iPad and iPhone Jailbreak

Last night I decided to jailbreak both my new iPad and my iPhone. The process was very simple indeed using the Spirit Jailbreak from www.spiritjb.com. I made sure both devices were fully backed up and synced with iTunes, connected them and simply ran the software.

Spirit is an untethered jailbreak, meaning you don't have to run it
every time you boot your device.

My primary reason for jailbreaking is so that I can try out the "MyWi" app from the Rock store. This enables you to turn your iPhone into a mobile WiFi hotspot, allowing you to get data on your WiFi iPad practically anywhere. Strictly I did not need to jailbreak the iPad to use this, but the prospect of running multiple applications using "Backgrounder" was enough to persuade me!

Blackra1n 3.1.2 05.11.07

Assuming you are on baseband 05.11.07 and 3.1.2 you can use blackra1n to jailbreak.

HOWEVER

You will need to use blackra1n to boot your blower _every_ time.... Not a problem if you never run out of battery, or always have a pc with you.

You can always use iTunes to restore if you get annoyed with all of this, so as long as you are all backed up, no problemo.

You will need:
1 x blackra1n
1 x iPhone
1 x Mac (Intel)

Goto http://blackra1n.com, download the mac version.

--- THIS IS THE BOOT PROCESS YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW EVERY TIME ---
Make sure iTunes & iTunes helper are NOT running:
Properly close iTunes(right click, quit), then open a terminal and type:
ps -A | grep iTunes
You will see the id of the process running iTunes helper (1st col). Type:
kill 186
Where 186 is the process ID
Then, plug in your iphone, run blackra1n and press "Make it ra1n"
Your phone will reboot and a lovely piccy will show up
Done!
--- END OF BOOT PROCESS ---

You then have blackra1n as an app, use this to install Cydia (the unofficial app store)

Thanks goes to Geohot