Using Auto-SHSH Grabber to protect your jailbreak

Who needs to perform this task?

1. Your iPhone, iPod Touch , iPad has never been jailbroken and you have decided to jailbreak it.
2. Your device has previously been jailbroken but you did not store your SHSH on Cydia. Now you wish to perform the new jailbreak using Spirit.
3. Your device has previously been jailbroken but you are not certain if you had stored your SHSH on Cydia.
4. You want to perform the jailbreak, however, you are not sure if your 2nd hand device has ever been jailbroken and has its SHSH stored on Cydia.
5. You have no bloody idea what SHSH means, you just want to JAILBREAK!

More importantly, why does anyone need to perform this step?

Apple now controls what firmware you are allowed to install on your device. It also controls what version of its firmware is allowed. How does it do this? Whenever you need to perform a restore, iTunes will announce it needs to check for updates and will instruct iTunes what is allowed to be installed. This enables Apple to disable your jailbreak by forcing you to only restore to its newest firmware, which might be patched to disable jailbreaking. It will also upgrade your baseband, making it almost impossible to unlock the iPhone if it was not previously in an 'Factory Activated' state.

This is accomplished by your device's unique signature, and this signature can be captured by you and sent to another server by Cydia, which mimics Apple servers. Therefore, once you store your device SHSH on Cydia, you will forever be able to restore back to the current firmware, bypassing Apple servers.

Next time you need to do a restore, you will enable your iTunes to contact the Cydia servers, which will allow you to restore to your current firmware, against Apple's instructions. iTunes will 'think' it is actually contacting Apple, but it is not.

Auto-SHSH Grabber

Step 1
Download the software from the link above. Run the program.

Step 2
Place your device in recovery mode. This is done by turning off your device, holding down the 'Home' button while connecting its USB cable, all the while keeping your the 'Home' button pressed. After a short while, the message 'Connect to iTunes' will appear on the device.

Step 3
Now click on 'Grab my SHSH Blobs Automatically'.
After a very short while, a message will pop up asking you where to save your SHSH file. Store this in a  folder and keep it safe. The program will also send your SHSH to Cydia's servers. In future, when you run the Cydia program, you will be able to see a message on the top of the screen indicating this. However, as of this writing (7th May), such announcements are still being disabled due to high traffic.

That's all. Proceed to perform the jailbreak. The actual process of jailbreaking takes a mere minute or less!

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