How to jailbreak your iPhone with Mac OS X 10.5.6

Fri, Dec 19, 2008 | by Robert Nelson

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Sure, most people who still like their iPhone to be jailbroken have seen the bad news about the latest update to OS X, you remember, the one where 10.5.6 broke the ability to enter DFU mode. Well, thanks to volkspost from the Hackint0sh user forums we now have a nice set of instructions showing us how to “re-enable DFU mode in Mac OS X 10.5.6.”

To begin with, you will need to download Automator programm Fix_DFU_10_5_6, which can be found here or here, and in order to run that you will need to be logged into your Mac as an administrator. The graphic below lays out the few steps that are needed, and then thankfully you can now run 10.5.6 and still enjoy your jailbroken iPhone.

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8 Comments For This Post

sam Says:
January 4th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

Hi,

I followed the above steps. After I accept the terms of use, it asks me for my password and then something runs in the background (I see status updates next to my time machine Icon on the task bar) and then it stops and nothing else happens. I don’t get the “Updating Boot Caches” message.

I tried to go through the terminal to the path where its supposed to copy the new files, and those files aren’t there.

Any idea on what could be missing? I really want my iPhone back

Thanks.

Chris Says:
January 16th, 2009 at 11:51 am

Same as above. What can we do?

NiCK Says:
January 18th, 2009 at 6:18 pm

AHHH! ME TO I THOUGHT I WAS DOING SOMETHING WRONG SO I RE-RAN THE SCRIPT (sorry for caps) and the same ending.. im going to re-start my macbook and try quickpwn once again

Rick Says:
February 19th, 2009 at 2:19 am

many people have had severe problems with this program making their computers inoperable.
you can put the iphone in DFU mode if it is plugged into a usb hub rather than direct into the computer.

Gavin Ellis Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Thank you so much for this, worked perfectly, now if I could only get my backup app to work properly ha ha.

Cheers

Bristol Web Design Says:
March 25th, 2009 at 6:33 pm

This worked on my MacBook 10.5.6 – phone jailbroken! hooray!

Then I read this article – yikes!:

http://i.gizmodo.com/5139388/warning-jailbreaking-iphones-using-1056-macbooks-can-bite-you-later

Gist is, do not update your Quicktime until you have replaced the files mentioned here back to their original state. You can do this by copying the files from the backup folder on the desktop into the desktop folder where the Automator script resides. run the automator again and the files will be restored..

NotALiar Says:
April 12th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

Im more than a little annoyed with this script. Firstly It doesn’t work and secondly neither do my mouse or keyboard anymore. I installed quickpwn for mac and followed the instructions to jailbreak my iphone using an external USB hub, thankfully that worked, but a piece of software that potentially and reportedly can wreck and force a reinstall of an entire operating system should at least come with a warning.

BEWARE – THIS CAN AND PROBABLY WILL WRECK YOUR MAC!.

Thnx Uploader, my 10.5.6 Leopard CD is hiding somewhere in a box and now my photography project has gone to the dogs because “mae Culpa” i reinstalled Quicktime. Watch out for this one guys, its “point and click” software, just like a gun.