The iPhone Dev Team has written about Apple 'has stepped up their game' to prevent users from restoring to previous iOS versions via saved SHSH blobs. As of now, by using a tool like TinyUmbrella (or Cydia), users have been able to save their SHSH blobs to third party servers, allowing the ability to downgrade...
If you're a developer using iOS 5 Beta, @MuscleNerd has just tweeted the release of redsn0w 0.9.8b1 for Windows. The Mac version of redsn0w was released two days ago. This jailbreak is tethered. That means if you reboot your iOS device or run out of battery, you'll have to run redsn0w again to re-jailbreak. The...
If your iDevice (except iPad 2) is jailbroken or unlocked, it is now safe to update to iOS 4.3.3. The iPhone dev team has confirmed that iOS 4.3.3 is still vulnerable to the untethered jailbreak exploit that @i0n1c created for 4.3.1. This morning, PwnageTool and redsn0w have been updated and will jailbreak iOS 4.3.3 on...
The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 4.3.2 and ultrasn0w 1.2.2, to support iOS 4.3.2. What is PwnageTool? It will create a custom jailbroken firmware for you to restore from, without updating your baseband (for Mac users; PC users should use sn0wbreeze). Follow our PwnageTool guide here, and ultrasn0w guide here. Update #3: PwnageTool...
Update 3: iPhone 4 support has now been included: redsn0w rc14 includes the fixed i4 untether from @i0n1c. Â You can re-run redsn0w rc14 right over the tethered rc13b to transform the i4 JB into an untethered one. Update 2: iPhone 4 users--STOP! Dev Team is releasing a fix for the iPhone 4. Do not use...
Update 1: 0.9.6rc11 just released right after rc10. redsn0w_0.9.6rc11: (rc11 makes the boot animation a bit more robust across all devices) OS X redsn0w Windows redsn0w The iPhone Dev Team just released redsn0w 0.9.6rc10, an update for both Mac and Windows. This new version brings the ability for boot animations, and removes some settings. You...
Update 1: Follow our PwnageTool 4.3 tutorial and redsn0w 0.9.6 tutorials. Also, sn0wbreeze 2.5 was released for download (Windows)! As promised, the iPhone Dev Team has released jailbreak tools for iOS 4.3.1. As stated on their blog, you can now download redsn0w 0.9.6rc9 and PwnageTool 4.3. The details are below: Three years ago (almost to...
Update 1: The jailbreak is reported to be released at 12AM PDT. Stay tuned! It's been confirmed by Muscle Nerd himself on twitter--redsn0w is being released today! Stay tuned: Yesterday, i0n1c teased us with his untether exploit for download (it was an AES encrypted .zip file), and tonight he seems to be hinting at something...
The iPhone Dev Team is now currently working with i0n1c's untether exploit, as mentioned on twitter: Stefan (i0n1c) goes on to mention to not bother the iPhone Dev Team. If they are successful in their beta test, they can do whatever they want, and that includes possibly releasing a jailbreak tool for everyone. We can...
Apple released iOS 4.3 GM to developers last week and recently a few unofficial tutorials have popped up on the web detailing how to jailbreak this GM seed. Big Boss just detailed on his blog a warning to get people to avoid jailbreaking iOS 4.3 GM as it will mess up MobileSubstrate, a requirement for...
The iPhone Dev Team has just released PwnageTool 4.2, which will allow for iPhone unlockers to restore with a custom firmware to retain their existing baseband and unlock. They used the "feedface" untether from Greenpois0n, with permission from the Chronic Dev Team. So if you own an iPhone 4, and want to retain your baseband...
Some key players in the jailbreak community are feuding again. Members of The iPhone Dev Team and The Chronic Dev Team have been bickering back and forth about who has the best jailbreak and/or unlock for current iDevices. If you follow these folks on Twitter, you know what I'm talking about. In my opinion, this...
