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MacOS upgade to Monterey (12), firmware error

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My hardware: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) – A1398

In 2018 I research the interface of the Apple-SSD interface, turns out it has NVME capability with tested R/W speed 2000MB/s
So I upgraded the disk to WD NVME-SSD 1Tb Black (WDS100T2X0C) running verry nicely.

Updating MacOS went just fine from ‘Yosemite (10.10)’ and on till ‘Catalina (10.15)’,
I posponed the upgrade after this becouse of the major (IMO) iTunes cluster-F* ripping all the functionalities out and making it even worst then iTunes .. **go figure!
And the significant changes to the interface in Big Sur and Maverick, so delaying the update from 2019..2022.

So after multi-timemachine backups I started the upgrade all looked fine until the reboot.
It was rebooted in to the recovery enviroment and the message “A required firmware update could not be installed.”
Just rebooting with the <option> key pressed and selecting the MacOS-disk reverted back to the old Catalina.

After reading some DuckDuckGo.com* searches it turns out updating the firmware requires an original Apple-SSD.

I could not find the old one, so ordered a 2nd-hand 256Gb Apple-SSD online.
Installed catalina and upgraded to Monterey on the Apple-SDD,
Afterwards replaced the NVME-SSD, booted and upgraded to Monterey smoothly.

My firmware was too old to use an workaround doing it manually.
The Eclecticlight Company Utility SilentKnight nice tool to view the current firmware

*DuckDuckGo.com results:
Monterey: “A required firmware update could not be installed.”
Which firmware should your Mac be using? (version 6)firmware-should-your-mac-be-using-version-6/

Goodluck upgradeing..

iPhone paths

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Call history database – /var/mobile/Libary/CallHistory/call_history.db
SMS history – /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS

Synced folders:
Notes – /private/var/mobile/Library/Notes
Favorites – /?

Synced Folders/Exchange:
Calender – /private/var/mobile/Library/Calendar
Contacts – /private/var/mobile/Library/AddressBook
Mail – /?

* This is where you’ll find Contacts, Notes and Calls:
“private/var/mobile/Library”
* This is where you’ll find your captured photos of the Camera Roll:
“private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE”
* This is where you’ll find your Memos:
“private/var/mobile/Media/Recordings”
* This is where you’ll find the Backups of the Mobile Substrate files:
“Library/MobileSubstrate”
* This is where you’ll find your Cydia’s Sources:
“private/etc/apr/sources.list.d” Or “var/lib/apt/lists”
* This is where you’ll find your Cydia’s Applications:
“private/var/stash/Applications/xxxx”
* This is where you’ll find your AppStore’s Applications:
“private/var/mobile/Applications/xxxx/” (Use Applinks to decrypt the names of the Folders)
* This is where you’ll find your Winterboard Themes:
“private/var/stash/Themes/xxxxx”
* This is where you’ll find your Ringtones:
“private/var/stash/Ringtones/xxxx”
* This is where you’ll find Files related to the system’s sounds:
“System/library/Audio/UISounds”
* This is where you’ll find your SBSetting’s Themes:
“private/var/mobile/Library/SBSettings/Themes”
* This is where you’ll find your videos captured using Cycorder:
“var/mobile/Media/videos”
* This is where you’ll find your videos captured using iPhone Video Recorder:
“var/mobile/Media/iphonevideorecorder3g”
* This is where you’ll find your videos downloaded using MxTube:
“var/mobile/Media/mxtube”
* This is where you’ll find files related to your Contacts:
“/var/Mobile/Library/AdressBook”
* This is where you’ll find files related to the Calendar:
“/var/Mobile/Library/Calendar”
* This is where you’ll find files related to the Notes:
“/var/Mobile/Library/Notes”
* This is where you’ll find files related to the bookmarks of Safari:
“/var/Mobile/Library/Safari/Bookmarks”
* This is where you’ll find files related to the Mail:
“/var/Mobile/Library/Mail”
* This is where you’ll find files related on the Call History:
“/var/Mobile/Library/CallHistory”
* This is where you’ll find files related on the SMS:
“private/var/mobile/Library/SMS”
* This is where you’ll find the files downloaded using MewSeek:
“/var/mobile/Media/MewSeek/Downloads”
* This is where you’ll find your videos captured using DisplayRecorder:
“private/var/mobile/Library/KeyBoard/DisplayRecorder”
* This is where you’ll find your messages of BiteSMS:
“/private/var/mobile/Library/BiteSMS/BiteSMS.db”
* This is where you’ll your favorites of the Maps.app:
“/private/var/mobile/Library/Maps/Bookmarks.plist”

