Man Cydia is soooooooo much faster on 3Gs

lalalalalalalalalalalalala I can't hear you lalalalalalalalalalalalalal

I must be slow.

CDog, Freakin....you have jb 3GS'? I thought the jb was not out yet and all people were doing was changing the ECID to allow a future jb. Please explain if you have a few moments...

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/ n00b

Would you guys please clear up a few things for a jailbreak noob please? I bought a 32GB 3GS a few days ago and want to give jailbreaking a shot - here are the things I think I've learned, just tell me if I am on the right tracks or not.

1. The only program I need from the iPhone Dev Team is redsn0w? all those other ones, yellowsnow, quickpwn, etc all did the same thing but for older phones/firmwares. The only other one I might want to use is ultrasn0w, which unlocks my phone to other carriers.

2. I should never update/restore my 3GS using the official iTunes' firmwares, always download it from the Dev Team and use Shift-Click Restore in iTunes to find the file.

3. My carrier will never know I jailbroke my phone as long as I do an official restore before taking it in to any stores.

4. Once I run redsn0w, cydia is automatically installed on my 3GS and I can use cydia to download and install 3rd party apps like winterboard. Alternatively I could download them on my PC and drag them to iTunes.

5. By getting my iBEC and iBSS from %temp% I have assured myself of always being able to jailbreak.

6. There is no way this can break my iPhone - I will always be able to run an official restore and things will go back to normal.

7. You guys never tire of explaining this stuff.


Thanks guys.

ty hiv

Okay - do i need to grab my iBEC and iBSS files asap? If i want to jb later....or can I just hold off indefinitely as long as I do not upgrade to 3.1? (16gb 3gs)

Currently you want either RedSn0w or purplera1n to Jailbreak the 3GS. Ultrasn0w is for unlocking.

You can restore using the apple firmware all you want. The Shift Restore just allows you to specify a firmware, and in most cases you are just choosing the latest Apple firmware. You just happen to be storing it in an easy to find location

There is no guarantee of that. There could be some phone home software or something in it. Though it is your device, so you are legally allowed to do what you want with it.

Correct, Cydia is the standard install tool for Jailbroke iPhones. You cannot install 3rd party apps via iTunes. You can do it via iPhoneBrowser, or SSH. But I only do that for themes and some small edits myself.

That's what dev team said last week.

I wouldn't say no way, but I have never heard of someone not being able to unbrick their phone.

Depends on what is being explained. In this case the 3GS jailbreak only came out like 4 days ago, and the Mobile Substrate update came out today, so we have to explain it sometime, why not now. Future users will be directed to run a search if nothing has changed (at least thats what I normally say)

You are welcome. Enjoy the jailbroken phone.

I have no idea, but I don't see a reason not to just grab the files in the event that you need them. There is no risk involved.

The tether trick is not working for me. Need serious help w/ this one.

Willing to ship $$ on FTP

just wanna say the information given collectively in this thread is so good

SO GOOD

QFT

Thanks again C-Dog.

I attempted to setup the tethering using this guide

http://www.krillr.com/blog/QLB36JMS/...s-new-mms-hack

and it didnt work as far as I can tell.

I have the tethering option in my settings, but turning it on does nothing. Help!

winterboard holla

(posted from 3gs)

I have the iPhone on AT&T. Wife is still on her parents AT&T plan, but needs a new phone so I think its time to bring her onto my plan or whatever. If she leaves her parents plan there is no penalty, but what I'm trying to figure out, since I will be adding a new line to my plan, how does all that work? Would she qualify to get one of those free phones best buy always advertises, like the Blackjack or whatever? Is it ok to mix those with my plan? Any help would be appreciated.

So now that the jailbreak is out, I still have to do the ECID thing? And then I run redsnow to jailbreak? One more question, where do i have to go to run redsnow?

http://help.benm.at/usa.php

Go to the above using your iPhone, clicke on the AT&T logo and then install like any othe app, take about 2 secs

No, you don't have to get your certs, but it is recommended. Download redsn0w and run it from your PC...

I believe that the answer is yes. She would be able to get one of the free phones and you would just have to change to a shared minutes plan with 2 lines.

Ok thanks.

Has anyone received their monthly bill after setting this up and tethering their iPhone?

It would be sorta big tech news if a bunch of people started getting charged for this. I haven't heard of it happening.

Not yet still waiting to see if they are going to spank me or not. Online it shows under my unlimited data plan but who knows.

Finally pulled the trigger on OpenSSH and playing with the filesystem myself. Installed LockInfo which is about the sickest thing ever, now have weather, calendar, email, sms, and missed calls on my lockscreen without using a powerhungry app. Also installed Black Status Bar Icons. Just need to configure a few more options through SSH on LockInfo when I get home and then adjust the SBSettings battery indicator font to match the time of Weather Temp on status bar (using Weathericon).

Posted this over on ModMyI, but figure might as well here as well. I have a redsn0w jailbroken 3g on 3.0 with cydia, winterboard, and a variety of apps. I had Tricker installed and it seemed to be working fine until today when an update was posted. I tried to install the update and it confirmed, I resprung and yet the update was still appearing in Cydia. I tried installing several different times, doing a hard reset, nothing made the update notification go away.

Finally I unistalled Tricker planning to reinstall hoping it would solve the problem, but now I am getting the message "The requested modifications cannot be applied due to required dependencies.....". It tells me below "Depends iPhone Firmware < 3.0." Is this telling me that the app is designed for less than 3.0 or does it not think I have 3.0. I have installed several other packages today without any problems so can't figure out what the deal is. Any help would be appreciated.