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The Dev Team has announced that redsn0w now incorporates the limera1n exploits plus some additional sweets:
- custom bootrom logos
- a custom DFU button in pwnageTool
But!
For Windows users who have run redsn0w and chosen “Just enter pwned DFU mode right now”, your device is now completely vulnerable. Running iTunes and selecting a custom IPSW from PwnageTool (choose it by pressing Shift+Restore)….you’ve now convinced your device and iTunes to restore to a custom firmware. Congratulations! If you are timid about software and running these programs…please just wait! Don’t jeopardize your carrier unlock for a firmware upgrade. Wait for even easier methods than this latest redsn0w release.
iOS 4.2 is nearing:
What does this mean to you?
- Unlockers, stay where you are; any mistake could lead to permanent bricking.
- IF you only want the jailbreak and are sure you have your personalized 4.1 SHSH hashes, you can experiment but, as the dev team says,
“Honestly unless you love living on the bleeding edge, it’s better to just wait for official updates from Cydia/redsn0w/PwnageTool.
RedSn0w Mac
RedSn0w Windows
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- Jailbreak your iPod Touch – using pwnagetool (only necessary for the last option)
- An App that uses VoiP to make phone calls:
a. Skype – especially helpful for international calls but only helpful if you’re willing to pay a little money monthly
b. Fring – considered the most versatile; works with GTalk, SIP, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Twitter, Facebook. Has video chat over 3G!
c. Line2 – best option; Unlimited calling/texting in US and Canada; Make your own phone number; comes with a caveat: is only free for 30 days and costs $10/month after that.
d. google Voice – My personal favorite at no cost except for international calls.
3. Getting Constant Wifi
Using the iPod at home usually poses little problem (that is, if you have wifi). The problem is, of course, going out of the house. One solution is the Verizon MiFi, Sprint Overdrive. This will only save you money if you were to chose AT&T’s unlimited plan (which is now actually changing).
Here is a cool graph describing how the financials will work out.
The battery Issue: the iPod will of course be fine all day, but the Mifi will not. The solution to this is the car charger for the hotspot Mifi.
4. If you jailbroke your iPod Touch, you can use Siphone SIP/VoiP, installed via Cydia. This is the best and most customizable route.
Ultimate pros/cons:
Pros
- You save a ton of money over paying for an iPhone (or any newer smartphone, really), whether you get a 3G data plan or not.
- Dropped calls are about as frequent as they are on an iPhone.
- Headset features work exactly the same as they do on the iPhone, so the experience feels very similar.
- The high-end iPod touch offers twice the storage as the high-end iPhone (64GB vs. 32GB).
- The iPod touch, bereft of a 3G radio, gets better battery life.
- If you get a cellular data hotspot (like the Verizon MiFi), you can keep your iPod touch in your pocket while placing the MiFi elsewhere for a better signal.
- A lack of cellular reception in your home is completely irrelevant since you can place your calls over Wi-Fi.
Cons
- Despite being pretty close, phone features are not quite as seamless on the iPod touch as they are on the iPhone.
- Dropped calls are not as obvious as they are on an iPhone, so it’s not very easy to tell when you’ve lost someone without looking at the screen (bad for the car).
- The iPod touch isn’t built with the intention you’ll use it as a phone, so you need to purchase a headset for it to really shine.
- The iPod touch doesn’t provide a GPS, so you will need to purchase an external GPS unit at an addition cost if you want to use it as a navigation device in your car (although you could try relying on Wi-Fi signal triangulation).
- The iPod touch’s camera isn’t nearly as good as the iPhone 4′s.
- If you want to make calls using a cellular data hotspot (like the Verizon MiFi), you have to carry around two devices.
- If you use a cellular data hotspot, its battery life is pretty poor (only up to four hours). While you can get an extended battery for your hotspot that’ll last the day, it’ll cost you around $100.
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The Dev Team just released PwnageTool 4.1.2 for Mac OS X!
But…
ULTRASN0W UNLOCKERS BEWARE!! ULTRASN0W UNLOCKERS BEWARE!! The biggest mistake you can make (and it is a big one!) is lettings iTunes restore to the official IPSW — you’ll lose the unlock and won’t be able to go back! You must use Option-Restore, not just the Restore button by itself. Then navigate to your custom IPSW — not to the stock one! If you accidentally started a restore to the official IPSW, unplug your iPhone immediately before the restore gets to the “Updating Firmware” step!
This exploit works untethered on these devices at firmware 4.1:
- AppleTV 2G
- iPad (firmware 3.2.2)
- iPod touch 4G
- iPod touch 3G
- iPhone4
- iPhone 3GS
- iPhone 3G
So, what does PwnageTool do:
IT allows you to restore a custom made IPSW file. Ex) you can restore to a pre-jailbroken firmware while still keeping your current baseband. For iPhone 3G users, one can also get their own boot and recovery logos as well as multitasking and battery charge percentage.
PwnageTool’s main advantage to ramdisk-based methods (limera1n, greenpois0n, redsn0w) is for unlockers — those that need to keep their current baseband and preserve their ultrasn0w unlock. But in this new age of both bootrom- and userland-based exploits, it’s an excellent platform for continuing the jailbreak through all future firmwares.
