Oct 29

changing your iphone’s root password

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Everyone should know that iPhone is more like a mobile computer, means it has its own operating system. every operating system will have it’s admin account, and in iphone (or unix) we call it a ‘root account’. by having this particular account accessible to all, you are putting your phone in danger. the most basic thing to secure this account is to have the password ONLY to yourself. below is a step-by-step guide to help you in changing the default password for iphone.

standard password for ALL iphone’s root account is alpine. earlier version of iphones use ‘dottie‘ as password.

1. by default when you open your terminal you will login to normal (user) account. login to root first before you can change the password.
to do this type ‘su‘ and enter (return). the system will ask you for password. type in ‘alpine‘ and enter (return).

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*notice your user prompt shows ‘#‘ symbol instead of ‘$‘. This shows that you already login to root account (plus the word ‘root’ besides it).

2. type ‘passwd‘ to change your password. the system will ask you to put in your new password, twice. just make sure you type something that you can remember, secure,
and not too easy for others to guess.

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and you are done.

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Oct 14

PdaNet 1.53 patch via terminal

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this is a step by step tutorial on how to patch PdaNet v1.5.3 via terminal. for some reasons, you might don’t have the ability to use WinSCP or you might don’t have computer at all. don’t worry, follow the steps as below (this is considering that you already have PdaNet v1.5.3 installed from Cydia);

1. install MobileTerminal from Cydia
2. open terminal, log in as root (password by default is ‘alpine‘)
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3. go to PdaNet’s binary. to do this;
a. type in ‘cd /var/stash‘
b. type cd Applications.XXXX (where XXXX is some random chars and numbers  dependant on your phone). in some phones, you can only see Applications.pwn. but it’s ok, you can just proceed.

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4. go to PdaNet.app folder ‘cd PdaNet.app‘
5. type ‘rm PdaNet‘ to delete the existing file (or ‘mv PdaNet PdaNet.bak‘ to keep as backup).
6. download patched PdaNet file from my repository – http://amirul.net/a/PdaNet. to do this, type ‘wget http://amirul.net/a/PdaNet‘. you will have to install wget from Cydia first if you don’t already have it.
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7. type ‘chmod 755 PdaNet‘ (install chmod from Cydia if you don’t have it).
8. type ‘cd /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/‘
9. type ‘rm com.jft.pn.plist‘
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done. now you can reboot your iphone and enjoy! please let me know should you successfully done it or not.

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Oct 14

blackra1n live!

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blackra1n

blackra1n was out last sunday. you can get it at the author’s website at http://www.blackra1n.com

for those of you who don’t know, blackra1n is the latest jailbreak created by George Hotz (geohot).  this lets you to jailbreak all version of firmware including 3.1.x.

Oct 14

PdaNet 1.53 patch

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PdaNet 1.53 released and few updates/fixes from previous release includes;

  • Fixes access to http://my.iPhone on USB connection.
  • Fixes a critical memory leak.
  • Fixes a connection error caused by iTunes 8.2. Please also upgrade desktop client from http://junefabrics.com/desktop

Here the howto for the cracked PdaNet binary:

  1. Do an update of PdaNet via Cydia (or install new)
  2. Download the cracked PdaNet 1.53 Binary
  3. Connect your iPhone over SCP (take WinSCP over Cyberduck)
  4. Now overwrite the PdaNet Binary in Applications/PdaNet.app with the downloaded cracked one
  5. Important: Now set the file permissions from the PdaNet Binary to 755 (rwxr-xr-x), otherwise the Wireless Router won’t be able to initialize at reboot.
  6. Now go to /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/ and, if it exists, delete the file com.jft.pn.plist
  7. Now reboot your iPhone with Bossprefs or the normal switch… what you like.
  8. After it’s back online, PdaNet is already registered and ready for use.

refer to my other post (http://www.amirul.net/?p=10) for instructions on how to patch PdaNet without computer.


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