sources: http://us.hackyouriphone.org/interesting-paths-for-ifile-and-ssh.html

Products – Apple hardware

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2013-03, Macbook retina new Intel Core processors

13-Inch Retina Display MacBook Pro Custom Processors

MacBook Pro Subfamily Processor Option  
“Core i5″ 2.5 13” Late 2012 2.9 GHz Core i7 (I7-3520M)  
“Core i5″ 2.6 13” Early 2013 3.0 GHz Core i7 (I7-3540M)  

15-Inch Retina Display MacBook Pro Custom Processors

MacBook Pro Subfamily Processor Option
“Core i7″ 2.3 15” Mid-2012 2.7 GHz Core i7 (I7-3820QM)  
“Core i7″ 2.6 15” Mid-2012 2.7 GHz Core i7 (I7-3820QM)
“Core i7″ 2.4 15”* Early 2013 2.8 GHz Core i7 (I7-3840QM)
“Core i7″ 2.7 15” Early 2013 2.8 GHz Core i7 (I7-3840QM)  

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Apple iOS Jailbreak News

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News blogging sites

http://www.ijailbreak.com/jailbreak/

http://www.iphonehacks.com/jailbreak_iphone/

http://www.redmondpie.com/category/iPhone/

http://jaxov.com/

http://www.spiritjb.org/2010/04/all-5-jailbreak-ways-and-unlock-for-313.html

http://www.ultrasn0w.ca/

News messages

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/02/planetbeing-ama-reddit.html

Jailbreak

5.1.1 Absinthe Jailbreak – NewsPost | How-To | Video – – Battery-life-issue

Notes

Links – iPhone Notes

Howto – Blog

http://www.spiritjb.org/2011/12/first-untethered-jailbreak-5.0-5.0.1-video-devteam.html

Redsn0w says “unrecognized build” when trying to tethered boot 5.0.1

iOS 5.0.1 – Semi untether* – how-to-semi-untether-jailbreak-ios-5-using-semitether-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch

iOS 5.0.1 – Jailbreak Redsnow* –  jailbreak-iphone-on-ios-5-0-1-redsn0w-0-9-9b8-windows

iOS 5.0.1 – Jailbreak snowbreeze – jailbreak-ios-5-on-windows-using-sn0wbreeze-2.8b8

Links

http://techiezlounge.com/create-iphone-ringtones-free.html

* iUsedThis

5.1.x Absinthe Jailbreak

iTunes – How to Remove Broken or Dead Tracks

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source: http://paulmayne.org/blog/2007/11/how-to-remove-broken-or-dead-tracks-from-itunes/

My iTunes XML database recently got corrupted and it seemed I had lost all my many hours worth of song ratings. Luckily I was able to re-construct the database through an few month old backup and my iPod. In doing so, my entire iTunes library was duplicated with broken links. Since iTunes does not currently allow you to sort by the broken (‘!’ icon), it’s a laborious, manual process to remove all these track listings.

That was until I found this ingenious process somewhere on the Apple forums:

1. Make a smart playlist called “All Files” with this rule: “Artist” is not “123456789″ (or any nonsense name that won’t be in your library).

2. Make a static playlist called “All Live Files”.

3. Make a smart playlist called “Missing Files” with these rules: Match all of the following rules, Playlist is “All Files”, Playlist is not “All Live Files”

4. Select all the files from “All Files” and drag them into “All Live Files”. The dead files marked (!) will not copy over.

5. “Missing Files” will contain all of your dead files. Select all and delete. Voila, a nice clean iTunes library.

I have these three playlists in their own folder. Whenever I gather more than a couple dead tracks for whatever reason, I delete all the tracks in “All Live Files” and repeat steps 4 and 5.

