Throwback Challenge: Unlocking iPhone 1g, no wifi, no power button

[majzoob]

Ok, here's a tough one that I've worked on for hours. I have a first gen iPhone I would like to unlock to use as a phone overseas (I'm on sprint so my phones don't have sim cards). Its running 3.1.3 with a 04.05.04_G baseband. The problem is, though, it's wifi stopped working, I broke the power button , and it wasn't jailbroken or unlocked before the wifi gave up .

My hours of trying boil down to basically two approaches:
1. Cyder (I think it needs ssh installed to work, correct me if I'm wrong).
2. Making a custom firmware with the packages built in (need to put it into DFU but cant because of the power button).

Any ideas? I was doing this a while ago, got so frustrated I left it. Now I'm heading out for a vacation and need a phone .

[Goof]

Jailbreak with Spirit, and then download/run "BootLoader" from Cydia to flash your baseband to unlock. Since you don't have Wifi you would have to find and download the "BootLoader" .deb and put it into "/var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall" if you don't see a "AutoInstall" folder then you can create one yourself. Once you put the .deb file in there reboot your phone and you will see a Boot icon on there.

And you cannot use an iPhone 2G on sprint.


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[majzoob]

Thanks, but how would I restart it without sbsettings?

[Goof]

You've got only one option... Let the battery die and then plug the phone into charge and it should reboot.

[majzoob]

ok, might as well try it, but I can't find the deb for "bootloader". Is it on a specific repo? I've found other important debs like sbsettings, but not that one.

[i.Annie]

Bootneuter

[Goof]

Bootneuter

Right, I new it was either "BootLoader" or "BootNeuter"


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[majzoob]

ok, put bootneuter and sbsettings and its dependencies into /Media/private/var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall using iphone explorer, ran the battery down till it died. Plugged it back and it booted up again, but still no go. Where did I go wrong?

[i.Annie]

You have to run bootneuter. Just SSHing it in isn't going to unlock it.

[Goof]

ok, put bootneuter and sbsettings and its dependencies into /Media/private/var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall using iphone explorer, ran the battery down till it died. Plugged it back and it booted up again, but still no go. Where did I go wrong?

I think you might need to download the Mobile Substrate .deb file also.

[majzoob]

Thanks for the continued help. I attached a screen shot of everything I put in the autoinstall folder. No icons came up after reboot i.Annie.


Edit: I read somewhere that it may not work the first time. Running down the battery for another attempt.

[i.Annie]

I read somewhere that you have to execute it after installing manually like that.

The user said to use Putty (download it here: PuTTY Download Page)

Then log into your device with this guide: http://www.ehow.com/i/#article_5252832

Then execute this code:

dpkg -i nameofprogram.deb

**in your case, I see your file name is bootneuter_2.1.deb so use that in place in the above script.

So it would be

dpkg -i bootneuter_2.1.deb

[majzoob]

Problem is I can't get the IP address, no wifi.

Edit: I read up on a couple of sites, it looks like that is all you need to install something. Put it in AutoInstall and reboot. But a lot places also say more than once. I hope this time it works.

[i.Annie]

You need afc2add and OpenSSH but you can ssh with ifunbox or diskaid without wifi.

[majzoob]

ok, new update...

Got stuck in a bootup cycle, thought I was screwed. I found a nice program called recboot that kicked it into recovery as it was booting up. I restored the firmware, rejailbroke with spirit. Now I can't find the "Media" folder in iphone explorer anymore .

At least now I know it was doing something with the cycle. I'll try just doing the unlock this time and not sbsettings, one thing at a time. Any hints for finding the media folder again?

[i.Annie]

Are you accessing it like so

Root/var/mobile

It should be in there. If not, might need to restore again? Not sure though.