[elr0y7]

Originally Posted by candyg12l

I'm having trouble here, I have Windows and I've completed up to the Quickpwn step. Quickpwn said my phone appears to have been pwned successfully and to wait for the phone to reboot. Well it's been stuck on a black screen with the apple logo on it and the loading indicator thingy and my phone is vibrating every 30 secs. Its been like this for 20 mins..Is this happening to anyone else? Am I supposed to wait longer or should I restore?

I heard of this happening to someone else too but I'm not sure, Try hard resetting it by holding home and power and try to turn it on again, otherwise I think you might have to restore.

Originally Posted by rospamenator

I accidentally deleted the wrong "include" folder in Step 4. Am I screwed?

I don't know exactly whats in that folder but if your phone is still running you should be fine

[aqd84]

hey i did everything and i got all my apps ..

so when i tried to start cycorder or any other hacked apps it just crashes and heads back to spring board..

on the mobile installation framwork file i named the properties to 0755 and restarted and everything..
can you tell me what im doing wrong??

Edit: oops i was suppose to set it at 775 not 755 lol.. I'll try again and repost

Edit 2: Dammit!!! ok the apps from cydia and installer is not working!!!!!

Can someone please let me know how to get the hacked apps to work??

i finally got all the apps to show but they keep crashing and head back to spring board...

please ive been doin this all night, can someone tell me wht to do thanks!

[adamnur]

Can't seem to find a download for 2.1 FW. Any ideas?

thanks!

edit: found a DL for the normal 2.1, but do we need a modded version for this method?

[saifeeab]

hi guys. ok i successfully upgraded and quickpwned my phone. when i was trying to correct all the folders i mistakenly deleted the wrong ringtones folder i think. so my phone is only showing the default marimba ringtone. so now how do i change the ringtone folder so that the phone can read the old folder. help guys.

Update: fixed the problem by re-updating and quickpwning . Wasted another hour to get everything right again.

[aqd84]

hey guys ok i cant seem to get my installer apps to show up.. i added from the old folder to the new folder.. reboot and it doesnt show up.. i had mobile installtion at 0775 and reboot .. and nothin.

[Wally©]

Try installing a free app through the iTunes Store...

Reboot your phone...

There's a good change all your previous apps will reappear...

Good luck...

wally©...

[adamnur]

Does anyone know where the shortcuts are located that lead to the wallpaper.xxxxxx folder? Both my new and old wallpaper folders have the same modified date, so I need to find out which one is the new one.

Thanks will be due, and given! THANK YOU!

edit: also, does anyone know how to get cydia to recognize what is installed already? Otherwise it won't know when to notify of updates, etc.

[saifeeab]

Originally Posted by smeeshum

STAGE 4

Run the Cydia app and install openSSH onto your iPhone and reboot it.

Use Transmit or whatever you would rather use to SSH into the iPhone by Wifi. Please remember if you changed your SSH password it will now be "alpine" again and if a warning comes up about the key has changed do not panic this is normal.

Once you have access into your iPhone via SSH you can change the password again using Terminal if you wish?

Now using SSH navigate to the VAR/STASH Folder

You will find 2 of each folder. One ie:-

/Applications
&
/Applications.kuhfh (these last 5 digits are random, YOURS WILL BE DIFFERENT)

What you need to do is move all the files inside the original /Applications folder that are apps from Cydia/Installer ie Cydia.app, Cycorder.app, Bossprefs.app etc to the new Applications.kuygk folder.
DO NOT MOVE ANY OF THE NATIVE IPHONE APPS or you will brick your phone.

Do this for all the other folders in the STASH folder.

Then delete the old folders that dont have the 5 random letters/number (.khkug) at the end.

QUICK TIP TRICK

I found a quicker way than copying was to just delete the new folders with the 5 random keys at the end and rename the old ones so they have the same ending. THIS TRICK WILL NOT WORK FOR THE APPLICATIONS FOLDER THOUGH.
NOW REBOOT THE IPHONE.

YOU WILL STILL NOT SEE THE CYDIA APPS ON THE SPRINGBOARD.

After pwning my phone successfully yesterday twice (read below why), there is one observation that I wud like to make.

After installation of Cydia and running it for the first time, Cydia automatically reorganizes your folder structure without user input. So when u ssh into ur phone to /var/stash u will see two Applications.xxxxx folders and so on for all other folders. Some you can figure out after slow & tedious comparison but others are just impossible to know even by their dates.

