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The JBnator Diaries – Fixing Push Notifications and YouTube on “hacktivated” phones

Hello again, folks – your guru of jailbreaking here! And today I’ll tackle the problem which rendered Push and YouTube inoperable on “hacktivated” iPhones. I referenced it in my last article on upgrading jailbroken phones. Well, there’s always a way out and I’m gonna tell all!

Ok folks, there are two ways of doing this (typical no?): the easy way and the hard way.

First, the easy way. Mind, in this case Push and YouTube will ONLY work on EDGE or 3G (not on Wi-Fi).

1. Open up Cydia
2. Add the http://cydia.iphoneil.net package source (Manage->Sources->Edit->Add)
3. Install the Push Fix
4. Remove all applications with Push from the iPhone
5. Reboot (not respring) your iPhone
6. Reinstall all applications with Push
7. Now open up Settings->Notifications and do the monkey

The second way is a bit more complex. But at least you’ll know what has actually been done to your phone, and Push and Youtube will work everywhere.

Our toolbox for today:

• iPhone 2G/3G/3GS already jailbroken and hacktivated
• iPhone Folders – download latest version at the author’s site
• Files from here [Rapidshare]
• iPhone apps – download off Cydia:
  • iFile (the shareware version will be more than enough)
  • MobileTerminal
  • afc2add

Now let’s get to it!

1. Unpack the archive and check that it contains the following files

• youtube-cert.bin
• youtube-key.bin
• push-cert.bin
• push-key.bin
• inject

1. Open iPhone Folders and navigate to \private\var\Keychains and copy all of the files to the folder
2. Open iFile on the iPhone (just ignore the shareware notice) and navigate to /private/var/Keychains
3. Now for each of the newly copied files go to properties and set the permissions to rwxr-xr-x (755) like on the screenshot below
   
4. Make a backup of the keychain-2.db file from the same folder to your PC just in case
5. Open MobileTerminal
6. Now enter the following commands (*enter* means you press the “enter” key)
   • su *enter*
   • alpine (or your root password if you have changed it – this will not appear on the screen, but don’t worry, it is normal) *enter*
     It should indicate you’re now working as root
   • cd /private/var/Keychains/ *enter* (pay attention to letter casing)
   • ./inject *enter* (make sure not to forget the “.” at the beginning)
7. Wait for the process to end!
8. Remove all applications with Push from the iPhone
9. Reboot (not respring) your iPhone
10. Reinstall all applications with Push
11. Now open up Settings->Notifications and do the monkey twice as hard!

That’s it folks!

There are a long line of articles planned, but I would also like to hear from you. Please send us ideas and suggestions regarding what you would like to see covered in this column.

[Thanks to keksman]