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Jailbreaking your iPhone for Dummies.

Written By Akki On Friday, February 6, 2009

Ok, so you see these *.ipa files on this and other trackers and want to know how to get them on your iPhone without having to be a Unix command line expert. There are tons of tutorials on YouTube, but I'd say 90% of them are poorly done and outdated with old Unix commands for setting permissions and creating directories. Bleh! Rolling Eyes

First you'll need to Jailbreak your iPhone. First worry that comes up for noobs is "Will it ruin my iPhone, void the warranty, and piss Steve Jobs off?" Rolling Eyes

The short answer is no. You can always reformat your phone and go back to the normal firmware. When you hear the "scary" brick term, it just means some app locked up the phone and now they have to reformat it back to normal.

To Jailbreak your iPhone (rather easy process), visit:

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

Get the QuickPwn software for your firmware. As of this writing it was 2.1. The app will tell you with cartoons and movies EXACTLY what to do. A complete idiot could do it in about four minutes.

To put on [k]'d apps with the ipa extension, do this step (only need to do once. Also notice there there are no complicated Unix commands you have to enter.)

Make sure you've installed at least one free app from iTunes. It somehow preps the iPhone for more apps.
Run QuickPwn on your iPhone if you haven't already.
Open Cydia on your device and let it download its stuff. If this is your first time running Cydia, it will download a bunch of updates and restart a couple of times.
Tap on Manage and go to Sources.
Tap Edit. Tap Add. Type in "http://www.iphone.org.hk/apt/" into the text box. Tap on Add Source.
Let it do its thing and when you get back to Cydia tap on Search.
Find and install Link Identity Editor.
Find and install MobileInstallation Patch.
Restart your device. (hold the top power button down for 5 seconds) Congratulations, you can now sync unsigned IPA packages to your device.
Now simply double click any *.ipa file and iTunes will boot up and add it to your library so that it will sync.

Where to get [k]'d IPA files:

Bittorrent Trackers:

Demonoid's Iphone Section
Weekly archives of the most popular apps on the AppleStore Great way to download the best apps quickly to get started

By the way, you can get IPA files directly from these websites rather than bittorrent.

http://www.megaupload.com/?f=TQ2I5VP6Good
http://iparepo.com/No download links yet...
http://appulo.us/appdb/Looks really good. RSS Feed for any new apps that get added to Appulo.us[/ur]
http://www.themonkeysball.com/ Site destroyed by Apple's lawyers... oh well
http://themobileapps.com/ Site has not been updated for a couple of months
http://www.4shared.com/dir/8492007/8d1e19ab/sharing.htmlOct 1 - Site is down
http://www.freewebs.com/iauzy/crackedipas.htmDec 9 - Site shut down
http://www.sendspace.com/folder/l1rq06

Piratebay will often have large archives of them.

In addition, two things that I love about a Jailbroken phone:

PdaNet - Free tethering -- use AT&T's internet connection for free on your laptop!
Adblock for Safari. - You'll need Cyberduck (free) but it's an easy drag and drop step.

If you have any links or criticisms of this post, please reply here.

New!PdaNet is now crippleware after two weeks. To get the full version of many jailbroken apps do this:
1. Open Cydia and Add Source: http://xsellize.com/cydia/
2. Install PdaNet 1.4.0 from the source you just added.
3. You now have PdaNet 1.4.0 cracked Very Happy