iPhone 3GS Jailbreak update
The phone-dev team annouced that there are techniques to capture files that will be needed for the 3GS jailbreak. Below is from the dev team.
“You may have read or heard about techniques to capture files during the iTunes restore process. These will be required to jailbreak your phone in the near future, most of the methods involve icky USB snoops. Well, there is an even better and more reliable method to get your hands on those lovely files.
During the restore process iTunes nicely keeps these oh-so-top-secret-files in a lovely accessible place for us to copy out and backup, that place? /tmp on Mac OS X or %TEMP% on Windows. Thanks Apple — handy!
So during a usual recovery with iTunes, your signed iBEC is written to /tmp and during a DFU mode restore the signed iBSS is written there also. To be sure, restore in both modes one after another to be able to grab them both. You’ll need to keep an eye on the temp directory and copy it before it is deleted again by iTunes. I’m sure some nice folks will create a tutorial about this, we’ll link to the first person who makes a good one.”
Now, according to some to a member of the iphone-dev team, the file you saved from purplera1n should be enough if you only care about the jailbreak and not an unlock.
“planetbeingIf you already used purplera1n you are prolly safe for jb, though you cannot restore to totally stock 3.0 without all files (not just ibss)”
I woul rather be safe than sorry though, so you may want to get these files as well.
iClarified has come up with a good picture-filled guide for doing this on a Mac and also one for Windows. Good luck!
*difrnt created a tool that will help with this process as well.
If you find it too hard to manually grab the iBEC and iBSS files that may be needed for the 3Gs Jailbreak, try this app out.
Download iBEC and iBSS Grabber HERE
UPDATE:
The application crashing issue should be fixed now
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