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Old 01-31-2008, 01:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default 1.1.3 Dev Team jailbreak problems--and solutions

OK after doing several smooth-sailing jailbreaks using the leaked (Nate's) jb I finally did one using the dev team's. It had far more problems.

Here are a few problems and the solutions:

Can't login to Term-vt100:
You need to get into the iPhone via SSH and edit this file:
/etc/master.passwd

Change this line:
mobile:/smx7MYTQIi2M:501:501::0:0:Mobile User:/var/mobile:/bin/sh

To this:
mobile:/smx7MYTQIi2M:0:0::0:0:Mobile User:/var/mobile:/bin/sh

Change the two 501 entries to 0! Reboot iPhone and Terminal should now work fine.



Timezone setting is not saved (even though it appears to let you change it):
This is a permissions issue. Enter this via SSH (or Terminal if you have that working):
chmod 777 /var/db/timezone



Errant plist:
This plist should have been deleted during the jb process. If you have it, delete it (then reboot):
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.devteam.rm.plist



System Partition Sized too small (266MB Vs. 300MB):
This is the reason why so many run out of space so quickly. There is no fix that I am aware of for this problem so the only solution is to re-jailbreak from scratch (Nate's jb doesn't have this issue).



iTunes Contacts/Calendar/Mail syncing doesn't work:
This was discovered early on, and the dev team jb was fixed to handle it. But if not you'll need to use syncfix.sh or the fix available via Installer.


I'll post more if/as I come accross them...


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