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We hadn't heard from GeoHot in a while. The little genius hacker might come back to the front of the stage with a new exploit called pwned4life. At Nuit du Hack, a hacking convention held in Paris, GeoHot indeed mentioned that he had found a new exploit that can pwn all iPhones for life, including the yet-to-be-released iPhone 4.
I'm not sure yet what pwnedforlife will do exactly but that sure sounds like some good news. Check out this video for more details.
[via Redmond Pie]
With iOS 4 coming up, jailbreakers might wonder what Cydia apps will or will not be compatible with their iPhone. iDB reader Ed left a comment in my article about how to make sure your iPhone is ready for iOS 4 in which he linked to a spreadsheet of apps that are compatible with iOS 4.
Check out the list and contribute to it if you can. The more the merrier.
iOS 4 is supposed to ship out sometimes today. This new iPhone OS will bring many new features to the iPhone, including multitasking, folders, and more.
Although the Dev Team has confirmed that a jailbreak and an unlock will be released for iOS 4, it is safe to hold off on the update for a few days if you really rely on your jailbreak/unlock.
iOS 4 will be compatible with the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 3G. Not all features will be compatible with all devices. For example, multitasking is available only with iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS.
The Dev Team just updated RedSn0w to version 0.9.5b5-2 which adds option for battery percentage and verbose boot mode. It also lets you individually select whether multitasking and homescreen wallpaper are enabled.
RedSn0w 0.9.5b5-2 is probably as close as we'll get to the official release of this jailbreak tool.
The RedSn0w beta is still only for 4.0GM on iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G (non-MC version). You should not use the beta if you use yellowsn0w/ultrasn0w/blacksn0w!
[via iPhwn Wikee]
The Dev Team just released RedSn0w 0.9.5 for iOS 4GM for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G (non-MC version). This RedSn0w jailbreak now brings support for Windows.
According to the Dev Team:
Just like our other betas, this one intentionally doesn't “hactivate” the iPhone. Please wait for Apple's public release of 4.0 for that part of it.
YOU SHOULD STAY CLEAR OF THIS BETA SOFTWARE IF YOU RELY ON A CARRIER UNLOCK. That's because the beta redsn0w works only if your device has already been upgraded to the stock 4.0beta1/beta4/GM IPSW from Apple, which contains a baseband update. If you installed that IPSW, you've already lost the carrier unlock until the next planned release of ultrasn0w and blacksn0w.
More information can be found here.
When you buy an iPhone, you could expect being able to do whatever you want with it. You may want to jailbreak it to install applications that are not allowed in the App Store. You may also want to unlock it so it is not restricted to only one carrier.
Well, legally you can't do all this because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is a law intended to protect digital locks. This law was intended to protect copyrighted music, DVDs, and DRM entertainment products.
When congress passed this law, they were not thinking that it would also legally allow hardware manufacturers like Apple to have a total control over what you can and cannot do with your iPhone. The DMCA clearly wasn't created to prevent you from jailbreaking your iPhone, but it "accidentally" did when Apple started to flag jailbreaking as a violation of this law.
A little over a year ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit digital rights advocacy organization, asked regulators to add jailbreaking to a list of explicit exemptions to the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions. The US Copyright Office is now supposed to rule any day on whether jailbreaking should be exempted from the DMCA or not.
This is big news because if the exemption was to be approved, Apple would probably lose the huge grip it has on the App Store and what's allowed or not in the Store.
Apple has always argued that it wanted a clean, safe, porn-free App Store. Bottom line is they want to control every aspect of the Store and that is just not right. It should be the users' decision, not Apple's. Only me can decide what's best for me. Only me can decide if I want to take the risk of installing malicious software on my iPhone.
Apple has never sued jailbreakers or even the Dev Team because they know it would be at the very edge of legality. If the US Copyright Office decides to exempt jailbreaking from the DMCA, it will be a big victory for iPhone (and other smartphones) users and digital rights in general.
Let's cross our fingers! In the meantime, you can watch this video to learn more about the DMCA exemption for jailbreaking iPhones.
What do you think about that? Do you think jailbreaking should be made legal?
Apple just released iTunes 9.2, which comes with a few new features necessary before next week's release of iOS 4 to ensure compatibility between this firmware and the devices.
iTunes 9.2 features and improvements include:
Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1 Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 Organize your apps on your iOS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 Album artwork improvements make artwork appear more quickly when exploring your libraryJailbreakers and people who plan to jailbreak their iPhones or iPads should stay away from iTunes 9.2 for the time being.
According to the Dev Team, Don't install today's iTunes 9.2 if you plan on using Spirit for fresh JB (but it's fine for PwnageTool & redsn0w users).
