Posted April 15, 2009 at 12:45pm by iClarified · 128495 views
These are instructions on how to find your iPhone Bootloader version using BBUpdaterExtreme. You can use these instructions to determine if an unlock is possible on an accidentally upgraded iPhone 3G.
Before you begin please have MobileTerminal and OpenSSH installed from Cydia. You can find MobileTerminal in the Terminal Support section of Cydia. For instructions on how to install an application from Cydia you can use this tutorial.
Step One Download BBUpdaterExtreme from here and save it to your desktop.
Step Two Launch the Terminal application from Applications:Utilities.
Step Three Make sure you iPhone is connected to the same wireless network as your computer and determine its IP Address using these instructions.
Step Four Enter the following command into the Terminal window replacing the IP Address below with the one for your iPhone. scp ~/Desktop/BBUpdaterExtreme root@192.168.0.125:/bin/BBUpdaterExtreme
You will be asked for your password. Enter alpine as the password.
Step Five Input the following command to ssh into your iPhone. ssh root@192.168.0.125
You will asked for your password. Enter alpine as the password.
Step Six Input the following commands into the Terminal window cd /bin
Step Seven Your iPhone will now loose its network connections. Launch Mobile Terminal from the iPhone SpringBoard.
Step Eight Type su into the terminal window. When asked for a password input alpine as the password.
Step Nine Now input BBUpdaterExtreme queryversion to get the bootloader version of your iPhone. It will look something like Boot Loader Version: ICE2_BOOT_05.08_G2M3S2
NOTES: You will need to restart your iPhone to regain network connectivity. You could also type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist into the terminal window.
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Ignore my last post - I've made progress, gotten past Step 4 and am now on Step 6. However, when I input "cd/bin" after "Iphone:~ root#", I'm getting a response "No such file or directory". Thanks.
Attn: Zero or anyone who can help! I'm having that same problem others have after Step 4 getting the message "File Not Found", yet BBUpdaterExtreme is on my desktop and SSH is active on my iPhone. How can I use Cyberduck to try and make this work? I've never used an FTP or SSH program before. Thanks.
Actually you always have to use the iPhone's ip address.
Stupid question... Is SSH turned on on your iPhone??. You can also try all this by using cyberduck :)
The IP addresses must be different of course but they have to be on the same network range.... For example the iPhone ip on my network is 192.168.0.103 and my Mac is the 192.168.0.101.
As long as the first three octets are the same (192.168.0) you are good to go.
If in any case this doesn't match it meams that you are connected to a different network or you are connected to an access point with a different IP range settings and you have to change that.
Hope it helps :)
Cheers
Zero
Try copying and pasting into the terminal window... if that doesn't happen, use cyberduck to send the file into the specified folder and then set the permissions in the BB app