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Entries Categorized as 'Jailbreak'

Why Jailbreaking Your Own iPhone Can Be Bad News – For You

Date September 2, 2009


Jailbreakers, beware:  Apple would like you just to leave your iPhones alone, thank you very much.  Unless, of course, you feel like buying some new Apps.  Recent word says that the jailbreaking – i.e., the modifying of iPhone software for the sake of upgrades – your iPhone might actually just cause you problems.
[iPhone Auctions] Yeah, [...]

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iPhone 3GS Exploit Found, Unlock Immenant

Date June 26, 2009


According to the iPhone Dev Team, there is a well known loophole that has been found in the iPhone 3GS. The loophole is known as the 24Kpwn exploit, and was first found in the iPod Touch 2G, which seems to have been carried over on to the iPhone 3GS.
Still waiting to have your iPhone 3GS [...]

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Ultrasn0w Now Available for Download, Working Wonders with iPhone 3G and OS 3.0

Date June 23, 2009


The iPhone Dev-Team has made Ultrasn0w available for download, working at its fullest, waiting for your jailbreaking needs.
The steps on how to Ultrafy your iPhone 3G, have a look below:

Ensure you have upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0
Jailbreak your iPhone 3G using redsn0w or PwnageTool (this will also install Cydia/Icy)
Run Cydia or Icy
Please add the repo repo666.ultrasn0w.com to [...]

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Jailbroken 3.0 and Cydia is Not Working?! Here is How To Fix It….

Date June 23, 2009


 
Yesterday I updated and jailbroke the new 3.0 firmware for my iPhone 3G. During the jailbreak process using redsn0w 0.72 by the iPhone Dev Team, I installed both Cydia and Icy. To my great dismay, when I attempted to intitiate the essential upgrades in Cydia, I continually received an error that stated,
“couldnt configure pre-depend dpkg [...]

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Dev-Team (yellowsn0w, PwnageTool, QuickPwn) Updates on iPhone OS 3.0

Date June 15, 2009


Just minutes ago, the official Dev-Team posted up an update in regards to yellowsn0w, PwnageTool, and QuickPwn, on their blog.
The Dev-Team states that they will be doing a live demo of the yellowsn0w carrier unlock working on official 3.0 firmware on Tuesday evening, just before the official release of said firmware; 3.0. They will be [...]

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Final iPhone OS 3.0 Jailbreak Information, Not Available Yet

Date June 14, 2009


iPhone OS 3.0 Beta’s (1,2,3,4 and 5) are all jailbreakable (is that even a word?) and unlockable. But for those of you who have managed to find the final release (code named “Golden Master”, or “7A341″), you are out of luck, for now.
The final release of the iPhone’s 3.0 OS has yet to be jailbroken [...]

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Jailbreaking the iPhone is Illegal…. according to Apple.

Date February 18, 2009


Apple has made it’s first formal public statement about it’s legal stance on iPhone jailbreaking in comments filed with the Copyright Office.
Apple states;
“Current jailbreak techniques now in widespread use utilize unauthorized modifications to
the copyrighted bootloader and OS, resulting in infringement of the copyrights in those
programs. For example, the current most popular jailbreaking software [...]

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Playing with Your iPhone on a Big Screen TV Using Video-Out Feature

Date December 5, 2008


Wow, would you have a look at this. I’ve never seen anything like it. This guy is playing with his iPod touch like a normal user would, but instead of looking off the tiny iPod touch screen, he’s got it hooked up to a big screen tv!
Here, have a look at the video right away:

Okay, [...]

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Linux, We Have a Breakthrough!

Date December 1, 2008


Couple days ago, the iPhone/iPod Touch hit a major breakthrough by fully porting and actually starting Linux Kernal 2.6 on the iPhone/iPod Touch. This is a day in history because it means we’re getting closer replacing or even dual booting Apple’s iPhone OS with another OS such as Linux or even Google Android on the [...]

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PwnageTool and QuickPwn for Firmware 2.2 Released

Date November 23, 2008


Proving that the Dev Team aren’t just on the ball, they’re dribbling it and shooting three-pointers with their feet, QuickPwn and PwnageTool have been released for Firmware 2.2.
These two tools will properly jailbreak your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and first-gen iPod Touch (sorry, no 2nd gen Touch support yet, and no iPhone 3G unlocking yet [...]

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Wirelessly Controlled iPhone Robot Makes for Easy Motion Video Capture

Date November 6, 2008


From the person that made an iPhone with an actual keyboard, comes an iPhone robot that allows the user to control said device via a nearby computer.
Using a jailbroken iPhone 3G running on some Ruby code, an Arduino CPU, a TA7291P motor, and 4 AA batteries, the creator has the ability to pilot the iPhone [...]

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‘AppShare’ + ‘Installous’ = Theft

Date October 3, 2008


As disappointed as I may be to announce the following, I’m doing it for the betterment of the community…
Word has it that there is a new app out there for jailbroken iPhone’s that goes by the name of ‘Installous’. In conjunction with another app called ‘AppShare’ you are supposedly capable of downloading App Store applications [...]

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iPhysics Full / Lite Submitted to the App Store for Approval

Date September 23, 2008


You read that right ladies and gents. iPhysics is finally making its way to the iPhone App Store, after over 5 months of not being updated. r4m0n informs that he submited iPhysics Lite to Apple on September 16th, which means you should be seeing iPhysics within the App Store in no more than a weeks [...]

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QuickPwn 2.1 GUI for Windows Released

Date September 20, 2008


Finally! I’ve been waiting for this.  Poorlad and the Dev Team have finally released the Windows version of QuickPwn for firmware 2.1.  Naturally it’s just as simple to use as it always has been and the GUI hasn’t really undergone any significant changes — but of course, now us Microsofties can join the Mac heads [...]

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