Someone has released a jailbreak for one of the betas of the iPhone 3.0 firmware.  The iPhone dev team, who are responsible for the 3G unlock released a few months ago, hurried to get a post up explaining why they weren’t the ones to release  this latest exploit. Â
They offer proof that they had a jailbreak a few weeks ago, but they kept it to themselves because they’d rather work towards a carrier unlock of 3.0, than try to keep up with a stream of beta releases from Apple.
Before you decide you want to be all cutting edge, a few things to keep in mind before trying to install one of the 3.0 betas, much less jailbreak it.
- The new firmware doesn’t work with the baseband 02.28 firmware unlocked by yellowsn0w.
- Apple is just going to release a new version.
- You may render it impossible to ever unlock your iPhone 3G
- You may not be able to roll back to the released firmware
- Its a knock off of the hard work of the iPhone dev team.
If you still want to go ahead and do it, you can find it here.
Most of the iPhone jailbreaking action has been on Mac OS X and Windows, but there is an option for linux users called xpwn.
Xpwn is a commandline tool. Nightly binary builds are available for both Windows and Linux. There isn’t a lot of information available about how up-to-date they are, but looking at the check-in history of the source code on Github suggests that it was last updated on Jan 30 to support the latest 2.2.1 iPhone firmware update.
User’s of jailbroken iPhones aren’t limited to applications from Apple’s official store. They can also install 3rd party apps that haven’t been through Apple’s screening process, and now the developers of those apps have a simple way to charge for their apps.
Most iPhone jailbreaking tools install Cydia app store, which makes it the most popular option for distributing 3rd party apps. Up to this point, a few 3rd party developers have tried charging for apps, but they had to roll their own ecommerce solution.
Starting this weekend, Jay Freeman, the creator of the Cydia store, has added an option to allow developers fot charge for their apps. Right now it only works with a limited number of applications, but in the coming weeks, he’ll be opening it up to more developers and offering more payment options (currently it is Amazon only).
ModMyI has more details in First Look: Purchasing from the Cydia Store. Check it out!
This is old news at this point, but for anyone with an iPod Touch who missed it, there is now a jailbreak for it called “redsn0w.”
This is definitely a work in progress. “Caleb Mingle” has done the hard work of compiling a redsn0w FAQ. It looks like it’s a bit out of date in spots, but it covers a lot of important ground.
Published on
November 28, 2008 in
apple, iphone, jailbreak and unlock.
Tags: 2.2, 3g, firmware, iphone, jailbreak, pwnage, quickpwn, unlock.
Apple released a big update to the iPhone firmware last week. It included security fixes and enhancements to the maps, and other applications. It also included an update to the baseband firmware for the 3G iPhone which controls the core phone functions of the iPhone.
The iPhone dev team was quick to release a jailbreak for the 2.2 firmware to allow people to run unofficial 3rd party iPhone apps. The jailbreak is also key to carrier unlocking the original iPhone, and is also an important prerequisite to an eventual unlock for the newer 3G iPhone.
They’ve made new versions of Pwnage, and the simpler to use QuickPwn. Before you rush to update to 2.2, it’s important to read the dev teams cautions. In particular, they warn that you must not to install the update via iTunes if if you hope to take advantage of an any upcoming soft unlock for the 3G iPhone. This is because this updates the baseband firmware on the iPhone, and all the unlock work the team has done has been on the earlier version of the baseband.
For more details about what you need to know, including sources of the official downloads of QuickPwn & Pwnage, continue reading on the iPhone dev teams site.