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iPhone v1.1.3 Jailbreak Guide – update from v1.1.1/v1.1.2/v1.1.3 to jailbroken v1.1.3

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iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak method from iPhone Dev Team
[Update 4]
ZiPhone 2.0 is now ready to make put all your jailbreaking woes to rest. ZiPhone 2.0 is available for Windows and Mac machines and is basically a GUI (graphical user interface) that uses the iPhone Dev Teams’ jailbreak solution to automate the iPhone v1.1.4 jailbreak process to point-and-click simplicity. Download ZiPhone 2.4 here.

This guide has been updated to reflect the new, easier process.

[Update 3]
Added a tip for jailbreaking iPhone v1.1.1 with jailbreakme.com.

[Update 2]
Jailbreakme.com has been updated. You no longer have to install Oktoprep prior to updating your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1 to a jailbroken v1.1.2 firmware.

[Updated]
The final steps of this jailbreak guide have been appended with a simpler and less involved method. A new third-party application is available through Installer.app (AppSnapp). Namely, the new iJailbreakMobile application makes updating to v1.1.3 jailbreak a breeze.

With the release of iJailbreakMobile, this guide is better used as a “downgrade” guide for anyone that wishes to update their baseband or has already updated to v1.1.3. Jailbroken iPhone with v1.1.1 or v1.1.2 firmware can ignore most of these steps.


Okay, if you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve been scouring the web for some straight-up answers on how to upgrade your iPhone to the jailbroken v1.1.3 firmware. For the uninitiated, a “jailbroken/jailbreaked” firmware simply means that the particular firmware version is capable of installing and running unofficial third-party applications. The new iPhone v1.1.3 firmware is most likely the firmware that Apple will use to distribute their official iPhone SDK-based third-party application, and so jailbreaking the v1.1.3 firmware offers the best of both worlds – official and unofficial third-party native iPhone applications.

Let’s get down to the nitty gritty. This guide will walk you through the iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak process, and should work regardless of your current firmware version. This tutorial uses the iPhone Dev Team’s v1.1.3 jailbreak method, not Nate True‘s leaked solution:

The following is the updated instruction set:

  • Download the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware package to your desktop.
    Download it here.
  • Download the ZiPhone 2.4 iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak package. (Choose the Mac or Windows version, you should know which one you need)
    Download it here. (Make it easy, put it on your Desktop)
  • Make sure you backup your data. (Just sync your iPhone with iTunes)
  • Connect your iPhone to your computer and let iTunes start up.
  • Goto the iPhone pane in iTunes and hit the “update” button.
    At this time, the iPhone v1.1.4 firmware is available through iTunes, so iTunes will likely want to upgrade your iPhone to v1.1.4 – DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN.

    • If you iTunes wants to update your iPhone to v1.1.4, press “Cancel.”
    • Force your iPhone to restore itself to v1.1.3 by holding down the “Option” key while click “Restore” (Mac) or holding down the “Shift” key as you click “Restore.”
    • Choose the iPhone v1.1.3 firmware package that you downloaded to your desktop.
  • Quit iTunes.
  • Fire up ZiPhone.
  • Check the appropriate boxes and jailbreak/unlock/activate your iPhone v1.1.3.
  • Enjoy! (Props to the iPhone Dev Team and Zibri!)

Keep reading if you feel like checking out the older iPhone v1.1.3 jailbreak process.

  • Make sure you backup your data. You will be “restoring” your iPhone several times.
  • You need a WiFi connection which your iPhone and computer both share (they need to be on the same network).
  • Your iPhone needs 300MB of free space.
  • Even iPhones previously jailbroken using Nate True’s method can be re-jailbroken with this more stable method.
  • AT&T, O2 UK, T-Mobile Germany, Orange France customers can update their baseband to take advantage of iPhone v1.1.3’s new features. To do this, simply update your iPhone to v1.1.3 via iTunes. Unlocked customers will want to avoid this step.
  • Proceed slowly and carefully, some steps take time and you just need to be patient.

