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Apple Does Not Approve of Toyota’s Jailbreak Campaign

April 6th, 2011

We reported Monday that Toyota was trying out a unique advertising campaign for jailbroken iOS devices on the Cydia store with a Scion-branded theme. At the time, I suggested that Apple wouldn’t be too pleased with the idea, and it looks like I was right.ModMyi reports that Apple asked Toyota directly to take down the theme [...]

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Jailbreak Convention in London is World’s First

March 13th, 2011

Four years after iPhone Jailbreak took the world by storm, iOS users the world over will gather in London on September 17, 2011 for the world’s first Jailbreak convention. The jailbreak convention, dubbed MyGreatFest, will teach iOS users how to make the most of their Jailbroken iPhones, iPads and iPod touches. Although a location and specific agenda [...]

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Spirit freed

May 14th, 2010
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The Spirit jailbreak is now out!  Congratulations to @comex for the first userland jailbreak since the 1.x days. Spirit provides an untethered jaibreak on those newer devices which used to require a computer nearby to finish the boot process.  Spirit is able to do this because it doesn’t actually kick in until after the kernel [...]

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Calm before the Spirit storm

May 14th, 2010
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At some point after (don’t ask when!) the iPad 3G is actually in customers’ hands, the first “userland” jailbreak since firmware 1.x will be released by @comex.  It’s called “Spirit” and was first demonstrated working on an iPad by @MuscleNerd within 24 hours of the iPad’s release on April 3. Userland jailbreaks are more troublesome [...]

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Planned Tablet Hacks

May 14th, 2010
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The iPhone DevTeam has been passed confidential internal information relating to the next version of the tablet computer the ‘iPad’. An upcoming redesign of the iPad tablet computer will miniaturize the device so that it will be able to be carried on the user’s person (such as a pocket or small bag). Also a radical [...]

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iphoneos 4.0 on the horizon

May 14th, 2010
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Some interesting features were revealed in today’s preview of iphoneos 4.0.  We’ll use this post as a placeholder for discussion about these features and how they relate to the jailbreak. Also, it seemed like a good idea to move away from our last post, which was made on April 1 for a reason

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3.1.3 and thee

May 14th, 2010
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WARNING! At 10.30AM PST on February 2nd 2010 Apple released the 3.1.3 version (7E18) of the iPhoneOS. If you care about your jailbreak and unlock, don’t update your device – 3G and 3G(S) owners should pay particular attention to this warning. PwnageTool and redsn0w are not yet compatible with 3.1.3 There is no estimated release [...]

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Pre-game show

May 14th, 2010
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On Tuesday, Apple released firmware 3.1.3 for the iPhone and iPod touches.  Unless you’ve personally observed a problem with the reporting of your battery percentage, there’s no reason to update to 3.1.3.  We know some of you will want to anyway.  Superbowl Sunday’s PwnageTool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X will let you do so safely, [...]

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Scam season

May 14th, 2010
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While Apple’s 3.1.3 firmware was minor in terms of new features, it’s had the side effect of opening up a huge market for scam sites.  These sites will promise you a 3.1.3 jailbreak for newer devices like the iPod touch 3G, or a baseband 05.12 software unlock.  Those desperate enough to “just give it a [...]

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Baseband reprieve

May 14th, 2010
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iPhone 3G/3GS owners who found themselves stuck with version 05.11 of the baseband (either by accident or because they bought it that way) are now in luck!  geohot was able to turn the already-public at+xemn crash into an injection vector, which can be used to inject his version of the unlock.  The blacksn0w unlock is [...]

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