How to jailbreak MC version iPhone / iPod Touch 3.1.3 ?

Frequently asked Questions :

What is a MC version iPhone / iPod touch ?

Ans : The iPhones and the iPod Touches shipped post October 2009 have their Model numbers beginning from MC instead of MB.

The Model starts with MC

How do I check if my iPhone / iPod Touch is MC model or not?

Ans : Follow the following procedure

• Goto Home by clicking the home button
• Select the "settings" icon
• Select "General" in the option
• Select "About"
• Browse down to "Models". You can see if you iPhone is MC model or not.

What is the fuss about jailbreaking MC model iPhone / iPod Touch ?

Ans : MC model iPhone and iPod Touch has the bootrom which checks for the Boot Image if its Apple's authentic firmware or not. If it does not find an Apple firmware, it does not boot the iPhone. So for a long time (about 4 months), there was no good method for jailbreaking the iPod touch with MC model.

How to jailbreak MC model iPhone / iPod Touch with firmware 3.1.2 or 3.1.3 ?

Ans : Spirit Jailbreak method is the ultimate solution for ALL the latest iPhones and iPod Touches. It can provide you the "untethered" jailbreak as well.

Read more about Tethered and untethered jailbreak here

Read more about Spirit Jailbreak here

Spirit - The Ultimate untethered Jailbreaking solution

If you own an iPhone 3GS or the iPod Touch 3G that you bought after October 2009, you might very well explain the world what Frustration is.

Reason

You CANNOT do untethered Jailbreak on iPhone and iPod touch running 3.1.2 (or 3.1.3). To be precise, Apple engineers patched the bug in the iBoot which was vulnerable to 24kbpwn hack in versions 359.3 and before (More Explanation here)

Sn()wBreeze jailbreak looked like a plausible solution when George Hotz announced that his jailbreak works on every "i" Device. At least for me and my friend Nishant, both of who own MC model of iPod Touches running 3.1.3 firmware, the Sn0wBreeze jail break did not work.

Spirit - The ultimate Solution

A person who calls himself COMEX has come out with a miraculous solution called Spirit.

It works on

• Any iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch on firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3, or 3.2 (3.2 is the OS version for iPad)
• Any Version of iTunes

Method to Jailbreak using Spirit

1) Download the Spirit Jailbreak software for Windows (Click here) and Mac OS X (Click Here)

2) Run the program, You will see the following UI

3) Press the button "Jailbreak", Wait for 15-20 seconds and Voila !!! Your device is Jailbroken.

Screenshots of Nishant's jailbroken iPod Touch 3rd Gen MC model with Firmware 3.1.3

Watch the Video here for more details of how to do Spirit Jailbreak

What is tethered and untethered iPhone / iPod touch ?

We have been hearing a lot about jailbreaking tethered iPhone or tethered iPod Touch jail breaks. Ever wondered what the heck is tethered and untethered iPod touch or iPhone jailbreak?

Tethered Jailbreak

Since the launch of iPhone and iPod touch OS 3.1.2 (to be precise, iBoot version 352.3.2), there is a different way in which an iPhone or iPod touch has to be jailbroken due to a change that Apple engineers got into the booting process

iPhone / iPod touch Booting process

Power on --> Low Level Bootloader (LLB) --> iBoot --> Firmware (I believe)

RedSn0w and other jailbreaking mechanisms made use of an exploit in one of the feature of iBoot 2.1.1 which was found in 2.2 also. So RedSn()w loads itself into iBoot and gives the user the jailbroken iPod or iPhone every time he boots his system.

The Twist

From 3.1.2, the Low level Bootloader does validation of whether the iBoot is Apple made or not. Since the RedSn()w does not have the Digital Image Signature of Apple, it is refused to be loaded and hence we get the White Screen and firmware does not load.

Tethered Jailbreak : You then have to connect your iPod touch /iPhone (which has the white screen of death currently) to the laptop and run the RedSn()w firmware patch in 2.1.1 iBoot to make it run.

FAQ on Tethered Jailbreak

1) Would you lose the data due to Tethered Jailbreak

Ans : No, since we are only dealing with the bootcode (iBoot), data is safe

2) Why is it called Tethered Jailbreak

Ans : Because you need that iPod /iPhone to be bonded to the computer everytime.

3) Do we need to run RedSn()w patch if the iPhone is in sleep mode?

Ans : No

Untethered Jailbreak

The iPhone would not need the user to connect the iPod touch or iPhone to laptop and run the patch everytime he reboots the iPhone / iPod touch.

This is possible is your iBoot version is 359.3 or below. The hack method was called the 24kbpwn hack where the hackers intelligently made the iBoot crash at boot point, introduce 24kB of their own code and make iBoot believe that everything was normal.

Apple smartly blocked this exploit in 359.3.2 version of iBoot. So that is when the RedSn()w failed to do the untethered jailbreak.

FAQ on Untethered Jailbreak

1) iPhone and iPod Touch shipped from what time frame has blocked untethered Jailbreak?

ans : Since October 2009

2) Sn()wBreeze supports untethered Jailbreak. What is the problem?

ans : It does not work on MC models

3) Is there no solution for untethered Jailbreak for the latest iPhone / iPod touch 3.1.3 ?

Ans : Spirit is the answer. Click here to read more about Spirit Jailbreak