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Hi. This is Luke from GuideMyJailbreak.com; and today I'm going to be showing you how
to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch with Redsn0w.
So, if you're not already on our website, go ahead and go to GuideMyJailbreak.com for a complete guide to jailbreaking.
Once you get there and you're watching this video, you're ready to start jailbreaking.
The key difference between this video and other videos I've done is that this jailbreak is tethered.
And that's kind of unfortunate but you can still jailbreak if you want to.
A tethered jailbreak means that every time you reboot your device, meaning slide to power off and
shut down completely, you'll have to plug it in to your computer to turn it back on
and you'll have to go through certain amount of steps to turn it back on.
So it's kind of annoying and no one really wants to do that, but if you really want to jailbreak,
here's how you do it. It's not that difficult but it's not an ideal situation to have to
plug in your device every time you reboot. So, say I had to turn my device off for some
reason or it just died, you would have to open up this app, click on 'Extras', click
on 'Just Boot'. Click on 'Next'. And you'll have to hold on your power button for 3 seconds
and then hold on both buttons for 10 seconds and then let go of your power button and then
hold on to that for 7 seconds. And then it'll boot right up. So it's not that difficult
to do, but it's just kind of annoying. Another good thing is that if you decide that you
don't like it anymore after you jailbreak, you can always restore your device and go
back to how it was before and just to help you out, we have another video in our FAQ
section at the top of this website that teaches you how to do that. Just review. If you wanted
to jailbreak tethered jailbreak, after you jailbreak, every time you restart it, you'd
have to plug it to your computer. Jailbreaking adds tons and tons of functionality, so I
think it's definitely worth it, but it's up to you. So if you want to jailbreak, keep
on watching.
Your first step is to download Redsn0w for your Mac.
Click on the link below and download Redsn0w.
Okay, great, so you downloaded Redsn0w. Now, it's time to open it. Go ahead and click on it
and then open the file that you downloaded, too. In my case, I went to my Downloads folder.
Go ahead and double click on it, and then double click on Redsn0w.
On Windows, your first step is to download Redsn0w.
Go ahead and click on Redsn0w for Windows.
Click on 'Open'. Double click on the folder, and then double click on Redsn0w.
Click 'Run'. Click 'Run' again. And now you're there.
So now you'll see this window and then click on 'Jailbreak'.
So this next part is where it gets a little bit tricky.
Your next step is to plug in your device and then turn it off completely.
To do that, go ahead and just click in hold to sleep button for about 5 seconds
and then slide to power off.
And if you can't turn off your device for some reason,
then just skip to the next step. For this next part, you may want to watch
before you actually do it. What you'll need to do is immediately hold on the sleep button
for 3 seconds, then while you're holding on to the sleep button, hold on to the home button
for 10 seconds, and then let go of the sleep button. After you do this, you're done.
So go ahead and watch this before you do it. And don't worry, if you mess up the first time,
you can always try again.
So sleep button for 3 seconds. Then both for 10 seconds.
And then after 10 seconds, you let go of the sleep button, and just continue
holding on to the home button. Hold on to the home button for about 8 seconds, and then you're done.
Okay, so while that jailbreaks, I'm just going to speed it up.
So this is just jailbreaking your phone, moving applications, things like that.
So just wait for that to finish; that could take up to 5 minutes. And when
that's done, watch the rest.
Okay, so now that's finished, your device
should restart and you should see the Apple logo. So wait for your device to boot up and
you'll be ready to go. So once your device finishes rebooting, just
slide to unlock and you should try to find an app called Cydia that's been added to your
device. As you can see, nothing's changed, just a new app called Cydia. So since your
jailbreak is a tethered jailbreak, what you'll need to do is actually boot tethered for the
first time. Until you do this for the first time, you'll probably see Cydia as a white
or you can't click on it or when you click on it, it just closes immediately. So to fix
that, just keep on watching. So now that you've jailbroken successfully,
now you need to learn how to turn on your device if it does turn off or if you need
to reboot it. So to do that, go ahead and open up Redsn0w or click the 'Back' button
on Redsn0w. And click on 'Extras', then 'Just Boot'. And you'll need to go through the process again.
Turn your device off. After you click 'Next', you're going to hold down the sleep
button for 3 seconds. Without releasing the sleep button, click on the home button for
10 seconds, and then you're going to hold on to both for at least 8 seconds. And then
it'll just boot up. So I'll show you how to do that right now. I'm going to go ahead and
click the 'Next' button. So sleep button for 3 seconds, then both for 10 seconds.
and then after 10 seconds, you let go of the sleep button and just continue holding on to the home button.
Hold on to the home button for about 8 seconds, and then you're done.
I'm going to go and speed it up, this is what you'll see on your computer and you're done.
If you have any issues at all, make sure to ask for help
So at the top of this website, there's a button that says 'Ask for Help'
you can click on that and go write in and ask your question and someone will answer very quickly
So congratulations on successfully jailbreaking your device.
If you're ready to embark on making your device so much better, go ahead and click on the 'Learn Cydia' button below.
Thanks for watching.