With the release of a new iOS, comes the question, "When will the new jailbreak be available?". The iPhone Dev Team have always been on top of things in the past, but with each release of iOS, it has become tougher and tougher to get that elusive untethered jailbreak. The betas of iOS 6 have been jailbroken,...
Musclenerd, of The iPhone Dev Team, announced on Twitter that they have released an update to the popular jailbreak software, Redsn0w. This version improves downgrading your baseband from the iPad baseband, 06.15.00, and adds a new DFU IPSW feature. Here's the notes from The iPhone Dev Team's blog: Happy 4th of July! Today’s release of...
You know who MuscleNerd is, right? He's one of the high profile members of the iPhone Dev Team, well known around the globe. Normally he has stayed out of the limelight but now you can see him in action from a recent presentation he gave at the Hack in the Box (HITB) conference in Amsterdam...
The iPhone Dev-Team has released an update regarding jailbreaking and saving your SHSH blobs, just prior to the new 3rd gen iPad announcement. With the release of iOS 5.1 over the air, Apple stop will stop signing 5.0.1 SHSH blobs. Soon after 5.1 appears on Apple’s public servers (i.e. iTunes starts to offer it), Apple will...
The iPhone Dev Team has released some official A5 jailbreak numbers in detail, as noted in a recent post titled 'Welcome new A5 Jailbreakers!'. Earlier, we noted the numbers mentioned by Chronic Dev Team member @p0sixninja, and these numbers are similar but in more detail: Here’s a quick breakdown of how many A5 owners have...
The iPhone Dev Team, as part of their initial blog post that detailed today's Absinthe A5 jailbreak tool, has released their command-line interface (CLI) to jailbreak the iPhone 4S and iPad 2: iPhone Dev have also incorporated the exact same flow into an alternative command-line interface (CLI). This will allow us to help users through...
Update 2: The iPhone Dev team has released an update to redsn0w, version 0.9.10b3: Update #3: The b3 version of redsn0w fixes a problem where re-running redsn0w over an existing jailbreak would cause MobileSubstrate-based apps to stop running until MS was installed again. Now you can re-run the redsn0w jailbreak step without worrying about that (but...
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...
On Sunday the iPhone Dev Team reported progress on the iPhone 4S baseband unlock as 'very promising', and tonight @musclenerd has tweeted the iPhone 4S baseband bootrom has been dumped. This is a significant step in producing an unlock for the iPhone 4S, and will most likely come as an update to the unlocking tool...
MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team has announced the release of redsn0w 0.9.9b2 for Mac/PC, to jailbreak iOS 5 GM, which was seeded to developers today. Update #10: Version 0.9.9b2 has been released with fixes and enhancements related to: Verizon iPhone4 firmware detection, Fix Recovery, Stitching, and blob processing. If you encountered a problem with...
The iPhone Dev Team reacts to the resignation of Steve Jobs, in a blog post titled, "The Coolest Cat": We loved the chase! Good luck, Steve. Signed, Jailbreakers and tinkerers everywhere. I don't think there's a better picture than that.
Still thinking about using trying JailbreakMe.com to jailbreak your device on iOS 4.3.3? The iPhone Dev Team has posted some FAQs to help clarify: Q: Which devices and firmware versions are supported? A: In this initial release, the following configurations are supported: iPad1: 4.3 through 4.3.3 iPad2: 4.3.3 iPhone3GS: 4.3 through 4.3.3 iPhone4: 4.3 through...
