{"id":1416,"date":"2012-01-03T20:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2024-09-30T17:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:53:05","slug":"ios5-untethered-jailbreak-arrives-i-take-the-plunge-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/ios5-untethered-jailbreak-arrives-i-take-the-plunge-again\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS5 untethered jailbreak arrives, I take the plunge (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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I&#8217;d been running iOS 4.3.3 on my iPhone 3GS since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/jailbreaking-my-iphone\/\">last May<\/a> so I decided to take the plunge to upgrade to Apple&#8217;s latest software and then re-apply the jailbreak.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->To prepare, I made a final backup of my phone with iTunes and also used <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190911001323\/http:\/\/www.pragmatixconsulting.com:80\/cgi-sys\/suspendedpage.cgi\">PkgBackup<\/a> to backup all of my Cydia apps and data. I also took screenshots of all of my springboard pages so I had a reference of all of my icons, folders, sort orders, etc.<\/p>\n<p>2012 is a brand new year so to start it out fresh, I decided to <em>restore <\/em>my phone to iOS5 instead of <em>upgrading<\/em> (in hindsight, this turned out to be a mistake, but more on that later). I let iTunes start the install but kept running into a problem where my phone would hang in <a href=\"https:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2010\/06\/24\/iphone-dfu-mode-explained-and-how-to-enter-dfu-mode-on-your-iphone\/\">DFU mode<\/a> and iTunes would show a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT203271\">-5000 error<\/a>.\u00a0 None of the generic resolutions I was finding on the internet were helping, but after trying a few times the update finally installed and soon after I had a &#8220;clean&#8221; iPhone running iOS 5.0.1.<\/p>\n<p>Next it was time to jailbreak: I fired up <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230926055913\/https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/iphone-dev.com\/files\/home\/\">redsn0w<\/a> 0.9.10b3 and followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2011\/12\/27\/how-to-jailbreak-ios-5-0-1-untethered-with-redsn0w\/\">instructions<\/a>. This part went a lot smoother than the iTunes portion and just minutes later I had Cydia back on my iPhone. I ran into another small problem when I launched Cydia for the first time: it kept saying &#8220;cannot locate package&#8221; and wouldn&#8217;t let me install anything and no applications were found in any of the sources. I tried refreshing the sources as suggested by some internet posts but that didn&#8217;t work. What <em>did <\/em>work was tapping the Refresh button on the Changes tab, though! With Cydia finally working, I re-installed PkgBackup and then restored my backup, rebooted, and re-sprung. My final jailbreak step was to SSH into my phone and <a href=\"http:\/\/cydia.saurik.com\/password.html\">change the root password<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now the full impact of doing a restore to iOS5 instead of an upgrade hit me. First I had to re-create all of my folders and set up my springboard pages (thank goodness I had taken screenshots of everything!) which was a pain since I use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pCRh7gcAOs\">FolderEnhancer<\/a> and thus couldn&#8217;t do it through iTunes. Then I had to re-configure just about every app. For some of them I had the foresight to back up their data with <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210507004916\/https:\/\/www.iphonehacks.com\/2011\/05\/datadeposit-nifty-jailbreak-app-allows-you-to-save-iphone-app-data-in-the-cloud-dropbox.html\">DataDeposit<\/a> so I didn&#8217;t lose my saved game progress, but for others I just had to start over (mostly this involved just logging in but it was still annoying). For some reason, though, I lost all of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitesms.com\/\">biteSMS<\/a> messaging history, even though I saw those files get restored from my PkgBackup backup. I was never able to figure out how to get it back so I had to start from scratch there as well. Also, since my iPhone was completely empty, that first sync with iTunes took a <em>long<\/em> time as all of my music and videos had to be copied back to the device. Lastly, my voicemail password was lost so I had to reset it through the AT&amp;T web site, which inexplicably deleted my custom greeting so I had to re-record that. <em><em>sigh<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I persevered through the problems and annoyances, however, and now have my iPhone 3GS jailbroken on iOS 5.0.1 and back the way I like it. A few days later I did the same thing to my iPad but this time <em>upgraded <\/em>instead of restoring and everything went a <em>lot <\/em>smoother. \ud83d\ude09 Now to learn my way around iOS5 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iOS jailbreaking community got a nice holiday\/new year&#8217;s gift the other week from pod2g and the dev-team: the untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and original iPad (iPad 2 and iPhone 4S users might get their own jailbreak soon too). I&#8217;d been running iOS 4.3.3 on my iPhone 3GS since &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/ios5-untethered-jailbreak-arrives-i-take-the-plunge-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;iOS5 untethered jailbreak arrives, I take the plunge (again)&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[50,48,66,23],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-tech","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-jailbreak","tag-mobile"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}