How to Perform an Untethered Jailbreak of Your iPhone 4 (Mac) [5.0.1]

These are instructions on how to perform an untethered jailbreak of your iPhone 4 on 5.0.1 using RedSn0w for Mac.

This procedure will cause you to upgrade your baseband potentially ruining your chances for an unlock. Please follow a tutorial on how to update to iOS 5.0.1 using a custom ipsw if you need an unlock.


Step One
Create a folder on your desktop called Pwnage

Download the latest RedSn0w from here and place it in the Pwnage folder. Likewise, download the 5.0.1 firmware from here and place it in the Pwnage folder. (Note: you do not need to download the 5.0.1 firmware if you are already on iOS 5.0.1)

Extract the RedSn0w zip file by double clicking it.

 
Step Two: (You can skip this step if iOS 5.0.1 is already installed on your device)
Connect your iPhone to the computer and launch iTunes. 

Select your iPhone from the list of devices on the left. Now hold down Option and click the Restore button. Restore is preferred as it won't create any wasted space on your iPhone.

 Navigate to the Pwnage folder on your desktop and select the 5.0.1 firmware ipsw. Click the Choose button to continue. 

 iTunes will now update your iPhone to the new firmware.

Step Three
Launch the redsn0w application from the redsn0w folder we extracted earlier.

Step Four
Once RedSn0w opens click the Jailbreak button

Step Five
Plug your iPhone into the computer and make sure its OFF then click the Next button

Step Six
RedSn0w will now guide you through the steps to get into DFU mode.

Hold down both the Home button and the Power button for 10 seconds.

Release the Power button and continue holding the Home button until RedSn0w detects the device.

Step Seven
Your iPhone will now reboot

 Step Eight
RedSn0w will now prepare the jailbreak data.

Step Nine
Select Cydia from the list of options and click Next.

Step Ten
Your iPhone will now be rebooted again and RedSn0w will begin uploading the new RAM Disk and Kernel.

Step Eleven
Once this is complete you will be notified that RedSn0w is done. When your iPhone finishes rebooting (5 minutes or so) it will be jailbroken with Cydia on the SpringBoard.

 


*As usual a big thanks to the iPhone Dev-Team, pod2g, and Geohot for their hard work and contribution to the iPhone community.



 

 

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How to Enable Native FaceTime Over 3G on iOS 5

These are instructions on how to enable native FaceTime over 3G on iOS 5.

Step One
Jailbreak your device using these tutorials.

Step Two
Launch Cydia from your SpringBoard.

Step Three
Press to choose Sections from the tabs at the bottom of the screen.

 
Step Four
Select System from the list of Sections.

Step Five
Choose iFile from the list of Packages.

Step Six
Press the Install button at the top right of the screen. A free trial is available if you haven't already purchased this app.

Step Seven
Press the Confirm button to begin installation.

Step Eight
Press the large Return to Cydia button once installation has completed successfully.

Step Nine
Press the Home button to return to your SpringBoard then launch iFile    

Step Ten
Navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/.

Step Eleven
Press to select N90AP.plist from the list of files then choose Text Viewer from the popup menu.

  
Step Twelve
Press the Edit button at the top left of the screen.

  
Step Thirteen
Add the following:

  

inside the capabilities dict, then press the Save button:

Step Fourteen
You can now restart your iOS device and and use FaceTime over 3G. (Don't forget to boot tethered if you need to).

 

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[How To] Jailbreak iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1 With Ac1dsn0w

Ac1dsn0w is a new jailbreak tool released by the Pwn Dev Team to jailbreak iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1.

Be warned that Ac1dsn0w is brand new and in Beta number 1. There will be bugs. You do this at your own risk. If you want a more reliable jailbreak, use Redsn0w or Sn0wbreeze.
TETHERED JAILBREAK

Ac1dsn0w is only available for Mac OS X right now. For legality issues, we will not be providing links. You can find it via Google.

