How to JailBreak and Unlock iphone

I recently bought an iphone 3g in ebay. The phone came up AT&T sim card and locked.

The phone is having 3.1.2(7D11) firmware and 05.11.07 baseband.

I initially tried to use the blackra1n. I used the following article to
jailbreak and unlock my iphone 3g version. It is extremely easy to use this utility. You just need to connect your iphone to the computer and run the blackrain utility.

http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2009/11/03/tutorial-jailbreak-iphone-3-1-2-blackra1n/

But after unlocking I found various problems like GPS not working and ssh to the iphone is not working etc. I found that all these problems are due to some bugs in the blackra1n jail breaking code.

Because of these problems I decided to use some other jail broken solutions so that I can get back my GPS and other stuff that were broken with the blackra1n.

Here is the procedure that I followed for this.

First I downloaded the utility from the site
http://downloads.ih8sn0w.com/f0recast-1.1.exe

Connect your iphone to the computer and run this utility.

Here is the screen shot from that utility.

From here I found that I can use any jail broken utility so I decided
use redsn0w for this as this is from iphone dev team.

As my phone was already jailbroken I want to restore to the base settings.

I downloaded the 3.1.2 firmware from the location given below ( Please note that you need to check your firmware version from iphone using Settings-> General -> Version , my version is 3.1.2(7D11) and download the correct version only.

so I downloaded the corresponding the firmware version from the location

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-7468.20100202.pbnrt/iPhone1,2_3.1.3_7E18_Restore.ipsw

After downloading connect your iphone to the itunes and Press the Shift button and Click on Restore button , this will ask
for the iphone firmware file and here select the file iPhone1,2_3.1.3_7E18_Restore.ipsw.

iTunes will automatically put the iphone in the restore mode and reboots the iphone. After this operation iphone will be in the factory condition with locked. In this mode you will be only able to make emergency calls only. Do not get panic at thing point of time. We need to jailbreak this to get the iphone screen back.

Download redsnow 9.2 from the following link

http://xs1.iphwn.org/rs//redsn0w-win_0.9.2.zip

extract this file to a directory and copy the file iPhone1,2_3.1.3_7E18_Restore.ipsw  to the same directory.

Now run the program redsn0w.exe and click on the browse button and select the  iPhone1,2_3.1.3_7E18_Restore.ipsw
file.

Here is the screen shot for that ,

Now click on the next button and select the option's
Install Cydia etc.

After this follow the exact steps mentioned in the screen, You need to enter the iphone in to DFU mode and the redSn0w does the rest. If you are not a expert of iphone you may need to try this 3 or 4 times.

After this operation your phone is Jail Broken.

Now you need to unlock the phone. Please use the following link to unlock the phone using the blacksn0w.

Ensure that you have a wi-fi connection in your home before trying this. Enable the wi-fi connection on your iphone so that you can download the unlock utility using this wi-fi connection.

This is also extremely easy you , you can follow the url given below for more details on this.

http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/unlock-iphone-3g-3gs-os-3-1-2-using-blacksn0w-via-cydia/

Step 1 - Start ‘Cydia’ on your iPhone springboard.
Step 2 - Select ‘Manage’ tab at the bottom of your iPhone screen and then select ‘Sources’.
Step 3 - Select ‘Edit’ and then select ‘Add’. Now enter a url source. Type ‘http://blackra1n.com’ and select on ‘Add Source’. Once Cydia has added the source click on ‘Return to Cydia’ button.
Step 4 – Once the installation is completed. Search for ‘blacksn0w’ in Cydia and install it.
Step 5 - Reboot your iPhone. Your iPhone 3G or 3GS on 3.1.2 firmware will be unlocked automatically.

Disabling Windows 2003 Internet explorer security settings

Windows Server 2003 shipped with security locked down by default.  Part of this locking down is Internet Explorer Enhanced Security which is an extra layer of protection when surfing the internet using Internet Explorer (more information can be found by going here on a Windows Server 2003 [test] machine). 

Click Start, put your mouse over Control Panel, and click Add/Remove Programs

Now click Add/Remove Windows Components

After a few seconds a window will pop-up.  Click the check mark next to Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (to make it unchecked).  If you'd like to only disable it for Administrators or only for Users you can click Details and do so.

Press Next, after this internet explorer will work in the same way that is used to work with Windows XP.

How to use Custom ringtones in iPhone

1. Get access to the mp3 or wav file that you want to convert to a ringtone. In my example, I am looking for a rock drummer loop as a ringtone for my friend who is a monkey percussionist.

