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Ok.. I’m going to try and jailbreak my iPhone.. Wish me luck!

I’ve just rebooted my iPhone into recovery mode, and told iTunes to flash it with 1.1.1 (link).. It’s taking a few minutes….
Nearly there now.. Verifying the software install. Jesus this is taking it’s time too!
Okay, error 1015, cannot be restored.. Now to run iNdependence.

To get independence to run you might need some itunes files… The link is in the readme..
Okay, a bit of piss farting around later (killall -9 iTunesHelper) and I’ve got iNdependence working. Okay! iPhone reactivated and jailbreakme.com success!! Now to upgrade to 1.1.2.. time to oktoprep!!

Well, that was really easy - and a nice taster of what’s to come! loads of applications!! iTunes is now reflashing my octoprep’d iPhone.. Should take a while again I’d imagine…
Ooooh, it’s verifying! Looks like it’s worked, rebooting.

Okay, re-activated and in a modified 1.1.2. It would seem that my Octoprep of 1.1.1 failed, so back to the start again for me. This would’ve been the last step (running java -jar jailbreak.jar)..

Okay, I just did everything again, and this time it’s working!!! My 1.1.2 UK iPhone is jailbreaking. the w00t I’m told this takes ages…

I’ll take this time to explain what I did properly, as the above method isn’t quite right. The second time round, I flashed my iPhone with 1.1.1 (option click on restore.. no need for all these odd modes). it took a while, then I activated in itunes, and went to jailbreakme.com via wifi. I installed installer.app, then oktoprep from tweaks in installer.app. Then I option clicked restore again and applied the 1.1.2 firmware and ran ./osx (i suppose you’d run ./windows in Windows!.. can be found at http://conceitedsoftware.com/iphone/site/112jb.html) and that’s where I am now..

Done! Rebooting my iPhone!……. It came up and rebooted itself again (I was told this would happen)
Sliding to Unlock.. NICE!! Time to fix the O2 Settings.

Ok, just a case of sshing in and:

rm /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.carrier.plist
cp /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreTelephony.framework/Support/O2_UK.plist
/var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.carrier.plist
rm -f /var/root/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

in theory I’m laughing

yessssssss!

update: just checked - edge and visual voicemail are all fine.

Edit: Woah! Just noticed all the comments!! Would appear wordpress has stopped emailing me, never mind.. Sorry about that guys, I’ve fixed the commands now for any future readers.. You’re probably best to copy and paste the commands anyway

…But if they did, they wouldn’t be as good as iPhones.

So, 48 hours later and the “Activation and Porting Ordeal” is finally over. When I Activated my iPhone, O2 informed me it would take up to 5 business days to transfer my number (from o2 pay as you go) to my new iPhone Contract, but that they would provision me a temporary number, so I could get started playing with my iPhone straight away.. “Fair enough”, I thought.

A mere 16 hours later, I received an SMS from Facebook on my iPhone.. My number must have transfered. I checked, it had. Hurah!…. I thought.. A few minutes later, a “you have voicemail icon” appeared, but with no number in it. When I attempted to go to voicemail, my Visual Voicemail just plain refused to work. I hastily rang O2 (UK Based!) Tech Support, and was informed by the Apple Representative(!!!) that the O2 Network could not take the strain, and I should just wait until after the weekend. I rarely use voicemail, so I was not too bothered, although did feel somewhat put out. A few hours later I left the house, so naturally, got my iPhone out and hit “Safari”.
“Safari cannot open the web page because it cannot find the server”.. HMM. To the O2 Store! We tried to go the trafford centre on the way home, but we had no luck. Even hoping to park, on a Saturday, was foolish of us, so I rang O2 instead and we carried on our not so merry way.

After sounding puzzled, and sticking me on hold, the Apple Rep discovered that AT&T had encountered this problem also when porting AT&T numbers from AT&T to iPhone Accounts. The GPRS/Voicemail etc settings had not been setup. He told me a need to speak to O2, and put me through to them. I told the O2 woman what I wanted. Immediately her incompetence became evident. “You settings are automatically activated automatically”. Now, maybe if I had just asked for the features and not explained my whole situation, that would be a valid response, but I had told her everything. That it did work, that I’d spoke to Apple, that AT&T had the same problem, etc, etc. I re-iterated the point, and informed her more firmly that she would be provisioning Visual Voicemail, GPRS, and EDGE on my account. I was put on hold.
Ten minutes later or so, the annoying voice in my head ear returned, to inform me that she had made the necessary changes (but I thought no changes were necessary?) and that provisioning would take upto 24 hours (but I thought they were already provisioned?).

So. I am now left with an iPod Touch, that can make calls and send sms. Not really what I shelled out ¬£269 for, or why I’m paying ¬£45 a month, but there you go. 24.5 hours later and my GPRS/EDGE/Voicemail were still not working. I rang O2, again, and informed them of my unhappiness. The equally incompetent o2 iPhone team member attempted to patronise me. His first and only mistake. We finished up on the phone and a few minutes later everything started working.. The iPhone kicks ass. Can’t wait for a jailbreak

’nuff said. More to come when I’ve finished played with it… Perhaps

I couldn’t think of something I expected more tbh….

"Technical Group"… mmm… I’m sure.