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HardKiss

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Apr 8, 2014
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Just in case somebody desperately seeking for a solution on the following:

I decided to change MAC address of my iPad Mini Retina (7.0.4) for testing purposes.

There is a hint on few forums to go to Terminal and issue the command:

nvram wifiaddr="00:00:00:00:00:00" (your new MAC here)

Perhaps it's outdated because after the reboot you'll get inactive wifi and prompt to restore.
I saw other guys asking for help after this procedure.
Some said even a full restore (and losing your jailbreak) didn't work. Uhh..

So here it goes, provided you had OpenSSH installed before you "bricked" the wifi chip.

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0. Have your iDevice connected via USB

1. Download all 3 files from

https://github.com/rcg4u/iphonessh/tree/master/python-client

2. Run it from OSX console

python tcprelay.py -t 22:2222 &

3. Connect via ssh

ssh -l root 127.0.0.1 -p 2222

4. Bingo, by now you should be in root shell.

5. List the interfaces.. And if you're still reading this, you've forgotten to put down your original MAC... :)

ifconfig

6. You'll see only "en1" interface up... It's bluetooth. Subtract 2 from the last byte - this is your wifi MAC. Finally, write it back and reboot.

nvram wifiaddr="....your original mac..."

Worked for me, hope it'll help someone. :)
 
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