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The Dev Team has released a patch that converts the tethered jailbreak into an untethered one! You can find the patch here.

The patch needs to be applied directly to the LLB without decrypting it first, using “bspatch” or equivalent. The resulting IMG3 should have this SHA1:

SHA1(LLB.n72ap.RELEASE.img3) = 82734c7cdf945ba5421b83962aab3ab91e4fb23a

This is all we have until the Dev Team releases new updates to PwnageTool and QuickPwn. If you would like to read up on the exploit go here. You can find a tutorial on how to jailbreak your iPod by searching Google, there are even many GUI’s out now that promise easy jailbreaking, although I haven’t tested any.

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The iPatch will no longer be supported on our repository.

Why? Well, Apple is trying to find a reason to make jailbreaking illegal and we are doing everything we can to make sure they dont find that reason. iPatch’s are just modified files from Apple that I was putting my name on and releasing in Cydia, and thats illegal, in the efforts to keep our phones and iPods jailbreakable, the iPatch’s will no longer be available on our repo.

Help the EFF free our phones!

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The forums at Steffwiz.com are now completely setup and active. Find them here.

When you make an account you are agreeing to the terms and rules. Any violation of these rules will be treated with the proper action. We have already banned over 300 accounts for spamming.

Please help us start up the forum by posting, if you have a suggestion or question be sure to place it in the “Suggestion” area. And most importantly, have fun!

Huge thanks to flammable_sheep for helping me set it up!

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I now proudly part of the PwnCenter team! I have slowly started to move my packages into the new repo, and once all the packages have been moved my repo will update and setup the PwnCenter repo automatically! My packages will also be reorganized into proper sections.

Check out the PwnCenter here!

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A new app recently surfaced that allows you to create and delete blanks very easily, therefore we will no long be supporting blanks on our repository.

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Yellowsn0w has been released! The Dev Team created a site for it here so check it out!

Here’s some notes they left us:

• The unlock works exclusively with baseband 02.28.00. This baseband is provided by the latest firmware update (2.2) from Apple. You’ll need to upgrade to this release using iTunes and then use QuickPwn to activate etc. There are plenty of tutorials about this on iclarified, bigboss, modmi and other established tutorial sites. Because it works on 02.28.00, it is available to everyone on the planet. This means we don’t need to unnecessarily expose holes in earlier basebands, which is an important concern.
• The application is a small daemon that is launched on boot. It injects the payload at boot and also whenever there is a baseband reset. You won’t notice anything about it other than that your third-party sim now works. It’s a small program and unobtrusive. There is no GUI (this is by design).
• You can add the application using the sources outlined below. There are Cydia and Installer sources
• yellowsn0w is completely removable through Cydia, the command line, and iTunes.
• There is a known issue with SIM cards that have STK (SIM Toolkit) application menus. These menus are usually items such as “top up” “get credit” “lotto numbers” etc. These menu items confuse the application sometimes. Removing and reinserting the SIM once after reboot (give it about 10 secs 60 seconds (with v0.9.1) after you see the slide to unlock widget) fixes this issue. We’re working on a better fix. Update: version 0.9.4 fixes this for many (but probably not all) users who previously had to wait a minute and then replug the sim.
• For those of you using SIM cards without STK menus, the application has some optional arguments that will make the unlock much faster for you. So either experiment on your own (use “yellowsn0w -h” for usage) or wait for a customization writeup.
• After you install yellowsn0w via Cydia, you should return to the Cydia main menu then reboot your iPhone with the 3rd party SIM installed. Wait for the slide to unlock screen, then wait 10 or 15 secs more. If you don’t see your carrier name pop up, then remove your SIM, reinsert it, and wait 10 secs more. This is the step we’ll be working on eliminating next.
• The application is still in beta, you use it at your own risk. You know the score.

Yellowsn0w can be downloaded from:

• Cydia source: http://apt9.yellowsn0w.com/
• Installer repo: http://i.yellowsn0w.com/

The Dev Team would like that anyone trying this unlock report there success or failure here. Read up on the full post here. And yes, its open source, download the source code here.

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According to the iPhone Dev Team, their work on the 3G unlock is done.

We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.

• The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008.
• This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or earlier, we did warn you.
• You can tell what version baseband you have by going to Settings->General->About->Modem Firmware
• The unlock requires a jailbroken 3G iPhone. It’ll be installable via Cydia and so it doesn’t matter if you have a Mac or PC.
• Please refrain from updating your baseband, regardless of what version you’re at. We’ll have complete directions on New Year’s Eve.

…and with that, today MuscleNerd (from the Dev Team) used Qik to broadcast a live demo of the first ever iPhone 3G Soft Unlock. You can see the video here.

So now all we have to do is wait for New Year’s Eve!

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Steffwiz.com now has a “Midnight Blue” theme instead of the old “Grassy Green”. I’ve been working with the site a lot and changing different elements of the theme and haven’t had time for very much Cydia work.

To make that even better, my email (the one with all the theme requests) was erased and I lost all my requests. I am doing what I can to recover the lost data, but it would be great if people could start sending me more requests so I have something to work on.

As always, if you see a package in Cydia without a screenshot and would like to help, take one and send it over! I am also looking for full-time theme makers to help me make themes as well as keep a steady flow of new themes into Cydia.

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The download stats are now completely integrated into the site and repository and can now be found here or on every package in Cydia! Check them out!

Shout-out to Nick who helped me with them, thanks!

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I’ve been getting emails that my All Sources package has been giving errors, I’ll be looking at this soon and posting with more info.

UPDATE: Yep, some source is causing the error, “Unmet Dependency”.
UPDATE: It’s all fixed up, seems a source I thought was in Cydia, wasnt.

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