[Tutorial] Install iOS5 Beta 2 without developer UDID - no hacktivation!

[chiledog]

is the beta 2 very buggy?

In the 12 hours or so I have had it running I can say its way less buggy than beta1. That should go without saying though.
Of course bugs are relative, as I may never see a bug that someone else will find in the first ten minutes.
The only way you will know if it suits you is to try it and see.
If you rely on an unlock don't think about even reading how to install it. As far as I know there is no way to preserve your baseband until tiny umbrella is updated. Even then, I personally wouldn't take the risk.

 

[exeanimator]

I did everything, and when I insert my SIM back in my iPhone and connect to iTunes, it pops up a progress box "waiting for iPhone" and says a bit after "we're unable to continue with your activation at this time".
It tried it twice, always the same error. I have the iOS4 activation screen (quite laggy) and followed every step. I have also the lastest iTunes beta.

I'm really out of options, tips anyone ? :/

Thanks !

 

[neo25]

Well, i tried step by step, but i still getting connection refused wen trying to ssh trough the terminal.
I have already checked my network configuration and its says SSH is allowed.
So, im out of fresh ideas....

🙁

 

[chiledog]

Well, i tried step by step, but i still getting connection refused wen trying to ssh trough the terminal.
I have already checked my network configuration and its says SSH is allowed.
So, im out of fresh ideas....

🙁

Can you ping it?
Try pushing the package again maybe?
Then make sure you boot tethered with redsn0w

 

[neo25]

Can you ping it?
Try pushing the package again maybe?
Then make sure you boot tethered with redsn0w

Well man.. now i'm embarrased.. lol.
The only problem at that point was ME, as i could not see that the SSH bundle was corrupted. It was just re-download.

My bad.

Sorry guys!

The tutorial works just fine! Thanks man.

 

[littlecloud92]

I did everything, and when I insert my SIM back in my iPhone and connect to iTunes, it pops up a progress box "waiting for iPhone" and says a bit after "we're unable to continue with your activation at this time".
It tried it twice, always the same error. I have the iOS4 activation screen (quite laggy) and followed every step. I have also the lastest iTunes beta.

I'm really out of options, tips anyone ? :/

Thanks !

Is your phone able to be officially activated with the SIM card you have in it? (Just checking)

Have you tried to activate again? Apple's servers might just be overloaded at the time you tried activating.

Maybe you could try activating with iTunes 10.5 beta 1?

 

[arteggio]

I did everything, and when I insert my SIM back in my iPhone and connect to iTunes, it pops up a progress box "waiting for iPhone" and says a bit after "we're unable to continue with your activation at this time".
It tried it twice, always the same error. I have the iOS4 activation screen (quite laggy) and followed every step. I have also the lastest iTunes beta.

I'm really out of options, tips anyone ? :/

Thanks !

This is exactly what I got before doing the scp command correctly (I did it while logged into the iPhone, and not the Mac.)

If you think you might have skipped it too: log in, run the rm command, then open a new window and run the scp command (make sure the .plist is at the first level of your HD directory too).

If that doesn't work, another thing I did was block Apple's servers in the hosts file.

Type sudo nano /private/etc/hosts, scroll to the bottom, and put a #[space] in front of the gs.apple.com line(s). Type control+O, hit enter, then reconnect iPhone to iTunes.

You might also need to add, and then block, 74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com. I have three different lines in my hosts, all of which had the pound sign in front of them when I activated (I added the .171 line after reading about this error with the first beta).

Then, go back and remove the pound signs (unless you don't care about iTunes receiving iOS updates, which becomes blocked I believe).

 

[exeanimator]

Is your phone able to be officially activated with the SIM card you have in it? (Just checking)

Have you tried to activate again? Apple's servers might just be overloaded at the time you tried activating.

Maybe you could try activating with iTunes 10.5 beta 1?

I was writing my answer to you while trying out something and just got it to work !
I had to install Cydia to make the activation work. iTunes popped up and started syncing my phone, everything went okay afterwards.
Thanks everybody, and kudos to you for this tutorial !

 

[Moises3080]

hey guys, Im in the process of doing this and im using PUTTY but alpine isnt working as a password?? any thoughts?

 

[Alaerian]

After booting tethered and trying to ssh -

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
42:a9:7b:66:27:3e:9c:c9:f0:6c:8f:32:b9:1a:fd:76.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/------/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending key in /Users/------/.ssh/known_hosts:8
RSA host key for 192.168.1.xx has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.

