[ ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ] JailbreakQA by chpwn and comex

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JailbreakQA by chpwn and comex

How to jailbreak
•What's the difference between jailbreaking and unlocking?

•What tool can I use to jailbreak?

•Does jailbreaking upgrade my firmware?

•How do I build a custom firmware?

•Where can I get more information about jailbreaks / iOS / firmwares / etc. ?

•Where can I find a step-by-step guide to jailbreaking my iDevice?

•How do I remove my jailbreak?

•How do I enter DFU mode?

•What's DFU mode?

•What's "pwned" DFU mode?

•What's a tethered jailbreak?

•When will there be an untethered jailbreak for iOS x.x.x or an unlock for baseband xx.xx.xx?

•Is there an iPad 2 jailbreak?

•What are the prerequisites for running Greenpois0n successfully?

•Where does iTunes store firmware IPSW files it downloads?

•I have a 1st generation device and I'm on 3.1.2/3.1.3. How do I jailbreak?

Jailbreaking errors and troubleshooting
•What are the common reasons for a failing restore?

•Why won't my device boot?

•My device says Connect to iTunes, I keep trying to reboot, but it keeps going back to Connect to iTunes!

•Stuck in Recovery loop at 4.2.1 and above with errors 1015 and 1013
•After running Greenpois0n, loader/Cydia crashes or Cydia icon is missing, how do I install Cydia?

•Why am I having trouble jailbreaking my iPhone 3Gs, model A1241 (A1324 China)?

•Why am I having so much trouble jailbreaking my 8-gig iPod Touch 3G?

•Jailbreakme doesn't recognize my device

•My iPhone 3G won't work with jailbreakme.com

•How do I fix an Error 1013?

•I keep getting error 1600 in iTunes when flashing the custom firmware, what can I do?

•I'm getting Error 1015, what can I do?

•iPhone Error Codes with Solutions
•I'm getting "Failed to get AppleS5L8920XARM7M" on my iDevice when running Greenpois0n. What does this mean?

•Redsn0w stuck on uploading ramdisk?

•I have the iPhone 3G[S] and I'm trying to restore to a custom iPhone3,1_x.x.x_XXXX_Restore.ipsw and iTunes won't let me, what do I do?

•I downloaded the firmware for my device, but it doesn't show up when I browse to it with Redsn0w. Where did it go?

•My Verizon iPhone won't activate after a restore and says "unknown" for the MEID
•Using iFaith to create a signed custom IPSW
Post-jailbreaking troubleshooting
•My battery life is bad after jailbreaking, what can I do about it?

•My device stopped working, went back to the lockscreen, and said Springboard crashed. What do I do?

Downgrading
•Can I downgrade from 4.3.x to 4.3.3? (Or upgrade to 4.3.3?)

•Why do I need SHSH's / TinyUmbrella?

•When do I not need SHSH blobs to downgrade my iDevice?

•I have an iPhone 3G/iPod touch 2nd generation, should I go on iOS 3.1.3 or iOS 4.2.1?

Unlocking
•Where can I find a step-by-step guide to unlocking my iPhone?

•Can I unlock my iPhone via ultrasn0w?

•How can I install ultrasn0w on my iPhone without Wi-Fi?

•What is hacktivation? How can I hacktivate?

•How to use SAM to get proper activation of my iPhone?

•What's the point of installing the iPad baseband (06.15.00) on my iPhone 3G/3G[S]?

•How to unlock the Verizon iPhone to another CDMA carrier?

•I just got Gevey SIM and have some issues with it.

•How can I test if push notifications work on my iDevice?

•After jailbreaking and installing ultrasn0w, my Verizon iPhone gets no service when locked

Cydia
•What Third-Party Repositories are safe to add to Cydia, what do they contain, and how?

•I'm adding a repo and I get a message about it being illegal. What do I do?

•I open Cydia and it says my TSS request is pending. What does this mean?

•There are themes/tweaks/utilities available for purchase on Cydia. How do I make a purchase on Cydia?

General
•Where's all the free stuff?
•How to change SSH default password
•Can I install Android on my iDevice?

•What is SpringBoard (etc)?

•Does my iDevice Serial Number hold any significance?

•How to find UDID for my iDevice

•I installed Frash and it's not working.

•Where are the Clock, Calculator, Compass, Stocks, VoiceMemos and Weather apps on the iPad and iPad 2?

•How to enable Voice Control on iPad 2

Since OSQA is too lame to do concurrent editing or anything, each FAQ entry should be its own "answer". So that ctrl-f works, I hacked the site so that all answers to this question appear on the same page.

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