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iPhone Unlockers & Jailbreakers: Avoid iTunes 8.2 Update

Published on June 7, 2009 in uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

Last week Apple pushed out an update to iTunes.  The update brings it up to version 8.2.  If you are an unlocker or a jailbreaker you probably want to avoid this update until the dev team figures out the hitches.  

It’s already clear that it breaks the unlocking and jailbreaking apps like QuickPwn and PwnageTool.  The “iPhone Dev Team” behind most of the jailbreaking and unlocking work doesn’t think this was a deliberate move on Apple’s part, so they expect to be able to address the issue and get things working again soon.  You can read more on their blog.

iPhone 3.0 Beta Unlocked

Published on April 4, 2009 in apple, iphone and jailbreak. Closed Tags: , , , .

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.  

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.

Almost Here, an Easy iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak

Published on March 11, 2009 in uncategorized. Closed Tags: , , .

Good news!  I finally do a post about progress on an 2nd gen iPod Touch jailbreak, and the Dev Team anounces another big step forward.

The iPod Touch 2G is now another member of the “pwned for life” family. It has a fatal flaw in its bootrom that means you will always be able to pwn these devices no matter what firmware updates come along. This is the full, untethered jailbreak, something that iPod Touch 2G users have not had before today.

It’ll be a little bit before this is packaged for easy installation

via Dev-Team Blog – iPod Touch 2G: Hi, welcome to the jailbreak family.

Jailbreak your iPhone from Linux with xpwn

Published on March 11, 2009 in apple, iphone and jailbreak. Closed Tags: , , , .

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.

RedSn0w: An iPod Touch Jailbreak Allready in Progress

Published on March 8, 2009 in iphone and jailbreak. Closed Tags: , , , .

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.