In short, Jailbreak is the process of hacking an iPhone to free it from Apple restrictions.
Because the iPhone is far from flawless as Apple created it, thousands of iPhone users have flocked to Jailbreak in search of iPhone changes and improvements. iPhone has been held back by limited customizability, text message privacy issues, and a lack of multitasking capabilities. But Jailbreak can solve all of these problems with apps and fixes available in Cydia and Installer.
Cydia and Installer are the unofficial “App Stores” of the Jailbreak world. Developers create apps and tweaks and different utilities and upload them to these package managers, which organize everything into categories. The differences between Cydia and the App Store are the lack of an app approval process, and the lack of access limits on the iPhone software — i.e. you can do things Apple did not design the iPhone software to do.
The iPhone Dev Team has released RedSn0w 0.9.6b1 jailbreak tool for iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch 2G running over iOS 4.1. Before this Chronic Dev Team has released Greenpois0n for iOS 4.1 to jailbreak iPhone 4G, 3GS and iPod Touch 4G, 3G (MC & non-MC models). An ….
PwnageTool 4.1 is now officially available for download after a release today by the iPhone Dev Team. The tool, available for Mac OS X, will ensure that users will be able to jailbreak iOS 4.1 devices such as Apple TV 2, iPod Touch …
Here is a step by step guide which works to jailbreak iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS running over iOS 4.1 with the help of Chronic Dev Team’s jailbreak tool Greenpois0n. If your iPhone 4 or 3GS is working on iOS 4.0…
ith the help of Chronic Dev Team’s jailbreak tool Greenpois0n users of iPhone 4 and 3GS over iOS 4.1 can jailbreak their devices but if your iPhone 4 or 3GS running over iOS 4.0, iOS 4.0.1, iOS 4.0.2 then have to use ..
The Chronic Dev Team has finally made its Greenpois0n jailbreak tool available for Mac OS X. As many of you might have known, the team encountered some technical difficulties along the way, which is why the Mac version of Greenpois0n was not released…
Great news, everyone! Just five days after Limera1n was made available for Windows, George “GeoHot” Hotz has officially released a version of the jailbreak for Mac users. Just as its Windows counterpart, Limera1n for Mac can jailbreak devices with iOS 3.2.2, iOS 4.0,
The iPhone jailbreak tool RedSn0w is updated to Redsn0w 0.9.6 b1 which includes support to jailbreak iPhone 3G & iPod Touch 2G on iOS 4.1.
The jailbreak tool GreenPois0n is released by Chronic Dev Team which works to jailbreak iOS 4.1 devices including iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4G, iPod touch 3G and iPad. Right now, GreenPois0n does not provide support to jailbreak
The iPhone OS 4.0 Beta was just released last week, and withing a few hours, iPhone Dev Team member MuscleNerd was able to jailbreak the platform. On Thursday, MuscleNerd announced in a tweet that the first jailbreak tool — redsn0w 0.9.5 beta 1 – is now available. However, the tool is currently available to jailbreak app developers only. The reason is so they can start working on their jailbroken applications. That way those apps are ready in time for the official public release of iPhone OS 4.0. In addition, MuscleNerd informs us that at the moment the tool works on the iPhone 3GS and on Mac OSX only.
The cat and mouse iPhone operating system continues with Apple updating the iPhone OS and the iPhone Dev Team pushing out jailbreak solutions and according to an article over on ubergizmo, the iPhone Dev Team has now made Pwnage Tool for iPhone 3.1.3 available.
The latest version of the iPhone OS, iPhone 3.1.3 doesn’t really offer a great deal but no doubt most iPhoners will update anyway, so if you did install iPhone 3.1.3and still want to jailbreak your iPhone then this new Pwnage Tool will do the job.
BigBoss has announced SpringFlash, the first iphone 4 jailbreak app. As its name suggests SpringFlash is an application which uses the iPhone 4 LED Flash to serve as a flashlight.
SpringFlashfor iPhone 4 will be a Springboard Activator-based application which means you will have to use Activator to define a gesture or activation method to launch the app (ie “tap and hold the status bar). Since it is Activator-based, the great advantage of SpringFlash is that you won’t have to look for the app icon to launch it when you need it.
Download Sn0wbreeze v1.6.2 and Fixes YouTube, iBooks Issues And iTunes Restore Errors on jailbroken iOS 4 devices. Fix iOS 4 YouTube, iBooks, iTunes error with Sn0wbreeze v1.6.2.
Sn0wbreeze 1.6.2 also includes verbose mode, and preserves the basebands for all iPhones.
MuscleNerd at iPhone Dev Team has released an update of iPhone jailbreak tool RedSn0w 0.9.5b5-5 which includes fixes for APN and MMS issues experienced by users with iOS 4.0 jailbreak.
