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Android running on an iPhone, say what!

It looks like Android has been successfully ported to the iPhone, or at least to an iPhone. In this case, we have iPhone Dev-Team member Planetbeing who has taken Android and was able to have it boot and run on an original iPhone. The system is set up as a dual-boot, which gives the option to [...]

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Jailbreaking news: blacksn0w unlocking tool now available

With the release of blacksn0w originally expected to come today on November 4, George Hotz surprised everyone (including myself) when he released the unlocking tool a day early. In other words, blacksn0w is currently available for download and use, which should be very good news to anyone that had (on accident or purpose) an iPhone [...]

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Geohot to release blacksn0w on November 4, will unlock iPhone OS 3.1.2

In some big news coming during this past weekend, Geohot announced that he had unlocked the 05.11.07 iPhone baseband. Which for those not following along as closely, has not been able to be unlocked up until this point. Anyway, if you remember back a few weeks, Geohot was also the person who first released the [...]

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Jailbreaking news: blackra1n for Mac now available

Late last evening, Geohot followed up on the release of blackra1n for Windows with the Mac version. #blackra1n for mac is live!!!!!!!!! This latest release is similar to the Windows version and will work for all iPhones and every iPod touch (except for the third generation touch) on firmware 3.1.2. In short, you will need to update [...]

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Jailbreaking with blackra1n, my experience

I cannot say this will work for everyone, so in no way is this intended to be an end-all tutorial, but that said, these are the steps that I followed to jailbreak my iPhone 3GS running OS 3.1.2 using blackra1n. And yes I am aware my situation is a little abnormal because I generally use [...]

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blackra1n: Geohots latest jailbreaking tool now live, jailbreak away

Picking what may be the strangest time I have seen for a launch, Geohot has released his latest jailbreaking tool at approximately 4am this morning, yup, 4am on a Sunday morning. Of course, despite being able to get a slight chuckle out of the time picked — blackra1n is live and appears to be working [...]

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Can’t You Just Leave it Alone? Five Ambitious iPhone Hacks by the Geeky.

One could call the iPhone many things, but lacking in versatility is not one of them, however there are those out there who feel it could be so much more than ‘just’ a smartphone.  Those people are geeks, but geeky in a good way and not in the creepy darkened-room-with-only-a-keylogger-for-company way. Here are five hacks where, [...]

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Jailbreaking news: Dev Team announces PwnageTool 3.1 availability

The iPhone Dev-Team has recently announced the availability of PwnageTool 3.1, of course as with any jailbreak or unlocking tool — that does come with a warning. Make sure you follow the directions from the Dev Team and read all the directions carefully. Basically, PwnageTool 3.1 is available, however it is not going to work for [...]

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Jailbreaking news: Purple, both ra1n and sn0w are dead

With the release of iPhone OS 3.0.1 we saw that Geohot’s tools (purplera1n and purplesn0w) were no longer working, at which time he recommended that others begin using the Dev Team’s offerings. Now sadly, thanks to a recent posting on his blog we learn that he is not planning on making purplera1n or purplesn0w work for [...]

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Jailbreaking iPhone OS 3.0.1: Pick redsn0w, avoid purplera1n

We have recently seen Apple offer an update, the first since 3.0 and as always OS updates poses an interesting game of wait and see for those who have jailbroken and or unlocked their iPhone. Typically, once an update is released, we (those who have jailbroken) hate to wait to update our iPhones until the Dev [...]

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