But if something goes wrong-and there is more than one way this can happen-you can suffer data loss, or even brick your phone. Even worse, Apple claims that jailbreaking voids your warranty. You can restore your device to remove evidence that it ever happened, but if the device goes down while jailbroken, you could well be stuck.
In addition, jailbreaking does not jibe with the DMCA, and breaks relate license agreements. To the point: Follow this guide at your own peril, know that there’s risk and be careful. Consult elsewhere if you’re nervous, or worry that I’ve missed something. The Spirit tool has made the jailbreak fairly simple, but there’s still room for error.
2. Back up your device to your iTunes library, and sync it. 3. Open the Spirit Jailbreak tool. It will open in a small window, and should display a message like “iPad (3.2) Connected.” If not, disconnect and reconnect your device, and open the tool again. 5. During the jailbreak routine, don’t interfere with the device.
It’s probably better to leave your computer alone as well, to avoid a crash at a critical moment. Spirit should be done doing its thing in under 30 seconds. Your device should then boot up to your homescreen, as it was before-same background, same apps, same settings. 6. When you restart your device, you’ll see a new icon on your homescreen, called Cydia.
Open it up. This is your new App Store. Don’t worry, the regular App Store still works. Now you’ve just got another one. Cydia will look a bit different on the iPad and iPhone or iPod Touch, but will contain most of the same software. The first thing you need to do, though, is click the button that says, “Make my life easier, thanks!
This will back up your device activation profile (called an SHSH blob) to remote servers, which ensures that you won’t lose the ability to jailbreak if you accidentally upgrade your device device software in the future. More on that later. Traditionally, unlocking (opening your phone to use with different carriers) and jailbreaking have fallen to the same tools. Since unlocking has become more difficult with later firmwares, the tools have grown apart. Spirit doesn’t unlock. If you want to unlock, though, there may be hope.
Great article Ken, even to a non-geek like myself. A question into my mind while reading some of the comments. I have an iPhone4 and the new iPad. I have gotten the chargers mixed up and have been using one charger on both the iPhone and the iPad. Is this a no-no, If so, is there a way to determine which charger came with each product, They look the same to me! Like a surgeon knows the human body, you know your electronics! It's an electrical autopsy!
Fascinating, even to an idiot such as myself. It inspires me to learn more! Why Iphone needs a high filtered super charger, (recall powersuplly points at that) when a low price phone like Huawai or samsung needs a normal switched power supply, Do other brands have the filter (iphone chager has) built in the phone, Or are samsung Amoled screen better and less sensetive then retina srceen,
I had an excellent and enjoyable time reading this article. I found it very interesting. I just noticed something today though, the iPhone charger that you had and tore apart was a model A1265 made by Flextronics, but the one I received with my iPhone 4S was a model A1385, made by Emerson Network Power. I am wondering if the circuitry has changed or not.
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