According to iPhone Dev Team:
“The latest redsn0w beta should fix any APN or MMS issues that users were seeing. It’s safe to re-run it on an already jailbroken iPhone without restoring…just deselect “Install Cydia” if you do that.”
As iPhone 3GS old bootrom users can jailbreak their device through the jailbreak tools like Sn0wBreeze 1.6.2 and PwnageTool 4. These both jailbreak tools require the jailbroken iPhone 3GS to work properly but does not support iPhone 3GS jailbroken through Spirit tool.
So, here comes Spirit2Pwn patch from Cydia which could work for Spirit jailbroken iPhone 3GS to restore custom firmware iOS 4 on old bootrom.
The Spirit2Pwn only works for iPhone 3GS users jailbroken using Spirit on OS 3.1.3/3.1.2. So, you may follow the instructions below to jailbreak iOS 4 on Spirit jailbroken iPhone 3GS through Spirit2Pwn.
It’s very easy to iOS 4 Jailbreak iPhone 3GS with PwnageTool using modified bundle. You only have to add msft.guy’s PwnageTool bundles to the official PwnageTool and then you’ll be able to create iOS 4 GM custom firmware.
According to iPhone Dev Team the official iOS 4 unlock/jailbreak tool will be released in a month so we will recommended to wait for the official jailbreak tool for iOS 4 to prevent your device from any unexpected damage.
The Library of Congress has declared jailbreaking iPhone and unlocking as legal. New anti-circumvention exceptions has been introduced to the DMCA policies that now legally allow iPhone owners to jailbreak their devices and let them install 3rd party apps (not provided by iTunes Store).
The iPhone Dev-Team has released the PwnageTool 4.0 to jailbreak iOS 4.0 on iPhone 3GS, 3G, and iPod Touch 2G. PwnageTool 4.0 jailbreak iOS 4.0 while preserving your baseband so that you can unlock it with UltraSn0w. Download PwnageTool 4.0 jailbreak links are posted below.
ATTENTION: Each device has known upgrade traps and different upgrade scenarios that need to be fully understood and considered before using PwnageTool 4.0. Please read the complete post below and perform the upgrade in the particular way that matches your current device state. As advised, you shouldn’t have upgraded your devices if you have previously relied on our tools for hacktivation and/or a carrier unlock.
The iH8Sn0w has upgraded Sn0wBreeze v1.7 jailbreak tool for iPod Touch 3G over iOS 4. User can create custom iOS 4 with Sn0wBreeze v1.7 to jailbreak iPod Touch 3G but it is necessarily important that your iPod Touch 3G should be on iPhone OS 3.1.2, otherwise you have to save SHSH blobs of OS 3.1.2 of your iPod 3.
Sn0wBreeze v1.7 also supports iPhone 3GS (Old BootRom), iPhone 3G and 2G, iPod Touch 2G (non-MC) and iPod Touch 1G, and also works for Spirit jailbroken devices.
The iPhone Dev Team has released the updated version of Redsn0w for Windows to jailbreak iPhone 3G with iOS 4 and iPod touch 2G for Windows users.
According to iPhone Dev Team:
“Just like our other betas, this one intentionally doesn’t “hactivate” the iPhone. Please wait for Apple’s public release of 4.0 for that part of it.
Sn0wBreeze 1.8 to jailbreak iOS 4.1 beta firmware is now available for download. Using Sn0wBreeze v1.8 you can jailbreak iOS 4.1 beta on iPhone 3GS (Old BootRom), iPod Touch 2G (non-MC), and iPod Touch 3G.
If you’ve an iPhone 3G you can use RedSn0w 0.9.5b5-5 to jailbreak iOS 4.1 beta:
Sn0wBreeze 1.8 Supports
- iPhone 3GS (old bootrom)
- iPod touch 2G (non MC model)
- iPod touch 3G
iH8Sn0w has release Sn0wBreeze v1.7 to jailbreak iPod Touch 3G iOS 4 a few days ago. Today he releases iBooty + Payload Pwner for the iPod Touch 3G, 2G (MC). Which means if your iPod Touch 3G or iPod Touch 2G (MC) are running OS 3.1.2 or you have saved SHSH blobs of OS 3.1.2 for your iPod Touch 3G, you can create a custom iOS 4 to jailbreak iPod Touch 3G, 2G (MC).
Sn0wBreeze v1.7 with iBooty + Payloader Supports:
- iPod Touch 3G only if running firmware 3.1.2 or you’ve SHSH blobs for 3.1.2 (needed for downgrade)
- iPod Touch 2G (MC)
- iPhone 3GS only if running firmware 3.1.2 or you’ve SHSH blobs for 3.1.2 (needed for downgrade)