So i suggest readers NOT to delete anything but rather RENAME (eg. Ringtones.xxxxx.bak) the folders u "most likely think" are older versions. Then reboot ur phone and check if eveything is working. Only after a complete confirmation that every function and feature and setting is working fine, u may go ahead with deleting the folders. Of course this will not work on /Applications but others shud be fine.

Now as to why I quickpwned my phone twice: bcos I ended up deleting the wrong Ringtones folder (without any backup) . So i was left without any ringtones .

If anyone has a better suggestion pls. let us know.

[adamnur]

Well I messed up my phone the first time. When I repeated the process on my sister's phone, I just took a screenshot of the old /var/stash folder components and compared it to the new ones after upgrading.

It was much easier to delete that way.

[saifeeab]

thats a pretty gud idea adamnr. I think i will do the same on my bro's phone next.

[mgmm1]

Originally Posted by candyg12l
I'm having trouble here, I have Windows and I've completed up to the Quickpwn step. Quickpwn said my phone appears to have been pwned successfully and to wait for the phone to reboot. Well it's been stuck on a black screen with the apple logo on it and the loading indicator thingy and my phone is vibrating every 30 secs. Its been like this for 20 mins..Is this happening to anyone else? Am I supposed to wait longer or should I restore?

This happened to me. I updated to iTunes 8.0 and purchased the upgrade to 2.1. In my case I didn't put my iTouch in DFU mode before proceeding with QuickPwn and jailbreaking.

I googled and found these procedures for placing your iPhone/iTouch in DFU mode.

DFU Mode Procedures

1. Turn on your iPod (in my case it would only get as far as displaying the Apple logo
2. Hold the power and home buttons down (the iPod will power off after 10 seconds, but keep holding those buttons down)
3. After the iPod powers off, release the power button (but keep holding the home button down)
4. After a couple more seconds, you should hear that magical “ding dong” that means the iPod is coming back alive, and that Windows has detected it. You may even see a little “New hardware” pop-up in Windows. It is now safe to release the home button, and your iPod is in DFU mode.
5. Now iTunes will see it as a DFU’ed iPod and should ask you to automatically restore its firmware.
6. iTunes has to download the new firmware, and it takes a while, so go make a sandwich.

I didn't get a sandwich but did do something for a few minutes. Once this procedure is done, you can begin following the QuickPwn instructions.

Hope this helps.

[badomen]

Instead of comparing creation dates to determine which folder needs to be removed (since, as many have found, creation dates may be the same), navigate to the root level of your iPhone.

All of the symlinks to the folders in your var/stash folder are located either at the root level or up one level inside /usr. Select and get info (cmd-I in Cyberduck) on each of these folders and it will show you the target folder inside var/stash. Write these down - these are the active folders. All others are outdated and can either be deleted or renamed after you move essential content out of them (see OP). Hope this helps. Cheers.

[adamnur]

I used this guide on my iPhone, but I'm having some problems.

My gps is never able to locate me now , and the phone seems more unstable than before the FW upgrade.

Not saying it's the guide, but I have a question for all you experts:

Theoretically, if I backup my /var/stash directory then do a full restore to stock 2.1 FW, could I not then go into the new /var/stash and upload my non-native apps from before into the new applications folder, to keep all my old apps, etc?

Thanks

[elr0y7]

Originally Posted by adamnur

I used this guide on my iPhone, but I'm having some problems.

My gps is never able to locate me now , and the phone seems more unstable than before the FW upgrade.

Not saying it's the guide, but I have a question for all you experts:

Theoretically, if I backup my /var/stash directory then do a full restore to stock 2.1 FW, could I not then go into the new /var/stash and upload my non-native apps from before into the new applications folder, to keep all my old apps, etc?

Thanks

Well first of all you can't use any not-native apps (other than appstore apps) on stock firmware, it has to be jailbroken. Second of all you'll need to jailbreak your phone to download openSSH from Cydia in order to move files in and out of your phone (unless you know some other way to access the files on your phone). Third of all I don't think the not-native apps would show up on your phone without the new MobileInstallation file given here, not sure about this tho.

[adamnur]

sorry, I guess I assumed that people would know I'd jailbreak first.

To rephrase, could I restore, then re-jailbreak from scratch. Following that, upload the mobileinstallation file again, and THEN could I re-upload the apps I backed up from before?

Will that work without replacing all the other /var/stash folders?

Thanks for your help!