Post: Tutorial - How to jailbreak your iDevice with a broken power or home button!
07-04-2011, 10:32 AM #1
welliegs
Who’s Jim Erased?
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Basically a broken home or power button is a pain in the ass these days especially when your not jailbroken…..
But today i am going to help you all jailbreak you broken iDevices what we are going to do is put a custom ipsw file on our iDevices which will force DFU mode. When our devices are on DFU mode we can then jailbreak via Sn0wbreeze.

For this Tutorial please make sure you have basic knowledge of restoring your idevice.

Here are the Official Firmwares please download this aswell as the custom ones i have pre-made.

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Here are the pre-made ones (DFU MODE FILES)
4.2.1- iPhone 3g
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BEFORE YOU CARRY ON BACK UP YOUR IDEVICE
Once you download the specific file for your firmware go into itunes and plug in your iDevice click on you device in itunes and then hold shift and click restore. Now find the file that you recently downloaded and your iphone will restore (THE DFU FILES).
When the iphone is finished you will have a black screen on your iphone.
Now run Sn0wbreeze and create your ipsw file with the first file you downloaded (NOT THE SECOND CUSTOM DFU MODE ONE)
Now once you have created the Jailbroken firmware you will find it on your desktop.
Exit Sn0wbreeze and iReb will run. It will ask for you to put your iDevice in DFU mode but don't worry it will skip this step because the pre-made files you restored your device to puts your iDevice into DFU mode.
Finish the steps but now your iPhone screen will be green.
Now restore your iDevice to the Jailbroken firmware and put back on your data.

Go into Cydia and download Activator
Go into the settings app on your iPhone go to Activator>Anywhere>Status bar-Double tap>Home Button

Now overtime you double tap the clock on the status bar you will be taken back to the status bar.

Congratulations you now have a Home Button!!

This tutorial was made by me (Welliegs hopefully soon to be TheGinger1) and thanks to Comex for the DFU idea

Please request if you want different ones (i only uploaded one at the moment to see how many people were interested)

Video coming soon!
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07-06-2011, 04:47 AM #11
Console
Keepin it real
Nice dude! this is great! but 4.2.1 firmware for my 3g will make it slower. I would do it but my iphone is too slow for that firmware, and since my home button sucks.
07-07-2011, 03:52 PM #12
welliegs
Who’s Jim Erased?
Originally posted by Console. View Post
Nice dude! this is great! but 4.2.1 firmware for my 3g will make it slower. I would do it but my iphone is too slow for that firmware, and since my home button sucks.


im creating a tutorial on how to make one for any firmware!

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