Aviegas, a senior member at hackint0sh released ‘iPlus’ a much safer way to unlock your precious iPhone! The best part being the bootloader is now downgraded to 3.9 fakeblank BL which makes your iPhone brick-safe!! The best part being – it can now automatically install the all important applications :
– Installer
– Community Services
– BSD subsystem
– OpenSSH
– VT-100Some Fixes:
– BSD Fix
– VT100 Fix
– Summerboard themes directory fix
– Relocates Fonts and Ringtones (More than 120MB free)
There is an option to upload packages to the iPhone during the unlock/jailbreak process in the name of Brazil and International payload.
Aviegas says “Brazil payload adds some extra stuff like Carrier Bundles, Translations, time zone fixes (Daylight saving time issues) and fixes the phone number formating.” rules.
“Downgrading is performed with a minimal system (the ramdisk) so it’s perfectly safe as no phone specific stuff is running, just Darwin (the underlying part of MacOS, a Unix derivative).
So it’s as safe as running in 1.0.2!!”
iPlus can be used only for 1.1.4 firmware though. Zibri denied using this fake bootloader approach only because this came right from iPhone Dev’s kitchen!!
Safest Unlock for iPhone – Using iPlus from Kiran Konathala on Vimeo.
So, what is this fakeblank boot loader (3.9) thing all about ?? This means your iPhone unlock is COMPLETELY reversible unlike Zibri’s. No offense to Zibri but this is a much safer bootloader rather than tinkering with the stock bootloader. Using this, iPhone functions perfectly with 1.1.4 slapped on a 4.04 baseband which is not the case when you use Zibri’s which sacrifices 4.04 baseband features.
What about iPhone users with 1.1.3 or older firmwares, RESTORE to 1.1.4 via iTunes and use iPlus.
Follow this guide from iClarified for a detailed step by step procedure (Windows only for now). I will do a Mac version once released and may be a video on a brand new 16GB iPhone 🙂
p.s : “Repair Needed” is a common error with iPlus. Restore to 1.1.4 and rerun iPlus to Rock and Roll!!
UPDATE : Visit this follow up guide (Possible Youtube Fix included at the end…) [IMP]
Planecrazy
Hello again, Kiran!
As it turns out they gave me one more choice … cash! Given my current situation I may hold off on getting either an Iphone or an Ipod Touch, but when I finally do go down that road I’m happy to have found you!
Thanks again!!
Steve
Chand
I have updated my new iPhone from 1.1.1 to 1.1.4 using Update option, not Restore option. Now can I use iPlus and unlock my phone or do I need to Restore it again.
Appreciate your help.
-Chandra
kiran
Chandra : Restore wipes the iPhone clean, hence it is suggested you restore rather than update..
Larry Knight
To all,
First the scenario:
16GB iPhone, 1.1.4 firmware, AT&T network (previously activated using iTunes), unlock using iPlus
Restored phone to 1.1.4 using iTunes, Unlocked iPhone using iPlus, upon completion everything worked except YouTube.
Tried various senerios described above but finally found a procedure that works (now on three different phones)
Here you go:
Sync iPhone to be sure you have good backup of data
Take SIM out of phone
Put iPhone into Restore mode and restore firmware using iTunes
When restore is complete, Close iTunes and Quit iTuneshelper and iTunes in ActivityMonitor
Leave SIM out of iPhone and unlock iPhone with iPlus following the procedure
When iPlus is complete, re-install SIM
iPhone is completely unlocked and all applications (including YouTube) function perfectly.
kiran
Larry : thanks for the headsup , the mileage varies from environment to environment… I’m on a mac and everything works great the first time I use iplus 🙂
Gerry
I used iPlus2.0b(Windows Version) with the International Payload to Jailbreak\Activate and Unlock an OTB 1.1.3 16MB(UK/O2) IPhone and it worked a treat. I followed the instructions to the letter restoring the Iphone to 1.1.4 first and running iPlus.
Lane
Okay, Hi All, thank you for a wonderful app, unfortunately I already restored my iPhone from 1.1.3 (jailbroken) to 1.1.4 via itunes went fine, You Tube back etc. all PERFECT, then I jailbroke with the latest ZiPhone 3.0 so I could add apps, customize, etc. all went VERY smooth as well, Youtube working, google locater spot on for me etc. NOW, my question is, can I re-restore in iTunes to 1.1.4 and use iPlus instead since it claims to be safer? Do I need to restore in iTunes first if it is possible before running iPlus? Or can I just run iPlus over the top of the existing ZiPhone 3.0 jailbroken 1.1.4?
