Jailbreaked!
I did it! I pwned my iPhone!
Anthony sms-ed me early this morning.. Pwnage & Quickpwn for Mac is out at Sleepers.net! His advice was to use Quickpwn which is the easier of the 2. (actually his exact words were "Pwnage would be too difficult for" me.. heehee)
Anyway I downloaded both. Also downloaded a backup of iPhone 2.1 firmware, just in case. Quickpwn was easy. It did everythingfor me. Becareful though. There's a prompt asking whether you want to replace logo etc.. press No or else you'll see a Pineapple logo instead of Apple logo when you startup your iPhone. Had to re-pwn mine to restore the Apple logo.
I had a little boo-boo.. there's one part where i need to turn on & off the iPhone. It goes something like this.
Power down -> (screen countdown to 5 sec) press Home & Power at the same time. Hold for 10 secs with the help of the screen countdown -> at the 10th sec, release Power button only and continue to hold Home button for another 10 sec.
What I did what was released both Home & Power and then press Home again. Wrong. Took me 3~4 tries before I released what I did wrong. hehee.. too early on a Sunday morning.. my mind still half asleep lah.
Once successfully pwned, Cydia and Installer icons appeared on the iPhone. From what I've read. Cydia is more stable. I tried to install some of the apps such as biteSMS, Winterboard etc but I kept getting a "source not found" error. And then 1/2 hr later, suddenly I could install them. Guess Cydia was still being updated.
The 1st app I installed was biteSMS. It looked very much like the original iPhone's SMS but with the forwarding capability. Just sweep your finger across the message you want to forward and the option to forward or delete will appear.
But then after installing biteSMS, I realised all the apps I downloaded from AppStore couldn't run. Found out there is still some incompatibility between biteSMS & firmware 2.1. So no choice, had to uninstall it first and hope for an update soon. The developer did say most likely they'll fix the bug by end of Monday, which is tomorrow local time. Looking forward to it.
The apps available through Cydia are fantastic! I can now customise the look of my iPhone through Winterboard themes. Can also do video-recording using Cycorder and download Youtube videos into the phone using MxTube. I'm only brushing the tip of the ice-berg here.
Labels: Tech
posted at 9/14/2008 11:15:00 AM
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