Check out the most comprehensive jailbreaking coverage on the internet, including the latest news, apps, tweaks, and detailed tutorials about everything jailbreak.
Folks who have been wanting to get into developing jailbreak apps and tweaks will be happy to know that the process is about to get a whole lot easier.
ModMyi is reporting that users will soon be able to develop jailbreak packages using Apple's easy-to-understand Xcode interface...
There are some jailbreak utilities that are considered to be more or less essential. In fact, Sebastien wrote a post this morning detailing his top 10 must-have tweaks. Then there are others that don't really serve much of a purpose.
IconBounce definitely falls in the latter category. It's a simple utility that makes the dock icons on your iOS 4 or iOS 5 device do summersaults, flips, and other tricks without the need to mess with a bunch of settings...
If you're looking for a jailbreak tweak that embeds your contact photos into your native Messages app, there's a couple of options. There's Copic, which adds photos to multiple applications, as well as other apps like ChatPic.
Today we'll add another one to the pile with xMessages. The utility, which recently appeared in Cydia, takes the images from your contact list and applies them to your messaging threads in the default Messages app...
I consider myself a strong advocate of the jailbreak cause. Ever since ziPhone – the first jailbreak ever released – came out, all my iDevices have been jailbroken and even unlocked when possible.
I love jailbreaking for two reasons. First, I jailbreak because I can. If there is a way to do things not the way they were intended to be, then count me in. Second, and more importantly, I jailbreak because it gives me access to a plethora of features that Apple hasn't implemented yet, or will never implement for some reasons.
For the past three months, I've used a stock iPhone 4S. Obviously that was not my choice. There just wasn't a jailbreak until Absinthe came out last week. But things are back to normal now.
Every time I jailbreak a new device for the first time, I try to reconsider what I really use, and what I really need. I also try to take into account a few things, like stability. If certain apps gave me headaches in the past, I'll just make sure not to install them again (goodbye WinterBoard). It's the perfect occasion to start on a clean slate.
This being said, I'd like to share with you all the jailbreak tweaks that are currently installed on my iPhone 4S...
The latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 5, brought a number of new features and improvements. One of the most welcomed changes was the revamped notifications system with unobtrusive banner alerts.
But as usual, the jailbreaking community takes this feature a step farther. A new tweak has just surfaced in Cydia called Vexillum that allows you to customize both the background and font colors of your notification banners...
A few days ago we told you that the US Copyright Office was due to renew the exemption given to jailbreaking. Should they decide not to renew the exemption, jailbreaking could become this gray legal area again, with no actual text making it legal or illegal.
Although very unlikely, that means jailbreakers could potentially be at risk of being sued by Apple for jailbreaking their device. Again, Apple never sued a jailbreaker and likely never will, but sometimes, it's just a matter of principle. We want jailbreaking to be officially legal...
Over the past week or so, there has been a lot talk regarding a recently-released iPhone 4S jailbreak tweak that supposedly fixes the handset's battery problem. We've neglected to mention the utility here on iDB for a couple reasons.
One, the tweak has only been available on the insanelyi repo — a Cydia repository known for hosting pirated applications. And two, it simply sounded too good to be true...
Back when the iPad launched in 2010, many people complained that it didn't have any of the native apps found on the iPhone and iPod touch. However, a new jailbreak tweak by Ryan Petrich called Belfry is about to change that.
Belfry is a simple tweak that will install 6 stock apps on your iPad: Clock, Calculator, Compass, Voice Memos, Stocks, and Weather...
Back on July 26th of 2010, the US government made the act of jailbreaking electronic devices legal by federal law. This cleared up a lot of the confusion surrounding jailbreaking, and opened the door for folks worried about its legality.
Over the last two years we've been enjoying this freedom, most recently hacking our iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices. But according to the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), we could lose that freedom this year if we don't act...
On Friday, the first ever iPhone 4S-compatible jailbreaking utility, Absinthe, was released to the public. And although it bears the Chronic Dev Team's moniker, a lot of folks contributed to the app's development including pod2g, Saurik, MuscleNerd, and others.
Recent Cydia data shows that more than 1 million people jailbroke their A5 devices over the weekend, thanks to the work of the above-mentioned hackers. Can you imagine if they would have charged $1 to download and use their software? They'd all be rich!
Now that the Linux version of Absinthe has been released, all major platforms have access to the jailbreak tools needed to jailbreak their iPhone 4S and iPad 2.
We've already covered how to jailbreak on OS X and Windows in depth, but we didn't want to leave our Linux readers out in the cold.
Since there is no iTunes for Linux, things can be slightly more tricky, but it's still extremely easy to apply the Absinthe untethered jailbreak on Linux.
Version 0.3 of the Absinthe iPhone 4S and iPad 2 untethered jailbreak utility was released a moment ago by the Chronic Dev Team, and with it comes support for Linux.
If you're already jailbroken with v0.2, there is no need to attempt to reapply the jailbreak with the latest version, because there's nothing really new besides a few cosmetic changes and a fix for a rare bug that most won't encounter.