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iOS Jailbreak/Unlock |OT|
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GodfatherX
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is that the official word from Dev-team?Duane Cunningham said:
I never seem to see these release dates anywhere
Frustrated_me
Member
Mailenstein said:
Went through SOOOOO much trouble to jailbreak with a windows (i have a mac) i didnt have access to throughout, and NOW they release a mac. Im grateful and all but next time just release the tools when the mac/windows version is ready. Jesus - I'm mad yes.
Mailenstein
Member
Me too, and it took me 48 hours to jailbreak my iPhone using a few different Windows machines. But to be honest it was like this since... ever? So no news here actually.Frustrated_me said:
Mailenstein
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The only thing I can think of is Infiniboard by chpwn:Dartastic said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Souf0HUy56k
Hope this is what you're looking for.
Last night I synced a couple of episodes of The Simpsons to my iPod Touch. This morning when I went to watch one it says there are no videos on the device. Then I went to listen to some music, and lo and behold it says there isn't any music either. All my apps from iTunes are still available, so are the ones from Cydia. Where did all my media go? Has anybody else encountered this before?
Mailenstein
Member
Do you handle your music manually? Then yes.ChRoNiTe said:
Mailenstein
Member
Well when you restore the phone, everything will be deleted and your backup you made before doesn't contain songs or videos nor information which were on the device. So when you restore your phone everything beside music and videos will be restored of course. I handle that the same way like you do and don't play around with playlists, so I don't know if there is really a difference.ChRoNiTe said:
For any of you with PowerPC macs, limera1n doesn't appear to work on them. I just tried and was told that the program doesn't work on my architecture. Of course, I had already upgraded my phone to 4.1. Can I use an old backup to go back, or will it keep the 4.1 and only affect other settings?
Have there been reports of issues recording video after the jailbreak? Today I have "lost" several videos I tried to record. The screen suggests it is recording, the timer counts up, I hit the button to stop recording and then when I go look in the photos the video just isn't there. I recorded about 6 today and 3 of them just vanished without a trace. One was actually a birthday video of candles being blown out and it's just not there. I don't get it.
So I just browsed to my iPhone using SSH. The video I took around 6pm is there (I can see it in my iPhone also) but it has the exact timestamp of the video I recorded around 7pm, which is just...gone. WTF?
So I just browsed to my iPhone using SSH. The video I took around 6pm is there (I can see it in my iPhone also) but it has the exact timestamp of the video I recorded around 7pm, which is just...gone. WTF?
Frustrated_me
Member
Same, PKGbackup just would not restore apps even though it said it did.SleazyC said:
civilstrife
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First time jailbreaker here.
I have an Iphone 4 on 4.1 and I want to be able to unlock it at some point.
So... what's the protocol?
backup on Itunes, jailbreak...profit?
Anything i'm missing? What's all this about backing up apps?
I have an Iphone 4 on 4.1 and I want to be able to unlock it at some point.
So... what's the protocol?
backup on Itunes, jailbreak...profit?
Anything i'm missing? What's all this about backing up apps?
Dreams-Visions
Member
no, just backup then jailbreak. nothing else applies to your situation. enjoy.civilstrife said:
If you want to unlock your phone at some point you will have to do a manage update. It pretty much entails using TinyUmbrella to setup a fake firmware upgrade server that Itunes will use. Should be able to preserve your baseband so that you can unlock in the future.civilstrife said:
All the app backup talk is mainly concerning the jailbroken apps being backed up since they aren't picked up by Itunes in its backup unless you use a third party app like PkgBackup.
Mailenstein
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GodfatherX
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might try greenpois0n tonight on our iphone 4s, but right now i could use some advice on an iPhone 3G that im giving to my sister. Last I heard iOS4 was very unstable on the 3g, has this changed with 4.1 or is my best bet to take it to 3.1.3 (its currently at 3.0 yeah havent updated it in a long ass time)
I will also need to maintain a carrier unlock
I will also need to maintain a carrier unlock
GodfatherX
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yeah, knew it would run slower on the 3G, but when 4 first came out I heard a lot of reports on it basically being unfunctional, I'm gonna go with 3.1.3, using Spirit, and then I can use Ultrasn0w for the unlock, no need to back up shsh blobs with that right?
GodfatherX
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backed up the shsh blobs, decided to restore to 3.1.2 and use jailbreakme.com for the jailbreak then ultrasnow unlock
DeathbyVolcano
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I don't understand this SHSH blob talk. What's it relate to?
Problems with PkgBackup?
Did you guys verify that all of your Cydia apps were captured?
For example, my backup caught 120 apps.
Then I synced to iTunes, restored to 4.1, jailbroke, and restored my data via an iTunes backup.
Then I redownloaded PkgBackup from Cydia, which found that pre-JB backup of 120 apps. Clicked restore and it proceeded to quickly restore my Cydia apps and their folder layouts. Around 10 of the 120 failed due to downed repos (Cydia was getting blasted) and the occasional app that just wasn't working on 4.1.
But even then PkgBackup kept a clean list of what was in and what was out. In my case around 110 / 120 apps were in. I also had an issue with blanked or whited out icons, but a full reboot fixed that!
