Month: August 2009

Weekly iPhone Wrapup: Apple’s Shenanigans, SMS Hack, 3.0.1, Jailbreak, and More…

In case you missed some of this week's articles, here is a wrapup of everything we blogged about.

OS 3.0.1

What's cooking? 3.1 or 3.0.1?

I bet that it’s going to be version 3.0.1 as I think it’s still a little early for Apple to release version 3.1. But hey, I might be totally way off.

iPhone OS 3.0.1 is out

As I predicted this morning, Apple didn’t realease a 3.1 but a 3.0.1 update to the iPhone OS. The firmware update is supposed to fix the SMS vulnerability that we talked about earlier this week.

Dev Team explains the 3.0.1 jailbreak

The Dev Team posted an official update on their blog about the 3.0.1 jailbreak and unlock. I guess the aim of this post is to clarify a little bit on what to do and how it works.

Jailbreak and unlock iPhone OS 3.0.1

The Dev Team reported that it is safe to update your iPhone to OS 3.0.1. After updating your iPhone to the latest 3.0.1 firmware, you can run the latest version of RedSn0w and point it to firmware 3.0.

Apple's Shenanigans

Enough with Apple dictatorship

A rant about how Apple is handling the App Store approval process. What really annoys me is that people don’t seem to care much and just deal with it. If it was Microsoft doing the same thing, people would be ranting all over the web. But it’s Apple, the great innovative, customer oriented company so that makes it ok… To me it doesn’t!

Apple thinks you're a drug dealer or a criminal...

Apple has argued in a filing with the US Copyright Office that iPhone owners who jailbreak their iPhones and change the ECID can very well be drug dealers.

Random News

Cydia is kicking the App Store in the nuts

It seems that the Cydia Store is doing well as Jay Freeman aka Saurik, the creator of Cydia, reports that “the Cydia Store has had about 53,000 purchases for a grand total of about $210,000 spent“.

Apple unveils the new iPhone 3GI

A little over a month after the launch of the iPhone 3GS, Apple unveiled a newer model called the iPhone 3GI. The “I” stands for Invisible, as it is only visible to Apple’s most loyal customers.

Get AT&T Navigator (the GPS app) for free for a month

You can call AT&T at 611 and talk to a representative. Tell them you would like to try AT&T Navigator and ask them if they would mind giving you a free trial.

How to hack any iPhone in the world via SMS

If you receive a strange looking SMS on your iPhone this Thursday, you’d better turn it off right away as it might enable hackers to infect your iPhone and take control of it

Dev Team Explains the 3.0.1 Jailbreak & Unlock

The Dev Team posted an official update on their blog about the 3.0.1 jailbreak and unlock. I guess the aim of this post is to clarify a little bit on what to do and how it works.

The 3.0.1 release is a “branch” from 3.0 that occurs (code-wise) before all the 3.1 betas.  The programs redsn0w needs to change for the jailbreak are identical when you compare the 3.0 and 3.0.1 versions.  It seems pretty much the only changes Apple made were for the SMS bug, which affects programs that redsn0w doesn’t touch.  That’s why you can re-use redsn0w 0.8 on 3.0.1 even though it was written for 3.0.

As I explained yesterday, you can still jailbreak your iPhone running 3.0.1 running RedSn0w and pointing it to firmware 3.0. Then, should you want to unlock, simply install UltraSn0w from Cydia if your are on an iphone 3G or 3GS. If you're on a 2G, just use RedSn0w to jailbreak and unlock.

The Dev Team says that they will update RedSn0w at some point so it recognizes firmware 3.0.1 but it will just be "aesthetic" changes, so there is no reason to wait for it.

For more detailed information about jailbreaking and unlocking, I recommend you check out the jailbreak page and the unlock page of this site. It is updated with the latest info.