GeoHot, the person who originally found the exploit in the iPhone 3GS system, has released a jailbreaking utility codenamed “PurpleRa1n”. He released it even after the Dev Team clearly stated that they were planning on waiting until iPhoneOS 3.1 to reveal the exploit.
Update: GeoHot has released a newer version of his PurpleRa1n, you can download it at his site.
Update: The Dev Team has just released updates to RedSn0w and PwnageTool to now work with the iPhone 3GS, since the exploit is now out in the open.
So, use RedSn0w or PurpleRa1n? Well, I would suggest RedSn0w, but you never know. Anyone who has yet to purchase a iPhone 3GS and plans on jailbreaking, should do so soon, the anticipated iPhoneOS 3.0.1 is supposed to bring a patch to block this exploit, but once you jailbreak, your set for life.
Of course, you could always wait for the Dev Team, or GeoHot, to find another hole in the iPhone 3GS, its just a matter of time, but who likes waiting?
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The iPhone Dev Team has yet again beaten Apple and cracked firmware 3.0. The jailbreak used to unlock the current devices happens to be Redsn0w, the old iPod 2G jailbreak. Redsn0w can now be used to jailbreak firmware 3.0 on all devices other then the recently released iPhone 3GS.
Ultrasn0w, is, however, the new Yellowsn0w. It will be able to unlock your iPhone running firmware 3.0 no matter the baseband. The Dev Team said Ultrasn0w will also unlock the iPhone 3GS, once a jailbreak is found for it.
You can download Redsn0w for Windows, here, and for Mac, here. Ultrasn0w has not been released yet, but the Dev Team said it should not be long.
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On March 17th, Apple is going to have a keynote showing “a sneak peek at the iPhoneOS 3.0 software”, their brand new firmware for the iPhone and iPod Touch!
Yesterday, Scott Forstall introduced iPhoneOS 3.0 at the Keynote in Cupertino, California. You can watch the keynote here.
New Features:
- In-App Purchases
- Peer to Peer Connectivity
- Push Notification
- Cut, Copy, Paste & Undo
- Landscape Keyboard for All Applications
- Forwarding & Deleting Texts
- Multimedia Messaging Service
- Voice Memos
- Calender Subscriptions & CalDAV Support
- Landscape Stocks & News
- New Homescreen Called “Spotlight”
- Search in Key Applications
- Notes Syncing
- Shake to Shuffle
- Wi-Fi Autologin
- Sterio Bluetooth
- Safari Auto-Fill & Anti-Phising
- Parental Controls
- Improved Language Support
- YouTube Login & Subscriptions
According to Scott Forstall, these are only a few of the over 100 new features they packed into iPhoneOS 3.0. The update will be shipping this summer and will be free for the iPhone and iPhone 3G, however it will cost $9.95 for the iPod Touch and iPod Touch 2G.
The Software Developers Kit or, SDK, is now available for download via Apple’s Developer area, the 3.0 beta is also available. Keep in mind that you will need a Apple Developer account to login and download these files.
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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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Feb 18
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App Store, Cydia, Installer, Jailbreaking, Linux, Niklas, Repository, Server Status, Source, Unlocking, iPhone, iPhone Dev Team, iPhone/iPod Touch, iPod Touch
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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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Apple has released a new update for the iPhone and iPhone 3G, the Dev Team has made it very clear to not update.
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The Dev Team has confirmed that redsn0w is in fact the iPod Touch 2G Jailbreak. They said, “Right now the jailbreak process is far too manual to be useful to most people”, and didn’t provide any way for advanced users to get a hold of it.
Update: MuscleNerd broadcasted a live demo of redsn0w jailbreaking the iPod Touch 2G (like what they did for yellowsn0w), via Qik. See the video here.
Here is a screenshot of the iPod Touch 2G successfully jailbroken:
When we announced yellowsn0w, we made the mistake of giving an ETA for its release…and that really clobbered the last day of 2008 for us. So we won’t be issuing a formal ETA for the ipt2G jailbreak. But we are putting a lot of energy into it.
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The iPhone Dev Team has posted some clues to something new codenamed “redsn0w”:
- Well it isn’t a British Thermonuclear Device.
- It isn’t an episode from “The Twilight Zone”
- And it certainly isn’t iPhone 3G related (right now)
- There is one other device…
- It fits in your pocket..
- What can it be
The circle in the middle of the image is a section of the iPod Touch 2G Processor. On the far right hand side of the image, the small picture of a girl with a clown is taken from the BBC’s test-card, and could either mean wait for a release or that redsn0w is currently in testing. And apparently that code at the top of the image is, as MuscleNerd says, “an ‘escrow’ hash of the decrypted iBoot for the iPod Touch 2G (length=0×29000). Not otherwise obtainable except via an exploit (afaict).”
So now all we have to do is wait.
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This week’s funday is today! Planetbeing of the iPhone Dev Team has done a great job reverse engineering Apple’s hardware drivers and now for the first time ever, linux is available on the iPhone and first-gen iPods!
Check out this Comic!
Dont forget to Digg!
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iPhone and iPod Touch firmwares 2.2 are now completely jailbreakable through Pwnagetool & QuickPwn! Keep in mind that the iPod Touch 2G is currently un-jailbreakable.
Check it out here!
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