How to Jailbreak iPhone 4 4.2.1 iOS with PwnageTool Bundles
by admin on Nov.27, 2010, under iPhone Apps
How to Jailbreak iPhone 4 4.2.1 iOS with PwnageTool Bundles
Redsn0w 0.9.6B4 can jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 on iPhone 4 but for that you need to update your iPhone 4 to iOS 4.2.1 which will upgrade its baseband leaving you in locked state since Ultrasn0w doesn’t support iOS 4.2.1 baseband yet.
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How to Jailbreak iPhone 4 4.2.1 iOS with PwnageTool Bundles
1. Download all the required stuff and put it on your desktop.
2. Right Click on PwnageTool App & select shown Package content & Browse to Contents>Resources>Firmware Bundles> and copy the iOS 4.2.1 bundle you downloaded
3. Now close the window, load PwnageTool and create your custom firmware for iOS 4.2.1 ( Do make sure you install OpenSSH in the process ).
4. Once you have the custom firmware, start iTunes and click alt+restore ( hold the alt/option key and click on restore )
5. Browse for the iOS 4.2.1 custom firmware you just cooked in step 3, select it, and wait for your iPhone 4 to be restored to this firmware.
6. We have done it. Now you have a jailbroken iPhone 4 running on iOS 4.2.1 – except your iPhone won’t boot in the jailbreaking kernel and.
Here is guide to tethered boot your iPhone 4 iOS 4.2.1 which will be required every time you reboot your iPhone 4.
How to Tethered boot iPhone 4 4.2.1 iOS
1. Download & install MacPorts
2. Install libUSB. Open terminal
sudo port install libusb
3. Duplicate your custom firmware and create a folder on your desktop called ‘ Tethereboot’ ( or whatever you want to call it – doesn’t matter )
4. Download the Thetherboot utility and put it in the Tethereboot folder
5. Take the duplicate custom firmware, change the extension from .ipsw to .zip and unzip
6. Inside there’s two files that you need:
1. iBSS.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu
2. kernelcache.release.n90
Take them out and put them in the Tetherboot folder alongside the tethereboot utility you just downloaded
7. Open Terminal , put your iPhone in DFU mode and type:
cd /User/Desktop/Tetherboot/
./tetheredboot iBSS.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu kernelcache.release.n90
8. Ok, that’s it. Your iPhone 4 will boot into the tethered boot mode
9. Follow our guide to Manually update & install new Cydia 1.0.3366 on your iPhone 4 iOS 4.2.1.
