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How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Posted December 12, 2007 at 10:29am by iClarified
These are instructions are on how to activate and jailbreak an iPhone that was shipped with the 1.1.2 firmware (OTB, OOB, OTTB) and the 4.6 bootloader. These instructions do not unlock your iPhone to use on other carriers. They do however allow you to install applications and in general use your iPhone as an iPod touch.

If you are not sure if you have the 4.6 bootloader then check the serial number of the iPhone. If the 4th and 5th digits are 45 or higher then you have the new bootloader and cannot unlock. Follow this tutorial until an unlock is found. As soon as a software unlock is released I will post instructions so check back.

**NOTE** (Wednesday, December 20th, 2007 12:00):
Here is a list of suggestions for those still having problems with the jailbreak server(Step 22). These suggestions have not been proven as it has always worked for me. However, they are still probably worth a try if the server is giving difficulty. If anyone has a suggestion to add then please let me know.
- Try to do a hard reset on the iPhone and try again
- Make sure you have a strong wireless signal
- Try the jailbreak with your iPhone still connected to the computer and iTunes
- Try using http://www.jailbreakme.com instead of http://jailbreakme.com
- Disable wireless encryption on your network
- Use a Wi-Fi connection without proxy


**NOTE** (Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 23:00):
I have posted a video of what the jailbreak process should look like. I hope this will clear up some of the steps if anything is not understood.



DOWNGRADE TO 1.1.1
Step One
For this you will need iNdependance 1.3.1, iTunes 7.5, and iPhone Firmware 1.1.1.
- Update iTunes to get the latest version.
- Download iNdependance from here: here
- Download iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 from: here

Step Two
Double click iNdependence_v1.3.1.dmg to mount the disk image. Drag the iNdependence application to your Applications folder.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Three
Connect your iPhone to your Mac. Press and hold Home and Power button of your iPhone at the same time. Once the screen turns black, release the power button but keep on holding the Home button until Apple logo changes to the restore screen.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Four
iTunes will then detect an iPhone in restore mode.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Hold down the Option key and click Restore.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

A dialog window will appear asking you to select the firmware to restore to. Select the 1.1.1 firmware we downloaded earlier (iPhone1,1_1.1.1_3A109a_Restore.ipsw)
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

At the end of the restore you will get Error 1015. This is okay. Simply click the Ok button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Five
Press and hold Home and Power button of your iPhone at the same time. Once the screen turns black, release the power button but keep on holding the Home button until Apple logo changes to the restore screen.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Six
iTunes will then again detect an iPhone in restore mode.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Seven
Eject your iPhone and Quit iTunes.

Step Eight
Open iNdependance by double clicking its icon in Applications.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Nine
iNdependence will after a short time take your iPhone out of recovery mode. If you get an error or it doesn't seem to be working then restart the iPhone and try it again. You might also try to disconnect the usb cable and plug it back in. If its really being difficult then just re-restore to 1.1.1 and try again.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Once it is successfully out of DFU mode you will see the Activate Phone screen displayed on your iPhone.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Ten
Quit Independence.

JAILBREAK 1.1.1
Step One
At the "Activate iPhone" screen move the slider to the right for emergency calling.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Two
Dial "*#307#" then press the Call button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Three
You will hear the phone call itself. Use the back arrow to clear the number you just enter. Now dial "0" then press the Call button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Four
Now you will be able to see the incoming call. Press the Accept button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Five
Now press the Hold button to put the call on hold.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Six
The phone will call itself again. This time press the Decline button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Seven
We are now presented with the keypad again. Press the Contacts tab at the bottom. We now are presented with an empty contacts menu. Click the plus(+) button to add a new contact.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Eight
Press Add New URL.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Nine
Input prefs: as the url then press the Save button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Ten
Press Add New URL again.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Eleven
Input http://jailbreakme.com as the url then press the Save button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Press the Done button to finish adding the contact.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Twelve
Now in the contact view you will see the 2 urls. Press the prefs: url.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Thirteen
This will bring up the iPhone's Settings Menu. Select your wireless network from the Wi-Fi category. Press the Settings button at the top left to go back to the Settings Menu.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Fourteen
Select the General category from the Settings Menu. Then select the Auto-Lock subcategory.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Press to select Never from the list of Auto-Lock times.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Press the Settings button at the top left to return to the settings window.

Step Fifteen
Press the Home button. At the "Activate iPhone" screen move the slider to the right for emergency calling.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Sixteen
Now dial "0" then press the Call button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Seventeen
Now you will be able to see the incoming call. Press the Accept button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Eighteen
Now press the Hold button to put the call on hold.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Nineteen
The phone will call itself again. This time press the Decline button.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Twenty
We now are presented with our contacts menu. Press to select the contact we added.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Twenty One
Press the http://jailbreakme.com url. This will open Safari and take you to jailbreakme.com
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Twenty Two
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press Install AppSnapp. How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Phone will return to activation screen, but don't panic, just wait. iPhone should automatically restart after almost a minute. When the phone starts again, it should no longer say Slide to emergency, but rather Slide to Unlock. This means it was successful!