Here’s what you’ll need before we start (put everything on your desktop):

Mac users –

Windows users –

Starting with a factory/non-jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1

(in which we’ll discuss how to downgrade your v1.1.2 or v1.1.3 iPhone to the non-jailbroken v1.1.1 starting point). Jailbroken iPhones using v1.1.1 or v1.1.2 firmwares will want to skip this step:

  1. Download the Apple iPhone v1.1.1 firmware here. Place it on your desktop
  2. Connect your iPhone to iTunes
  3. Place your iPhone in DFU restore mode by holding down the “Home” and “Power” buttons simultaneously. You’ll see the “Slide to turn off” button, keep holding those buttons
  4. Wait until the screen goes black and release only the “Power” button – keep pressing the “Home” button. iTunes will recognize that the iPhone is in restore mode – the screen should be black. If you see the “Connect to iTunes” image, restart at Step 3 until you enter DFU restore mode. Again, if you do this correctly, you’ll have a completely blacked-out screen while iTunes recognizes your iPhone in restore mode
  5. Restore your iPhone to v1.1.1 firmware by holding down the “Option” key and clicking the “Restore” button (Mac OS X), or holding down the “Shift” key while clicking the “Restore” button (Windows)
  6. Navigate and choose the iPhone v1.1.1 firmware file on your desktop (iPhone1,1_1.1.1_3A109a_Restore.ipsw)
  7. If you immediately get an error “(1)” you need to make sure you enter DFU restore mode – go back to Step 3
  8. Let iTunes do its thing, you will get an error (1015) or (1013), that’s okay, it’s supposed to happen
  9. Apply the iPhone v1.1.1 firmware again to ensure that the firmware “took”
  10. At the error (1015) or (1013) prompt, you’ll notice that your iPhone is in restore mode and iTunes doesn’t want anything to do with it. Quit iTunes.
  11. At this point, fire up iNdependence (Mac) or iBrickr (Windows) and wait a tick for it to pull your iPhone out of restore mode (it takes 30 seconds to a minute)
  12. You should now be staring at a “Activate iPhone” screen. Quit iNdependence or iBrickr

Jailbreak your iPhone v1.1.1 firmware

Non-jailbroken (factory fresh iPhones) with v1.1.1 firmware start here:

  1. Slide the “Slide for Emergency” slider.
  2. Dial “*#307#” without quotes, obviously.
  3. Hit “Call”
  4. Delete the numbers and dial “0”
  5. Hit “Call”
  6. Hit “Answer”
  7. Hit “Hold”
  8. Hit “Decline”
  9. Choose the “Contacts” tab and add a new contact by hitting the “+” button in the upper right corner
  10. Hit “Add new URL”
  11. Add “prefs:” and save
  12. Hit “Add new URL” again
  13. Add “http://jailbreakme.com” and save
  14. Save the contact as “Z” or whatever you feel like naming it
  15. Hit the “prefs:” URL
  16. Navigate to “General” > “Auto-lock” and choose “Never“
  17. Connect to your WiFi network, enter password if required
  18. Press the “Home” button and you’ll be back at the “Activate iPhone” screen
  19. Slide that “Slide for Emergency” slider again
  20. Dial “0”
  21. Hit “Answer”
  22. Hit “Hold”
  23. Hit “Decline”
  24. Choose your newly added contact
  25. Hit the “http://jailbreakme.com” URL. This will open up Safari
  26. Scroll down to “Install AppSnapp” and hit it
  27. Safari will close, you’ll be taken back to the “Activate iPhone” screen, wait until your iPhone reboots. If you are still staring at the “Activate iPhone” screen after 5 minutes, go back to Step 19. (TIP: as you wait for jailbreakme.com to finish the jailbreak, keep playing with the activation screen slider – keep sliding it halfway to keep the iPhone from turning off before jailbreakme.com has a chance to reboot the device)
  28. iPhone will reboot to a freshly jailbroken v1.1.1 firmware with Installer.app/AppSnapp installed. You did good.

[Update] Here are the revised instructions. iJailbreakMobile makes upgrading your jailbroken v1.1.1 iPhone a simple, one-click process.

You can ignore the rest of the instructions after this section. iJailbreakMobile only requires that you have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1. If you followed the instructions in the previous section, you should have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1.

If you wish to upgrade to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2 firmware before running iJailbreakMobile, skip this section and follow the instruction in the next section.