Thank you.
Lane
kiran
Lane : I am afraid its too late 🙁 I am not sure if we can reflash the bootloader since ZiPhone forces a factory bootloader (3.9) instead of fake BL, you should not have any problems for now though… we might cget a solution soon.. (hardware solution exists which is too risky!)…. Enjoy your iPhone, stop worrying about bootloader for now 🙂
Lane
WOW, that was a quick response!!! LOL Thank you, yes everything works great and I didn’t want to fix what was not borken, previously to ZiPhone 3.0 my 1.1.3 You Tube and Google wasn’t working so that’s what provoked me to do a restore in itunes, and then Zihone it again and it went great…if I needed too, could I restore in iTunes to factory (apple) 1.1.4 without bricking do you think?
Thanks again!!!
Lane
kiran
Yep, restore it to 1.1.4 and you can even use iPlus now 🙂 Just use iPlus -j -a for jailbreak and activate. But never go back to 1.0.2 or 1.1.1 NEVER 🙂
Lane
Great!!! think I’ll leave it for now, just wanted to make sure I could go back just in case. Thank you for your help and all you are doing for the iPhone community!!! It’s very tempting to do the restore and iPlus but I’ve successfully jailbroken once today which took about 15 minutes or less after downloading the 1.1.4 package and I’m a bit reluctant to “push my luck” but great to know I can go back if I need to without bricking…I promise I won’t go back to 1.0.2 or 1.1.1 EVER ;-), I think I’ll wait a week and make sure everything is okay with it, then if necessary I’ll do the iPlus!! Thanks again!!
Lane
Lane
BTW, I’m on AT&T already….does that change anything? Probably just don’t need to do any activation “tricks” correct? the iPlus -j will do it all right?
Thanks AGAIN…..lol
Lane
Lane
I meant iPlus -j and -a 😉
Thanks again for your help!!!
Lane
jaime
HOW DO YOU RUN TERMINAL??
katerina
This is incredible. Will iPlus 2.0 work on a Mac PPC still running Tiger? Thank you!
David
Yea I am running Tiger a well OSX 10.4.11 i think, so can i run iplus 2.0 on it? also a question to Larry Knight I am assuming you used mac and not windows to do the unlocking and during the whole unlocking process did you let the internet(airplane mode) connected or was it off?
brett
I just download BBinfo after Ziphone’s jailbreak and it said BL was 4.6. Is this a mistake or does Ziphone not downgrade the BL after all?
kiran
I stopped using ZiPhone for a long time now. If it is 4.6, I suggest you try iPlus, that will make things clear. Use iLiberty+ … much easier!
christy
Hi Kieran
i will be getting a iphone soon and will use liberty+ does my sim need to
be in the iphone while running liberty or do i add it in once liberty has finished
thanks.
christy
Hi kieran
Another question,i had a look at the guide on liberty+ and they didnt say
to quit itunes should i do this anyway before running liberty
thanks again.
brett
Not that I’m knocking iPlus, but Ziphone is very easy. I don’t see the reason, if the BL is not downgraded. Maybe it’s being misreported? It looks like iPlus does use the 3.9 BL but can restore the 4.6? Also, the BB stated 4.0.4, and all features seem to work. Am I missing something? I did a restore on my phone last night and am waiting to JB it again until I get some clarification which I fully understand.
Kiran
Christy : I tried it both ways (with SIM and without it (dummy ATT sim) and it worked just fine! Again, I tried with iTunes open and I quit iTunes on another iPhone and it worked great!
brett : You are free to choose ZiPhone but you are on your own if you do that cos’ with the release of ipsw builder and pwned tool – we might have to play around with different bootloaders and yeah, for warranty purposes : ZiPhone voids it completely while iPlus doesn’t!
christy
Kieran
thanks for your quick response better safe than sorry will let you know how i
got on thanks again.
Christy.
Lane
I restored with apples 1.1.4 then “iPlussed” it fine with no hassles, with ZiPhone, I didn’t have bluetooth connectivity, Now it all works wifi, BT, etc. and jailbroken “safely”. Now that the Pwnage tool is out I may try that, but not yet as I’m totally happy right now and don’t want to do it all again. successfully running 1.1.4 jailbroken with WIFI, BT, YouTube, Google maps/locator etc. all working perfectly!!!
Thanks Kiran and all who helped on this!!!
Lane
Maverick
Can I use it for my IPod Touch 16G 1.1.4 ?