This jailbreak tool only works with:

• iPhone 3Gs
• iPhone 4
• iPod Touch 4G
• iPad 1

To jailbreak an iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1 iDevice using Ac1dsn0w, you will need the Ac1dsn0w application. Right now, it's only available for Mac OS X Lion and Snow Leopard. You can download it here. It is about a 35MB download and will take a bit to download depending on your internet connection type and speed.

After you have downloaded it, unzip the .zip file and drag the application to your applications folder. Once you do that, open it up. The window will look like the first picture of this guide; up above. This is the main window of Ac1dsn0w. You have the option to jailbreak, boot tethered, enter pwned DFU mode, or exit recovery. Additionally, if you're an expert, you might want to show the console; it shows device information and the current state of the jailbreaking process. If you're a newbie, you might want to show the assistant; it shows how to get into DFU mode. The assistant and the console can be seen below:

Once you put your device into DFU mode, you can use the assistant on Ac1dsn0w but clicking, "show assistant" if you don't know how, you can click the jailbreak button on Ac1dsn0w. Ac1dsn0w will then go through the process that it needs to:

When it finishes the jailbreak process, you can click on the Tethered Boot option to boot tethered after jailbreaking. You will need to put your Device into DFU mode to do this just like any other tethered jailbreak; follow the assistant again before you click it:

Once you are up and running, enjoy your tethered jailbreak on iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1! You can install the Semi-tether to have the freedom to boot up your iDevice with stock iOS features. The Semi-tether will not grant you any jailbreak features until you boot tethered again.




Update x1: MuscleNerd of iPhone Dev-Team has confirmed that Ac1dSn0w in it’s current state contains code that has been illegally distributed. We have removed all the download links of Ac1dSn0w until the team behind the tool fixes this issue. We highly recommend using iPhone Dev Team’s Redsn0w, which can semi-tether jailbreak iOS 5.x on iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 1, iPod touch.

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Hackintosh boot loader

Chimera

Standalone Installer to update to the latest Chimera bootloader.

iBoot

Boot CD for Retail DVD - 10.6.x only

iBoot Legacy

Boot CD for Unsupported CPUs & GPUs - 10.6.x only

KextBeast

Simple Kext Installer

MultiBeast 4.1.0: Lion Edition

The Ultimate Post-Installation Utility. 10.7.x only.

MultiBeast 3.9.1: Snow Leopard Edition

The Ultimate Post-Installation Utility. 10.6.x only.

Official NVIDIA Drivers

Official NVIDIA Drivers for Quadro and for "Fermi" GeForce 4xx Graphics Cards. Necessary for 10.6.x.

rBoot

Rescue CD that boots 10.6.x, 10.7.x and xMove created installer.

rBoot LE

Rescue CD that boots 10.6.x, 10.7.x and xMove created installer. (Laptop Edition)

UpdateHelper

For Sandy Bridge users updating to 10.6.8 ONLY. Run this tool before running the 10.6.8 Combo Update.

 xMove

OS X Lion Installation Tool - updated for App or USB Thumb Drive

UniBeast (NEW!)

Tool to Create a Bootable 10.7.x Installation USB Drive from App or USB Thumb

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Install Android 4.0 ICS On Galaxy S II And Galaxy S [How-to Tutorial]

The latest and, according to some, most important update to Google’s Android OS – 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – was open-sourced just a few days ago and talented folks from the hacking and developers community have already managed to get Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) working on some of the most popular handsets. In this post, we’ll guide our readers on how they can flash ICS on a Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II. Check it out after the break!

The news comes from developer xplodwild over on Twitter in the form of a tweet which links to the files required for flashing ICS on Galaxy S / S II.
The current build – Alpha 7 – is, well, in alpha stage. Most things, particularly connectivity features such as modem, Bluetooth, WiFi and other basic things like sound, camera etc. do not work. This build is not recommended for daily use. We suggest you stay away from this until the stable or at least beta builds arrive.


How To Install Android 4.0 ICS Alpha On Galaxy S / SII

Your phone must be rooted for this flashing process. Follow our guide on how to root Galaxy S II or look up how to root Galaxy S on Google. You must also flash ClockworkMod Recovery. 

