Comments on: Jailbreaking a UK iPhone

By: Macca

Macca — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:18:49 +0000

I’ve seen a few posts around saying that the .jar wouldn’t run properly from the desktop but worked OK when invoked at the terminal – very strange.

MobScrob is the only app i’ve had on there for any length of time, a lot of the stuff under installer is pretty much just fluff – check out the Pirates thing FFS!!
I keep meaning to try and work out the MMS settings as there are a couple of apps for that (developed in the US so they might not work).
The vt1000 Terminal is pretty useful, i’ve used SSH to my webserver a few times and Tap Tap Revolution is pretty good fun – even if it seems to have a MASSIVE memory leak (as does a lot of the stuff, Summerboard included).

By: grahamgilbert

grahamgilbert — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:16:54 +0000

Well that worked pretty well! I used iNdependence to install ssh rather than Jailbreak.jar since that didn’t seem to want to install it, but everything else worked just fine. Now there just needs to be some decent apps on there other than MobileScrobbler.

By: Macca

Macca — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:14:01 +0000

The restore seemed to work fine, I did it through recovery mode.

Text messages are preserved and restored from the backup, VVMs are held online, not on the phone so you do not lose them either.

By: grahamgilbert

grahamgilbert — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:31:33 +0000

Great article, I do have one question though. How did restoring your phone go? Did it set it back to the “default”?

And do you loose your text messages / voice mails when you do either?

By: Macca

Macca — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:46:59 +0000

Try rebooting the iPhone, reconnect and rerun the jar.
Make sure you haven’t got multiple versions of the jailbreak,jar package.

By: mick

mick — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:56:04 +0000

Help stuck on step 5
5. Run Jailbreak.jar from the kit and use Boot from Recovery. I sat about for 15, sphincter clinching, minutes. The progress bar didn’t complete and the phone wouldn’t reboot. I thought i’d bricked it. The solution was to close iTunes (it took a while to close) and THEN run Jailbreak.jar. Without iTunes it literally took a couple of seconds before it rebooted. You can quit the Jailbreak.jar instance now.
it dont reboot the progress bar stops and i have tryed to shut down itunes it dont work still