This morning i was asked by shivanad why I had not mentioned iPlus on the blog yet, and to be honest, it was just that I have been very busy for the past few days and saw it, but kinda overlooked it and got swept up in the SDK storm yesterday.
iPlus is another one of these ‘all-in-one’ apps for the iPhone that have come out recently. It doesn’t have any fancy GUI or Italian blog and it ONLY works on 1.1.4, but it sure does get the job done, and quite neatly and quickly at that.
I am not so fond of the idea of downgrading the bootloader for a few reasons; incase of a return to apple (the phone isn’t pristine), or in case there is a longterm hardware problem with changing the bootloader, but that is MY opinion..
Then I got a call from a friend asking if I could help his friend fix her phone, someone tried to unlock it but mistakenly updated to 1.1.4 in the process, then tried downgrading to 1.1.3 (leaving 04.04.05_gBB) and couldn’t unlock it with ziphone. What better time than now to Unlock 1.1.4 with iPlus1.2 than now.
Upon receiving the phone I realized it was a week 39, so i knew it already had 3.9 bootloader, so it wouldn be running the bootloader downgrade. So that made me feel a little better. I quickly jumped over to iClarified and to see if they had any tutorials (because I really like using them) and there were one for OSX and one for the PC. As I was already on the MacMini, I downloaded iPLus1.2 and fired it up following iClarifieds tutorial. About 3 minutes later!! I had a 1.1.4 unlocked, jailbreaked and activated, with BSDsubsystem installed, AFC set (so iBrickr and iPhuc will work etc) Open SSH installed, and Installer besides other little patches for YouTube etc.. sweet!
What must be noted is that it will and can downgrade your bootloader if you have bootlaoder 4,6 (or a phone that came with 1.1.2 on it) - SO be warned not to use it if you don’t want to downgrade your bootloader.
It also lets you costomize the aps installed by editing teh payloads.zip file, i have not played with this yet, but i am sure it is pretty simply to get all the apps i usually install on the phone in one payload and have everything installed in a few minutes. I am going to try that, sounds too good to be true 
Here is a full list of features:
Features:
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1-Unlock and, if required, automatically downgrade the bootloader from 4.6 to 3.9FakeBlank
2-Jailbreak
3-Activate
4-Install AFC2
5-Add the following packages:
- Installer
- Community Sources
- BSD subsystem
- OpenSSH
- VT-100
Plus:
- BSD Fix (backspace)
- VT100 Fix (can’t login)
- Summerboard themes directory fix (installation issues)
- Relocates Fonts and Ringtones (Allows for more than 120MB free for Apps!)
- Customizable payloads!
All in all this was by far the quickest and cleanest method to jailbreak, activate and unlock AND get the first couple essential apps installed so far. What I also noticed and enjoyed was the information given when unlocking / Verbose Boot. The credits mentions to the various developers (kudos) and the much cleaner and more organized looking code/output during the process. This was not a quick hackjob with weird messages like “that didn’t work, lets try that again” and “ok we can fix that”. ok I take that back, I just got that message on a phone. But I really must give it two thumbs up for unlocking and thank shivanad for reminding me of it and the various devs that put it together and built the tools.
Tutorials courtesy iClarified:
iPlus1.2 Download links:
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iPlus 1.2: http://rapidshare.com/files/97509839/iPlus1.2.zip.html
International Pack: http://rapidshare.com/files/97512224/payload_international.zip.html
How to Add the International Payload to iPlus
Friday, 7th March 2008, 01:03 am
Instructions on how to add the International Payload to iPlus. This will install the international patches when you unlock
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next up is to test the baseband downgrade later 
