Starting point is a stock 1.1.4 iPhone, as installed by iTunes doing a full system restore.
1. Back up (sync) your data. Don’t forget the pictures.
2. Upgrade to 1.1.4 using iTunes if you haven’t already.
3. go to the ziphone site, Zibri’s site, here: http://www.ziphone.org/
4. Download, unzip, and install the ziphone app.
5. You’ve got some choices here. I’m going with just jailbreak but, let’s talk about terminology for a minute here.
“Unlock” means, set your iPhone to be able to use a carrier other than it sold with (AT&T in the US).
“Jailbreak” or “Unjail” means, open up the system so installer.app can be installed, you can ssh into it, etc.
I’m going with just “jailbreak”. I don’t need to switch carriers, or run without one. So, “Jailbreak”
6. Wait patiently. Your iPhone will reboot a few times, and in the length of time it took me to type this, it’s done. My screen now has two new buttons, “Zibri’s blog”, and the familiar Installer.app icon.
7. Before you go nuts installing things in installer, get some of the likely prerequisites installed first:
- Update installer itself (it will prompt you for this)
- BSD subsystem (under “System” category)
- Community Sources (under “Sources” category)
8. That’s it. You’re set. Far as I can tell, all the features work; I had heard reports of things like google maps auto-locate feature not working on a 1.1.3 iPhone that had this run on it, but, it seems to be working fine for me. If you have any problems, I’d love to hear about it, register and reply to the post.