How to Delete a file from a playlist:

Windows: SHIFT + DEL
Mac: OPTION + DEL

UPDATE:

A reader named Art informed me of these reacent changes in deleting tracks in Windows:

Apple apparently added a new twist in the latest iTunes for Windows – the Delete option is disabled in a Smart Playlist. To get around this, I selected all tracks in my Missing Files folder, did Files\New Playlist from Selection (since it won’t let you drag & drop the dead tracks to a playlist), and then deleted them from there.

UPDATE October 2008:

If you are on Mac, there is a super simple solution using AppleScripts: Run, Super Remove Dead Tracks v2.1 or search Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes for a solution.

If you are on Windows, I received an email from John Haywood:
On a PC at least, no longer can you delete files from playlists made through “File –> New Playlist from Selection.” When this didn’t work for me, my next thought was to do a mass ID3 tag edit (i.e. changing the Artist for all of the broken links to “DEAD LINK”) from within the Missing Files smart playlist, and then deleting all DEAD LINK songs from the main library page, but (understandably) ID3 tags can’t be edited from within smart playlists.

The only thing I could find that iTunes lets you change in bulk in a smart playlist that carries over to the main library is Rating. So after going through your steps to set up the Missing Files smart playlist, people should rate all broken songs 1 star, then sort in the main library by rating, and then mass delete. Whew!

UPDATE January 2009: (Thanks for this new information from Josh Watson)

On Windows, Shift-Delete DOES still work from a smart playlist (it never didn’t for me). Pressing shift and then right-clicking gives a delete option, but this didn’t seem to work. I just did it in iTunes 8.02 to remove all my dead files.

Also, you need to add the following rules to the Dead Files list:
“Podcast” “is” “false” –> or it will include podcasts
“Kind” “does not contain” “Audible” –> or it will include audiobooks (nearly deleted mine!)
“Kind” “does not contain” “MPEG” –> or it will include vodcasts (nearly deleted mine!)

Alternatively, you can drag all your audiobooks/podcasts/etc into the live files list too!

UPDATE September 2009: (Thanks for this new information from Lee McKay)

I did some playing around and figured out a way to do it using only two playlists, one smart, and one static.

1) Make a static playlist called “All Live Files” and copy your entire library into it.
2) Make a smart playlist called “Missing Files” with the rules set as ” ‘Playlist’ ‘is’ ‘Music’ ” and another rule set as ” ‘Playlist’ ‘is not’ ‘All Live Files’ ”
3) As stated in your blog, the broken songs will not transfer and “Missing Files” will contain all those broken songs.

UPDATE July 2011: (info from Mark Sutherlin)

Using Windows? Check this blog post with some current information regarding this issue.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/effectively-remove-duplicate-tracks-itunes-windows/

iPhone Jailbreak 3 Notes

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current version 3.1.3 *Spirit JB, reinstalling the same firmware and restoring as much of the personal/applications settings.

Restarting from scratch

¿ Why, because the iPhone went unstable, freezing touch-input (so no input at all) totaly at random

I reinstalled the iphone and after I restored the ‘cydia’ apps with Aptbackup the problem occurred again.
Second time I reinstalled and restored the applications by hand and did not restore the settings yet.

Easy commands

Restart springboard from shell
# launchctl stop com.apple.SpringBoard
# launchctl start com.apple.SpringBoard

The steps

    • Backup your stuff
  • I used Aptbackup, Appbackup and iTunes
  • rsynced the whole iPhone to a Linux machine.
  • Tiny Umbrella and Cydia to backup shsh signatures
    • Clean firmware install
  • TinyUmbrella as an shsh server to restore the current firmware.
  • Start iTunes and <shift>-click [Restore]
    (error code 3014, reboot your machine first. That solved it for me)
  • iTunes Restore the backup
  • iTunes Sync your iPhone
    • Jailbreaked the iPhone
    • Jailbreak after
    • Jailbreak after, do you MUST
  • # passwd root
  • # passwd mobile
    • Results, what do we get out of this.
  • Cleaned-up iPhone system, we all like to play like gadget 😉
  • I did not miss any settings from my applications, network, bleutooth-links, mail and wi-fi as of yet and hopefully nothing at all.
  • The restore of cydia applications I did manually because of the freezing touch interface.
  • Remember to rename your device different, hopefully not overwriting the backup before the ‘Restart from scratch’
    • Whats next
  • Try restore to an previous version than the current iOS
  • Update and jailbreak to a newer version

