ZiPhone – Second Easiest Jailbreak Yet
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Ok Folks – Patrick mentioned it earlier and I decided to give this method a go. Honestly, this *next to the tiff exploit for 1.1.1* is the easiest jailbreak yet. Seriously. I kept all my springboard links, and everything. No restores required. Total time from start to finish was less than 5 minutes.
So – in case you’re wondering here’s what I did while starting from an NON-jailbroken 1.1.3 iPhone. (Lots of sarcasm to follow)
First – head on over to http://www.iphone-elite.org/ and pick up a copy of ZiPhone. If you can’t find it – you shouldn’t even bother trying to use it.
Second, and this is cruicial (ok not really) put the ZiPhone directory directly on your C: Drive. Basically this just makes the command line bit a little easier to do – but it’s up to you.
Connect your iPhone to iTunes. Plug the little white cable thingy into your iPhone (on the bottom).
Let iTunes do it’s sync/backup thing just in case something goes horribly wrong. Once the sync completes, leave your iPhone connected and click start > run and type: cmd to open a command window. In that command window do the following:
cd C:\ZiPhone
C:\ZiPhone>ziphone -j
At this point you should see the following:
Searching for iPhone…
Please power off the iPhone, then hold the home button
and connect to dock to enter recovery mode.
Nothing tough right? So put your iPhone into recovery mode. Press and hold the Home button and plug the iPhone into your computer. Keep holding the Home button until you see the little plug/iTune logo. Once that’s done you should see:
Working…
Please wait 45".
Done!
When your iPhone reboots – You’ve got Jailbreak. At the download link you found earlier is a list of all the command line switches. There’s one for unlock as well. I’m an AT&T customer so I didn’t try that one. If you do – let me know how it goes for you!!
THANK YOU ZIBRI and the rest of the folks that contributed to this jailbreak. It is greatly appreciated!!!!
Hey,
So I get to the point where it says “searching for iPhone,” and every time I get a Vista error message saying ZiPhone v1.0 has stopped working” and it closes out. Any idea how to fix this?
hit the iPhone Elite link above and ask in the forums. But I’d be willing to bet that vista and not anything you are doing is the problem.
Wow. This does sound super easy! If only I were brave enough to jailbreak my iPhone!
I’m so tempted right now to find a used iPhone to jailbreak and experiment with. If the SDK doesn’t bring anything interesting, I might just do this…
Ok, I am also a AT&T customer so I have a few questions.
1) Did this jailbreak do anything to your iphone other than make the installer?
2) in bold, you wrote “Please power off the iPhone, then hold the home button
and connect to dock to enter recovery mode.”.. and my question is at what point before that did you unplug it to need to plug it back in? All I read was you plugged it in and there was no step to unplug it. Was it suppose to be plugged the whole time?
please answer because I’m so anxious to do this myself.
Thanks!
oh and one more thing, you are using an iphone 1.1.3 correct?
ah… Yes. That “plug in” part is actually part of the ZiPhone script that runs. I only plugged in my iPhone once at the beginining as mentioned.
And yes – I started this process running 1.1.3.
As for what it installed – the only thing I saw was installer. I’m (not yet anyway) aware of any other things being added.
Ok, I’m still a little bit confused
So what you did was plug you iPhone into iTunes and do the sync/backup thing, then after that you oped up the run thing in your start menu and type in cmd, then the black screen opens up and you type in..
cd C:\ZiPhone
then you type…
C:\ZiPhone>ziphone -j
Then I’ll see..
Working…
Please wait 45″.
Done!
Searching for iPhone…
Please power off the iPhone, then hold the home button
and connect to dock to enter recovery mode.
Why is it telling me to plug the iPhone back in if it is already plugged in? I’m guessing you just press and hld the home button while your iPhone is still plugged in. Right?
My iPhone should be jailbroken by then right?
Please help me on this one. Thanks!
Just like this:
Plugin your iPhone and sync. Once that’s done open a command window and change directory into the one where you put ZiPhone (on my PC I put it in the C drive). Don’t unplug anything… there’s no need.
cd C:\ZiPhone
Then Type:
ziphone -j
It will tell you to put your iPhone into recovery mode – any reference to plugging/unplugging can be ignored – I think they’re just built into the application as a default.
Once you put the iPhone into recovery mode – ZiPhone handles everything. Once it reboots it should be jailbroken – you’ll know if you see the installer on your springboard.
I get to the “please wait 45″ and it never comes back and my phone is at the Apple logo…
Any ideas?
Interesting. So you got into recovery mode (iTunes logo with the connector icon)?
And then it said wait 45 … at which point it did some stuff then the phone should have shut off and now you’re at the Apple logo?
okay, thank you so much. I’m at school right now so I’ll try this when I get home. Thank you for clearing the instructions for me.
@95wild –
Looks like its a bug with the new version 1.1 of ZiPhone that has you stuck at the Apple logo. I did this on an older version the other day… Apple iPhone School website has a link to an older version that should work, otherwise check the iPhone elite forums for an older version or possibly wait a while for a fix from them.
Brandon,
Thanks for the assist… Rev. 1.0 worked like a charm!
You are a great assett to the iPhone community!
Keep up the great work!
hey brandon so after you did the whole jailbreak process you have a fully jailbroken 1.1.3 with full phone capabilities?
I did not “unlock” so I can’t attest to the power of that, but using the older version I have not noticed any issues. Phone, Visual VM, YouTube, Safari, Installer, and everything have been 100%.
PS – There is a new Version of ZiPhone (Version 2.x) released just a short while ago… For thos of you having issues you might want to try this newer version.
Okay, I think this is for the 3.6 BL only, do you use the same steps for the newer version of ZiPhone
and how come I cant go into restore mode, Please answer me quick, I’m on this page at least 3 times and hour just to see if you replied to me. what I’m doing for the restore mode is while its plugged in, i hold the sleep and home button but the only thing that comes up is slide to power off… please help
Sorry – I was watching American Idol
Recovery mode -
Turn your phone off with the slider.
Once the phone is off – leave it plugged in and press and hold the home button until you see the recovery icons.
If that doesn’t work for you … google iPhone Recovery Mode. There’s a couple sites with the steps listed out some have images. It’s a simple process, but a little weird to do the first couple times when you’re not used to doing it.
I’ve not used the latest version. I’ll give it a go tomorrow maybe and see what its like. The version I used was command line – this new one is GUI based. From what I’ve read – UNLOCK is BL 4.6 only. JAILBREAK is any BL.
Shite!
I guess I have the crap version when I did the ziphone thingy last night. My iphone didnt get out of the apple logo. I had to deal with the geniuses today to get back to life. LOL.
Anywayz, will try again.
Okay thanks Brandon, I’ll give it a go when I get back from school today, If I have any problems I’ll just come back and ask you.
thanks!
Brandon, Do you have AIM? If you do, can you help me when I get home from school, this would be so much easier for me but if you dont then thats still fine, I don’t mind typing here but it would just be easier to talk through AIM
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