Apple’s recent iOS 4.0.2 release had two, main purposes.

1. Close up some PDF exploites

2. Disable Jailbreakme.com from working

Of course, I am most concerned with the latter but the former also poses some problems.

The problem, apple’s release only helps out the newer devices and leaves the older models out in the sun. Fortunately, the dev team is very considerate and has released a patch that removes the exploit for all users.

The fix is installable via Cydia itself now (search for “PDF Patch”).  To test that it’s working properly, visit jailbreakme.com again.  After you slide to jailbreak, you should no longer see a dialog box pop up (you’ll just see the star background).  That means you’re no longer vulnerable!

We love you dev team!

So, do this:

DO NOT INSTALL iOS 4.0.2 -> unless, of course, you want to lose your jailbreakme

INSTALL the PDF Patch in Cydia

Rejoice!

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If the exhaustive eight step install process I posted a few weeks ago is a bit too long or complex, here is a new, easier, and faster way to accomplish the same thing: install flash on your:

iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, or iPad

step 1. A jailbroken device is necessitated so if you haven’t already, here is tutorial.

step 2. Then simple open Cydia > Manage > Sources

step 3. Edit source and add http://repo.benm.at

step 4: Download Frash and install it!!

have fun,

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Well, after an extended vacation, Comex has brought back Jailbreakme 2.0!

This miraculous jailbreak solution is so amazingly simple. Merely go to:

www.jailbreakme.com

or

www.jailbreakme.modmyi.com

on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch to start the process.

Once there the on-screen instructions will baby you through the jailbreak.

* Jailbreakme works on the following devices:

• iPod Touch 1G on iOS 3.1.2
• iPod Touch 1G on iOS 3.1.3
• iPod Touch 2G on iOS 3.1.2
• iPod Touch 2G on iOS 3.1.3
• iPod Touch 2G on iOS 4.0
• iPod Touch 3G on iOS 3.1.2
• iPod Touch 3G on iOS 3.1.3
• iPod Touch 3G on iOS 4.0
• iPad on iOS 3.2
• iPad on iOS 3.2.1
• iPhone 3G on iOS 3.1.2
• iPhone 3G on iOS 3.1.3
• iPhone 3G on iOS 4.0
• iPhone 3G on iOS 4.0.1
• iPhone 3G[S] iOS on 3.1.2
• iPhone 3G[S] iOS on 3.1.3
• iPhone 3G[S] iOS on 4.0
• iPhone 3G[S] iOS on 4.0.1
• iPhone 4 on iOS 4.0
• iPhone 4 on iOS 4.0.1

Check out more jailbreak solutions here on our official jailbreak help page.

have fun!

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In order to customize and edit the theme of your device, one needs to be able to SSH into the device.

1. You need an FTP client.

* CyberDuck for Mac (You can also use Fugu or iPhone Explorer)

• SmartFTP for Windows

2. Install OpenSSH and SBSettings to your iPhone.

• SBSettings will help you toggle SSH on/off

Tip: change your devices root and user passwords periodically

3. Now follow the appropriate instructions below:

• iPhone Explorer users – plug in your phone and launch iPhone Explorer and it should automatically populate your iPhone file system, then skip to step 5

• Most other FTP clients:

-Get on a WiFi network

-Record your iPhone’s IP address (Setting-> Wi-Fi ->blue arrow next to the network you are connected to)

-Launch your FTP client

Tip: SSH is a huge battery hog, so keep it off unless actively using it

4. Enter your iPhone’s IP address and set port to 22. Your username is root and the default password is ‘alpine’ (without the quotes). Click connect or continue. You should now have a list of all your iPhone’s files.

Tip: Keep your device plugged in during this process to ensure that your battery doesn’t die

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5. Now merely click Library —> Themes to find all the themes you have downloaded.

Tip: Go to Settings -> Autolock -> Never. Sometimes your SSH client will show an error screen when the device sleeps; this ensures that will never happen.

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iPod touch 4G

Finally, 250 days later, Apple shows us the iPod Touch with a camera. They were planning to release this version as the original 3G iPod Touch, but a size restricting manufacturing mistake left the camera housing empty.

The serial number of the Camera part indicates 2.0 megapixels, but this could easily change as newer models are developed. I certainly hope they upgrade to a slightly better camera.

