[ # ] 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 */

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

Comment from Mitul Patel [September 4, 2008, 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.

Comment from Jose J. Bracho [September 5, 2008, 11:29 am]

Worked great. Thx for the solution.

Comment from bobby builder [September 6, 2008, 6:49 am]

wow what a solution!

Comment from fred [September 7, 2008, 1:15 am]

sweet

Comment from te_charisma [September 7, 2008, 6:08 am]

Work great! wow

Comment from Kaann [September 7, 2008, 7:46 am]

thanx man youre great

Comment from khrimojen [September 7, 2008, 1:46 pm]

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

Comment from Stephen [September 8, 2008, 10:49 am]

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

Comment from mike540 [September 8, 2008, 11:31 am]

Thanks man !my youtube work again!!!

Comment from wade [September 10, 2008, 12:14 pm]

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

Comment from jeff [September 12, 2008, 11:56 pm]

this thing works on mac or win?

Comment from zoidfreud [September 13, 2008, 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

Comment from Klaus [September 13, 2008, 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

Comment from jeff [September 13, 2008, 3:26 pm]

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

Comment from adm_snackbar [September 13, 2008, 5:53 pm]

Are you both 3G iPhone owners?

Comment from David Ortez [September 14, 2008, 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.

Comment from David Ortez [September 15, 2008, 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!

Comment from David Ortez [September 15, 2008, 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

Comment from Adam [September 17, 2008, 4:51 am]

Thanks, works again !

Comment from Robots love 3G [October 4, 2008, 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

Comment from Paul [October 7, 2008, 7:34 am]