How to Capture Your iPhone 3GS iBEC and iBSS (Mac)

Step One
Create a new folder on your desktop called Pwnage and place the 3.0 firmware in the folder. You can download the firmware from here. Leave this window open.

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Step Two
Launch iTunes by clicking its icon in your dock

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Step Three
We will need to do an iPhone restore from DFU mode to get our iBEC and iBSS.

iTunes will popup a message saying it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.
Click okay to this message then Hold down the Option key and click the Restore button

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Select the iPhone2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw file from the Pwnage folder on your desktop and click the Open button.

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Your iPhone will now begin restoring to the 3.0 firmware. You will be warned that this will erase your phone. DO NOT CLICK THE RESTORE BUTTON YET.

Step Four
Open a new Terminal window by click its icon in the dock or by launching it from Applications:Utilties.

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Input the following command into the Terminal window then press the Enter key.

while x=1; do nohup cp -vr /tmp/PersonalizedRestoreBundle.*/Firmware/dfu/* ~/Desktop/Pwnage/ 2>/dev/null; sleep .1s; done

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Step Five
Back in iTunes you may now click the 
Restore button from the popup message to continue.

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Step Six
As the DFU mode restore is progressing watch the Pwnage folder we have open in Finder. You will notice two files appear that look like this: iBEC.n88ap.RELEASE.dfu and iBSS.n88ap.RELEASE.dfu

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Step Seven
Once the two files appear in your Pwnage folder you can switch back to the 
Terminal window and press Control+c to stop the running script.

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Step Eight
Once the DFU restore has completed iTunes will ask you to restore from backup or set up as a new phone. To keep your settings as before select 
Restore from the backup of: then click the Continuebutton to finalize the restore.

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Step Ten
That’s it. We now have captured our iBEC and iBSS. You can move these to a safe place to be used for a future jailbreak of your iPhone 3GS.

***Thanks to c0ns0le for posting the script to make it easier for those not fast with copy/paste.

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