JAILBROKEN IPAD: THE IOS SHELL UNDERNEATH!
12/31/12
Spurred on by web sites that told me I could ssh into my iPad if I jailbroke it, I
went to jailbreakme.com which led me
to the redsn0w site
(for my iPad 1 with iOS 5.1.1) where
I snagged the Windows install program for redsn0w 0.9.14.b1 (download link at bottom of screen).
Unfortunately, this also requires that you install iTunes, which I was trying to avoid, but
I figured I'd just remove it from my PC after the jailbreak, which I did, so no harm, no foul.
I then installed OpenSSH per the instructions on the Cydia screen, and I use SSH Term Pro to
connect to root@localhost:22 on my iPad to get a TTY.
It's all effectively Debian Linux after that! So
cool. I wanted to have some fun, so I bought the blAze iPad theme for WinterBoard and
installed it for a different look to my iPad (see screen shots below). I then went poking
around for how to get gcc. I found this site and followed the instructions (installing
Apt7 is incredibly useful--it lets you use the "apt-get" command from the shell).
But the gcc link is broken, so I got the gcc files from here (also here--if the links break, try googling iphone-gcc.deb). You definitely also
need "ldid" (I think I used "apt-get install ldid"--that's a lower case 'el' as the first
letter, not an uppercase 'eye'). It signs your compiled apps so that they run, e.g.
gcc -o hello hello.c
ldid -S hello
./hello
Without using ldid, the compiled app will simply abort if you try to execute it.
It took me a while to figure that
out. It's so cool to be able to (1) compile software on my iPad, and (2) access the full file
structure and transfer whatever I want to and from my PC. Highly recommended!
(Though, of course, jailbreaking is not sanctioned by Apple, and I take
no responsibility for what
happens to your iPad if you try to jailbreak it, blah, blah, blah, typical disclaimer stuff,
etc., etc., etc.)
| iPad Screen Shots (using blAze theme) |
Lock screen |
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Home screen |
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Linux TTY |
