Difference between revisions of "Restore Mode"

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==Exploits==
 
==Exploits==
The original jailbreaks were done by booting the phone into restore mode and copying an /etc/fstab and afcd plist from the user partition.
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The original jailbreaks were done by booting the phone into restore mode and copying an /etc/fstab and afcd plist from the user partition. This was done by using the cp iBoot command, a command which had access to the whole filesystem.
   
 
==Implementations==
 
==Implementations==

Revision as of 16:29, 18 July 2009

This is the mode the Apple ramdisk enters to restore the iPhone.

Exploits

The original jailbreaks were done by booting the phone into restore mode and copying an /etc/fstab and afcd plist from the user partition. This was done by using the cp iBoot command, a command which had access to the whole filesystem.

Implementations