iNdependence is a Cocoa-based application for Mac which provides an easy-to-use interface for jailbreak, activation, SSH installation, and ringtone/wallpaper/application installation. It's basically the next generation of iActivator.

You can find it at: http://code.google.com/p/independence/

NOTE: This program will not perform a SIM unlock

The current version is 1.2 (released September 11th, 2007). It's a universal binary and has been tested on both PPC and Intel Macs (running Mac OS X 10.4.10). It's also been tested with iPhone firmware versions 1.0, 1.0.1, and 1.0.2. As well, it works with iTunes 7.4 (and earlier versions).

There's a fairly detailed README file included with it, so please read that first before asking any questions.

For those interested, the SSH installation generates RSA and DSS keys at runtime using dropbearkey (no pregenerated keys are used). You can read through the source code to verify this if you like. The log window which comes up at runtime shows the output from dropbearkey.

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Seems a good one, but,
I tried to transfer ringtones or wallpapers, but can't select any file... all greyed

Ringtones must be .m4a files (the file chooser filters based on that file extension), wallpapers must be .png files (again, same file filtering). Also for wallpapers, you should have the main image, and a thumbnail image.

And yes, phone UI customization isn't a strong point of iNdependence. I just put in what I needed. I think I had too many bad trips customizing every little detail of fvwm back in the early Linux days and don't really care for it much anymore.

Great to see a good tool for Mac users doing SSH and other stuff for the first time ... THX !

Not just for the first time - it's great to have a timesaver to use after a restore or update. Just because i can do it from the command line doesn't mean i want to go thfough the hassle every time. If this works as advertised it'll be a blessing. I'm sick of iphuc requiring 20 tries before it pairs.

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I upgraded my FW to 1.02 and this tool works great!

thank you Operator.

Thanks again for your work Operator! I appreciate it cause I really think iPHUC and most of the command line stuff is not only kinda hard and tricky, but boring and slow! anyway, God bless you!

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Both iPHUC and iActivator/iNdependence have their place.

iPHUC is more powerful because it exposes almost everything you can do with the phone using Apple's MobileDevice library (put it into restore mode and issue all commands, put it into recovery mode and issue all commands, etc). So it's much more useful for those who are hacking the phone.

However, for those who just want to activate the phone and install stuff, then iNdependence is better suited because it's so much easier to use.

So really, the two programs are targeted at different audiences.

where can i download it from?