No Cydia on beta breaks!!!!!

If you have been following along with all of the guys who are behind the scenes of jailbreaking, then you already know. Some how, amazingly fast productivity has kept them on the heals of the the iOS6 developers. Releasing update after update of jailbreaks. Presently, you can upgrade your iDevice, by downloading the iOS6 firmware from a copious amount of sites. Then do a custom restore using that firmware using the latest iTunes . You can Jailbreak all the way up to the latest Beta of iOS which presently is 4. The only drawback is that, sure you have an untethered jailbreak. But, you have no “Cydia”. You can install Cydia manually via SSH, but not everyone is ssh savvy. And even if you do install Cydia via ssh, you still may run into some problems. Seeing how all these Beta jailbreaks where originally made for dev’s only, some of the sources may not even be updated yet and will not work on iOS6. My best advice is to do what im doing. Just stay happy with the 5.1.1 UTJailbreak and wait for an “Official” Jailbreak release date.
Besides…. its not to far away guys…. trust me

And as usual any and all questions you can get me on twitter at @ichuckydee -or- my *new* FB  Facebook.com/ichucky.dee

BTW if you are having issue getting to the server, just be patient, it will let you in in time.

Instructions from Redmond Pie

Support for iPhone 3GS and iPod touches is on the way ! Simply follow the instructions below to jailbreak iOS 4.3.1 on iPhone 4 using a combination of PwnageTool 4.2, Universal Ramdisk Fixer and tetheredboot utility.

Here’s what you will need:

• PwnageTool 4.2
• iOS 4.3.1 firmware
• iTunes 10.2.1
• Mac OS X
• PwnageTool bundle for iOS 4.3.1
• Universal Ramdisk Fixer
• tetheredboot utility

Note:

• There is no unlock for the new baseband on iOS 4.3.1. If your iPhone relies on a carrier unlock, DO NOT update to stock iOS 4.3.1.
• iPad 2 users on iOS 4.3 should stay away from iOS 4.3.1 until further confirmation.
• Cydia is fully working on iOS 4.3.1
• It is a semi-tethered jailbreak.
• Your baseband will not be upgraded during restore process.
• Hacktivation is supported.

Modifying PwnageTool

Step 1: Download PwnageTool bundle (includes Universal Ramdisk Fixer) for your version of iOS device. Extract the .zip folder, in there you will find a .bundle file, for this guide, we are using iPhone 4 bundle iPhone3,1_4.3.1_8G4.bundle. Move this file to your desktop.

Step 2: Download PwnageTool 4.2 and copy it to /Applications directory. Right click, and then click on “Show Package Contents” as shown in the screenshot below.

An interesting point though is that I hear on the rumor mill that you get 5G of tethered data included in the $30 month data plan.  Still waiting on that…

I will be keeping an eye out on the subject and you KNOW within 3 hours of the first iphone hitting the pavement it will be jailbroken and someone will be testing data apps.  And I’ll be here watching.. and waiting…

Update #3: Remember, there are scammers everywhere in the iPhone scene.  The latest one involves something called “ClawPack”.  Avoid this costly, untested, and certainly unendorsed ripoff of our free software.

Now, just to be clear, there IS a jailbreak for phone 4, and iphone 3G running iOS4.  You just have to make sure you are running the correct app.  And as always, remember you are taking your life in to your own hands when you jailbreak.   Here is the link to the dev pwnage tool page.

Now do not go a downloading yet.  They still need to streamline a few things and unless you found an iphone 4 in a bar somewhere, you do not have it anyway, so wait for the official release. You can find that here. Now of course, the normal warnings apply, when you jailbreak, you are taking your phones life in your own hands, so be careful and backup before doing ANYTHING.

So I have to ask myself something here.  Really, just how hard is Apple trying to keep this thing locked?  I once hypothesized that Apple was only trying just so hard to keep the OS locked down because some of the coolest features on the iphone (which is why I started the top 10 list in the first place) seem to come to the jailbreak phones first.  Remember video?  Yea, we had that LONG before the non jailbreakers.  Custom themes?  STILL only on jailbreak.

BTW, on a completely unrelated note, we just finished a silly comic on the rise, fall and rebirth of Apple.  Check it out.

Now, check out the Video below..

So for now, here are my top 7


Quake. Yup ID’s Quake from the old days. Now this was put together to work on the iphone, so you know it will only 2x in size.  But still, it could be cool.

It only took 5 days. I think we are getting a little spoiled now because jailbreaking a new release in under a week is almost expected. Of course, this is just a minor update, so we should not be all that surprised.
There are two tools out there so far, QuickPWN and Sn0wbreeze.  I have no plans on upgrading to 3.1.3 since all it does is correct a fix with reporting battery life, and a minor one at that. And I would advise everyone who is not have major issues with their phones to skip this update, but if you just cannot help yourself, well there are two fixes out there.  They are both Mac based, but I imagine a PC fix will be coming at some point.

