Currently the iPhone 3GS is still not able to be jailbroken or unlocked, which for some (myself included) is proving to be good and bad. Good because I am fortunate to have been able to upgrade my hardware, but bad because I am missing out on some of my favorite apps.
Anyway, it would seem as if this may be getting ready to change. George Hotz, who is perhaps a little better know as GeoHot — the individual who offered the first hardware unlock back in the original iPhone days has discovered a method to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS. The method has been dubbed purplera1n and can be found at purplera1n.com.
So far, the details along with a way for anyone to take advantage of his discovery have not been released. What we have is a screenshot that appears to be of a custom command in iBoot. In a little more of a technical description, that means that the “sigchecks have been bypassed” which from what I understand is a good thing.
[via iClarified]
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June 24th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
God I hope this is true.
June 24th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Dear god please hurry, cydia withdrawl is killing me!
June 25th, 2009 at 5:11 am
Awesome!!! That is the beat news yet! I really miss my SB settings, and the stock rigtonea are killing me!!!
June 25th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Ya there’s nthing worse than jailbreaking other peoples iPhones while I still have a factory 3GS! Every phone I JB I cry a lil’ remeberi g what I’m missing out on… I hope this works and drops soon!
June 25th, 2009 at 9:46 am
You can put coustom ringtones under 30 sec in length simply by converting them to m4r and dragging them into iTunes ring tones for ring tones longer than 30 seconds you need first an older version of iTunes the one before now and a program called ring ring I hope that helps some of you. Regards Wrs
June 25th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
you don’t need to jailbreak your phone to get free ringtones go to YouTube and they will show u.
June 25th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Well, I for one are glad my shiny new 3gs cannot yet be jailbroken
The 3.0 JB apps are a bit buggy, and waiting 2-3 weeks will stabilize
them!!!!
I know that if I could JB my 3gs now, I would and have alot of restore grief!!!
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:08 am
Omg iphone 3gs jailbroke successfully yay