How to Fix YouTube Activation in iPhone 2.0.2 Firmware

/* Posted September 3rd, 2008 at 11:25pm */
/* Filed under Apple, How-To, Mods, iPhone */
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If you followed our guide on upgrading to 2.0.2 and have also followed our 2.0.1 guide closely, you’ll notice there wasn’t any nice easy option to perform the YouTube activation fix with 2.0.2. That’s a limitation of QuickPwn which we used to upgrade to 2.0.2 firmware but fortunately not an unsolvable problem. If you encounter this error:

You must first connect to iTunes with an Internet connection to enable YouTube.

you can activate YouTube without going through iTunes on a jailbroken phone simply by SSH and FTP on your iPhone and “fixing” things up a bit.

Download this package with activated YouTube files and extract the contents (3 files) somewhere.
Install the OpenSSH app on your iPhone (find it through Cydia).
Install the BossPrefs app on your iPhone to control SSH (also through Cydia). Enable SSH after you install it.
Install the Insomnia app on your iPhone to keep the wireless connection alive (through Cydia). Turn it on after you install it.
Get your iPhone connected to your wireless network and find out your iPhone’s IP address.
FTP to your iPhone and log in as user “root” with password “alpine.”
Once you have FTP’ed to your iPhone, browse to /private/var/root/Library/Lockdown/
Replace the existing three files in the Lockdown directory with the fixed ones you just downloaded.
Delete the folder “pair_records”
Set the permissions on Lockdown to 644 with your FTP application (on FileZilla FTP client you right click on the Lockdown folder and select “File Attributes…”).
Restart your iPhone

Test it out, if it worked you’ll be well on your way to seeing what brilliant skit the Duke Improv team is presenting… or what West St. Paul looks like.

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35 Responses to “How to Fix YouTube Activation in iPhone 2.0.2 Firmware”

Comment from Mitul Patel

/* September 4, 2008 at 8:57 pm */

This is good.. I had the same problem after i did winpawn. and after applying this solution, my youtube is working again. :) thanks for providing the solution.

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Comment from Jose J. Bracho

/* September 5, 2008 at 11:29 am */

Worked great. Thx for the solution.

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Comment from bobby builder

/* September 6, 2008 at 6:49 am */

wow what a solution!

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Comment from fred

/* September 7, 2008 at 1:15 am */

sweet

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Comment from te_charisma

/* September 7, 2008 at 6:08 am */

Work great! wow

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Comment from Kaann

/* September 7, 2008 at 7:46 am */

thanx man youre great

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Comment from khrimojen

/* September 7, 2008 at 1:46 pm */

great work and fabilous guide,thanks.I hade to open the port 22 .

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Comment from Stephen

/* September 8, 2008 at 10:49 am */

I’ve done the above but it’s still not working, any help?

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Comment from mike540

/* September 8, 2008 at 11:31 am */

Thanks man !my youtube work again!!!

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Comment from wade

/* September 10, 2008 at 12:14 pm */

I’ve done the Mod. But YouTube still does not work with Edge Network. Any help? Thanks.

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Comment from jeff

/* September 12, 2008 at 11:56 pm */

this thing works on mac or win?

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Comment from zoidfreud

/* September 13, 2008 at 10:19 am */

I think it works on both. The only diff betweenthe two is what FTP program u use to get into your iPhones filesystem

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Comment from Klaus

/* September 13, 2008 at 11:49 am */

It worked for me only after i set the permissions to 444 on data_ark.plist. Hope this does not ruin anything else.

Anyways, thanks

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Comment from jeff

/* September 13, 2008 at 3:26 pm */

I don’t know why but permission 444 on data_ark.plist worked for me too. it didn’t work before…

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Comment from adm_snackbar

/* September 13, 2008 at 5:53 pm */

Are you both 3G iPhone owners?

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Comment from David Ortez

/* September 14, 2008 at 3:50 pm */

For some reason I can not login via SSH. I have done it in the past so I know the steps in fact I even saved the setting in my FTP client.

I have installed Open SSH and Insomnia per the intructions but I still am rejected. Any ideas? Do I need BSD Subsystem or any other program?

I have an iPhone 1st Generation running on 2.1 firmware that was J/U/A via Pwnage Tool.

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Comment from David Ortez

/* September 15, 2008 at 2:01 pm */

I figured it out:

I had to log in via terminal (located in Utilities)

I typed the following command to connect: “ssh root@999.99.9.999” (Replace 999.99.9.999 with your IP address.

Then I got an error in Terminal that stated:

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!

