How to Jailbreak your 3.1.3 iphone 3GS....AT LAST

I bought my new 3GS iphone at the end of my contract with O2 in last February. Having used a jailbroken 3G iphone before I certainly wanted to jailbreak this new toy for greater pleasure.

Now I was aware of the fact that new baseband 3.1.3 with new boot rom could not be jail broken at that time. However since my 3GS iphone came out of the packege as 3.1.2 I didn't have any doubt when I connected it to the itune to jailbreak.

Alas ! before I knew my iphone was restored with brand new version of 3.1.3 which obviously cut me off of the joy of having a jailbroken phone.

Jailbreaking cat and mouse game was already started at that time and the king of Jail breakingGeoHot, Daveteam, MuscleNerd and many more were on the front line of the war.

As expected it didn't take a long for GeoHot to come triumphant  yet again and he claimed the victory with this video.But unfortunately for people like us who accidently upgraded the iphone this was not of any use, since he was not bothered to publish it.His big ego (as he admits in his video given above) wouldn't let him help us  this time.

Then came a saviour,......Spirit with the coolest and easiest JB ever(which is untethered) and made any version of iphone, ipod and ipad jailbreakable !.

I used his software and within minutes the job was done, freeing my iphone from the iron claws of Steve_Jobs.Below is how it is done;

Step 1 Download Spirit from here.for your Windows or Mac

Step 2 Backup backup always backup your device in case something goes wrong. Don't  blame others!

Step 3 Unzip the package and run the software.

Step 4 Click “Jailbreak”.

Step 5 Then you will see this

Step 6  Do not click Quit. Iphone will reboot and come to life with Cydia on it. Job done!.

Errors & Troubleshooting

Windows Vista or Windows 7 users may get the error c0000005.

To avoid this error, you have to run Spirit.exe in compatibility mode. To do so:

1.Right click on Spirit.exe and select Properties
2.Select the compatibility tab
3.Check the “Run this program in compatibility mode for” box and select Windows 98 / Windows ME

Previously there was a problem with not showing iphone photos. But now I think it is fixed with the latest versions.

Tips
1. Make sure you are 100% certain with Jail breaking.Know the pros and cons of it. I was sure and I did it.
2.Always back up
3.Strongly recommend to read the comments on Spirit web site to get an idea of what other people experienced.
4 Here is a video showing the jailbreak in action
5 Use Cydia carefully. Make sure you get only what you really need. Otherwise you will run out of space/memory/battery life before you know.

Good luck !

Comments welcome. Thanks

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BT Softphone on IMac

Anybody having problems with trying to work BT softphone on imac. This is how you do it !

First thing is you should by now know that bt softphone software is not compatible with OS. so you will have to download a 3rd party VoIP soft ware. There are several available

X lite is free and can be downloaded at http://www.counterpath.com/x-lite.html. I use this one

Isoftphone is another and available at http://www.call4mac.com/

Download and install it.

Then you have to configure your account as shown below

Protocol - SIP

*User ID - Last 10 digits of your phone number with 44 prefix (44**********)

*Authorization name- Last 10 digits of your phone number with 44 prefix

*Display name - What ever you want

It is important to type 44 infront of the 10 digits otherwise IT WONT WORK.

*Password - go to this page: https://service.btbroadbandvoice.bt.com/bbv/online/consumerConfig

Put in your BBTalk phone number & your plain text password

click 'Next'

On the page that appears, click "Configure hub/router"

A little pop-up should appear with a button labelled "Configure"

Right-click on that button and select "Copy link location"

Open a text editor and paste (cmd-v). A long line of text appears.

Look for the string "SIPPassword1="

Copy the next 15 characters (those between the '=' and '&' characters).

Paste that into the X-Lite SIP account password field.

(curtsey of Malcolm_Herring at http://community.bt.com/t5/BB-Out-About/Softphone-settings-for-Mac-users/m-p/4884)

On Tophology tab;

Tick the "Use local IP address " box (Important)

Try this. If it doesnt work you may have to configure your BT HomeHUb to opent ports 5060 and 8000-8005 (for xlite) as well. Here is how you do it

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/BT/BTHomeHub/X-Lite.htm

Good luck. Ask me if there are any questions.

MAIN THING IS IT WORKS ! BT PEOPLE WILL SAY NO. BUT IT WORKS. I USE IT EVERYDAY !