2. Drag the file into iTunes

3. Select the file in iTunes and then select Convert Selection to AAC in the Advanced menu.

4. Select your new AAC file and select Show in Finder in the File menu

5. In finder, select the file and select Get Info from the File menu and iPhone features

6. Change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r

7. Confirm when the dialog asks if you really want to make the change

8. Drag the new file back into iTunes. The original files will remain but the ringtone will disappear. (It is actually being moved to following location: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Ringtones )

9. Connect your iPhone and select the Ringtone tab in iTunes. Select the new ringtone that has been created.

10. Now simply sync your iphone with iTunes.

11. Now you can select the Ringtone you wish.

How to find out the OIM code that gets executed when you click a link on the OIM WebConsole

1. Most of the code is present in the file
C:\oim9102-Jboss\oim-server\xellerate\webapp\xlWebApp.war

2. Extract this file to a temporary directory

3. From the WebConsole note down the URL
i.e.  http://localhost:8080/xlWebApp/AboutXl.do

4. Open the file tiles-defs.xml and look for the entry "AboutXl" in this file

From this we can find out that this is the JSP tjspAboutXlTiles.jsp that gets executed

<definition name="site.AboutXl.page" extends="site.mainLayout">
        <put name="title" value="global.window.title.aboutOIM" />
        <put name="body" value="/tiles/tjspAboutXlTiles.jsp" />
  </definition>

5. Open the file struts-config.xml and look for the entry "tjspAboutXl"

Here you will find the entries as

  <action type="com.thortech.xl.webclient.actions.tcAboutXlAction"
           name="AboutXlForm"
           scope="request"
                 path="/AboutXl" >
    <forward name="success" path="/pages/tjspAboutXl.jsp" />           
    </action>
6. Open the com.thortech.xl.webclient.actions.tcAboutXlAction.class file and here you will find this is
calling some EJB code

if (localActionForward != null)
        return localActionForward;
      HttpSession localHttpSession = paramHttpServletRequest.getSession();
      tcAboutXlForm localtcAboutXlForm = (tcAboutXlForm)paramActionForm;
      Hashtable localHashtable = new Hashtable();
      tcHelpOperationsIntf localtcHelpOperationsIntf = getHelpOperIntf(paramHttpServletRequest.getSession(), null);
      localHashtable = (Hashtable)localtcHelpOperationsIntf.getHelpAbout();
      localtcAboutXlForm.setAboutXl(localHashtable);
      logger.debug(LoggerMessages.getMessage("LeftMethodDebug", "tcAboutXlAction/execute"));
      return paramActionMapping.findForward("success");
7. tcHelpOperationsIntf is the Interface and the corresponding class for this is
tcHelpOperationsBean.java file.

This is actual EJB code it is calling

public Map getHelpAbout()
    throws tcAPIException
  {
    logger.debug(LoggerMessages.getMessage("EnteredMethodDebug", "tcHelpOperationsBean/getHelpAbout"));
    Hashtable localHashtable = new Hashtable();
    localHashtable.put("Version", "9.1.0.1865.28");
    localHashtable.put("Build", "1865.28");
    String str = "select xsd_value as build from xsd where xsd_code='XL_BUILD_NUMBER'";
....
..

How OIM find's out the Version Details

OIM checks the version information from 3 places

1. It checks from the database by issuing the following query

select XSD_VALUE from XSD where XSD_CODE='XL_BUILD_NUMBER';

XSD_VALUE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9.1.0.1866.25

2.  OIM-HOME\config\Version.prop file , this file contains the following entries

#Wed Feb 17 21:14:42 PST 2010
build.number=9.1.0.1866.25
product.version=9.1.0.2

3. There is a third place where this information is hardcoded in the EJB code.

When you click on the OIM WebConsole Help->About this is the EJB code that gets executed. This class is present in the xlDataObjectBeans.jar file.

Check the file tcHelpOperationsBean.java in the com.thortech.xl.ejb.beansimpl package.

com.thortech.xl.ejb.beansimpl.tcHelpOperationsBean.class file contans the version info

public Map getHelpAbout()
    throws tcAPIException
  {
    logger.debug(LoggerMessages.getMessage("EnteredMethodDebug", "tcHelpOperationsBean/getHelpAbout"));
    Hashtable localHashtable = new Hashtable();
    localHashtable.put("Version", "9.1.0.1866.25");
    localHashtable.put("Build", "1866.25");
    String str = "select xsd_value as build from xsd where xsd_code='XL_BUILD_NUMBER'";

....
..

OIM is accepting connections from local host only

1. Open the file C:\oim9102-Jboss\jboss-4.2.3.GA\server\default\deploy\jboss-web.deployer\server.xml
2. Change the line 
<Connector port="8080" address="${jboss.bind.address}" 
to 
<Connector port="8080" address="0.0.0.0" 
After this restart the JBoss server