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PwnageTool 4.1 Out Now

The latest version of PwnageTool has been released and is ready to download from the iPhone Dev Team’s website.  It uses a combination of their original exploit, a recent pf kernel exploit and like Greenpois0n, it has been modified to use the Limera1n hack too.   PwnageTool breaks the iPhone 4, the 3G and 3GS, [...]

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Jailbreaking news: Netflix iPad app now running on the iPhone 3G

Those waiting to be able to take advantage of the Netflix app for the iPad on an iPhone seem to be in luck. That said, the experience is not said to be all that good, but at least you can. Anyway, the details include that the iPhone was a 3G model running 3.1.2 and jailbroken. [...]

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Jailbreaking news: The iPad gets support for a Bluetooth mouse and external hard drive

The Spirit jailbreak for the iPad went live a short while ago, and its already being put to good use. Most recently we have seen some updates that include some welcomed support in the form of external hard drives as well as a Bluetooth mouse. The external hard drive support comes in part with the iPad [...]

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Jailbreaking news: Spirit jailbreak now available

As expected, the Spirit jailbreak was released over the weekend. As for what is able to be jailbroken with Spirit — the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Though it is worth pointing out that Spirit is not an unlocking tool and can only be used to jailbreak, the good news is that it is an [...]

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Jailbreaking news: Spirit jailbreak for the iPad should be coming soon

A jailbreak for the iPad is coming, though we are still unsure exactly when. This will be the Spirit jailbreak, which was demo’d by Dev-Team member MuscleNerd shortly after the iPad was originally released (see embed video below). Anyway, we are still waiting on a release notification of Spirit, but in the meantime the Dev-Team has [...]

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Jailbreaking news: Limera1n is coming, just not coming soon

Yesterday morning I posted about the new domain that has recently surfaced in Geohot’s name, which for those that may have missed it as well as those with a short memory — it was Limera1n. Anyway, at the time I was hopeful that we would see something sooner as opposed to later and now judging [...]

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Jailbreaking news & rumors: Geohot preparing a new jailbreak/unlock tool called Limera1n

It looks like George Hotz, aka geohot is working away on a new jailbreaking/unlocking tool for the iPhone and/or iPad. The tool appears as if it will switch away from the black and move to the lime, at least based on a recently registered website anyway. The tool is called Limera1n and is rumored to [...]

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Jailbreaking news: WiFiFoFum removed from App Store finds its way into Cydia

Last week we heard the news that Apple had begun removing several Wi-Fi stumbler applications from the App Store and as we have seen in the past with other removed apps the decision becomes whether they should try and get back in or just make the move to Cydia. Well, in the case of WiFoFoFum, [...]

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Jailbreaking news: An unlock may be coming for OS 3.1.3, in the meantime — be patient

Some good news may be coming for those looking to unlock an OS 3.1.3 running iPhone. It seems that the Dev-Team has confirmed that an exploit for the 05.12.01 baseband has been discovered. “Musclenerd confirmed it working ))) timing of 5.12 unlock release is totally the dev team opinion” What this means is that anyone that [...]

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Jailbreaking news: Redsn0w will not yet jailbreak every device

Those that jailbreak do so with the knowledge that they may have difficulty upgrading immediately after Apple offers an update, and that is the case with OS 3.1.3. This post is dealing with redsn0w, and it has been noted that it is able to jailbreak OS 3.1.3 — but not on every device. According to the [...]

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