{update … I did not last more to 15 seconds. As soon as I turned on the phone, I wanted to enable WIFI and forgot I could not simply swipe to get the WIFI button. 15 seconds.  Yes, without jailbreak, the iphone is just… just.. andriod. XD  }

Now, on to the upgrade. Here is how I did it

1. I removed any application that I KNOW I will want not need once I upgrade.  There are two reasons for this.  First, I need to backup the phone, install 3.0 and thus reinstall my apps.  The more apps you have, the longer all this will take. I also cleaned out my music and photos to make the builds and restores faster. Plus, you will be surpised how much junk you have. I do this from iTunes BTW, not the phone.
2. Make SURE you have synced your address book.  Dont want to lose that.  If you have games, you should SSH into your phone and get the files. I do not have any games that I really care about, so I dont mind losing game data.  Same thing with Notes.  Make sure you copy them out.. By hand.. After 3.0 notes will be synced.
3. Ok, REALLY important. If you are using Folder, MAKE SURE YOU TAKE YOU ICONS OUT.  If not, you will lose them when you restore until you get SBSettings reinstalled. ( I blew this part
4. 2X check your sync settings on itunes and sync twice. Just in case.
5. Go to iTunes and check for updates.  It will offer 3.0.  Go ahead and install.

Ok.  So we are ready for jailbreaking.  All you need is either PwnageTool 3.0 or QuickPWN (not ready last I checked).  I used PwnageTool myself.  Basically this install worked just like PwnageTool always works but I still like to follow a tutorial, and I always turn to iClarified. Here is the link to PwnageTool 3.0 tutorial.

A few things the tutorial misses though..

• On step 3, click on Simple Mode if you do not plan on updating your baseband. Read this post. READ IT 5 TIMES!! If you plan on using something other then AT&T, then use expert mode.
• On step 4, double click, not single click to select your phone.
• I ran a generic PwnageTool, so I had to click on the DFU mode myself.  Make sure you unplug your phone first before you click on this button.  Why the iClarify tutorial does not have this must be because they used a slightly different version.
• Make sure you do this when you start iTunes and it asks to restore. ‘In iTunes, hold the Alt/Option key and click Restore.’  I forgot and had to go back and redo putting the phone in DFU mode and then reload the correct restore file.

That should be it!  Your phone should sync.  Then sync it again.

Next open Cydia, and update.  For some reason, I had to close and reopen it.  Now, go to search and find SBSettings.  BEST JAILBREAK APP EVAR!

Now.  Everything worked fine for me except for one step.  I forgot to take the apps out of folders, so I lost my settings button as well as many other buttons. So I had to do update Cydia and install SBSettings using 3G till I could unhide all the buttons again.

Now, my first impressions of 3.0 …. eh.  Its like nothing changed short of my first phone call was horrible.  However, I REALLY hoping that the iphone was resorting out where the towers are in my area. I have many other experiments with 3.0 and seeing what jailbreak apps I still need…. aside from SBSettings, PDANet  and Video of course.

From the QuickPwn site:

The Russian hacker Vortex has once again released an unofficial jailbreak at iPhoneApps.ru. I tried it on my iPod Touch with firmware 3.0 beta 2 and it works!

I have not tried it myself because I have not had the time to mess with 3.0, so I cannot confirm or deny it myself. However, Vortex is active and I’m usually inline to buy what comes from him. Normal warning in place of course, do this at your own risk, etc…  Also, remember, you have to reload everything when you do a fresh jailbreak.

Will be interesting when 3.0 is released how long a consumer friendly version will be out.

Funny thing though, I cannot shop for books from the app, I have to call amazon on safari… which crashed of course.  I’ve been having safari stability issues lately, so I’m going to do a sync tonight and see if that helps safari.  I’ll update this post after I’ve tried it.  Still, its a good idea.  Buying a kindle is something many of us, (myself included) do not think is worth the money.  Used maybe. I’m going to borrow a kindle 1 and play with it a bit just to see for myself.  But reading a long book on the iphone?  Hmmm.. Not fully sure about that, but I am sure there are enough who would read a tomb on the iphone to make it worth coding the app.   Already the kindle app has more downloads then kindles sold, but that does not mean anything, its the number of books sold and read that counts.  Jury still out on that.

For me, I have stanza as my book reader and I like it quite a bit.  It’s quick, stable, I can get books, papers, mags from the app directly. Sweet.  In fact, I should write a review on stanza..