Did you guys verify that all of your Cydia apps were captured?
For example, my backup caught 120 apps.
Then I synced to iTunes, restored to 4.1, jailbroke, and restored my data via an iTunes backup.
Then I redownloaded PkgBackup from Cydia, which found that pre-JB backup of 120 apps. Clicked restore and it proceeded to quickly restore my Cydia apps and their folder layouts. Around 10 of the 120 failed due to downed repos (Cydia was getting blasted) and the occasional app that just wasn't working on 4.1.
But even then PkgBackup kept a clean list of what was in and what was out. In my case around 110 / 120 apps were in. I also had an issue with blanked or whited out icons, but a full reboot fixed that!
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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Well trying to JB with greenpoison was a horrible waste of time. I had to restore back to factory settings then my backup. So now to try limera1n.
oldschoolpinball
Member
it was much much easier than i thought to jailbreak this time around
jts
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I have to say auto3G is a fucking miraculous piece of software. Right on the first testing day, my iPhone 4 managed to last a full 36 hours of standby and 7:15 hours of usage (mainly phone calling and wi-fi browsing) which is to say, two full days of usage on the same battery charge.
Apple could/should include this type of network management option, it would greatly improve the perception of the device's battery life.
Just another reason why jailbreaking makes an iPhone effectively better.
Apple could/should include this type of network management option, it would greatly improve the perception of the device's battery life.
Just another reason why jailbreaking makes an iPhone effectively better.
Did it about 3 times before i gave up and just started manually downloading my apps and setting up my categories. Picked up SBOrganizer so I could have my layout captured as well and that seemed to be a bit wonky as well.Mejilan said:
I'm not really sweating it right now but if it happens when I jailbreak the next time I'll see about contacting the dev.
EDIT - Since I have you here Mejilan, does Notified totally suppress Apple's notifcation system? How does a notification popping up when your phone is locked work with it? A good example here would be a text message, currently I get a popup-notification via biteSMS that I can respond in. I wouldn't want this to go away but do really like what Notified provides you.
Well, this was my first jailbreak and I'm now going to just revert back today. I like some of the additional features, but the instability that has shown up since I jailbroke just isn't worth it. I've lost several videos that I recorded, apps I've purchased (like Final Fantasy) that work one day magically do nothing today, and it resprings/crashes randomly. Today I started to call my mom and then bam, Apple logo. When it recovered I was in safe mode and had to respring again. The only things I've ever installed are MyWi, Bite SMS, and SBSettings. If it's this unstable already I fear what would happen if I tried anything else.
My first jailbreak was pretty similar. I had pretty poor stability and at one point my SIM card refused to be found by the phone. I had to restore to original firmware. I flirted with a jailbroken phone three more times for various lengths but so far my iphone4 has been rock solid. I would say try starting from scratch and see if it doesn't work out with you. Might have been a weird combination of things causing you problems.Seth C said:
Notified pro let's you surpress apples modal notifications but you are better off using popup blocker on cydia - it has more options.SleazyC said:
I'd say notified has potential but I was having my mail app crash frequently when using it - it's apparently a problem on 4.1. There's also a lack of options. I'll keep an eye on it but for now it is uninstalled.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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Man, sucks to hear you guys have had such terrible trouble jailbreaking your phones. I usually dread every Os revision because jailbreaking on my 2g was a horrid experience that took hours. I wasn't as hesitant this time because I've got a newer laptop and the possibility of a camera fix (my phone took yellow pics under incandescent and low light) was too great of an incentive. Thankfully, I jailbroke the 4 on my first try and the whole process took about 20 minutes to get my phone from scratch to fully restored.
i mentioned this before, but LockInfo has roughly the same functionality as Notified (called 'infoshade'), but has been far less buggy in my use. it has integration with biteSMS, and can be activated and dismissed with a swipe-down gesture on the screen when combined with Activator. additionally, you can show far more information on this screen than just notifications, such as weather and RSS feeds.
LockInfo by itself will redirect all popups while the phone is blocked into its reformatted lockscreen. combining it with Popup Blocker (by the same author) will also redirect popups when the phone is unlocked and in use.
LockInfo by itself will redirect all popups while the phone is blocked into its reformatted lockscreen. combining it with Popup Blocker (by the same author) will also redirect popups when the phone is unlocked and in use.
That would be a terrible idea. Auto3g might be useful on trips where you don't have access to a charger, but it certainly shouldn't be used all the time if you care about cell network data access. Switching networks takes time, and if you do it so often I'm sure persistent connections will be broken, so for example, task completing apps will fail. Sure there is a whitelist for that, but it really leads to a lot of micromanagement that is just too much for any normal user to want to deal with.jts said:
I wouldn't give this app that much of a recommendation. Use it in a pinch if needed, that is all.
Okay, I jailbroke my 4G with Limera1n. Everything went smoothly.
What happens now when Apple releases a new version of firmware? Can I just install it normally? Also, if I want to get rid of the jailbreak for some reason, can I just restore the phone from an old unjailbroken backup or what?
What happens now when Apple releases a new version of firmware? Can I just install it normally? Also, if I want to get rid of the jailbreak for some reason, can I just restore the phone from an old unjailbroken backup or what?