Do a hard reset (power+home until it goes off). It should go into recovery mode. If not, look it up. Then use iTunes to restore, then try Spirit again.
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'Spirit' Jailbreak Tool for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch Released
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Do a hard reset (power+home until it goes off). It should go into recovery mode. If not, look it up. Then use iTunes to restore, then try Spirit again.
Happened to me too. I forced it into recovery mode, restored via iTunes, and tried it again. 2nd time was the charm. After I clicked the button the second time, I think it only took about 1 minute to complete the jailbreak.
did this and when it rebooted, it was jail broken and FREE!!! thanks for the help guys... should i upgrade all the cydia upgrades??
Not necessarily. It doesn't unlock the phone to run on other carriers so if you're still on 3.1.2, you should be able to get a decent amount. That's what I plan on doing.
open safari on the iphone and go to m.peacefulinsanity.com/tether.mobileconfig and click accept. it will enable the att tether option and better than myfi its free.
One time purchase, good forever so long as you are jailbroken. If you need to restore, make sure you are still jailbroken and you can log back in. It'll show you already purchased it and will allow you to dl it again.
I, for one, jailbreak for tethering. I appreciate forums like this that do make announcements and provide assistance. If Apple and AT&T would have lived up to their promises, then I would have no need to jailbreak. If Apple would be less restrictive on the APP Store, then we'd not have a need to jailbreak.
As for stealing applications, this has been around since computers were invented and someone wanted payment for their work. I agree that stealing is wrong. Unfortunately it won't go away.
this will enable the tethering option for the iphone so another device can use it for its internet connection. if your BB supports tethering options (which i think they do) I dont see why you cant connect a ipad via bluetooth but since I dont have one I cant test.
Works well, but tethering is only over Bluetooth or USB. There is no WiFi option. This is fine for a laptop, but does not allow for tethering a WiFi iPad.
just a FYI you can go to m.peacefulinsanity.com/tether.mobileconfig and it will enable the tethering option even if you dont have your phone jailbroke.
dont have a ipad but it has bluetooth. Does it not allow bluetooth connections?
Ugh, please stop. I am an application developer for the App Store, and I jailbreak my devices because I appreciate the freedom it gives me. SSH may sound useless to someone not "in the know" about what it can do for you, but for me, it's invaluable to have these utilities with me in a mobile device. Jailbreaking is the only thing that lets me run vim on my iPhone, or commit to a local git repository from my iPad. These are NOT things that you can accomplish with just apps.
I agree, there are pirates, and that's terrible. They steal from developers, and I can tell you firsthand about the sweat and time that goes into a really great app. They destroy the ecosystem and lead to a less compelling platform to develop for (why would you put your store on a street where theft is common?)
Still, I think that the pirates are few and far between, and the majority of people want to free their devices from the shackles Apple imposes, and use them to the fullest. Never before can I have a portable UNIX computer in my pocket with ALL the POSIX apps I need, just a quick Terminal away. The utility of this is invaluable to a sysadmin, developer, or someone similar.
Good post.
BTW, what Terminal app are you using? The ones I know of haven't been updated in a while and don't work on 3.x.
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Sounds like your friends are morons. My phone is no longer jailbroken, but I plan on re-doing it tonight. I first JB back on iPhone v1 with all that icky command line. There were great things to do then, and there are great things to do now- none of which involve stealing apps. Saying that jailbreaking is bad because you COULD steal apps, is like saying putting custom rims on your car is wrong because you COULD run someone over. Thieves are thieves. Tech savvy people who like to explore their devices to the fullest extent are not. We're nerds.
So go whine to your friends about their ethics- not your friends ethics to us.
I don't understand the logic that jailbreaking = pirating apps. By that logic, people who have admin rights on their PC or Mac only have it for pirating applications. Just because you CAN pirate apps doesn't mean you do. Anyone with admin rights can pirate most PC or Mac applications, but honest people pay for them anyway. Anyone with an Internet connection can pirate music and movies, but honest people pay for them anyway.
The idea that people jailbreak only to pirate is asinine. People jailbreak because they want control of the device that they paid good money for. They don't like to feel like it is apple's device under apple's control. Again, by this logic people only have admin rights and an Internet connection so that they can pirate apps, music, and movies.
The idea that people jailbreak only to pirate is asinine. People jailbreak because they want control of the device that they paid good money for. They don't like to feel like it is apple's device under apple's control. Again, by this logic people only have admin rights and an Internet connection so that they can pirate apps, music, and movies.
*sigh* I wish people who don't like Apple's closed ecosystem wouldn't buy the fricking device instead of using workarounds. This isn't helping anyone. Uncle Steve believes everyone's perfectly fine with the walled garden (look at the sales!)...
As a developer, jailbreaking is actually more convenient for me -- spares the need to provision extra devices and gives me the chance to view all of my application's files / documents easily. [to the Developer Agreement compliance Nazis out there -- I don't care.] The iFile app lets me browse + modify the whole file system among other things.
MyWi is another favorite, in addition to backgrounder/ProSwitcher, SBSettings, so on and so forth...
Jailbreaking increases the freedom + utility of my iPhone a ton, it's not evil and its not just a piracy enabler.
Also, you *cannot* under any circumstance brick a device from a jailbreak or failed jailbreak. Even if you know someone who thinks they did, they didn't really. (it's called DFU Mode-- Google it).
MyWi is another favorite, in addition to backgrounder/ProSwitcher, SBSettings, so on and so forth...
Jailbreaking increases the freedom + utility of my iPhone a ton, it's not evil and its not just a piracy enabler.
Also, you *cannot* under any circumstance brick a device from a jailbreak or failed jailbreak. Even if you know someone who thinks they did, they didn't really. (it's called DFU Mode-- Google it).
ok guys as it says to the left "newbie" with that said:
if i jailbreak and i dont want/like it, can i put my iphone 3gs right back the way it was before i did the jailbreak. (yes i just connected it to itunes and backed it up)??
if i jailbreak and i dont want/like it, can i put my iphone 3gs right back the way it was before i did the jailbreak. (yes i just connected it to itunes and backed it up)??
And I wish people would stop trying to tell others what they should do with the devices they bought with their hard earned money. Buy my iPods and iPhones for me, and then you can tell me how to use it.