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The iPhone Dev Team along with many others have now released the Official iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak! I have just run through the process and its one of the easiest I have seen.

Overview
1. Download the Jailbreak Pack here.
2. Copy the files to the root of the iPhone/iPod Touch.
3. Set execute permissions.
4. Run install.sh.

A more in-depth guide is in the README of the Jailbreak pack. For those who want to see the process I have made a video of my first attempt at jailbreaking my phone. Sorry for the crappy video quality, I had to use an old webcam . Note: I have cut out points in the video where the installer appears to lag, when attempting the jailbreak process yourself it may take much longer.

Official 1.1.3 IPhone / IPod Touch Jailbreak.

For those wondering how I made this video, here is a picture of my high-tech recording station featuring state of the art 5×5 rubik’s cube tripod

Tags: iPhone by Max
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Many have seen tricks to make your hacked iPhone’s springboard look the screenshot below. All tutorials I have come across require uploading three copies of an app with a black or clear icon, Now this achieves the correct look, but if you happen to push any of these spaces an the app opens and then closes. This tutorial will produce the same visual without the nasty side effects.

1. Goto Installer and install the following applications in this order; Community Sources, BSD Subsystem, OpenSSH, Erica’s Utilities and Customize. If you are on 1.1.1 and used jailbreakme.com, Community Sources is already installed.

2. On the phone open Customize and put three applications before iTunes:

3. Exit Customize, your home screen should now look something like this:

4. Windows users, download Putty. Mac users just open Terminal in Applications > Utilities > Terminal.

5. Now SSH to your phone. To do this get the internal IP address from your iPhone by going to Settings > Wifi and click the blue arrow next to your wifi network. On windows put this IP address in the hostname field and click the Open button. For mac type “ssh root@ip-address-here” without quotes into terminal and click enter.

6. The default user and password for 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 iPhones is root, alpine. Once logged in you should see a “#” symbol.

7. First we want to stop YouTube, iTunes Store and Safari from auto hiding when the phone reboots, to do this type the following commands into Putty/Terminal:

# cd ~/bin
# ./plutil -0 SBIsRevealable /Applications/YouTube.app/Info.plist
# ./plutil -0 SBIsRevealable /Applications/MobileSafari.app/Info.plist
# ./plutil -0 SBIsRevealable /Applications/MobileStore.app/Info.plist

Next we want to set the three applications put before iTunes store to auto-hide, The three applications I used were Installer, Customize and SMBPrefs these may differ for other users.

# ./plutil -1 SBIsRevealable /Applications/Installer.app/Info.plist
# ./plutil -1 SBIsRevealable /Applications/Customize.app/Info.plist
# ./plutil -1 SBIsRevealable /Applications/SMBPrefs.app/Info.plist

Finally, we want to turn application hiding on in springboard: (NOTE: The command below is only ONE command not two)

# ./plutil -s SBEnableAppReveal -v YES ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist

Once all of this is done restart springboard like so:

./restart

The whole process in Putty/Terminal will look like this:

8. Success!!! Your iPhone should now look like the screenshots below. To hide/unhide your three applications double-tap the three blank spaces next to iTunes.

Tags: iPhone by Max
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MxTube (www.mxweas.com/mxtube) is my new web application, it allows anyone to search YouTube exactly the same as you would with the YouTube app but with a few extra features. When on the iPhone, MxTube allows watching videos high or low quality, completely independent from connection speed. Videos can also be displayed in portrait or landscape modes and are also playable in Quicktime or the YouTube applications. While on a computer, MxTube offers the same quality search as YouTube, but with high res mp4 (Better quality than YouTube.com in my opinion) and low res 3gp download links with an embed link to the swf. If you have any feature requests or find bugs post a comment on this post and I will update it asap. If you would like to help with any of my other projects or just chat join #ilounge on irc.osx86.hu.

Max

Thanks to Zenexer for the help retrieving iPhone headers, ViO for Logo Design, and g and Oney for beta testing.

