So our choir’s leaving for Pangasinan tomorrow, and my GF’s retreat started this afternoon. That means I’m stuck doing nothing on a Friday night – which is usually spent with her for some quality time.
So I decided to finally update my iPhone and Touch to the newly released firmware. And here’s a quick summary of what to do and some problems/solutions encountered:
- Upgrade iPhone to 1.1.4
- Close iTunes
- Download, install, and run Independence 1.4 beta 5
- Activate and SIM unlock your iPhone (it’s pretty straightforward once you launch the app)
- Install SSH via Independence and follow the steps until SSH is installed.
- Download the latest
Installer.appand install it via customize tab in Independence
Now in my case, there were problems with the permissions of Installer.app which gave that dreaded “Main Execution Script Failed!” error; a maddening error that prevented installation of a lot of apps via Installer.app. I personally couldn’t install the BSD subsystem because of that fucking error.
So here’s what to do in case the situation applies to you:
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Access your iPhone via SSH (which you’ve enabled in step 5). Here’s how to do it: Fire up a
Terminalwindow on OS X and type these:ssh root@
YOUR_IPHONES_IP_ADDRESSenter your password - Download the
chownarchive (.gz) from this site, extract it put it into/binof your phone. Set it’s permissions to7551 If you already have this file installed, then you can skip this step. A freshly restored iPhone apparently doesn’t have it. Go back to theTerminalwindow, and resume typing:cd / cd Applications chmod +s Installer.app/Installer chown -R root:wheel Installer.app
Now you can use Installer.app without incident. While we’re at it, while trying to figure this stuff out, I came across this new package manager, called Cydia, which holds a lot of promise.
It has yet to to gain momentum in the community, but I installed it nonetheless for its alternate UNIX-based subsystem called Telesphoreo which is claimed to be better than the BSD subsystem iPhone users are used to using (how’s that for an alliteration?).
It’ll take too long to explain here, so I suggest you just read the page about it and see for yourself, suffice to say I’m not installing the BSD subsystem anymore – as I prefer Telesphoreo over it.
- Assuming that you agree with me, then let’s add
apptapp.saurik.comtoInstaller.app‘s list of sources. - Install Cydia, and the Fake BSD subsystem
Lastly, before I leave you to whatever else apps you want to install, I suggest you add installer.iClarified.com to the list of sources as well. Then install the AppSupport patch (1.1.4) and Region Patch (1.1.4) from there to lessen problems when using your phone on an unofficial SIM/country.
Notes
| ⇡1 | If you already have this file installed, then you can skip this step. A freshly restored iPhone apparently doesn’t have it. |
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Question/Suggestion: is it as easy as it seems to do the same on a PC? I’m this close to getting an iPhone pero since I’m with T-Mobile, I’ll have to unlock it too. And even though I’m also a self-proclaimed techie, I’m still wary of messing around with a $400 piece of electronic on such a “core” level. Based on your previous posts, parang madali lang sya pero that’s on a Mac platform. Is it just a substitution of commands/keys? (like Ctrl for the apple key). If so, pede mo ba i-update yung entry mo to reflect this? I’m sure there’s also other tutorials online pero since “ready to go” na yung sa’yo, baka pedeng dito ko na lang din makuha. If it’s too much trouble, oh well. Hehehehe
Hi Arjay,
Yes it should be as simple also on a PC. The application you’re looking for on your end is called ZiPhone
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Youe substituation-of-command-keys-are-different concern isn’t really applicable since both software deal with the iPhone directly (they usually even bypass iTunes) so you literally just have to plug the unit, then run the software and follow the steps (if any).
Only issue I could see is that from surfing the web, ZiPhone isn’t as solid as Independence (e.g. it has it’s quirks) so your mileage may vary