Um, what? 😕

 

[littlecloud92]

After booting tethered and trying to ssh -

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
42:a9:7b:66:27:3e:9c:c9:f0:6c:8f:32:b9:1a:fd:76.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/------/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending key in /Users/------/.ssh/known_hosts:8
RSA host key for 192.168.1.xx has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.

Um, what? 😕

(in Terminal)

rm -r ~/.ssh

and try again. You have previously SSHed to your iPhone before and the computer is complaining that the security keys have changed.

 

[Alaerian]

Fixed. Thanks!

 

[Galaxas0]

Here's another:

- No SIM card removal needed.
- No Cydia needed, but Safari never opens (repeated close after open) without Jailbreak (odd?)
- No Setup.app change needed.

I probably won't be able to confirm iPad 1 support because my iPad has a LOT of my school stuff on it.

 

[bndoarn]

Well, i tried step by step, but i still getting connection refused wen trying to ssh trough the terminal.
I have already checked my network configuration and its says SSH is allowed.
So, im out of fresh ideas....

🙁

Well man.. now i'm embarrased.. lol.
The only problem at that point was ME, as i could not see that the SSH bundle was corrupted. It was just re-download.

My bad.

Sorry guys!

The tutorial works just fine! Thanks man.

I'm having this exact same problem and I have no idea how to fix it? I did use redsn0w to boot up. How do you check your network configuration to see if SSH is enabled and how can you tell if the bundle is corrupted? Thanks.

 

[littlecloud92]

I'm having this exact same problem and I have no idea how to fix it? I did use redsn0w to boot up. How do you check your network configuration to see if SSH is enabled and how can you tell if the bundle is corrupted? Thanks.

Double-click the bundle in Finder and see if it extracts successfully.

 

[bndoarn]

Double-click the bundle in Finder and see if it extracts successfully.

Thank you, I finally figured it out. For some reason, it would download corrupt every single time unless I held down option and then clicked on the link.

 

[Bryce93]

I get an Error (21) when iTunes is preparing the iphone for restore. Any ideas? It works fine with 4.3.3 but I keep getting an error with iOS5. I can't even get to the stage where I can install iOS5 onto the device.

Anyone have any idea how i could fix this issue?

 

[TC25]

I get an Error (21) when iTunes is preparing the iphone for restore. Any ideas? It works fine with 4.3.3 but I keep getting an error with iOS5. I can't even get to the stage where I can install iOS5 onto the device.

Anyone have any idea how i could fix this issue?

Did you Google 'Itunes Error code 21""?

 

[Bryce93]

Did you Google 'Itunes Error code 21""?

Yeah, i've tried restoring from DFU but I still get the error, both after a clean DFU from 4.3.3 and just entering DFU after I get the error.
I've tried googling it but all they really say is "enter DFU mode".

Has nobody else had this issue?

 

[TC25]

Let's see. Someone posts a kludge for getting around paying $99/year to be a developer, it doesn't work and people wonder why. People who are trying to help can't assume you followed the instructions correctly.

Anyone who follows the OPs instructions on their only copy of iTunes is nuts.

 

[iGuardian]

Anyone who follows the OPs instructions on their only copy of iTunes is nuts.

"On their only copy of iTunes"? iTunes is a free download from Apple’s website and can be downloaded numerous times. What on earth are you talking about?

 

[QuarterSwede]

"On their only copy of iTunes"? iTunes is a free download from Apple’s website and can be downloaded numerous times. What on earth are you talking about?

Not to mention if you backup your iDevice first what's the harm? It's very hard to actually brick one.

 

[TC25]

"On their only copy of iTunes"? iTunes is a free download from Apple’s website and can be downloaded numerous times. What on earth are you talking about?

Simple. Your devices can get screwed up connecting to different copies of iTunes, syncing them to different versions of iTunes, backing them up to different versions of iTunes, etc. Connect your iDevice to iTunes running on a different computer and try to do a synch or a backup. Specifically, a BETA version of iTunes. THAT's what on Earth I am talking about.

I run all beta copies of iTunes and iOS on my MBA and my iMac is where all my 'real' versions are. So, if all else fails, I put my iPad into DFU mode, connect to my iMac, resinstall 4.3.3.and restore from backup

 

[^ACP^]

iPod Touch

Doesn't seem to work on iPod Touch. When trying to SSH into it, the connection times out... If you guys have anything as a solution to this, please post it here!

Thanks!

 

[OReviewer]

"alpine"

For some reason "alpine" isn't working for me. I tried both putty and WinSCP and still get "Access denied". Any suggestions?