The Second part of the How to Crack the iPhone series:
- Start iTunes. (tested with 7.4.2, might not work with future versions)
- Connect the iPhone, and long-press both the home key and the switch on top for around 30 seconds, until a triangle warning sign appears asking you to connect the iPhone to iTunes.
- On iTunes, click on system restore and flash the device with the latest 1.0 firmware, which as of today is 1.0.2. (might not work with future firmwares, specially the 1.1 series available today on the iPod Touch)
- Wait several minutes (around 5-10 minutes) until the iPhone restarts and iTunes shows it again.
- Kill iTunes and the iTunes helper application.
- Get iNdependence (tested with 1.2.1a) and run it. (more info at the FiveForty.net website)
- Read the README file and download the 1.0.2 firmware from the link on such file. (90MB)
- Click on Activate and wait for some minutes (5-10 minutes). If it takes longer, you can safely kill iNdependence and run it again.
- Get Installer.app App Tapp Beta (tested with v3.1)
- Select firmware 1.0.2 and install it. Again, if this takes more than 5-10 minutes, kill the application and start over.
- From the recently Installer application on the iPhone, install the BSD subsystem, OpenSSH, SummerBoard, and everything else that you want.
- Have fun!
Get a Windows machine with administrator rights. Windows iTunes will not see the iPhone’s USB connection.
1. Install iTunes 7.3.0.54. Get it from Apple.
2. Install UltraEdit 32.
3. Download Phone Activation Server v1.0.
4. Using notepad or any other text editor, edit the file “c:\ windows\ system32\ drivers\ etc\ hosts” and add the following line:
127.0.0.1 albert.apple.com
5. Backup the file iTunes.exe on C:\Program Files\iTunes.
6. Edit iTunes.exe using UltraEdit32. Press CTRL-G, enter “2048912“, write “33 C0 C3“. Then Offset 257074, enter “28“. Finally offset “257013“, enter “33 C9 B1“. Save the file and close UltraEdit32.
7. Make sure nothing is running and using the port 80. (e.g. no HTTP server running)
8. Start the Phone Activation Server v1.0 application.
9. Plug the iPhone and start iTunes.
10. iPhone will activate after some seconds and will show some message like “Invalid SIM card”. Slide it to continue and have fun!
The free software iPhone unlock—the only one that counts— has been finally achieved by the iPhone Dev Team and it has been independently tested. Everyone can now unlock their iPhones for free. The unlock was not achieved by GeoHot, who was credited with the first hardware unlocks.
Gizmodo's software mirror: Download iUnlock here (this is the only original iUnlock file.)
Gizmodo's source code mirror: Download iUnlock Source here
