Pod2g has been working solo on the iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak for A4-powered devices and finally figured it out. He passed on his completed work to the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team to test and distribute. That day has finally come, as announced by @pod2g: Hello, as expected, the Chronic Dev Team and...
A new Siri port has emerged from Grant Paul (chpwn), Steven Troughton-Smith and Ryan Petrich, called Spire. This install is available for the following jailbroken devices on iOS 5: iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPad. What makes this port significant is that it is distributed legally (no copyright infringement here), something other ports have never...
Another day, and another update from pod2g in regards to the iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak. He has decided to hand over the A4 jailbreak to the Chronic Dev Team to test and release, so he can focus his efforts on the A5 jailbreak (iPhone 4S, iPad 2) before iOS 5.1 is released: I read the...
Pod2g has been hard at work on the iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak and has now posted a video demo of his progress running on an iPhone 4. The jailbreak's release will be any time now, and as for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, support for those newer devices will come soon (he recently solved...
Earlier this morning, pod2g updated his blog to notify users he had run into cache issues with the A5 chip (now made in Texas!) within the iPhone 4S he was testing out on the weekend. Just this afternoon, he has published another update to tell us he has solved that cache issue, and also received...
@MuscleNerd of Dev Team has just announced yet another update to their famous jailbreak tool i.e Redsn0w 0.9.9 Beta 9. The latest beta brings native iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak support for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3G / 4G and the original iPad. No support for iPhone 4S or iPad 2 yet. Once again, the jailbreak...
@Pod2g, an active member of iOS jailbreak community who recently demoed a successful iOS 5 untethered jailbreak on video, has been working hard to release his latest iOS 5 untethered exploit to public for all available iOS devices. He has already achieved a successful iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4th gen, first gen iPad, and Apple TV2...
Pod2G recently announced on twitter the successful iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4, and now he has added the iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4th gen, first gen iPad, and Apple TV2 (on 4.4.3), as noted on his short and sweet blog entries: Apple TV 2 4.4.3 untethered Done also. Rush mode = off...
Update 1: Here are a couple tweets later from @pod2g--iOS 5.0.1 will be supported, and we will find out about the iPhone 4S/iPad 2 once he gets his hands on one: It seems like a great day for the jailbreak community. Earlier today, Dev-Team's @MuscleNerd told us that the next RedSn0w update will support iOS 5.x...
DevTeam's @MuscleNerd has tweeted something very interesting today. We all know that downgrading back to a lower iOS 5.x firmware once your device has been upgraded, is not possible even if the SHSH blobs for your device have been saved offline. This is because with the introduction of iOS 5, Apple has changed the way .IPSW...
People will do anything to get Siri onto non-iPhone 4S devices, and we saw that with the tweak Siri0us (which was ultimately removed). This time around, H1Siri has emerged by a group of hackers in China called the CD-Dev Team. This hack brings full-fledged Siri to your iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4th generation on iOS...
The handy SHSH blobs extraction tool a.k.a TinyUmbrella has just been updated to version 5.1.00 which adds iOS 5.1 beta 1 support. The latest release of TinyUmbrella is now available for download for both Mac OS X and Windows platforms. Until now, there is no way to downgrade back to an iOS 5.x firmware even...
