0sh.org
1.1.3 Jailbroken ! – Zibri’s Blog
Complete file list of 1.1.3 Firmware
1.1.3 has been announced at Macworld today and here’s the feature list:
- You can now text message multiple people at once
- Google Maps gets GPS via triangulation
- Google Maps gets hybrid view
- Drag and drop icons on home screen
- Ability to add webclips (bookmarks) to your home screen
- Ability for multiple pages on home screen, limited to 9
- Ability to display lyrics on music
- Videos get chapters
- Gmail button is now IMAP
Note: If you update to 1.1.3 it will unjailbreak your iPhone, removing all of your 3rd pary apps and there is currently no jailbreak available for 1.1.3.
Official Press Release: [Read more...]
I found a real nice jailbreak tutorial from iClarified.com with step-by-step instructions, lots of screenshots and even a video! I’ve added this to the Mod/Hack page.
This would be sweet! I could do twice the work on my iPhone. macscoop.com says they have info that the new firmware will be released at macworld will include copy and paste. Maybe it will look like this:
Top news right now is the future release of firmware 1.1.3. There are some nice features including the Google Maps GPS via triangulation. Here’s the list of possible new features:
- ability to send an SMS message to multiple people (currently available from iSMS)
- Google Maps application pinpoints your location using cell tower triangulation (previously available from MyLocation 1.0.5 until it was shut down by Google)
- Google Maps displays the Hybrid map view
- drag and drop application icons on your home screen (currently available in Customize)
- The home screen supports pagination (multiple pages like summerboard)
- ability to add web bookmarks to your home screen (currently available from iphone apper or the LimitedEditioniPhone Source)
This doesn’t add much to a jailbroke iPhone, but [Read more...]
We have created a page that links to iPhone firmware from Apple. AppleiPhoneSchool.com/firmware
download firmware 1.1.2
download firmware 1.1.1
download firmware 1.0.2
download firmware 1.0.1
download firmware 1.0
Last Poll: What iPhone firmware are you currently running?
Top Answer: 1.1.1
A little over half are on 1.1.1 (182 votes), 1.1.2 came in second (162 votes).
New Poll: What do you use your iPhone for the most?
This is a multiple choice poll…so, choose a few of the things you really use the most!
To see the full poll results and all our previous polls…check out our Polls page.
