Articles Archive for October 2009
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Steven Troughton-Smith infamous creator of Stack turned the Ocean Observations Expose for iPhone in to reality. Exposé is a feature of the Apple Mac OS X operating system. Expose allows a user to quickly locate an open window, or to hide all windows and show the desktop without the need to click through many windows to find a specific target. Last week Swedish design firm Ocean Observations has created a concept video to show how expose might function on the iPhone. And today Steven showcased a working model of Expose …
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Blackra1n by GoeHotz is a 2 minute jailbreak utility but it doesn’t adds the afc2 support to your jailbreaked iPhone. iPhone browser, iFunbox, Diskaid etc uses the afc2 service to access the file system and allow the transfer of files such as Winterboard themes, NES ROMs or eBooks to the iPhone. In short you can’t access root partition of your drive with desktop clients. GeoHotz also tweeted that he disabled it because of issues whilst making the JB but said look arround cydia for a fix.
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iPhone 3G S »
Yesterday chrismorty asked me regarding his just bought iPhone 3GS jailbreak problem. chrismorty told me that he purchased a new iPhone 3GS and he tried both blackra1n and pwnage 3.1.4, after the jailbreak process when he reboots the phone it enters in to black coma mode. After reboot, it just turned black and didn’t reboot, what you can do is only restore. Mathieulh confirmed that the very recent iPhone 3GS haz an iBoot update. Apple updated iBoot –359.3 to iBoot –359.3.2 and the latest iBoot isn’t vulnerable to the 24kpwn …
iPhone 3G S »
These are instructions on how to software unlock the iPhone 3GS with OS 3.0 for use with any GSM cell phone carrier. Before you can follow these instructions you must have a jailbroken iPhone with 04.26.08 baseband. If you have a 05.11.07 baseband then this guide is not for you. There is no soft unlock available in the wild for unlocking the 05.11.07 baseband, Dev team (Musclenerd) promised they started working for unlocking the baseband. Here are the official words “ We’ll continue to work on a carrier unlock for …
iPhone »
Dev team released Pwnage tool 3.1.4 for jailbreaking iPhone 2G 3G and 3GS with the 3.1.2 firmware. iPhone 3G and 3GS users are advised to use Pwnage tool for retaining their current baseband. Most of iPhone user doesn’t owns a Mac and waiting for a windows solution. Here is the guide to Jailbreak and Unlock your iPhone 3GS with firmware 3.1 All you have to do is download a custom firmware, this custom firmware is created with Dev team Pwnage Tool that strips out the baseband update from the upgrade.
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iPhone 3G S »
Finally Dev Team released Pwnage tool for iPhone 3GS Firmware 3.1.2, if you upgrade your iPhone 3GS 3.0, 3.1 to 3.1.2 stock firmware your baseband also upgrades from Modem FW 04.26.08 to 5.11.04, Now the problem is you can’t unlock baseband 5.11.04 with any utility out in the wild. Thanks to Dev team, PwnageTool program let’s you update your main firmware without touching your baseband firmware, so you can still have the best of both worlds. Here we have a simple to follow guide which shows you how to upgrade …
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Apple released the iPhone Software update OS 3.1.2, the latest firmware update contains a baseband firmware update 5.11.04 like firmware 3.1 and it’s is not compatible with Ultrasn0w. Means if you upgrade your iPhone 3G 3.0 to 3.1.2 your baseband also upgrades from Modem FW 04.26.08 to 5.11.04, For more details about Baseband and Bootloader check here iPhone Baseband and Bootloader From Basic. Now the problem is you can’t unlock baseband 5.11.04 with any utility in the wild. Thanks to Dev team, PwnageTool program let’s you update your main firmware …
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Musclenerd tweeted some latest information regarding the upcoming pwnage tool for firmware 3.1.2, first of all the pwnage tool update is scheduled tonight. Musclenerd also tweeted that they are spending more time looking for BB 5.11 hack but in meantime people need to stay at 4.26 via custom IPSWs. For those who updated their basebands to 5.11.07 are advised to stay away from fake claims, if there will be a unlock it’ll be from dev team sooner or later. We’ll publish guides for Mac and Windows user after the pwnage …
iPhone »
iH8sn0w is about to release updated version of iREB, the latest version iREB 3.1.2 added SHSH Grabber for iPhone 3GS and iPod 3G with firmware 3.1.2 Recently iH8sn0w also issued iPhone 2G and 3G Bundles for PwnageTool. These bundles enable support for firmware 3.1.2 with the currently available pwnage tool. Back to iREB, iH8snow mailed us some screenshots of upcoming iREB 3.1.2 with a little details.
The SHSH grabber will be updated for the ipt2g (OTB users), ipt3, and the 3GS.
Sn0wbl0wer is what the ipt2g integration is.
Also, I released 3.1.2 iPhone …
iPhone »
Finally GeoHotz released the first jailbreak for iPhone 2G, 3G, 3GS with 3.1.2 firmware out of box. The 600kb utility is also capable of jailbreaking the iPod family including iPod touch 3G. Even the ipt3 is supported, but the ipt3 is tethered. In order to boot it, just rerun blackra1n. blackra1n is a 30 second ALL device 3.1.2 jailbreak. Right now blackra1n is available for windows only and a mac version may be available very soon.
Warning : BlackRa1n will not hacktivate. This means that if you are not with an …

