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If you are among those experiencing the bootloop issue when trying to untether jailbreak your iPhone 4 with the newly released iOS 6.1.3/6.1.4 released by iH8sn0w, it would interest you that there is a fix for it. iH8sn0w just posted the fix for the bootloop issue. This fix is presented below. Follow the instructions carefully. Boot Loop Fix 1) Download this Java runtime binary of msftguy's SSH RD Creator. 2) Put your iPhone 4 into DFU and wait for it to tell you to connect to localhost:2022 3) If you're on a Mac, use terminal and type "ssh root@localhost -p 2022". If you're on a PC, grab PuTTY and type localhost in Hostname, and 2022 under Port. 4) Enter "root" for the User Name. 5) Enter "alpine" for the Password. 6) Copy & Paste this one line bash command: while [ ! -d /mnt2/mobile ]; do mount.sh; done; printf '\xD3\x8E\x95\xD4\x44\x47\x32\x2E\xA1\x5F\x9F\x9B\xE7\xE8\x8F\xDC' | dd of=/mnt2/unt...

Following on going saga between Apple and Samsung for supremacy,  new information reaching us is that Samsung just achieved another victory in the US over Apple with the ban of iPhone 4, 3GS, 3 and iPad 2 (WiFi + cellular). This is as a result of Samsung stating that these banned products infringed on its patents with the way data handled by the banned devices are encoded and decoded over a cellular network. Consequently, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) today ruled that Apple infringed on Samsung Patent No. 7,706,348 titled "Apparatus and Method for encoding /decoding transport format combination indicator in CDMA mobile communication system" and as such iPhone 4 (AT&T models), iPhone 3GS ( AT&T models), iPhone 3G (AT&T models), iPad AT&T models(AT&T models) and iPad 2 3G (AT&T models) be  disallowed for sale in the US. Although it is very certain that Apple would appeal in a federal court but this won't tone things down for Apple. J...

As you all know already, iOS 6.1.3 is the most recent firmware for all iOS 6 compatible devices except for iPhone 5 which has iOS 6.1.4 as the most recent firmware. As of the time of this writing Apple is still signing iOS 6.1.3 and 6.1.4.   It is NOT possible to jailbreak iOS 6.1.3 untethered, it can only be jailbroken tethered on older devices like iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. Therefore, if you have an iPhone 5 or 4S running iOS 6.1.3, you won't be able to jailbreak it. Furthermore, Gevey works best for a jailbroken iDevice, therefore, since only tethered jailbreak is available for iOS 6.1.3, Gevey doesn't function well and its not guaranteed to work with your device. All hope is not lost as it is very certain that iOS 7.0 will have a jailbreak when it comes out by September. This tutorial is to allow you update your iPhone to iOS 6.1.3, Jailbreak and unlock using Gevey for supported devices. Please read carefully before you begin your update! This tu...

iOS downgrade Just recently, Apple released iOS 6.1.3 and many people that loved their jailbroken devices blindly updated only to find out that it is impossible to jailbreak iOS 6.1.3. Desperately, many of sort to downgrade back to 6.1.2 or lower for those with iPhone 3GS & 4 only to end up with a device in soft DFU loop; that is device refuses to boot up. Across various forums and discussion sites, this problem have been reported by those that tried downgrading using SHSH blobs saved on Cydia servers. Those that downgraded using blobs saved with iFaith and TinyUmbrella hardly experience this problem. This problem received little answer as to why it happens. Well, Saurik, the guy behind Cydia offered some insights as to why this problem occur. This you can find here for better understanding.  In summary, what he is saying is that Apple have implemented a kind of mechanism that only allow the restoration to most recent firmwares, more like most recent and two...

Apple have released the next update of their iPad, iPod and iPhone operating system to version 6.1.3. Earlier in the March when the betas were out, it was suggested that jailbreakers shouldn't upgrade to this version should it become live because it patches the exploits used by Evasion to achieve an untethered jailbreak on all iDevices running iOS 6.x. A little definition will suffice. Tethered jailbreak means that when the device is powered off or run out of battery, one will need to connect the device to the computer to boot up again using Redsn0w On the other hand, Untethered jailbreak means that if device is powered off or battery runs down, device will boot up normally without the need to plug into a computer nor boot up with Redsn0w Well, finally, iOS 6.1.3 is out and some people would have failed to heed to warning not to upgrade their devices to the latest version if  they intend on keeping their untethered jailbreak achieved in iOS 6.1.2. All hope isn't lost as...

Updated: I decided to upgrade an iPhone 4 with baseband 04.10.01 running iOS 5.1.1. The device was hacktivated and unlocked using Gevey. After 30 minutes I successfully landed on iOS 6.1 baseband 04.10.01 and still unlocked with Gevey sim. Ultrasn0w 1.2.8 couldn't download because it was not compatible with my iOS 6.1 which is strange. Through out the whole process, both Gevey and SIM remained in the phone. Here are my steps in a easy fashion and i Hope you find it useful. This post was published in February before iOS 6.1.3 was launched. If you want to install iOS 6.1 now, you will need SHSH blobs NEEDED ITEMS 1. Sn0wbreeze 2.9.9 2. iOS 6.1  - 6.1.2 IPSW 3. Internet connection 4. Redsn0w 0.9.15b3 5. Ultrasn0w 1.2.7 and Mobile Substrate 6. iTools or iFunbox or iExplorer NOTE 1: This post does not apply to those that want to upgrade to iOS 6.1.3 NOTE 2: If you want to update to the IPSW in this post as of now (1/March /2013), you will need SHSH...