How To Access Root Filesystem / Read & Write on an A6 iOS Device (iPhone 5) with SSH Ramdisk (Mac)
Channel: Chase Fromm
Date: 21/12/2019

This tutorial will show you how to access your iPhone 5's internal iOS 10 filesystem without a jailbreak. It relies on the checkm8 bootROM exploit from axi0mX and an SSH ramdisk tool from AppleTech752 / axi0mX. This can be useful for removing iCloud activation (Setup.app) or even installing the internal SpringBoard settings (that have been in the OS since iOS 7 days; but using the internal settings is far more advanced than removing the iCloud activation setup, and even downgrading to iOS 8.4.1 OTA, but may have bad and unintended consequences if done so, and if it weren't November 3rd, 2019... due to the terrible time and date bug going around since around November 3rd - long story, but this tool allows us to do limited things, and yes, removing the iCloud activation is one, adding the internal settings is one of them, and trying to downgrade to iOS 8.4.1 is one of them, but is mainly useless because it may not work anymore).


DOWNLOADS
SSH Ramdisk.zip: Just get it from AppleTech752's website.
Cyberduck: https://cyberduck.io/download/


I normally don't do tutorials because I often suck at them big time - whenever I do tutorials, whether through video or written guide, but as you can see, it ended up being decent and worth sharing to help access your A6 device filesystem (regardless of what firmware the phone runs, whether iOS 7 or iOS 8 or up to iOS 10). 



THIS CAN ALSO BE DONE ON PRETTY MUCH ANY FIRMWARE AS LONG AS IT’S FROM AN A6 DEVICE, AS A5 DEVICES REQUIRE A SPECIAL ARDUINO CABLE TO ACCESS OVER USB. AND NO, YOU DO NOT NEED A JAILBREAK TO RUN THIS UTILITY.


This utility also only works on a Mac. No Windows or Linux support.



Credits go to AppleTech752 for the SSH ramdisk tool and axi0mX for the checkm8 bootROM exploit.

EDIT (July 6, 2020): I’m aware there’s a tutorial for this for the iPad 4 and iPhone 5C. I’ll make a separate video for the iPad 4 and iPhone 5C later. Been extremely busy and am handling stuff right now.


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