Jailbreak

Late last week we wrote about antid0te, an upcoming tool that add Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) security to your iPhone. Some new information has emerged from the official antid0te.com website. antid0te will not be a new jailbreak tool, but will used with already jailbroken iPhones, and slated for a December 24th release. Below is...

The iPhone's security was easily compromised at the latest Pwn2Own Conference. One of the security experts there is now promising a new jailbreak tool called antid0te that will bring enhanced security for iOS devices. What is ASLR? Short for address space layout randomization, ASLR has been noticeably absent from all iOS devices since their inception,...

MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team just tweeted that he got an untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak working (video coming soon) that uses iOS 4.2b3 hashes that were kept on Cydia. This latest method is a 'backup plan' as @comex is hard at work on an extensible untethered jailbreak. This new method does not exploit any...

A new tweak has appeared in Cydia called Air Home Video. For $0.99, this tweak will bypass the inability of AirPlay in iOS 4.2.1 to stream videos from your camera roll to your Apple TV. Apple really needs to fix this. Don't forget AirVideoEnabler to stream other videos to your Apple TV. Air Home Video...

A while back the iPhone Dev Team released the latest unlock for the iPhone 3G/3gs. This unlock had a unique workaround--use PwnageTool/redsn0w to inject the iPad's baseband (which was unlockable) into the iPhone 3G/3GS. Then, use ultrasn0w via Cydia to do the rest. Caution: iPad Baseband Causes GPS to Fail Recent usage of this unlock has...

Pretty much since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, users have wanted to create photo albums on their iPhone. iPhoto on the Mac lets you easily do it, various Windows photo software lets you do it, so why not on iPhone? Currently, the only official way to create and manage photo albums on your...

Update 1: If you're on iOS 4.2.1, and inject the 06.15 iPad baseband, you won't be able to restore to stock firmware, or downgrade your baseband to 05.xx. Explained by the Dev Team: WARNING — YOU DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!  PLEASE UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES OF UPDATING TO 06.15. There is no way to...

Update 2: from the Dev Team: There’s an error in the bundle for the iPhone3GS 4.1 that prevents the new baseband from being used.  If you know your way around OSX, please download the fixed bundle, and unzip it if Safari hasn’t already done so.  Then “Show Package Contents” of PwnageTool.app, navigate to Contents->Resources->FirmwareBundles and...

When Apple released iOS 4.2, one of the most anticipated features was AirPlay. For those running the latest iOS, AirPlay is essentially a method of streaming digital media from your device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) to another device such as the 2010 AppleTV or AirPlay-enabled speakers. Once in action, AirPlay is really awesome, as users...

As iOS 4.2 comes closer to its full public release, many iPhone users who have jailbroken or jailbroken and unlocked their device are wondering when the jailbreak for iOS 4.2 will be available. Well, some possibly bad news has come our way that reports that the jailbreak tool for iOS 4.2 may be delayed. The...

Update 1 (23:43 PST): Looks like links for redsn0w for Mac and redsn0w for Windows has been released. MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team has announced on twitter that an update to redsn0w is coming soon. This updated version (the current version is for the iPod touch 2G/iPhone 3G only) will allow Windows users to...

Hey everyone, RoryPiper here. Usualy, when I post something on this great site, I've got a cool how to, for making a theme, a review of some new case or iPhone related product, or some other jailbreak-type news. This week it is all about shameless self-promotion. With Gary's permission, or course. ;P Some of you...