Seas0nPass Jailbreak for AppleTV Looses the Tether

Published on February 22, 2011 in apple, AppleTV and jailbreak. Closed

Second generation AppleTV owners, this is your day.  As you may know, the latest AppleTVs run iOS, just like the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, what you may not know is that like those devices, the AppleTV can be jailbroken to allow installation of unofficial software.

Today, FireCore announced that Seas0nPass, their packaging of the Chronic Dev Team’s iOS jailbreaking tool for AppleTV has been updated to all unteathered jailbreaking.  This is a big deal, because before, you had to make sure the power wasn’t cut to your AppleTV, lest you have to jailbreak it again.  Once you’ve jailbroken it, you can spend $19.95 to install aTV Flash (black), which enhances the functionality of the device.

Redsn0w succumbs to Greenp0ison: Untethered Jailbreak for all iOS 4.2.1

Published on February 6, 2011 in jailbreak and unlock. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

iOS 4.3 is due any day now, but the bigger news is that there is an untethered jailbreak available for recent devices running iOS 4.2.1.  The original jailbreak was redsn0w from the iPhone dev team. It was joined by Greenp0ison, but both had the same limitation, when jailbreaking recent devices, you had to hook it up to a computer every time your device was restarted.  Only iPhone 3gs and iPhone 3 users got the benefit of an untethered jailbreak. That changed last week.

An update to Greenp0ison is available that allows untethered jailbreaking of all current devices (which doesn’t yet include the verizon iPhone) from a Windows, Mac system.  No Linux yet, but hopefully it is coming soon.

iPhone 3.1 Out, Don’t Let it Re-Lock your Unlocked iPhone

Published on September 9, 2009 in apple, iphone, jailbreak and unlock. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

Apple released an update to the iPhone OS today.  The 3.1 iPhone update brings lots of little improvements.  Don’t let iTunes tempt you with them if you have an unlocked iPhone.  The new firmware will upgrade your baseband firmware, relocking your iPhone and, potentially, making it impossible to unlock again.

The good news is that your iPhone can still have that 3.1 iPhonee goodness and your unlocked iPhone.  You just need to trust in the iPhone Dev team, because their tools provide a way to install the update without updating the baseband and breaking the unlock.

If you update to Apple’s new software using the normal iTunes process, you will lose your ultrasn0w unlock.  In fact you may lose it permanently, because for most people the baseband firmware cannot be reverted to a previous version (unlike the main application CPU firmware).

But don’t worry…our PwnageTool program lets you update your main firmware without touching your baseband firmware, so you can still have the best of both worlds.  But you must be diligent about saying “no” to your iTunes request this week to update your firmware.

As always, eliminate the middle-men and get the PwnageTool and all your iPhone accessories direct from the source.

Jailbreak iPhone 3.0.1 Firmware

Published on August 23, 2009 in uncategorized. Closed

For those who missed it, you can jailbreak iPhones running the 3.0.1 firmware using RedSn0w.

“You can re-use redsn0w v0.8 we released a few weeks ago to jailbreak today’s 3.0.1 update.  Just let iTunes update or restore you to official 3.0.1 then run redsn0w.  The only “trick” is that when redsn0w asks you to identify the IPSW used, point it at the 3.0 IPSW instead of the 3.0.1 one.   After the jailbreak, reinstall ultrasn0w 0.9 if you need the unlock.”

Get RedSn0W here.

Almost New News: iPhone 3GS Jailbreak AND Unlock

Published on July 13, 2009 in apple, iphone, jailbreak and unlock. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Yes, the iPhone Dev Team is just that awesome.  They’ve released updates to RedSnow, their easy jailbreaking tool, and UltraSn0w, their iPhone 3G and now 3GS unlocking tool.

With this combo, you can jailbreak your iPhone to run unofficial 3rd party applications with RedSn0w (thats RedSn0w, with a zero).  Then you can use one of those unofficial 3rd party applications called UltraSn0w (again, with a zero) to unlock your phone so you can use it with a 3rd party GSM carrier.

Note:  Don’t go rushing to install the 3.1 firmware that is in beta now.  Baseband upgrades can break your unlock and may make it impossible to ever unlock again.