4.3 JB with Pwntage Tool with Hackintosh VM

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My guide assumes you are using Windows and don't have a mac, but you can access at least a virtual machine of hackintosh.

If your eager to have 4.3 JB but don't have a mac, your in luck. You just need a hackintosh to use pwnagetool to build your custom ipsw, or you can find an already custom JB 4.3 ipsw on the web. If you can't find one, I plan on making a stock IPSW for the 3GS and would be willing to upload if requested.

Now you will have a hard time getting the ipsw to flash using a virtual machine because of the usb handoffs between the host and vm really screw the process up, but don't worry there is another way.

My guide assumes you have a working Hackintosh VM with the latest itunes and you know how to use it.

Download the ramdisk fixer and your needed bundle from here:
http://www.iphone-privacy.com/

Follow this guide up until the DFU part:
Jailbreak iOS 4.3 iPhone 4 Using PwnageTool [How to Guide GM Build] | Redmond Pie

Disconnect the iPhone from the virtual machine and put the iPhone in DFU and use the iREB-r4 tool from:
iH8sn0w.com | Jailbreak your iPod touches and iPhones

and use that to enter into a jailbroken state, once that is done, run itunes and shift restore with your custom ipsw file. If it doesnt work, reboot your machine and redo the DFU using the iREB tool again.

So after iTunes is done restoring and syncing you should have a tethered jailbroken iOS 4.3, to boot your phone incase of a reboot you need to use a tethered boot tool: https://github.com/msftguy/syringe/downloads

Now the same thing goes for booting as it does for flashing, it doesn't work on a virtual machine.

You need to rename your ipsw to .zip and extract iBSS.n##ap.RELEASE and kernelcache.release.n##
(## could be 88 or 90 or something different depending on iOS version and model)
use tetheredboot: tetheredboot.exe -i iBSS.n88ap.RELEASE.dfu -k kernelcache.release.n88

I created a shortcut with those args, make sure the 2 files are in the same directory as tetheredboot.

Looks like someone posted a guide:
http://jailbreakzone.com/2011/03/09/...ndows-and-mac/

Things I noticed: Winterboard does not work, it crashes springboard even with no themes installed. Multifl0w can crash it also but most of the time it works.