If your iPad has already been jailbroken with Spirit, then everything will work fine. If however you plan on jailbreaking your iPad with Spirit, it will be caught in a boot loop.
Some good news just came from a tweet from Dev Team member MuscleNerd who confirmed that a jailbreak and unlock for the new iPhone, whatever its name, will be available this month.
This jailbreak/unlock will be for iPhone OS 3.1.3 and 4.0 and will be compatible with all basebands to date for iPhone 3G/3GS as well as the new iPhone.
I'm trying not to get too excited because history showed us that sometimes things don't go as expected and the release of a jailbreak and/or unlock could very well be delayed.
Still, I'll cross my fingers.
Wouldn't it be great if we could get the new iPhone and not wait too long for a jailbreak? That'd sure be another reason to update. What says you?
Yesterday I was telling you about RedSn0w 0.9.5b4, a tool to jailbreak the iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 4 beta 4. Today, Dutch developer Kaatje managed to jailbreak an iPhone 3GS with OS 4 beta 4.
She notes on her blog:
Cydia still has some issues, many applications install but crash, some examples include mobileterminal, sbsettings, five icon dock. I did this only to hopefully motivate the developers to get their applications ready for 4.0 as it is coming very soon and the last thing we need in the community is to have repos full of broken apps! I accomplished this by patching asr, lockdownd, LLB, iBEC, IBSS, iBoot, kernelcache, MobileSafari, Services.plist, and fstab. The binaries were patched with IDA Pro and OxED and were then diffed against the original pwned files with bsdiff to create patch files. I then took the diff files and built a firmware bundle that I dropped into Pwnagetool and updated the cydia tree within Pwnagetool as well. Once this was done, I created a custom ipsw with Pwnagetool, unzipped it, applied a pwned LLB from a pwnagetool generated 3.1.3 ipsw, zipped it back up and restored to my device. At this time I am unable to get my T-Mobile NL sim to work so I downgraded back to 3.1.3 after playing around with 4.0 for a while. I look forward to the release and the official unlock from the Dev-Team.
That's interesting to see she was able to downgrade back to 3.1.3. Other interesting point is the mention of the "official unlock from the Dev-Team". If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd think that the Dev Team already found an exploit to unlock iPhone OS 4 but they're waiting for the official release to make it available to the general public.
What do you think?
RedSn0w has been updated to version 0.9.5b4 by the Dev Team for the recent iPhone OS 4 beta 4. This beta release of RedSn0w is not for casual iPhone users. It is aimed at developers of jailbreak apps so they can update their applications to work on OS 4.
RedSn0w 0.9.5b4 jailbreak for iPhone OS 4 beta 4 uses the same pwnage2 DFU-mode exploit that has been using since OS 2.X, so nothing has been revealed to Apple.
Because this version is for iPhone OS 4 beta 1-4 which contain a baseband update, anyone who's remotely interested in unlocking should stay away from the OS 4 betas or even this version of RedSn0w.
Further information and instructions can be found here.
The now famous Spirit jailbreak developed by Comex was already available on Windows and Mac. Now, thanks to iPhone hacker p0sixninja, Spirit is now available for Linux as well.
According to RedmondPie: "The binaries and source code needed to get to work are now available. You will need some experience with Linux commands to make it work. Spirit for Linux can be downloaded from here."
I'm sure this will be helpful to the Windows haters and Linux aficionados.
Although Spirit is probably the easiest and fastest jailbreak ever, it does come with its share of problems. After jailbreaking their iDevice with Spirit, many people reported the loss of their pictures. This issue was fixed by Comex when he released an update to Spirit, but what happens to those of you who lost their pictures before the update?
I spotted an article that explains how to recover those missing pictures after jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad with Spirit. The process is pretty simple and it shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes.
For this to work, you will have had to backup your iPhone or iPad before jailbreaking. If you did not backup your device before jailbreaking with Spirit, then this will not work for you.
How to recover deleted photos from your iPhone or iPad after jailbreaking with SpiritStep 1: If you haven't already, install OpenSSH from Cydia.
Step2: Download iPhone Backup Extractor (for Windows 32 bit or 64 bit - for Mac OS X).
Step 3: Launch iPhone Backup Extractor. It will automatically find backups available on your machine. Select the right one.
Step 4: Navigate to Media/Media/DCIM and select this folder. Click next to save it on your computer.
Step 5: Using CyberDuck for Mac of WinSCP for Windows, SSH into your device.
To find your IP address, on your device, go to Settings > Wifi > Tap on the blue arrow of the network you're on. Username is root. Password is alpineStep 6: Navigate to User/Media and replace the existing DCIM folder by the one you downloaded to your computer in step 4.
Step 7: Reboot your device.
Done! All your lost pictures after using Spirit should be recovered.