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How to Jailbreak Your iPhone with ZiPhone 2.4 (Windows)

Posted February 11, 2008 at 10:37am by
These are step by step instructions how to jailbreak any iPhone instantly! No downgrading then upgrading! You can do this from any firmware version! It will also automatically install Installer.app for you!

ZiPhone is capable of the following functions:
- Imei changer will work ONLY on 4.6 BL (112 and 113 ootb).
- Unlock will work for 3.9BL and 4.6BL
- Jailbreak will work on any OS version.
- Activation will work on any OS version, except for youtube on 1.0.X.


Easier ZiPhone GUI instructions can be found here:
https://www.iclarified.com/667/how-to-jailbreak-your-iphone-with-ziphone-gui-windows

Perform these steps with your iPhone on and connected to your computer.

Step One
Download ZiPhone from: here

Step Two
Double click ZiPhone.zip on your desktop to extract the folder ZiPhone..
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone with ZiPhone 2.4 (Windows)

Step Three
Press the Windows key and R at the same time to bring up the Run window. Type in cmd and press the Ok button to launch the Command Prompt.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone with ZiPhone 2.4 (Windows)

Step Four
Type the following command into the Command Prompt to navigate to the ZiPhone directory:
cd Desktop/ZiPhone.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone with ZiPhone 2.4 (Windows)

Step Four
Execute the command ziphone -Z A: to see all its possible uses.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone with ZiPhone 2.4 (Windows)

Step Five
The program will prompt you to put your iPhone into recovery mode. To do this please hold down both the Sleep/Wake and Power buttons until you see the Apple logo. Once the Apple logo appears release only the Sleep/Wake button until you see the iTunes logo and cable on the screen.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone with ZiPhone 2.4 (Windows)

Step Six
Now you can activate and jailbreak! Just simply type in this command:
ziphone -a -j
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone with ZiPhone 2.4 (Windows)

Step Seven
The program will now search for zibri.dat. Then it will search for the iPhone. Once found it will tell you to wait for 45 seconds.
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone with ZiPhone 2.4 (Windows)

Step Eight
After this time your iPhone will reboot and it will be activated and jailbroken!!!!!
How to Jailbreak Your iPhone with ZiPhone 2.4 (Windows)

THANKS***: Big thanks go to Zibri
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andrew
andrew - May 2, 2008 at 1:38am
i tried it with 1.1.4 and it did not work
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sadiphone
sadiphone - March 13, 2008 at 4:29am
I did this procedure after the "How to Unlock a 1.1.4 iPhone (ZiPhone + Installer) (Windows)" my Iphone did not responde it just stays with the apple on the screan and can't make it work nor the PC detects the iphone please help!
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Rajiv Varma
Rajiv Varma - February 13, 2008 at 2:27pm
Unbelieveable. You are a life-saver, Mohammadreza. Thanks a ton for your help.
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Mohammadreza
Mohammadreza - February 13, 2008 at 2:12pm
Turn the Show my caller Id on in the phone settings.
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Rajiv Varma
Rajiv Varma - February 13, 2008 at 1:55pm
Hey Guys. I've got a OOB 1.1.3 unlocked in India, and I am able to send/received SMS and received phone calls. For some reason I can't call out. Anyone have any ideas? I tried iWorld, but it seems to only work in 1.1.2. I also tried the WinSCP method of patching appSupport. No luck with that. Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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Mohammadreza
Mohammadreza - February 13, 2008 at 12:53pm
I have a 1.1.2 OTB HW unlocked. Recently I've upgraded it to 1.1.3 (did a restore) but after activate and jailbreake using ZiPhone its WiFi acting kind of weird. After a successfully connecting to an Ad-Hoc it will disconnect when i press the home button. I reseted the network settings but nothing happened.
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Steve Anderson
Steve Anderson - February 13, 2008 at 11:17am
Cant get Edge to work no more on O2 pay as u go.
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Samiq
Samiq - February 12, 2008 at 8:29pm
BTW, my phone is a 1.1.2 OTB, I had killed all itunes stuff from the task manager and been monitoring the services. ziphone.ex is using 2684K of memory and AppleMobileDeviceService.exe 788K. Cheers.
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Samiq
Samiq - February 12, 2008 at 8:27pm
Hi guys I am running vista, and did the ziphone -u -a -j, it went all the way to show me Please wait 2'30. but it has been seating there for about 25min and nothing has happened. The phone rebooted at first I guess it is part of the work it is doing, and during this time the screen has flash about 2 times, that I have notice, but still sitting in the apple icon. Is there any way to know this is still working or how to stop and try again? I really appreciate any help.
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keets28
keets28 - February 12, 2008 at 7:42pm
oli did you install bsd system, udate sources, and install openssh before you tried installing other apps?
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Oli
Oli - February 12, 2008 at 7:39pm
Make sure you quit ituneshelper.exe from task manager as that stops the phone being jailbroken! I tried on my 1.1.3 16GB OTB five times before I quit ituneshelper and then installer finally popped up! I would add that NOT ALL apps are working on this jailbreak - I don't know if its my phone or because they are not made to work with this new jailbreak method?!
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Jason
Jason - February 12, 2008 at 5:34pm
Well I completed everything and said done, but I don't see customizer and other stuff? Was I suppose to unlock it as well, if I had a legit ATT account?
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RTheDuke
RTheDuke - February 12, 2008 at 5:19pm
After hours spent on the Dev Team's Tutorials, ending in a not 100% working iphone (installer was not installing with script execution failure error..) THE BEST WAS ZIBREE'S SOLUTION with ziphone -u -a -j . I followed JAS advice (read comments..) : restored back to a clean 1.1.3 my OOTB phone and used ziphone from a dos window. ALL went OK in a few minutes !!! My phone is working now unlocked and jailbroken as expected. Thanks to ZIBREE and iClarified for the GOOD Tutorials. Well Done !
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antstyl
antstyl - February 12, 2008 at 4:31pm
Cm go to Settings>General>Reset>Reset all settings, then reboot the iphone
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antstyl
antstyl - February 12, 2008 at 4:10pm
same problem here! No sound!!plz help! also sometimes when others try to call me it is like am talking!!
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Cm.
Cm. - February 12, 2008 at 4:07pm
I did everything, but now i have no sound ??? NOTHING. Why is this.
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myiphone
myiphone - February 12, 2008 at 3:37pm
ziphone -a -j -u Loading zibri.dat. Searching for iPhone USBMuxListenerCreate: No error. And it hangs there.
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kphone
kphone - February 12, 2008 at 3:33pm
got a new 1.1.3 iphone. I get et the following msg and then it hangs when I ran ziphone -a -j -u UsbMuxListenerCreate: No Error help me pls..
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Steve Anderson
Steve Anderson - February 12, 2008 at 3:29pm
also iTunes gives a (1) error so no going back to 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 I restored to 1.1.3 and now can only go back to that now
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Steve Anderson
Steve Anderson - February 12, 2008 at 3:25pm
it works but it is ziphone -u -a -j that must be the order done it twice now and it works its not -a -j -u
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