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Ultrasn0w iPhone 4 Network Unlock Out Now

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

If you’ve been patiently waiting for a network unlock for your brand-new iPhone 4, the your wait is over, and it’s thanks to the Dev-Team and their ultrasn0w crack. It looks simply enough too, as version 1.0-1 is ready and waiting inside Cydia and it works on any iPhone firmware version post 3.1.2 and pre [...]

Jailbreaking news: iPhone Dev-Team release PwnageTool 4.01 for Mac OS X

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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The iPhone Dev-Team has released the latest version of Pwnage Tool, which is currently sitting at version 4.01. Bottom line, you can now jailbreak iOS 4 devices. Of course, that bottom line is not quite as simple as it sounds when it comes to jailbreaking. And remember this is not an unlock. To begin with, [...]

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

Monday, April 26, 2010

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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 [...]

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

Friday, February 12, 2010

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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 [...]

Jailbreaking news: Dev-Team releases PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X

Monday, February 8, 2010

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As the post title mentions, the Dev-Team has released an updated version of PwnageTool. The latest version of PwnageTool is 3.1.5 and it will work on firmware 3.1.3. But now for a bit of bad news, PwnageTool 3.1.5 is available (as of this posting) only for Mac OS X. Getting back to the good news, PwnageTool [...]

Jailbreaking news: iPhone 3GS, third-gen iPod touch users take note, Apple is no longer signing 3.1.2

Friday, February 5, 2010

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This post is limited in nature to whom will really need it, but its an important one if you fall into this category. First you must be using a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch. Second, that iPhone is a 3GS and the touch is either a third-gen or late model second-gen. Anyway, if you are still [...]

Jailbreaking news: Jailbreaking solution for newer devices running 3.1.3 not available

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Anyone looking to unlock/jailbreak their iPhone who happens to be running iPhone OS 3.1.3 that also has a newer device may be in for a long wait. According to blackra1n developer Geohot; There is no solution for 3.1.3 on newer devices or 05.12.01 There is no untethered jailbreak. I don’t know if/when these things will exist. Of [...]

Jailbreaking news: Fix the push notifications on your unlocked/hacktivated iPhone with PushFix

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Those currently running a hacktivated/unlocked iPhone may be missing one nice feature that arrived with OS 3.x — push notifications. If you have activated your iPhone (original,3G,3GS) without an authorized SIM card (i.e. Hacktivated) and are running OS 3.x, then your push functionality is probably not working. The existing fixes haven’t worked because there is [...]

New Apple job listing hints at fighting jailbreaking and unlocking

Friday, November 6, 2009

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According to a recently listing job posting, Apple is looking to hire an “iPhone OS Platform Security Manager.” According to that listing; “The team is responsible for secure booting and installation of the OS, partitioning and hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services, and risk analysis of security threats. The team is made up [...]

Geohot to return with a one-stop solution for jailbreaking

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Geohot to return with a one-stop solution for jailbreaking

The last we heard, Geohot was killing off both purplera1n and purplesn0w, which at the time made it seem like he had moved on from working on the iPhone. Of course he did leave us with a little teaser in the past, and now according to a recent post on his blog, it looks like [...]