The iPhones Path’s of privatedata:

  • /private/var/mobile/Library/AddressBook – Contacts
  • /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS
  • /private/var/mobile/Library/Notes
  • /private/var/mobile/Library/Calendar
  • /private/var/mobile/Applications – Applications root location
  • /private/var/lib/apt/lists/ – Aptbackup location
  • /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/AppBackup/tarballs – Appbackup location

Cydia

    • Repositories
    • Applications (installed)
  • Aptbackup
  • Appbackup
  • SBsettings
  • OpenSSH ( !! set # root &  $ mobile password !! )
  • Winterboard
  • Lockinfo
  • Lock Weather plugin
  • Installous
  • CyDelete
  • MyWi
  • Fice Icon dock
  • iSHSHit
  • Midnight Commander
  • MobileTerminal
  • Remove background
    • Theme
  • Assassin Creed Ringtone
  • NFL Ravens Theme
    • Applications (the rest)
  • Lock Callender
  • File:// Schema in Safari
  • PDANet
  • PrivaCy
  • iFile
    • Papers
  • 491

Links and references

How to Downgrade iPhone 3.1.3 to 3.1.2
iPhone Notes & Links
Disable call forwarded/forwarding messages
AppBackup – Backup all your application settings
( iPhone 3GS iOS 3.1.3 (new bootrom) tarballz location, iphone:/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/AppBackup/tarballs )

€-pps Links

Pkgbackup – easy backup for jailbreaked iphones

OMG
Best iphone gloves for the winter
bestappever.com 2009

iPhone tweaks disable call forwarded/forwarding messages

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Now connect to your iphone using Putty (or whatever, you can even use the terminal on the iPhone itself)
and browse to the following directory: /System/Library/Carrier Bundles/Unknown.bundle/

Before you do anything, make a backup of the carrier.plist file:
cp carrier.plist carrier.plist.bck

The carrier.plist file is unreadable in firmware 2.2, so convert it to something readable with:
plutil -convert xml1 carrier.plist

Now use vim or nano to change the “ShowCallForwarded” and “ShowCallForwarding” keys
to “false”.

This leaves all forwarding configuration alone, but just disables that pesky message.
For the fun of it, type “reboot” in your terminal, wait a couple of minutes for your iPhone to reboot,
place a call and verify that the popup message is gone!! wh00t!

source: http://weyland.be/wrdprss/index.php/2008/11/24/disable-call-forwarding-active-popup-on-iphone-22/
source: http://modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/13589-removing-call-forwarding-active-pop-up-message.html

iPhone Jailbreak 5 Notes

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Apple iOS

5.x.x

Apple iOS Firmware releases list

Download iTunes All Versions

iPhone OS Reference Library

Custom Repositories

  • Lockinfo
  • Lock weather plugin

Musthaves Applications, most of them 🙂

System

  • 3G Unrestrictor
  • MobileTerminal
  • MyWi
  • OpenSSH
  • SBSettings
  • SemiTether (iOS 5.0.1)
  • Winterboard

Backup

  • AptBackup
  • AppBackup

Utilities/Info

  • CyDelete
  • Five icon dock
  • Five-column springboard
  • iSHSHit
  • Lockinfo
  • Lock weather plugin
  • Popup blocker
  • Wififofum

Theme

  • Assassin creed ringtone
  • NFL Ravens theme
  • Remove background

Unknown

  • File:// Schema in Safari
  • PDANet
  • Startrek TNG LCARS

Old Itunes versions

http://www.oldapps.com/itunes.php

Symbols and prases

¼ ½ ¾ ⅓ ⅔ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞

Links

iTunes Store account without credit card works with iTunes 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htKU0D-MNgk

iTunes: What are the iTunes library files?

How to Check iPhone Manufacture Date

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htKU0D-MNgk