Spirit Jailbreak for 3.1.3 & iPad 3.2 is Here

May 3, 2010

Traditionally the iPhone & iPod Touch jailbreak involved a tethered boot. You would need a computer with your iDevice connected via USB during boot time for the jailbreak to work.

In the firmware 1.x days, there was a vulnerability which let people do untethered jailbreak.

@Comex has found an exploit to run an untethered jailbreak on all iDevices including the latest firmware 3.1.2/3.1.3 for iPhone and iPod Touch and firmware 3.2 for Apple iPad. (check out Top iPad Resource)

Usual Warning: Make sure you backup with iTunes sync as well as save your SHSH blobs before you attempt this. This guide is for educational purpose. if it makes your device unusable (albeit rare), you are on your own.

Spirit Jailbreak

• Spirit is an untethered jailbreak for iPhone, iPod Touch (3.1.2/3.1.3) & Apple iPad.
• Spirit cannot unlock your iPhone. It just jailbreaks your iDevice.
• Make sure you are running Spirit on clean restored firmware (not your currently jailbroken firmware)
• Hook up your device to your computer
• Run Spirit

Download Spirit

This is one of the easiest jailbreaks but there is a handy guide here if you would like step-by-step guide.

Troubleshooting

• On Windows, you may have to run Spirit in Windows 98 compatibility mode. Right click on Spirit.exe and select properties. Go to Compatibility tab and check ‘Run this program in compatibility mode’.
• If you have run blackra1n rc2, it might have replaced some dll files in iTunes. Copy itunesmobiledevice.dll to itunesmobiledevice2.dll in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support on win64 or C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support on win32.
• If you lose your pictures, you can restore from the sync you performed before you started Spirit jailbreak.
• If you upgrade to 3.1.3 and want to revert to to 3.1.2 you can do so as long as you did save your SHSH blobs.
• On your iPad, there are many apps in Cydia that don’t work well for iPad. For eg. SBSettings resizes your iPad dock to iPhone dock size. So, try Cydia apps with care.