I've had a few reports of the emergency slider not changing to the unlock slider. The best suggestion so far has been to keep the iPhone connected to the computer and make sure its detected in iTunes. Otherwise it seems to work if you retry installing AppSnapp till it works. Don't know what the issue is exactly (maybe a server load issue) but if it doesn't work immediately then try again.


UPGRADE TO 1.1.2
- Download the Jailbreak 1.1.2 package from: here.
- Download the 1.1.2 Firmware from: here

Step One
Press to launch Installer from the Springboard.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Two
Choose to donate if you like. Note: you probably should...
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Three
Navigate to Categories and then select the Tweaks(1.1.1) category.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Four
Press to select OktoPrep from the list of Tweaks.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Five
Click the Install button at the top right of the screen.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Six
Press the Install button on the next window to begin install.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Seven
Click the Ok button to confirm that we are ready to update to 1.1.2
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Eight
Connect the iPhone to your Mac. Then launch iTunes and select the iPhone.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

iTunes may ask you to name your iPhone. Once you have set the name then hold down the OPTION key and click the UPDATE button to update your iPhone to 1.1.2. (Note: Don't click the Restore button this time!)
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

A dialog window will appear asking you to select the firmware to restore to. Select the 1.1.2 firmware we downloaded earlier (iPhone1,1_1.1.2_3B48b_Restore.ipsw)
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Quit iTunes once the update is complete.

Step Nine
Double click the 1.1.2-jailbreak.zip file you downloaded to extract it. Double click jailbreak.jar to begin the jailbreak process.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Select the checkbox to install SSH. You can leave the password as alpine or change it to whatever you want.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Step Ten
Once the Done popup window appears reboot your device by holding the power button down for 3 seconds and moving the slider that appears to the right. Press the power button again to turn it back on.
How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

How to Activate and Jailbreak Your OTB 1.1.2 iPhone

Wait about a minute and the iPhone will boot then reboot by itself a second time.

YAY :) you should now have an activated and jailbreaked iPhone!

NOTES:
Some screenshots have been located from around the net. Most notably I'd like to thank Mark from HacktheiPhone.

If you using this guide for StealthSIM or similar and you are in an unsupported country then you will need to install iWorld from the Installer for your calling to work properly.

