Sunday, March 6, 2011

How to Jailbreak iPad iOS 4.3 GM with PwnageTool Bundles & Custom Firmware

iOS 4.3 GM build is already available for download for iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, 4G & iPad however it is only for developers registered with Apple iPhone developer program.
Warning : Proceed only at your own risk, we take absolutely no responsibility for any damage that may happen to your iPad by following this guide.
Stuff Needed
Download iOS 4.3 for iPad
Download PwnageTool for Mac
Download PwnageTool Bundles
Download Ramdisk fixer 1.5 & Install it
Download iTunes 10.2
Place all the files on desktop for easy access.

Jailbreak iPad iOS 4.3 GM with PwnageTool Bundles

1.  Right click on PwnageTool and select Show Package Contents
2. Next navigate to /Contents/Resources/FirmwareBundles folder in PwnageTool package contents
3. Now copy PwnageTool Bundles for iPad iOS 4.3 GM and pasy it in above “FirmwareBundles“ folder and close the folder.
4. Now start RamdiskFixer and follow the on screen instructions & complete the installations (you must fulfill the requirements of Ram Disk Fixer in order to successfully patch PwnageTool).

Create iPad iOS 4.3 GM Custom Firmware
5. Now start PwnageTool to create the iPad 4.3 GM Custom firmware
6. Start PwnageTool App in “Expert mode” and Select iPad from device list

7. Now browse and select iPad iOS 4.3 GM IPSW firmware file
8. Now click on build button to initiate iOS 4.3 GM custom firmware process for iPad
9. PwnageTool will now create the customiOS 4.3  .ipsw file for iPad on your desktop
10. Quite PwnageTool once custom firmware creation process completes.

Restore Custom iOS 4.3 firmware to iPad

11. Start iTunes on your Mac while keeping iPad connected to Mac
12. Select iPad from iTunes device list and Press and hold Option button on your keyboard and click on restore button.  (Don’t click on update button)
13. Now browse and select iOS 4.3 custom firmware created by PwnageTools and let iTunes complete the restore process. Your iPad screen may flash some time and will reboot when iTunes completes the restore process.
At this stage you have successfully jailbreaked iPad on iOS 4.3 GM. Follow below steps to Tethered boot iPad on iOS 4.3.

Tetheredboot Jailbroken iPad 4.3 iOS

14. Download TetheredBoot Utility and place it in tetheredboot folder on desktop
15. Crate copy of iPad iOS 4.3 custom firmware, change the extension from .ipsw to .zip and unzip
16.  Now open extracted content of firmware and copy following files present under Firmware/dfu/
1. iBSS.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu
2. kernelcache.release.n90

17. Place these files inside Tetheredboot utility folder
18.Turn off your iPad and Open Terminal, type following commands
sudo -s
cd /User/Desktop/Tetherboot/
./tetheredboot iBSS.n90ap.RELEASE.dfu kernelcache.release.n90
And follow on screen intructions.
6. Ok, that’s it. Your iPad on iOS 4.3 GM will boot into the tethered boot mode and you can use Cydia to install apps,
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