  1. Fire up Installer.app (AppSnapp).
  2. Make sure you have “BSD Subsystem” installed. If not, do so now.
  3. Add http://ijailbreak.com/repo.plist to your “Source” list. If you don’t know how, check out our tutorial
  4. Refresh your “Source”
  5. You should now see a new application category called “iJailbreak”
  6. Within the “iJailbreak” category, choose the iJailbreakMobile v1.1.1 installer
  7. Hit the “Home” button to return to your homescreen
  8. Find the new icon “iJailbreak” and run it
  9. Wait for at least 45 minutes before you do anything. The iJailbreakMobile application has to download the entire 160MB iPhone v1.1.3 firmware from Apple, decompress it, patch your iPhone, and do other jailbreaking magic, so this process can take a while.
  10. Your device will reboot once iJailbreak is done doing its thing. You should have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 at this point. If not, just go back and try uninstalling/reinstalling iJailbreak and running it again.
  11. That’s it! The instructions below pertain to the older jailbreak method that required a good amount of terminal-command work, and can be a little intimidating. If you like a challenge, use the below instructions in place of iJailbreak.

Preparing your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1 for upgrade/update to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2

If you’d rather update your iPhone to a jailbroken v1.1.2 firmware before running iJailbreakMobile, then follow the instructions in this step.

Jailbroken iPhones with v1.1.1 firmware start here:

  1. Fire up “Installer.app” (aka AppSnapp)
  2. Update the “Installer.app” application
  3. Navigate to “Tweaks 1.1.1”
  4. Download and install the “Oktoprep” package (Update: Ensure that it’s installed)
  5. Navigate to “General” > “Auto-lock” and choose “Never“
  6. Open up iTunes
  7. Update (DO NOT Restore)your iPhone by holding down “Option” while clicking “UPDATE” (Mac), or hold down “Shift” while clicking “UPDATE” (Windows) – DO NOT RESTORE
  8. Navigate to and choose the iPhone v1.1.2 firmware (iPhone1,1_1.1.2_3B48b_Restore.ipsw)
  9. When iTunes is done updating to v1.1.2, you will be stuck in restore mode (if not, then continue). If you are stuck in restore mode, fire up iNdependence (Mac) or iBrickr (Windows) to pull your iPhone out of restore mode (as we did previously)
  10. You will be returned to the “Emergency Call” screen – the logo is different, don’t worry
  11. Quit iNdependence or iBrickr
  12. Quit iTunes
  13. Remember that “1.1.2-jailbreak” package you downloaded to your desktop? Yea, open that up and double-click “jailbreak.jar” (Mac) or “windows.bat” (Windows)
  14. After a couple minutes, the java application will finish up and hopefully reboot your iPhone. If you get to the completion dialog box and your iPhone is not rebooting (wait a bit before you take action, this stuff takes time), fire up iNdependence (Mac) or iBrickr (Windows) to return to the homescreen
  15. Your iPhone will probably reboot again, let it
  16. Once rebooted, you will have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2

[Update] Here are the revised instructions. iJailbreakMobile makes upgrading your jailbroken v1.1.2 iPhone a simple, one-click process.

If you’ve decided to upgrade to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2 firmware, then the instructions in this section are all you need to update your iPhone to a jailbroken v1.1.3 firmware. If you’d rather do things manually (through terminal commands) then skip this step.

  1. Fire up Installer.app (AppSnapp).
  2. Make sure you have “BSD Subsystem” installed. If not, do so now.
  3. Add http://ijailbreak.com/repo.plist to your “Source” list. If you don’t know how, check out our tutorial
  4. Refresh your “Source”
  5. You should now see a new application category called “iJailbreak”
  6. Within the “iJailbreak” category, choose the iJailbreakMobile v1.1.2 installer
  7. Hit the “Home” button to return to your homescreen
  8. Find the new icon “iJailbreak” and run it
  9. Wait for at least 45 minutes before you do anything. The iJailbreakMobile application has to download the entire 160MB iPhone v1.1.3 firmware from Apple, decompress it, patch your iPhone, and do other jailbreaking magic, so this process can take a while.
  10. Your device will reboot once iJailbreak is done doing its thing. You should have a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 at this point. If not, just go back and try uninstalling/reinstalling iJailbreak and running it again.
  11. That’s it! The instructions below pertain to the older jailbreak method that required a good amount of terminal-command work, and can be a little intimidating. If you like a challenge, use the below instructions in place of iJailbreak.