So, I then typed: “rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts”

It will then ask you if you want to trust the connection and ask you for the password. The you are good to go!

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Comment from David Ortez

/* September 15, 2008 at 3:20 pm */

Well even after following the steps, I could not get it to work with a first generation iPhone running 2.1 and iTune 8.0

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Comment from Adam

/* September 17, 2008 at 4:51 am */

Thanks, works again !

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Comment from Robots love 3G

/* October 4, 2008 at 8:42 pm */

OK FOR ALL YOU 3G USERS YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THE STEPS TO A T AND THEN!!!! YOU NEED!!!! TO DELETE THE FILE THAT IN IN THE ACTIVATION FOLDER JUST DELETE IT RESTART YOUR IPHONE AND KABLAMMM!!! YOU TUBE WORKS SHARE THIS WITH OTHER THREADS PLEASE!!!!

THANKS!!!
Robot The Martyr

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Comment from Paul

/* October 7, 2008 at 7:34 am */

I would be very grateful if anyone could tell me if the files in the lockdown.zip file will also fix youtube activation for firmware 2.01?

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Comment from Singh

/* October 23, 2008 at 4:49 am */

Thanks a lot.This one really works.Thanks again :)

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Comment from Patoe

/* November 15, 2008 at 1:42 pm */

Thx so much.
The first time i tried this it didn’t work. So i guess i just missed or skipped a part.
Thx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Comment from sikandar

/* November 20, 2008 at 10:08 am */

thankyou

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Comment from Shai

/* November 25, 2008 at 11:05 am */

Hi,

I just followed the method above but now my iPhone seems semi-bricked. When it comes up it shows the screen requiring connection to iTunes where I can only make emergency calls and that’s it. When iTunes start it asks me to enter the passcode on the iPhone but I can’t do that either…
Any idea what to do next? Any way to somehow make this work again?
This is an iPhone 3G. I think it’s running ver 2.1 and was jailbroken earlier…

Thanks!!

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Comment from adm_snackbar

/* November 26, 2008 at 1:15 am */

Try to perform a restore on your iPhone through iTunes and see if that solves the problem. Then try these steps again if YouTube activation is still an issue.

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Comment from osiarap

/* December 22, 2008 at 1:36 pm */

Yes, thank you very much for this posting. It does work and I had just fixed my youtube through these instructions. May God bless the one who posted this. Best regards and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. If you need my help on this, I can be reached through engine at woosh dot co dot nz.

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Comment from osten

/* December 27, 2008 at 6:55 pm */

Thanks alot…works like an charm on my jailbreaked FM. 2.01
dIDNT WORK FIRST TRY SECOND TRY LIKE NEW IPHONE..:p

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Comment from Anonymous

/* January 6, 2009 at 2:29 am */

Yow.. u a di Boss…

Respec yute

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Comment from tom

/* February 10, 2009 at 7:32 pm */

tried with iphone 3g 2.2 and it did not work.
any ides? thank you very much

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Comment from Al

/* February 19, 2009 at 8:03 pm */

Tried this over and over, and no positive results. Still recieving the same message. Any help please?

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Comment from mac

/* March 25, 2009 at 6:10 pm */

same here……tried so many times…just not a runner….. flamin youtube!

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Comment from luis

/* April 15, 2009 at 5:45 pm */

I NEED HELP!!!!!
WHEN I WAS IN THE 7 STEP, WHEN I TRY TO REPLPACED THE DATAS THAT I DOWNLOADED, AND I COULDNT, AND I ERASED THE ALL DATA IN THIS FOLDER, AND NOW, I CANT SINC MY IPHONE TO MY PC
I WAS WORKING WITH “TOTAL COMMANDER”

WHAT I CAN DO?

THINKS

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Comment from Hugo

/* May 7, 2009 at 8:26 am */

@ Luis…. The same happened with me.. After I did this steps (but it didnt fix my YouTube runnin on my iphone 3g frmw 2.2.) my iPhone couldn’t sync with iTunes… So I had to delete the “lockdown” folder and then it worked!!! But please can somebody help me on how to fix my YouTube please!!!!!! It says something like this “connect to itunes with an internet connection to enable YouTube” thanx

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Comment from Hugo

/* May 7, 2009 at 8:27 am */

@ Luis…. The same happened with me.. After I did this steps (but it didnt fix my YouTube runnin on my iphone 3g frmw 2.2.1) my iPhone couldn’t sync with iTunes… So I had to delete the “lockdown” folder and then it worked!!! But please can somebody help me on how to fix my YouTube please!!!!!! It says something like this “connect to itunes with an internet connection to enable YouTube” thanx

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