Here is the official Torrent:
PwnageTool 4.1.2 Torrent - PwnageTool_4.1.2.dmg.5904259.TPB.torrent
SHA1 Sum = 1c0d5ea45464e336fcb38c644dc125c3a16b5493
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Well, geohot has done it again, and with class. . . it was a surprise.
Almost randomly and certainly with great surprise, geohot has released limera1n, the newest jailbreak tool. This is a bootrom-level jailbreak that works on a great amount of devices:
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPod Touch 3G
iPod 4G
iPad
AppleTV 2G
DO NOT USE LIMERA1N IF YOU USE THE ULTRASN0W CARRIER UNLOCK — wait for PwnageTool to incorporate the limera1n exploit. This is so that you can avoid updating your baseband and losing the unlock (possibly forever).
TO DO BEFORE YOU JAILBREAK:
Backup your SHSH hashes for 4.1.
- This can be accomplished by either using Cyida – which is probably the easiest
- Or using Tiny Umbrella – which allows you to always come back to an untethered, jailbreakable 4.1 on your device.
and finally, here is the limrain!
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“SHAtter” developed by @pod2G, is well on its way toward finding a jailbreak for the iPod Touch 4th Generation.
This early in the game, I’m quite pleased they have already found some holes in Apple’s code.
The dev team comments that this jailbreak solution is far faster than the one set up by pwnagetool (which is reserved more toward iPhone 4 users)
Here is a video of SHAtter!
I will update you as soon as this becomes a user friendly reality.
Apple TV and SHAtter:
It’s looking like SHAtter is going to be the gift that keeps on giving. Even though the new AppleTV isn’t yet in people’s homes, the firmware is available on Apple’s normal public distribution servers and SHAtter has been used to decrypt its keys! The main filesystem (“Mojave8M89.K66OS”) key for 018-8609-066.dmg is:
31c700a852f1877c88efc05bc5c63e8c7f081c4cb28d024ed7f9b0dbc98c7e1406e499c6
If you’re familiar with vfdecrypt, you can use that key to decrypt the image and mount it.
pretty cool thing this SHAtter.
If you want to follow their twitter updates directly click here!
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Good News!
The dev team has released a new, beta version of RedSn0w for the:
iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G at:
Firmware 4.1 and 4.0.
Considering the specificity of these hacks, I give big time props to the dev team.
Their hack uses similar exploits and reveals nothing new to Apple.
A urgent message:
IF YOU USE THE ULTRASN0W UNLOCK, PLEASE WAIT FOR PWNAGETOOL TO SUPPORT 4.1. DO NOT USE REDSN0W.
To use 4.1, you NEED to already have updated to 4.1 officially (through Apple); if you do that, you can potentially lose the ultraSn0w unlock forever.
Currently, THIS IS ONLY FOR MAC OS X, windows coming soon!
Caveats:
iPod Touch 2G “MC” versions will, unfortunately be tethered.
===== How do I use it? ====
If you’ve already updated your device to 4.1 or 4.0, the next steps are:
- Launch the beta redsn0w 0.9.6b1
- Select your stock 4.1 or 4.0 ipsw (you’ve already used this to update your device to 4.1 or 4.0)
- Select “Install Cydia” and any of the other options shown above, then click “Next”. Use DFU mode to install the jailbreak.
Note: If you choose to “Enable battery percentage”, you actually toggle that off and on via Settings->General->Usage.
===== Download links =====
Mac OSX x86
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So, as the dev team comments, all those new iPhone users are quite unsure if accepting the new iOS updates will erase their jailbreak and/or unlock.
Jailbreakers are safe: Those of you who have TinyUmbrella or Cydia can make backups of your FW hashes and will be able to save your ability to re-jailbreak your device.
BUT…
Unlockers will not retain this ability. And as the Dev team says:
There’s currently no known way to revert your baseband — if you update your baseband you’ll lose the ultrasn0w unlock, possible forever.
So, please stay away from the 4.1 release until a safe jailbreak procedure (aka. one that also preserves ultrasn0w) is found.
* As for those of you who enjoy the miracle of Jailbreakme.com v.20. . . I am sorry to announce that any new devices from Apple, that have been pre-loaded with any firmware above:
4.0.2/3.2.2.
will not be enjoying its miracles. Apple has closed the hole that allowed JBM to arise from the dead. . . again. Luckily:
Those of you who had Cydia capture your SHSH blobs, or those of you who captured them locally, will always be able to benefit from the jailbreakme.com v2.0 release. Congratulations!
Of course, there will be those that seek to for a jailbreak for devices that come installed with 4.0.2/3.2.2 devices?
The answer is, justifiably, no.
Dev’s reasoning:
FW 4.0.2/3.2.2 was *only* released to fix the jailbreakme hole. With FW 4.1 still in its beta stages, it makes no sense to escalate the “cat & mouse” with Apple for FW updates that only fix the jailbreak holes. To quote WOPR, “the only winning move is not to play”If the cat & mouse game escalates too quickly, especially during beta FW periods, nobody but Apple benefits. For this reason, there won’t be a 4.0.2/3.2.2 jailbreak specifically during the period where 4.0.2/3.2.2 is the latest public release. At best, some future 4.1x FW jailbreak *may* be compatible with 4.0.2/3.2.2 (but don’t count on that).
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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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