Another issue is the camera’s actual function. Will it be restricted to purely video or will it have the ability to take pictures as well. Running a diagnostic mode, no internal specs are known as of yet.

I’ll keep you updated.

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The Android community is growing and the OS is improving greatly. Naturally, somebody thought it would be a great idea to run Android on their iPhone. Its still a bit unstable but if you want to test it you, here is very simple and therefore justifiably long tutorial provided by android-a-lot.

DISCLAIMER: Do this at your own risk

Downloads

Here’s a bunch of stuff that you’ll need before you start:

1. IMPORTANT! Jailbroken iPhone 2G only!!!!
2. VirtualBox Get the right version Windows/Mac
3. VirtualBox Ubuntu Image.  Download number 10, Ubuntu Linux 9.10 codename Karmic Koalax86
4. iPhone Explorer.
5. Android images and sources
6. Patched images.

Preparation

Let’s get some of the basics out of the way:

1. Open Task Manager
2. Kill the iTunes Helper process
3. Install iPhone Explorer
4. Connect your iPhone to your Mac/PC
5. Run iPhone Explorer
6. Click the Change Root button
7. Select “/” Real iPhone Root Directory
8. Browse to private/var
9. Copy ramdisk.img, userdata.img, cache.img and zImage from Downloads#5 (Android images and sources) to that var directory
10. Copy system.img and android.img.gz from Downloads#6 (patched images) to the that var directory
11. That’s all the Android files on your iPhone, now to make them run!

Setting Up Virtual Box

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Open VirtualBox
3. Go on File > Virtual Media Manager
4. Make sure Hard Disks is selected
5. Click Add
6. Locate the ubuntu-9.10.vdi file (download#3) and select it
7. Close Virtual Media Manager
8. Go on Machine > New
9. Click Next
10. Under Name enter “Ubuntu”
11. Select Linux Operating System
12. Select Ubuntu Version
13. Click Next
14. Set an amount of RAM, the default should be fine
15. Click Next
16. Select “Use existing hard disk”
17. Select the ubuntu-9.10.vdi
18. Click Next
19. Click Finish
20. Select that new machine to start up Ubuntu
21. The password to login is: reverse

Setting Up Ubuntu

Almost there – if this feels a bit long, just consider how short and simple each step is!

1. Click System (top bar) > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
2. Enter the password: reverse
3. In the quicksearch box, type libusb-1.0, click the Check Box next to libusb-1.0-0 and select Mark for installation
4. In the quicksearch box, type libreadline, click the Check Box next to libreadline5 and select Mark for installtion
5. Click Apply
6. When it’s all installed close the Package Manager
7. Open Firefox (in Ubuntu)
8. Download openiboot installer from here
9. Click Places (top bar) > Downloads
10. Right-click openiboot.zip and click Extract Here
11. Click Applications (top bar) > Accessories > Terminal
12. Without the quotes, type ‘cd Downloads/openiboot’
13. Restart your iPhone in Recovery Mode (power off, hold down Home button, connect to USB cable)

Getting Android Working!

Well done on getting this far! This is where the fun beings (credits to WinX Blog for these instructions –link)

1. In VirtualBox, the Ubuntu Window, go on Devices > USB Devices and select iPhone (Recovery Mode)
2. In the terminal type (without quotes): ’sudo su’
3. Enter the password: reverse
4. In the terminal type ./loadibec openiboot.img3
5. You’ll see the OpeniBoot screen appear on your iPhone
6. Hold down the power button a couple of seconds (iPhone)
7. The bottom option, openiboot console, will become selected
8. Press Home (iPhone).  You’ll see a bunch of text appear and stop at “Welcome to openiboot”
9. In VirtualBox, the Ubuntu Window, go on Devices > USB Devices and select iPhone (OpeniBoot Mode)
10. In terminal type su ./oibc
11. Enter the password: reverse
12. If this doesn’t work just type: ./oibc
13. You’ll see the same text from the iPhone in the Terminal
14. Type (without quotes) ‘nor_read 0×09000000 0×0 1048576? and press Enter
15. Wait for it to say Done
16. Type (without quotes) ‘~norbackup.dump:1048576?
17. This creates a backup of your NOR memory – save a copy on USB stick, or email it to yourself or something
18. Type install, press Enter.  When this is done you’ve got openiboot installed on your iPhone.  You’re done!

