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Procedure to Backup iPad/iPhone 3GS SHSH Blobs on Windows – Spirit Jailbreak
Download Apple iTunes 9.1.1 version
Enable Dreamscene in Windows 7 – Windows 7 Dream scene activator

Procedure to Backup iPad/iPhone 3GS SHSH Blobs on Windows – Spirit Jailbreak

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:42 AM PDT

Recently I had posted about jailbreak mechanism Spirit which was released for iDevices like iPhones, iPod touches and iPads running on 3.2, 3.1.3 & 3.1.2.But before you start trying out the jailbreak mechanism you must take care to see that you back up your SHSH blobs so that you can restore your device back to the firmware which you were there previously if anything messes up while jailbreaking with Spirit.Basically this is a safeguard against an accidental firmware upgrade. On newer devices like the 3Gs and the iPad Apple requires that your firmware be signed by their servers in order to restore your device.

Let me give an example on why back up is so important.Suppose you have brought a brand new iPhone 3GS 16GB which might come with firmware 3.1.3 and you successfully jailbreak your device using the Spirit jailbreak.No issues here whatsoever.Now in few months iPhone 0S.4.0 would be released by Apple and lets assume there wasnt any jailbreak available then what are you gonna do now ? Well maybe you decide to downgrade back to 3.1.3 so you can regain jailbreak status. But all of a sudden you get a error in iTunes, that basically says your firmware isn't signed or you cannot downgrade. Well this is why you MUST backup your ECID SHSH.

As i quoted above,newer iDevices(iPhone 3Gs, 3rd generation iPod Touch, and the both iPads.) need to have their firmwares signed by Apple and when Apple releases a new firmware they stop signing the old one for activation.These all would require firmware signing at this time.So how do you intend to backup your ECID SHSH? One such solution is Auto-SHSH Grabber by iH8sn0w which works on the iPad and iPhone 3GS.

Steps to proceed to back up SHSH

Head to the iH8sn0w's site, and look at the very top of the page for the AutoSHSH – 3.1.3/3.2 [RC2] link.
Download the Exe and install. It requires java to be installed on the system,if not installed let it install java.
Enter into Recovery Mode, for the iPad: Turn iPad off, then hold down the HOME button and at the same time plug the USB cable into your iPad (other end must be connected to your Windows PC) and continue to hold the HOME button. You will then see the Recovery logo appear.
Now simply click on the big button
It will ask you to name and save the SHSH file locally on your PC first. Find a safe place and save file in different drives not only on one of the drives.
The rest is done by the program, it will upload your SHSH blob to Cydia's server also for safe keeping
That is it your ECID SHSH is backed up and saved, now you can safely jailbreak your iPad or iPhone 3Gs

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By Blogsdna

Download Apple iTunes 9.1.1 version

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:21 AM PDT

Apple recently released the latest release of iTunes and updated to version 9.1.1,As of know i didn’t find any major update in the new version.This seems to fix some bugs and improve performance.The size of the updates comes to 93Mb and requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later. Some of its list of the improvements, features, and fixes included in iTunes 9.1.1 are listed below.

iTunes 9.1.1 comes with number of important bug fixes,which includes

Addressing several stability and usability issues with VoiceOver and Genius Mixes
Addressing issues with converting songs to 128 kbps AAC while syncing

iTunes 9.1.1 comes with several new features and improvements,which includes

Ability to Sync with iPad to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on the go.
Organize and sync books downloaded from iBooks on iPad or the ones added to your iTunes library.
Rename, rearrange, or remove Genius Mixes

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You can get iTunes 9.1.1 through the download page, Apple's download page, or via the Software Update.

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Enable Dreamscene in Windows 7 – Windows 7 Dream scene activator

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:49 AM PDT

I have a dual boot scenario with Vista Ultimate and Windows 7 Ultimate in place but what i miss in Windows 7 is the absense of Dreamscenes.What this would do is let me choose a video as desktop background.I searched a lot if there was a app which would give me the ability to enable Dreamscene in Windows 7 but i couldn’t find such an app.Kishan Bagaria has created a small freeware portable app named ‘Windows 7 Dream scene activator’ which will allow you to activate DreamScene in Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit.

Download the Windows 7 Dream scene activator and Run the tool as Administrator.

In case you get an unhandled exception error, simply click on Continue.

Next,click Enable DreamScene.The Explorer will now restart and DreamScene will be enabled.The tool will first copy DreamScene.dll to %WinDir%\System32 & DreamScene.dll.mui to %WinDir%\System32\en-US.
Then it will add the required registry keys & values and restart explorer. After the explorer has restarted, the user will be able to use DreamScene.

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If you need some dream scenes, you can always search for them on the internet here and here. You can use any video, Windows format or dreamscene, as a desktop background.In Windows 7 you have to right click on a video and Set as desktop background. By right clicking on the desktop you can pause or play DreamScene!

Download Windows 7 Dream scene activator Courtesy ThewindowsClub

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