iPhone OS 3.1.2 Released
By SRASC at 8 October, 2009, 5:15 pm
Apple on Thursday released an update to the iPhone OS, bringing it to version 3.1.2. The minor update reportedly fixes a handful of issues with the software.
According to Apple, the update — which applies to the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS — has the following improvements:
Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not [...]
Read More >>GeoHot Is A Busy Guy
By SRASC at 14 July, 2009, 9:04 am
GeoHot has added an entry to TheiPhoneWiki explaining how his purplera1n iPhone 3GS jailbreak works.
Below you can read the step by step description of what the exploit does…
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* purplera1n sends the enter recovery commands using iTunesMobileDevice
* once in recovery(iBoot), it sends the IBoot Environment Variable Overflow exploit
* the exploit adds a “geohot” command to the [...]
Apple Seeds iPhone OS 3.1
By SRASC at 30 June, 2009, 9:31 pm
Apple has seeded iPhone OS 3.1 to developers along with a new version of the iPhone SDK.
Few details have been provided; however, its likely that Apple has closed the exploit used by ultrasn0w to unlock the iPhone.
Remember not to update when the new firmware goes public.
(via iClarified.com)
Update:
Word from the Dev Team on iPhone OS 3.1:
You’ve [...]
Read More >>iPhone Dev Team: The needs of the many…
By SRASC at 28 June, 2009, 11:06 pm
Spock said it best: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…”
Summary:
We can jailbreak the 3GS right now. But making our jailbreak public at this point in time would benefit relatively few people. It would in fact be detrimental to many more people than it would help. So we feel it’s best [...]
“It’s 4AM, do you know where your jailbreak is?”
By SRASC at 28 June, 2009, 1:54 pm
Very early this morning GeoHot posted photo evidence of a jailbroken iPhone 3GS.
GeoHot wrote:
“It’s 4AM, do you know where your jailbreak is?”
The jailbreak was accomplished using the 24kpwn exploit as we announced earlier. The screenshot shows the output of uname being run from MobileTerminal.
The Dev-Team will likely release the jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS along [...]
Jailbreak Confirmed For iPhone 3GS
By SRASC at 26 June, 2009, 9:17 am
24Kpwn lives on, in the iPhone 3GS!
About 5 hours ago (Thursday evening, less than a week after the 3GS launch), we were able to verify that the 24Kpwn exploit that the hybrid team used on the iPod Touch 2G is still applicable to the bootrom of the iPhone 3GS. That means we can use the [...]
Read More >>GeoHot: iPhone 3GS Owners Should Do This Now
By SRASC at 26 June, 2009, 9:12 am
Apple has added a new layer of security for the iPhone 3GS and steps need to be taken to prevent these measures from affecting future jailbreaks.
Apple has added a new layer of security to the iPhone 3GS. I mentioned it several posts earlier; it’s the ECID field. When iTunes starts the restore process, they contact [...]
purplera1n - iPhone 3GS jailbreak?
By SRASC at 23 June, 2009, 4:53 pm
Geohot is back at it again and it looks like he has already found a method to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS!
Details of the exploit are still being gathered; however, it looks like GeoHot was able to insert a custom command to iBoot meaning sigchecks have been bypassed (thanks mav). This should be a start for [...]
