JEsTer's iPhone Information

There is a new IRC help channel out there. Many good users have started this channel and it provides an unbiased, uncensored place for helping users. We support any of the available solutions for activating, unlocking, and jailbreaking and will advise users honestly for whatever is best to get their device working as it should. You can connect to this channel using IRC, the server is irc.tux-irc.net and the channel is #iphone-support. FireFox has a plugin called Chatzilla you can use to connect and there is a ajax web service at mibbit.com which is free to use to connect. If you want a true IRC client, mIRC is recommended for PC and Linkinus or Colloquy for Mac. Please come and join us in there if you need any help at all and feel free to idle around all you want. Tell your friends where to come for help as well, hope to see you there.

I have not tried this myself yet, probably will today, or tomorrow but for anyone who wants to use PwnageTool 1.1 to change their boot or recovery logo, without having to restore every time here is how.

1) Take your ipsw file and rename it to .zip extension

2) Navigate to Firmware/all_flash/all_flash.m68ap.production/

3) There you will find applelogo.img2 & recoverymode.img2, that is the Boot and recovery logo.

4) Now take your img2 files and just copy it (with good names) to the folder in the .zip file.

5) rename now the .zip extension back to .ipsw and your done !

6) Now flash the firmware and your new images are there.

I've found another method posted at hackint0sh, I'll also try this one when I can. If you try one or the other, let me know how it goes in the comments.

Do everything up to the point of creating your custom firmware.

You then change the extension of the firmware to .zip then browse the zip file and navigate to:

Firmware/All_Flash/all_flash.m68ap.production

Then copy the files applelogo.img2 and recoverymode.img2

You will then rename them to logo.img2 and recovery.img2.

You then go to the PwnageTool and right click and show package contents then navigate to: Contents/Resources/iPwner and overwrite the logo.img2 and recovery.img2 files that are there.

THEN, open pwnage, select a firmware and then click iPwner and it will put your custom images without restoring. Instead of the pineapple that usually comes when you do iPwner, your images willl come up.

I will report back with my experiences when I give these a try.

PwnageTool has finally been released. Currently only the mac version is available, but the Windows version should be available within 24 hours. I'm too tired to do an in depth post right now so I will get to one in the morning. Anyhow, check out the press release and download the best tool available now! Here is some info about BootNeuter. Here is some info about a *working*, soon to come, wifi fix!

Need those pesky bootloader images? Get them here and simply point to the corresponding .bin files. (it has a big image file in it so it could meet requirements for hosting)

digg it

Need to get rid of that nice new purple restore screen after going to 2.0?
First, you have to admit to me that you knew you shouldn't have went to 2.0 yet.
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c'mon admit it!............ok thank you!
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Now I'll help you out, with a semi technical way of downgrading.
You will need to be able to connect to your phone to run some commands and move some files on to it. If you don't know how to do this, please use google.

First, get this pack.
connect winscp (fugu on mac)
put files from the pack to /usr/bin
run Putty (Terminal or Cyberduck for mac)
Run commands:

cd /usr/bin/

chmod +x iEraser

./ieraser

Then wait about 2 mins. Reboot iphone, and restore 1.1.4 in iTunes.

Thanks to Kuzma from iphones.ru for figuring this out and putting the pack together!

It looks as though the dev teams newest project is closing in on its public debut!
Everyone, I'd like to introduce you to PWNED!

• The software is a self contained application (for MacOS 10.4.x and 10.5.x*) that allows all current models of the iPhone device to be “Pwned”. This term (in relation to this software) refers to the patching of the stock bootloader so that it will allow the execution of unsigned code and circumvent code-signing checks. “Pwnage” only needs to be performed once to allow the additional features on the iPhone.

• The application also processes and modifies existing Apple archives so that unique, custom rolled firmware bundles can be installed onto the “Pwned” iPhone directly from iTunes.

• These ”.ipsw” files can be created and patched by the application to allow third-party modifications such as activation, application installation, baseband modification, custom phone graphics, etc.

• The tool works automatically on box-fresh (OTB) 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 iPhones and requires minimal interaction from the user.

Essentially you will be able to modify the .ipsw files that you download from Apple to include jailbreaking, activating, unlocking, as well as other things. You can then restore your iphone / itouch in iTunes using your new custom modified .ipsw file. This method is said to be very difficult for Apple to block, so we should hopefully be able to look forward to a very bright future for this tool!

The tool was suppose to be released today, March 30, however has been delayed until some time next week. The delay is due to:

"Legal enquiries were made to the DevTeam about the validity and legality of the contents of the tools, we would like to stress that no third-party copyrighted software will ever be released by the DevTeam"

Check out the newest video of PWNED!
DIGG it! : digg

*Part of the delay is also for a dual platform release on both Mac and PC!
**Part of the delay is also for adding support for the iPod Touch!
Source: http://iphone-dev.org/

Well, I have been banned from the #ziphone channel on zibri sever there. If anyone is looking for me you can find me usually in the #iphone channel on the irc.osx86.hu server. I was banned apparently because a halfop who kick / banned a user for no reason, did not like my questioning of his reasoning for kicking and banning this member. He then went and cried to Zibri about it and Zibri then came in the chat and banned me. Please if you ask for help in that channel, try and find a trusthworty person to talk to. Some people with +v or % have been there for literally only days. In fact, I watched a user who was in desperate need of help one day, become a helper (+v) that same day, and then become a halfop (%) the following day. It's been nice chatting with most of you over there, but it seems my days helping inform users of the effects of using ziphone have come to an end.

EDIT: the same user has now become a full op (@). I hope you can see how unorganized zibri keeps his staff as well as other things.

UPDATE: I have since been unbanned it seems, so I will be back in chat again I suppose.

Watch the video by pressing "read more" below and digg it if you like it!! The dev site is listed in the links on the right. Quick summary of the video. It looks like the dev team may have come up with a way to run unsigned code and install custom firmwares directly through iTunes. Jailbreaking / Activating / and Unlocking in the process! Check the video out!

For ye of little faith who didn't like our previous video, here's a video of us restoring to a jailbroken and activated 1.1.4. Why use custom tools, when you can do it straight from Apple's pretty interface?

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