Finishing Off

What you’ve achieved up til now is Android files on your iPhone, and then installing openiboot so that you have an option to start iPhone OS or Android when you turn on your phone.  Openiboot was necessary because that’s the only way right now that you can boot into Android.  Here’s how to finish off and get into Android:

1. If you still have Terminal open with the oibc still running, just type ‘reboot’, press Enter and skip to step 3
2. If you don’t have Terminal open, disconnect your phone, turn it off and back on
3. When openiboot appears press Power button to switch to openiboot console (bottom option)
4. Hold down the Home button
5. Android will start to boot, but it might take a while

Thanks to:
planetbeing – the man who did all the hard work!
WinXBlog – guide for getting openiboot running
Geekoid – for the system images
and a huge thanks to Superhero

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Well, they did it.
The Untethered jailbreak for the iPhone, iPod touch, and yes, the iPad is here!
This new jailbreak works on the latest firmwares.
The creator of Spirit, @comex, give us some advice about their his JB:

Spirit is an untethered jailbreak for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch on the latest firmwares.

Spirit is not a carrier unlock.

If you currently are using a tethered jailbreak, you have to restore to use Spirit. Do not upgrade if you use an unlock on an iPhone 3G or 3GS. (You can, however, restore to 3.1.2 if you have SHSH blobs for that version.)

. . . and the requirements for the JB:

Any iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch on firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3, or 3.2.

An activated device: one not stuck on the Connect to iTunes or Emergency Call screen.

Any version of iTunes 9 (including 9.1.1).

Syncing with iTunes before trying this is highly recommended.

Note: On iPad, all this is still sort of beta. Some packages in Cydia, not designed for iPad, might screw up your system and require you to restore. Be careful. (And no, Cydia’s appearance is not final.)

As noted above, this is all still in beta mode and so take heed of the above warning and be careful when installing iPhone Cydia packages on the iPad.

Here is the official site with the available Mac and Windows downloads!

IMPORTANT – Dev Team:
Unless you’ve backed up your SHSH blobs for vulnerable firmware versions, you’ll lose the ability to use the current Spirit jailbreak if you accidentally upgrade.

Please take the steps now to backup your SHSH blobs.  Use either Firmware Umbrella to create a local copy, or go through saurik’s server.  If you are getting an iPad 3G, it’s safest to backup your blobs using Firmware Umbrella, in case saurik’s server gets bogged down with requests.

• Spirit works on all devices.  (However, the redsn0w and PwnageTool flows will continue to work on those devices they’ve always worked on)
• Spirit does not include a carrier unlock.  (Please don’t bug @comex about that)
• Spirit requires your device to be activated or hacktivated

Thanks to all the developers esp. @Comex

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The iPhone Dev Team has released a statement warning all jailbreakers to beware of online “5.12″ or “5.11″ jailbreaks that are fraudulent and will steal your money. These sites do not have any sort of unlock or jailbreak for the new devices and are only trying to steal money from you: stay away!!

On the better side of things, sherif hashim has found a seemingly promising crash in the new baseband and is working hard on exploiting it for the upcoming jailbreak. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell if this crash will be good enough; the dev team promises nothing but hard work and is unable to give an ETA yet.

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Apple’s recent firmware update, 3.1.3, is unnecessary unless you have been experiencing issues with your battery percentage. But because some people will want to update anyway while and keep their iPhone/iPod Touch  jailbroken, the dev-team announces PwnageTool 3.1.5.

The Dev-team gives the details:

iPhone 3G and 3GS unlockers should always be very wary to update their firmware.  This is no exception.  If you make a mistake along the way you may find yourself updating to official 3.1.3 in which case you will lose your unlock, possibly forever.

iPhone 3GS users (regardless of unlock) should stay away from this and all 3.1.3 jailbreak tools unless you know you have your “SHSH hashes” backed up via Cydia.  That’s because if you make a mistake you may find yourself stuck at official 3.1.3 with no way to jailbreak or come back down to 3.1.2 to jailbreak.

If you really truly feel that you need to update, this version creates a custom 3.1.3 IPSW for you to restore to on your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS with early bootrom, iPod touch 1G, and iPod touch 2G with early bootrom.  If you don’t know if you have an early bootrom or not, please avoid updating until you learn more.

Here is the torrent link and here are further instructions. . .

Have fun but be careful.

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