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iBooter offers iTunes-free iPhone diagnostics
iPhone hacker Niacin has just released his version of iBooter. Running on Mac, Windows and Linux, iBooter offers an interactive diagnostic and customization tool that talks directly with Apple's iPhone bootloader. With it you can set environmental variables, write a custom picture to the display (faboo if you're tired of that USB plug and the iTunes logo), run USB commands and diagnose why, for example, your iPhone isn't booting correctly.
Full installation instructions are available at the iBooter website as well as downloads for all three platforms. If you need to send commands directly to the baseband, iBooter is the tool you've been looking for.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
K Moon said 6:25PM on 3-20-2008
What does this mean for jailbreaking? Is it easier than ever?
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HarmfulDose said 6:54PM on 3-20-2008
What do you mean? It's pretty easy right now.
Brian said 7:18PM on 3-20-2008
Does it allow you to send AT commands ?
That would be fab so I could send SMS messages from the MBP via USB.....
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K Moon said 7:37PM on 3-20-2008
Not that easy, 16 gig ipod touch will not go back from 1.1.4.
Tried Win/Mac every way. Gives errors every time.
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Rob said 7:40PM on 3-20-2008
K Moon, have you tried ZiPhone v2.6b?
http://www.ziphone.org/
Tony said 6:23AM on 3-21-2008
The touch is extremely easy. Try reading the instructions. The only firmware you can't load is 1.0.2.
The phone is the harder one, since you have the whole baseband/sim unlock mess to deal with.
Niner said 7:41PM on 3-20-2008
Hi fellows,
Does anyone successfully download iBooter for Mac? I can't download it because Safari just show something weird symbols on the screen. Any idea? Thanks.
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adamhdm42 said 7:52PM on 3-20-2008
Same problem
Mike said 10:28PM on 3-20-2008
Right click the link, "download linked file". Once it's downloaded, Get Info on the file and remove the file extension. After that open up terminal and navigate to the directory with the file in it and "chmod +x ibootermac", obviously without the quotes. After that just execute it from the terminal like you would a normal command line app.
Ben said 8:22PM on 3-20-2008
Firefox downloaded it fine, and as soon as I installed the libs and put my phone in recovery mode, it worked fine. I was able to change the background image from black to blue.
I don't know how to change the iTunes icon though... do I have to SSH the file onto the phone (/pwned.png) before applying it?
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K Moon said 7:59AM on 3-21-2008
I hadn't tried in about two weeks, this new version did the trick, thanks.
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Nosh said 8:14AM on 3-21-2008
Erica, thanks for developing excellent apps. Can you pls modify VoiceNotes so that it can be used on 1.1.1?
I use iphone in India. When I save a google map location, it gets saved as "latitude,longitude United States". Due to 'United States' in the end, maps cannot open. I have to manually delete the U.S. and leave only lat.,long. for maps to open correctly. You help could be immense.
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matthewwhitcher said 7:21PM on 3-23-2008
This downloads a .rar file that I can't seem to do anything with. Help? Please.
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