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]
Kiran
Maverick : Visit http://ipluspwns.com/?q=node/99 much easier!
Maverick
Kiran,
I did this what you referred. It installed “Install.app 3.0” and did not work with my IPod Touch 16G 1.1.4
How I can upgrade “Install.app 3.0” to 3.1 ?
dave
hey Lane do u like iplus or ziphone? and what is the different in both that you see so far?
thanks
Lane
@ dave:
Hey Dave, I used ZiPhone first and it worked great and has in the past as well, but I noticed my Bluetooth wasn’t an option to be turned on even in the prefs, so I re-tooled via iTunes (restore) and than used iPlus and I have everything working fine You Tube, Google, BT, wifi etc. so I’d personally have to say iPlus is better…your mileage may vary, but Zibri has been getting some bad accusations of theft of code and to me that’s just not cool, so I’m glad I used iPlus anyway!
Good Luck! Be Careful, backup etc. 😉
Faslane
dave
thanks….i was waiting for your answer…thanks alot i just used iplus so now i dont know what am i getting into. i hope i will like it. thank dude
dave
oh btw i was just wondering do customize work? i want to change the number of dock on my springboard dock instead of 4 i want 5.
dave
sorry last one i promise (i think) what is BT?
thanks -=)
Lane
Oh, Hi Dave, BlueTooth (BT) my previous attempt I thought went great with Zibri 3.0, but I noticed my Bluetooth setting to turn on was grayed out, so I factory reset through itunes, then “iPlussed” it and it was working again…as before your mileage may vary
Lane
Lane
Customize does work, however I noticed a slow-down of overall perfomance when I used it (slower screen redraws when coming out of smb prefs), and I really don’t use it anyway so I uninstalled. Make sure you install the proper version for your firmware eg: 1.1.3, 1.1.4 etc. There are a few tricks through installer to make it work if you have problems.
Lane
Tepa
HI there, my boss asked me to hack his iphone, but he says its already been unlocked, will that make a difference?
Thanks
Tepa
Tepa
Btw its a 1.14 16gb iphone.
kiran
Tepa : What exactly does hack mean in this case?? Is it installer / applications or something else?! If yes, then it does not make a difference, just go ahead and use iLiberty+ available in downloads section of this site…
ankit
hey kiran, ive got a new iphone which is still in the box…please can u mail me or tell me the steps to be undertaken…i have no clue about all the words such as baseband etc which are being used…thanks….cheers!
kiran
Ankit : Restore to 1.1.4 from iTunes before you proceed…
All you have to do is download iLiberty+ from http://ilikemyiphone.com/wordpress/?page_id=173 (download the appropriate version for Mac/Windows)… and choose Jailbreak, Activate, Unlock options and hit Free my phone 🙂 It is so easy! Don’t worry about the baseband stuff, everything is now taken care of 🙂
Lane
Hi kiran, does this iLiberty+ also enable youtube and google etc.?
Thanks,
Lane
nate
does this mean i can use my t-mobile simcard ???
kiran
nate : Absolutely! Unlock == any gsm sim in the world!
Lane : Yep, GMaps and Youtube, everything tested and working GR8….
Lane
Thanks for the reply!! I noticed, my 1.0.2 iPhone, has a sim on it that says 3G with a fireball icon on it, I know there isn’t 3G iPhone yet, but maybe Apple knew they would eventually release one? But why put a 3G sim Card in an EDGE iPhone, when it won’t boost speeds etc anyway? It’s not like I can get a firmware update for my iPhone, it’s all in the hardware correct? Weird…
Thanks
Lane
Kiran
Lane : The 3G SIM is intended for a future release for sure but nah, current iPhones are not 3G capable the Hardware way! 3G iPhone is due in about 45 days 🙂
Lane
I wonder why then they put a 3G sim in the iPhone when it really cannot benefit from the speed of it, and when the 3G does come out it will include a new Sim Card anyway…weird. Maybe it was a manufacturer issue to just do them all that way or something, hmmm
Thanks,
Lane
william
Yeah, works great for my brand new iphone with t-mobile. If people doesn’t know how to swap sim card, search youtube. A little concern is stats shows there is sending and receiving thruogh edge from the usage screen and I have no data service subscriptions from t-mobile.
Rob
I installed everything and it all works awesome, i instgalled the youtube activator and it still doesnt work, any help?
kiran
Rob : Did you try iLiberty+ from the downloads section on this site? It might help you…
Rob
yes, i downloaded liberty+ and i also installed the yourtube activator, However since im on att i DID NOT unlock my phone, do i need to do that as well?
kiran
Nope, you need not really unlock but you might want to try that as well as there is no harm doing that.
Before that, you may want to connect to iTunes as soon as you use iLiberty+, sync it and then check for youtube… If it doesn’t work, let me know the exact error message you get….