THANKS:
Well, I also really need to thank all the developers who have been working like crazy to make this tutorial even possible. Im really not even sure who all I have to name but thanks to everyone! iPhone Dev Team, iNdependence Creator (operator), iPhone Elite Dev Team, ...
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mudman
mudman - February 16, 2008 at 12:22am
If you cannot find oktoprep, add http://hackthatphone.com/1.xml to your sources in installer app and oktoprep will show up in your packages.. I had to redo the downgrade to 1.1.1, jailbreak etc. and then install oktoprep. After this, your "update" to 1.1.2 via itunes may give you a "1015" error - but no worries, just launch independence again and then run the jailbreak 1.1.2 file. Then you should be able to apply the Geohot unlock from the iclarified sources in installer app. Good luck.
Wannes
Wannes - February 14, 2008 at 10:33am
Update; It works now! Thanks to everyone who made this possible!
Wannes
Wannes - February 14, 2008 at 10:10am
I did this all, it works. But if I want to call somebody I get ; You're not alloud to dial this number, and the same if I want to send a sms.. What should I do? ( I already installed iWorld)
lizzy
lizzy - February 13, 2008 at 6:42am
Update: I really could skip 1.1.2 and directly update from 1.1.1 to 1.1.3. I just had to install BSDsubsystem and openSSH before going to 1.1.3, and afterwards I needed to install a new installer.app through the Terminal.
Jonas
Jonas - February 13, 2008 at 4:45am
What's up! Fooling around with zibris procedure without success. Now trying this tutorial... Tweaks 1.1.1 is no longer available in installer!!! Aargh! What's going on?
Harsh Jain
Harsh Jain - February 13, 2008 at 2:11am
Hi , Everything worked and I got my iphone jailbroken. However it is not recognizing any international SIM. except At&T?? I wonder if there is a way to do it? I am not using stealth sim. Thanks, Harsh
lizzy
lizzy - February 12, 2008 at 9:43am
I always get an error (1015) when trying to upgrate to 1.1.2 (with OTB 1.1.3 iPhone). Any idea? I also tried to skip 1.1.2 and instead go from 1.1.1 directly to 1.1.3, but then I had problems that the installer does not want to install anything anymore. Anybody knows if skipping 1.1.2 would really hurt that much? Thx
Bengt
Bengt - February 12, 2008 at 12:58am
Hi, I have the same problem as Mike, "Can not connect to the device" when trying to run Jailbreak.jar as Mike below. Have been up all night, still no success, Please someone??
Mike
Mike - February 9, 2008 at 5:30pm
Can someone please help me. When I go to run the Jailbreak.jar i get an error that says it cannot connect to the device. Anyone know why this is happening and what can be done to fix it?
tta
tta - February 9, 2008 at 4:52pm
To clarify, I did took my finger off the power button and kept the home button pressed. I tried this 3 times already, it just doesn't work. Anyone have any idea what's wrong?
tta
tta - February 9, 2008 at 4:51pm
Hi, I got stuck on the 2nd step. I press and hold the power + home button, the phone turn off, but I waited for a while and it doesn't go into restore mode. How long do I suppose to wait or am I screw here?
Alvaro
Alvaro - February 9, 2008 at 10:34am
Hi Ignacio de la Rica, I just post a comment with a problem with the OktoPrep stuff. Ignacio de la Rica, how you install Oktoprep yourself, I do have installer 3.0 I think thats the problem. Regards
Alvaro
Alvaro - February 9, 2008 at 10:30am
Hi guys, I tried to use the jailbreak from 1.1.1(4.03 baseband) to 1.1.2 with this method, install follow all the steps, and at the time of using jailbreak 1.1.2 it appears a sign thats says you need to install Oktoprep, but as a mather of fact I already install Oktoprep from the installer aplication in tweaks 1.1.1 What am I doing wrong? Comments will be appreciated.
j
j - February 5, 2008 at 12:37am
also i did run okeprep after installing appsnapp just to make sure it installed. following iclarified instructions and also what i added in comments i was successful on my first attempt jailbreaking and activating a week 46 1.1.2 OTB iphone. Yay!
j
j - February 5, 2008 at 12:34am
Success!!!!! Thanks Pal. Follow Pal's steps to successfully complete. After running jailbreak.jar and it completes successfully iphone is frozen with the itunes logo on it (no slide to unlock or for emergency call appears) and itunes opens automatically and detects iphone in recovery mode. Just close itunes and launch independence again and give it a sec and watch the status bar at the bottom. It will reboot iphone and success..."slide to unlock" Also in the very beginning if itunes doesnt recognize iphone automatically you have to reinstall itunes. i had 7.5 reinstalled 7.6 and it then detected iphone.
Ignacio de la Rica
Ignacio de la Rica - February 3, 2008 at 6:14am
Ooooops! I found out a way to do it! Definitively OktoPrep is not installed with the AppsSnapp 3.0 What I did is the following: 1) I installed OktoPrep myself. Don't forget to press home button to finish installation. 2) Update it to 1.1.2. 3) Run jailbreak.jar following the tutorial. 4) At the end of the process, I got my Iphone into recovery mode, then I quitted iTunes and I ran Independence for a second time to exit recovery mode. After some time and screen movement in the Iphone I saw the friendly "slide to unlock". I did this with two different iPhones and it succesed with both.
Ignacio de la Rica
Ignacio de la Rica - February 3, 2008 at 3:54am
This tutorial says before step one on How to Update to 1.1.2: "At this point normally we would have installed OktoPrep from Installer (Tweaks 1.1.1 Category). The new jailbreakme.com is supposed to do this for you now. I've heard a couple reports of the site not doing it so I've left this in the tutorial for now" Is there any way to check if OktoPrep is installed? Apparently it is not instaled becasue when I run jailbreak.jar inmediatly it gives message error: "This utility can only be used if you have already run OktoPrep before updating to 1.1.2" As OktoPrep is in the Install folder of Installer I riun it and, then, I followed steps One and Two of the updating tutorial. When jailbreak.jar is almost finished the Ipnohe didn't reboot and turn back to recovery mode. On Friday I jailbroke and actvated two Iphones 1.1.2 O.T.B. following the tutorial and the previous version of AppSnapp (updating to v.3.0 after the jailbreaking), so installing OktoPrep myself. On Saturday I tried with another one (in the same condictions, with the same software, with the same computer, in the same room) and failed as I told above. My conclusion is that something is wrong with the new version of AppSnapp. Obviously the mistake could be mine, but I don't find it. Please is there anyway to contact with AppSnapp developers to check this? Thank U for your help.
Jonas
Jonas - February 2, 2008 at 10:27am
David! Tried Påls replie to my previous post. Then the sollution was to simply run iNdependence once more and all of a sudden everything was fine... Now trying with my third iPhone... But now this doesn't seem to work out!!! Same i setup! Aargh!!!
Ignacio de la Rica
Ignacio de la Rica - February 2, 2008 at 6:26am
I have followed all the steps of this tutorial. When I run jailbreak.jar I am receiving an erro message "This utility can only be used if you have already run OktoPrep before updating to 1.1.2" and quit. If I run OktoPrep before updating, the jailbrek.jar doesn't works. Any suggestions pls?
David
David - February 2, 2008 at 2:29am
Jonas, I pretty much say the same! The first time I unlocked my iBrick easily, everything worked great, but after a second restore due to certain issues, I can not get my iphone to upgrade fro 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. It reverse to the restore mode. So far, no way to overcome the probleme, tried everything once, twice, thousand times. Any idea?
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