Monthly Archives: January 2008

Official Jailbreak 1.1.3 And Its Issues (Revised)

UPDATE: The application related issues have been moved to a new article Fix Application Issues in 1.1.3
UPDATE: Since the dev team has released the 1.1.3-2, I have updated some of the contents, check the UPDATE in each section.
UPDATE: Here’s the log files from my 1.1.3-2 upgrade. There’re two files, /var/log/syslog generated by syslogd daemon as [...]

Downgrade Firmware Without User Data Loss

I often need to do some experiments with my iPhone, but downgrade with DFU mode is very inconvenient because I have to restore all my data files after the downgrade and I have too much data on the phone and don’t wanna re-sync each time the experiment is over. After some tests, I’ve managed to [...]

Leaked 1.1.3 Jailbreak

UPDATE: I got many problems after jailbreaking to 1.1.3:
EDGE is not working (solved)
Bluetooth can’t be paired (solved)
Settings can’t be saved (tested Mail and WiFi) (solved)
Ringtone muted (solved)
Other issues may not be posted here any more because the Official Jailbreak 1.1.3 has been released.
UPDATE: the above issues can be fixed as shown below:
Give rw permission to [...]

Baseband 04.03.13_G Secpack

Here is the highly anticipated secpack for iPhone baseband 04.03.13_G:
Secpack 04.03.13_G
With this secpack, any accidentally upgraded 1.1.3 iPhones that have bootloader 3.9 can be fully downgraded to earlier versions. NOTE: starting from OTB 1.1.2, Apple has updated the bootloader to version 4.6.
Brief Steps to Downgrade to 03.14.08_G
1. Downgrade iPhone firmware to 1.0.2, you may have [...]

An Attempt to Upgrade to 1.1.3

UPDATE: If your iPhone has bootloader 3.9, and you have upgraded to 1.1.3 by mistake and you would like to downgrade it back to previous version, please read How to downgrade 1.1.3 (for bootloader 3.9).
I have managed to upgrade my 1.1.2 (upgraded from 1.0.2) to 1.1.3 and see what would happen. The upgrading process is [...]

Commented SpringBoard Icon List Method Disassembly

This is the full disassembly listing of the icon list retrieving method in SpringBoard 1.1.1, I’ve added the comments to ease the reading. Based on this disassembly listing, it’s easy to create a patch to enable the SpringBoard multipage scrolling.
NOTE: The scrolling feature has already been in the SpringBoard, Apple just didn’t open it to [...]