Today we are experiencing high advanced technological world where mobile operating systems are on their peak. Last five years have being truly amazing with so much unique and creative ideas emerged in the whole world of smartphone which basically started with Apple introducing their breath taking iOS with Iphone. Thanks for Steve Jobs who made this come true. It was revolutionary as he mentioned in key notes while he was introducing first Apple Iphone in 2007. He made a boost in the smart phone industry and still we are in that boost.
Apple ideas were always different from the hardware and software developers. Their image was not to just sell their product but to make innovations so that they can file their patents to be the big foot in the market. It started with the introduction of Macintosh which had first revolutionary mouse. Yup the mouse which we use today is a revolution made by Apple Inc and today we see mouse in all computers and laptops. It was a Steve Job idea and all thanks go to him. At first Apple entered to smartphone market very silently but it was a huge blow in the market. Back in those days we do not have smart phones like we have today. All we can remember is we had smart phones like HP ipaq and that was the situation at that stage.
Apple introduced Iphone in 2007 which brought so much changes in the history of smart phones. It was first time that anything had what we called ‘Multi-Touch’. That’s right, it is a copyright of Apple and they introduced it with Apple’s Iphone. It also had an OS called iOS which was so advanced compare to those days operating systems and it was like an alien technology because no one ever had expected such kind of advance device at that stage. By introducing Iphone, Steve Jobs made it straight clear that no one are ahead of them until few years ahead to compete them. It is called high skilled engineering and it made them the leading company of the World till today. It also brought so much competition in the market which led to born Android, Web OS, Windows Phone 7.
When we look at our current situation of smart phone industry we are again loosing the high skilled engineering. Today again we are unable to see those kind of works. Lets look into Apple devices today. They have introduced Iphone 5 and iOS 6. Iphone 5 is made of 4inch display. Of course anyone can make their phone size to different sizes and it’s simple and when we look into iOS 6 we find lot of sad news. We all might think iOS 6 have brought so much advancement but it’s not at all true. Those advancements were already existed in iOS 5. Developers made almost all of those for free with iOS 5 but still Apple integrated all those with Apple design in iOS 6 which makes it heavier and bulky. They also removed Google Maps in iOS 6 and replaced it with Apple Maps which make them few years back in the development of smart phones.
Apple Maps is not completely finished project as far we have experience and it lacks tonnes of information and settings compare to Google Maps and it is not accurate. More than that we will not be able to find road information and other stuffs in it. Therefore it is really a wrong move in today’s market where Microsoft also started taking cuts. As far i am concerned that Apple needs their iOS be smarter rather than fighting for an app for maps. If people lost the interest in iOS it will drop down Apple smart phone industry which Steve Jobs introduced. Because as far i know, people love Iphone for not only it shape or size but it’s OS. If it features becomes limited it will effect the users. Today we are seeing one of it. Dropping Google Maps means all people using Iphone for navigation purpose might drop Apple. Therefore they really need to re-thing of their decisions.
Tonight i have worked with Iphone 4 which is locked to AT&T with the latest firmware version iOS 6 . It is really interesting to play these kind of different technological devices which open people like us to comment and share the knowledge behind the errors, bugs and even many other problems which users faces while using these devices. So today i am going to discuss about the problem which you face at current state while you try to jail break and unlock the latest Apple’s iOS 6.
I have searched tonnes of forums and blogs in order to find a solution for the iOS 6 to jailbreak. At first my attempt was to downgrade the iOS6 to an older firmware which was 5.0.1 but it became impossible when i realized Apple have blocked the signing on these older iOS. It just gives an error 11 which i have came across in these Apple devices for the first time. There is a fix for this so called error 11 but you will need previously build SHSH blobs to perform the task. Lets say if you want to downgrade your firmware to 5.0.1 from 6.0 then you have to have 5.0.1 SHSH blobs saved in your computer. If not there is no way to downgrade your iOS to an older version.
Here is the step you have to follow if you have SHSH blobs saved. Remember there is no way to retrieve your past SHSH blobs from any software in internet at the current time. You can try iFaith but it will work on much older firmwares not in 6.0
1. Download the latest version of RedsnOw
2. Click extra >SHSH blobs>stitch and select the IPSW file which you want to downgrade (eg 5.0.1)
3. Now click local and select SHSH blobs file you have saved previously for the firmware ( for iOS 5.0.1 you will need SHSH Blobs for that version) . This will allow you to create a new firmware file which you can be used to downgrade your iOS 6.
For those who do not have your SHSH blobs saved have to wait till there is a way to completely jail break iOS 6. But there is a good news for those who badly need to jail break. The latest version of RedsnOw have tethered jail break option. Which means if your mobile device is switched off then the jail break will be gone and you have to re- connect your Iphone to your PC and click ‘just boot’ option in RedsnOw in order to re-activate jailbreak.
Jail breaking your device will give much higher level of control to your device. It will support 3rd party application to be installed on your device.
Now lets talk about the problem that people might face if they got an locked device with firmware 6.0 like the one i got which was locked to AT&T. The first thing they will notice is that it will not let you open the device and even if you do, it will not let you to go to the main menu screen where you see all apps and so on. So i have found a solution for those guys which have this prob.
1. Go to Ebay and search for Iphone unlock code sellers. Tonight i have seen those codes which were selling around $8 , $10 etc which is worth buying because it will factory unlock your device. You guys have to send them the IMEI number of your mobile which you can get by pressing *#06# and it is really very fast service.
2. Second option is to Tethered Jail break the device using latest RedsnOw build which will let you open your device and will let enjoy the Iphone but remember jail breaking does not mean unlocking your device. But it will be easy to unlock if you jail break the devices at first.
So i hope many of people will benefit from this article which i share tonight. If anyone had problem let me know so that i can give some help.
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