Secondly, please ensure that your phone has enough battery to last through the process which doesn’t take more than 5 minutes if you’ve got all the files ready. If your phone does run out of battery during the process, chances are it may get “bricked”.
Lastly, be sure to take a nandroid backup which you can use to restore your previous setup.
With that out of the way, let’s get ICS flashed on our GS/GSII!
Step 1: Download required ICS file to your computer.

• Galaxy S II ICS Alpha 7
• Galaxy S ICS Alpha 4

Step 2: Connect your device via USB and transfer the file to the root of your phone’s storage media.
Step 3: Turn off your phone after transfer is complete. Now, turn off your device.
Step 4: Boot into ClockworkMod Recovery by holding Volume Up + Home + Power button simultaneously until the main menu shows up on screen.
Step 5: Scroll down to mounts and storage and format /system. After that, you must also format /data and /cache.
Go back to menu and then wipe data / factory reset.
Step 6: From main menu: install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard > [name of file you downloaded in step 1] to flash ICS to your device.
If you followed the steps correctly, you should now have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Alpha build installed on your Samsung Galaxy S or S II smartphone.
 

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Creating an iPhone app

Requirements:

• Mac OSX (if you have windows, try this)
• XCode IDE (3.x +)
• Jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch

Introduction:

This guide will teach you how to make and transfer an iPhone application. It will not teach you about Cocoa or Objective C, and you do not need to know it to follow this guide.

Getting Started:

Open up XCode. You can do this by searching for it in Spotlight (the magnifying glass icon on the menu), or navigating to /Developer/Applications.

Either click Create New XCode Project in the welcome screen, or File -> New Project.... Under iOS select Application then View-based Application.

Name the project First App and save it wherever.

Making The Application:

You should now have a project screen that looks like this:

 Click the Build and Run icon. The iPhone simulator should start and give you a blank gray screen.

 Lets add some stuff to the app. Quit iPhone Simulator and double click the MainWindow.xib file, Interface Builder should pop up.

 Search for View in the Library box, and drag it to the iPhone window.

Now search for Label in the Library box, and drag it to the iPhone window. Change the text to My First App.

Save the file File -> Save. If you want to change the background color, etc. you can try messing around with Interface Builder.

To make sure it works, go back to XCode and click the Build and Run icon again. Your app should look similar to this:

If you want to add an icon, then make a 57 X 57 png file named Icon.png. Then add it to your project by selecting Project -> Add To Project.

Releasing The App:

Right now, our app only works with iPhone Simulator. We will have to do some extra stuff to make it able to run on your iPhone/iPod Touch.

In Xcode, click File -> New File.... Under iOS select Code Signing then Entitlements. Leave the settings to defaults.

Create a new Certificate. To do this, open up Keychain Access. You can search for it in Spotlight, or find it under /Applications/Utilites. Click Keychain Access -> Certificate Assistant -> Create a Certificate.... In the wizard that pops up change the name to iPhone Developer, change the Certificate Type to Code Signing, and check the box that says Let me override defaults.

Click continue and leave everything to defaults except for the email address field (blank it out).

Make XCode use your certificate. To do this open up Terminal. You can search for it in Spotlight, or find it under /Applications/Utilities. Copy and paste the following and press enter. It will ask you for your administrative password.
Note: For security reasons, your password will not be shown when you type.

sudo /usr/bin/sed -i .bak 's/XCiPhoneOSCodeSignContext/XCCodeSignContext/' /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Info.plist

Then restart XCode.

After opening up your project in XCode again (File -> Open - PATH_TO_PROJECT/First App.xcodeproj), click the top left dropdown list and change the values as follows:

• Change Simulator to Device
• Change Debug to Release

Next click Build -> Build. If you look under /PATH_TO_PROJECT/build/Release-iphoneos/ you should see the First App application. I will be referring to this as PATH_TO_APP.

Final Product:

Project Files:

Download Project

You can find the app under /build/Release-iphoneos/.

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