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I have been getting many questions about the Magic SIM method. I will try to clear up as much confusion as I can in this post. First, the Magic SIM software version that was linked in the other post can only talk to a card writer on the serial port. I have been told by many people that Magic SIM offers a usb driver/compatible version of their software. Also I forgot to mention that Woron Scan comes with the Magic SIM software. Second, the IMSI and ICCID are the only things that the phone uses to validate the SIM card and therefore the ki does not need to be programmed into the dual SIM. According to mitts who talked with Eric from Magic SIM, The latest version of Magic SIM (v16) is NOT programmable while the one linked to in my original post (v15) is. This leads me to my final conclusion, BigBuckz could be lying about getting this method to work. As I said in my original post, this is ONLY a theory. BigBuckz had talked with g who apparently said that the method had worked 100%, though after looking through the thread his claim is starting to not look legit. For one, he has absolutely no proof that he successfully programmed a Magic SIM and used it to unlock his iPhone. Next, he claims in the thread to have used v16 which isn’t programmable. Last, this method contains no IMSI and ICCID timing as seen on Turbo SIM. As mitts has pointed out to me, a crucial part of this that was overlooked was IMSI / ICCID timing and counting. When power is given to the Turbo SIM, it sends the IMSI and ICCID two times at crucial points when the phone is actually checking for validity. From here on until the SIM card is disconnected the Turbo SIM sends the actual IMSI and ICCID. Therefore unless the programmed dual SIM just happens to send the programmed IMSI and ICCID at the right times before switching to the actual IMSI and ICCID WITHOUT disconnecting, it is not possible for this method to work.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
Max

PS: Those with questions for BigBuckz, please ask in the forum thread I posted. He does not answer questions in the comments of these posts.

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According to BigBuckz from Hackint0sh forums, the procedure from the last post works! If anyone knows of a way to improve them please post it in a comment. Also I just wanted to point out if it wasn’t clear before, the software only communicates on a serial port.

Max

Edit: Here is the thread where BigBuckz has confirmed the method to work and where others have been testing.

NOTE: BigBuckz has provided no proof that he has been successful. He has just claimed that the method worked.

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As you may or may not know, Turbo SIM’s are used to fake the IMSI and ICCID to look like AT&T. This effectively tricks the iPhone into believing a T-Mobile SIM is an AT&T SIM. At the moment this is the ONLY way to use another network besides AT&T on iPhones that come with firmware version 1.1.2 out of the box. I have been helping with a project created by g and Dark(DarKSideZ) from irc.osx86.hu. Basically, the idea is to reprogram one of those $10 dual SIM cards from eBay to work like a Turbo SIM. They got the idea from a recent video of Sonic SIM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkwn_Bb3Bho). In the video you can see what looks like a dual SIM card holder performing like a Turbo SIM. After seeing this g, Dark, myself (mxweas) and PsxGunDown got to work on trying to find how it was done. Soon we found Magic SIM, a $10 dual SIM card that can be reprogrammed using Magic SIM Card Reader & Writer. The Magic SIM software communicates with com/serial card writers. So programming Magic SIM’s dual SIM card with an AT&T IMSI and ICCID should produce the same results as Turbo SIM / Sonic SIM. We have yet to attempt this and would like to see if it actually works. If anyone has a SIM card writer, test out the instructions below and let us know your results. BigBuckz has tested the method and confirmed it working, but we are still waiting for pic/video confirmation.

Items Needed:

• Magic SIM’s Dual SIM Card (Must be a Magic SIM, others will not work) – MagicSIM, eBay
• Serial SIM Card Reader & Writer
• Magic SIM’s SIM Editing Software – Download

Put your AT&T SIM into your SIM writer, and open SIM Scanner and scan your AT&T SIM card. Write down the ICCID as we will need this later. Next open Woron Scan and get your IMSI. Now put in your Magic SIM Dual SIM Card and open SIM Data. Put in your AT&T IMSI and ICCID into and transfer it back to your Dual SIM. Using the paper guide from your Dual SIM, cut your provider’s SIM card accordingly. You should now be able to put your provider’s SIM card into the Dual SIM and then into your iPhone . If this works for anyone or you know of ways to improve these steps, post a reply in the comments of this post.

Max

Edit (Dec 10): BigBuckz has confirmed this method to work, but we are still waiting for pic/video confirmation.

Edit (Dec 12): BigBuckz’ confirmation of this method is false, Please read these posts for more info:
More Magic Sim Info and MxWeas: Status

Edit (Dec 17): Those who claim this is a scam, I want to say that is completely false. First, how can I scam people if I make NO money from this? As I said in my first post, it was only a theory, and in my second post I said that though BigBuckz claims to have got the method to work he has no evidence. I’m sorry to those who jumped the gun to early and bought the materials needed for it, but I just wanted to clarify I had no intension’s of making it a hoax. It was just a theory that I hoped people who were willing to shell out a few bucks would try and not expect it to work.

Tags: iPhone by Max
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