Only if you install ssh and fail to change your root password.



Indeed.

I'll tell ya' tho, I love that my phone can do stuff all the 'safe' little non-jailbroken phones can't do, like block or make custom, automated responses to specific phone numbers, record video (on a 1st-gen phone), play Flash videos, download and save YouTube videos, send MMS messages (again, 1st-gen), browse my iPhone's file hierarchy, tether my iPhone to my MacBook Pro, and run Unix commands from a BASH termninal.

'Cause there's an app for that



But some men are peninsulas

Yeah, that was in the link I posted in my first reply.

Granted you are a modder extraordinaire but your use of an iPhone is unique and well beyond what most people need or use them for. Most people would just use a computer for most the stuff that you do on it.

What is the advantage to running terminal on one, other than hacking, just curious.

Now some of THOSE seem interesting to me. (Flash video, automated responses to specific phone numbers, block, etc.

So do I need to start a new thread in the Modders section to see how to do this?

Looks like I have a choice of PwnageTool, BlackRa1n, or BlackRa1n RC2

heh, I got this:

ok, got it installed. NOw I get this in iTunes:

An iPhone has been previously synced with this computer.
Set up as new iPhone
Restore from the backup of my iPhone

I'm going with Restore....

Well...crap. It won't start up. I knew I shouldn't have tried this.

it won't even appear in iTunes to do a restore.

What happened ? you installed an app ?

Being able to ssh into my Debian server (which hosts my website) is definitely a plus.



Nope. I'm using applications downloaded via Cydia, many of which are free apps.



Don't be too worried, this isn't all that unusual.
Which tool did you use? You most likely want to use PwnageTool.

Take me step-by-step through what you did.
Also, have a look here.

First thing you need to do, regardless, is boot into recovery mode. Press and hold both the power and home buttons, until you see the boot logo, then release the power button and continue to hold the home button until iTunes tells you it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.

Then let me know where you're at before you try it again. And get PwnageTool.

WHew! That worked. Ok, I followed this site:
http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2009/10/13/jailbreak-iphone-3g-3gs-3-1-2-pwnagetool/

It installed whatever through that tutorial. Once I got into iTunes and my previous post:



So after it was finished restoring, it started syncing up my stuff. I stopped it so that we could go on to the movies. On the way, I was checking out that Cydia. I tried the first app that seemed interesting, iBlocker or something like that. It downloaded and installed. Rebooted and then I got this hangup. Stuck at the Apple screen.