Upgrade your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.2 to jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 (this step is no longer necessary, iJailbreak does all this for you)

iPhones with jailbroken v1.1.2 firmware start here:

  1. Connect to your WiFi network, if it isn’t already connected
  2. Navigate to “Settings”>”WiFi” and click the little blue arrow next to your WiFi connection
  3. Write down (or memorize, it ain’t hard) your iPhone’s IP adress
  4. Fire up “Installer.app” and download/install “BSD Subsystem files” and “OpenSSH”
  5. Make sure your “Installer.app” application is updated to the latest version (v3.0b10)
  6. Navigate to “General” > “Auto-lock” and choose “Never“
  7. Update to v1.1.3 firmware
    • Mac
      • Get to a Mac computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
      • Start “Terminal” (Applications>Utilities>Terminal)
      • Type the command:
        “scp -r ~/Desktop/Jailbreak-1.1.3/* root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>:/” where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone. “Jailbreak-1.1.3” is the folder that contains the 1.1.3-jailbreak package (the one you downloaded to your desktop).
      • Hit Enter
      • Type “yes” and hit enter
      • At the password prompt, type in “alpine” (your keystrokes will seem to go unregistered – that’s okay, just type the password)
      • Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
        If you hit an error that looks like “@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @”, run the command “rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts” and go back to the “scp” command
      • Type the command: “ssh root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>”
      • Hit Enter
      • Type “cd /”
      • Hit Enter
      • Type “sh install.sh”
    • Windows
      • Get to a Windows computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
      • Start the command window by hitting the
        Start Menu then Run and typing in “cmd”
      • Type “cd desktop”
      • Type the command:
        “scp -r ~/Jailbreak-1.1.3/* root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>:/” where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone. “Jailbreak-1.1.3” is the folder that contains the 1.1.3-jailbreak package (the one you downloaded to your desktop).
      • Hit Enter
      • Type “yes” and hit enter
      • At the password prompt, type in “alpine” (your keystrokes will seem to go unregistered – that’s okay, just type the password)
      • Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
        If you hit an error that looks like “@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @”, run the command “rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts” and go back to the “scp” command
      • Type the command: “ssh root@<iPhone IP ADDRESS>”
      • Hit Enter
      • Type “cd /”
      • Hit Enter
      • Type “sh install.sh”
  8. Wait at least 15-20 minutes before you start getting antsy, this step takes some time – go watch some TV or something
  9. Or, watch the command window it downloads the v1.1.3 firmware from Apple, decompress it, upload it, patch it
  10. Once done, the command window will terminate your SSH connection and reboot the iPhone
  11. Close the terminal window
  12. Restart the command window and SSH to your iPhone
    • Type:
      “ssh root@<IPADDRESS>” (Mac)
      “putty -ssh root@<IPADDRESS>” (Windows)
    • Hit Enter
    • Type “cd /Applications”
    • Hit Enter
    • Type “chmod +s Installer.app/Installer”
    • Hit Enter
    • Type “chown -R root:wheel Installer.app”
    • Hit Enter
  13. Close the command window
  14. That’s it!
  15. Well, actually, if you want phone-functionality, you’ll want to keep reading

Restore phone functionality to your iPhone (this step is no longer necessary, iJailbreak does all this for you)

  1. Fire up “Installer.app” and ensure that “BSD Subsystem” and “OpenSSH” are installed
  2. Connect to your WiFi network, if it isn’t already connected
  3. Navigate to “Settings”>”WiFi” and click the little blue arrow next to your WiFi connection
  4. Write down (or memorize, it ain’t hard) your iPhone’s IP adress
  5. On Mac
    • Get to a Mac computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
    • Start “Terminal” (Applications>Utilities>Terminal)
    • Type the command “chmod +x ~/Desktop/lockdownd”
    • Hit Enter
    • Type “scp ~/Desktop/lockdownd root@<IPADDRESS>:/usr/libexec” where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone
    • Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
      If you hit an error that looks like “@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @”, run the command “rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts” and go back to the “scp” step
  6. On Windows
    • Get to a Windows computer connected to the same network as your iPhone
    • Start the command window by hitting the
      Start Menu then Run and typing in “cmd”
    • Type the command “chmod +x ~/Desktop/lockdownd”
    • Hit Enter
    • Type “scp ~/Desktop/lockdownd root@<IPADDRESS>:/usr/libexec” where <iPhone IP ADDRESS> is the IP Address of your iPhone
    • Hit Enter and wait at least a minute before fiddling with anything
      If you hit an error that looks like “@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @”, run the command “rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts” and go back to Step 8
  7. Hold down the “Power” button and slide the red slider to turn off the iPhone.
  8. Turn it back on
  9. Enjoy your jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 in all its wiggly-homescreen-icon-Google Maps-My-Location-Installer.app glory!

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