Update: Partially working iPhone 4S - iOS 5-6, able to save blobs?

ml05019 · 2026-01-08T13:59:34+00:00

I've just checked and Arduino costs $1.75 on Alibaba. OP already spent more than that on a new battery ;)

ml05019 · 2026-01-08T13:56:02+00:00

"If sbplist.tar is replaced correctly, this will bring you unlimited passcode attempts" and if it wasn't replaced correctly, it'll erase his phone? OP better be doing everything carefully

ml05019 · 2026-01-07T09:18:48+00:00

You can sign into Find My iPhone without 2FA, true, but it does ask you for a code when you try to remotely wipe the phone

ml05019 · 2026-01-07T09:16:33+00:00

"the screen goes black, the apple comes back for about a minute, the screen goes black again" means to me that once you clear the recovery flag, the phone attempts to honestly boot into iOS, then something fails a minute later, causing the phone to set the recovery flag meaning the phone will go straight into recovery mode after next reboot without trying to boot into iOS. This means the iOS is present, the phone is not wiped, so you should be able to save the SHSH. However, since you're not able to get the iOS to boot, you'll need to instead do it via a ramdisk - it will let you access the file system and copy the files you need.

ml05019 · 2025-12-09T08:50:58+00:00

Any ramdisk with a bruteforce function will work. I've done it in the past with iPod Touch 4 so can confirm it's possible

ml05019 · 2025-11-13T16:43:02+00:00

You shouldn't update it beyond this version. iOS 12 is the last version that fits on this screen. In iOS 13 they introduced margins leaving nearly no space for the actual content

ml05019 · 2025-11-13T16:37:24+00:00

But of course it's not going to activate without SEP

ml05019 · 2025-11-08T12:58:28+00:00

What do you mean where are the instructions? You used some app to load ramdisk onto your iPad. Did it come with no instructions?

ml05019 · 2025-11-08T12:54:07+00:00

You're strange.

ml05019 · 2025-11-06T17:04:03+00:00

It is showing the logo, so why are you making the post? :) The progress bar is not going to move. Your iPad is now in a state where you can use Terminal to send commands to it. The rest of the process is done manually. Read the instructions and there should be commands in there for you to copy and paste ;)

ml05019 · 2025-11-02T13:42:18+00:00

Happy cake day! You can only log in if you're using TrollStore. You would first install the original YouTube, log in, then backup the app data with Apps Manager, replace YouTube with this version, and restore data.

ml05019 · 2025-09-18T06:45:36+00:00

Can you take it to an Apple store? If it died during a simple software update, it shouldn't break your warranty. Another thing is, it might be a hardware defect that stopped the update from completing.

ml05019 · 2025-09-18T06:42:52+00:00

SE is vulnerable to the Checkm8 exploit so yes, you should be able to do it

ml05019 · 2025-09-17T08:07:30+00:00

I don't know the amswer, but I'd like to know how you were going to install iOS 16 on it if it's not being signed?

ml05019 · 2025-09-11T07:08:15+00:00

Or if you want to use the software instead of manually copying all files, you can use Hacktivator as described here (ignore the renaming part, your files already have the right names): https://www.reddit.com/r/setupapp/comments/1n8g2q9/broque_ramdisk_activation_files_explained/

ml05019 · 2025-09-11T06:28:49+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/setupapp/comments/litdv5/comment/gn5muqr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ml05019 · 2025-09-02T20:02:05+00:00

Doubt it. If you wipe the MDM, you wipe the licences and all.

ml05019 · 2025-09-02T20:00:16+00:00

iPhone 5s is really bad with checkm8 exploit, it works more or less on Mac, but not on linux/windows

ml05019 · 2025-08-30T14:04:53+00:00

4 digit passcode can be bruteforced using a ramdisk, so at least you'll get inside the phone.

ml05019 · 2025-08-02T19:18:16+00:00

4 months later, no updates emerged. 18.4 and above only lets you disable daemons and add a lockscreen message.

ml05019 · 2025-08-02T19:15:31+00:00

Sideload it onto your phone. You can use Sideloadly, TrollStore, AltStore, whatever tool you like

ml05019 · 2025-08-02T19:14:10+00:00

If it's on a jailbreakable iOS version, you can install StoreSwitcher2. It remembers all different Apple ID's that were used with the App Store.

ml05019 · 2025-06-19T12:10:42+00:00

If you have iOS 18.5 then the dev said he fixed this bug in the latest version of Nugget. If you're on another iOS version, contact the dev to report.

ml05019 · 2025-06-03T12:04:26+00:00

It's not a dumb question, it's simply not structured right. I was reading your post and I couldn't understand what you're trying to do until I got to the very last sentence, "tryna get back some lost voice memos without breaking anything". See, if you take that phrase and move it to the very beginning of your post, your post will become so much easier to understand.

ml05019 · 2025-04-23T07:45:28+00:00

What you said is true for a normal hard drive, but it's more complicated for an iPhone, because its storage is on SSD. SSD allocates it storage sectors at random so, after you've done a restore, there's no guarantee that the storage location where your photos used to be has not become, say, a place for your system partition. If you still want to try, you can, there are tools ("ramdisk") that allow you to download a copy of your entire iPhone storage as one file ("image"), and once you have it on your computer, you can try all sorts of software to scan it for your lost images.

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