It’s here! The Dev Team released their official jailbreak for iPhones running version 1.1.3 this morning. It’s very similar to the jailbreak released earlier this week, only without the suckiness of not working. The only difference (at least on the user’s end) is that it requires your phone to be at v1.1.2. iPhones on version 1.1.1 will need to upgrade to v1.1.2, jailbreak, and then install the “BSD Subsystem” package in order for this method to work. This is because the jailbreak occurs on the iPhone itself and is therefore platform independent.

This jailbreak, like the one before it, does not upgrade the phone’s baseband which, in our experience, breaks things like “locate me” functionality in Maps. If you have a valid AT&T account, it may be a good idea to upgrade to 1.1.3 and downgrade to a jailbroken version of 1.1.2 before running this update. For those of you who use an unlocked iPhone, you’ll want to keep away from v1.1.3 as it will re-lock your phone.

We’ve tried it and it definitely works. It certainly requires some patience, but from our end there seem to be very few issues. Our pal Mark has written up a guide over at Hack That Phone which is likely the best bet for most people.

Detailed Process:

download this file, make sure the following are true:

• Set Auto-Lock to “Never” in your settings to prevent the Phone from locking and shutting down your connection.
• This installer downloads a significant amount of data from Apple’s website. Be sure you have WiFi turned on so that you don’t use your mobile connection - or you’ll be sitting there a while!
• Be sure to perform this upgrade with the charge cable connected

then follow these instructions:

1. Copy this entire distribution (all files) to / on your iPhone/iPod Touch So you will have /update-prebinding-path.txt and so on. Use this command to copy the files: scp -r ./* root@YOURIPHONEIPADDRESS:/
2. Run the install.sh script on your iPhone sh install.sh
3. The device will perform an upgrade and reboot into 1.1.3

The dev teams says:

“If something DOES go wrong, restore back to 1.1.2 / Jailbroken and try again. If you get something like illegal hardware instruction, just try rebooting
and it should be updated to 1.1.3. If you don’t get service, try a forced-power-down then power back on.”

Posted on January 28th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: iPhone News