DO NOT install the H1Siri hack on your iphone! Ok ok, I know you are really want to get Siri on your iphone, well short of buying a new iphone4s I mean. And you figure, its only a matter of time before a hacker cracks it. Well your right, and they have, however there is an issue. Like other jailbreak apps, Steven Troughton-Smith was able… Read More
Iphone4 FAQ jailbreaking unlocking edition A few weeks back the iphone4s came out. And to my surprise I get more questions about jailbreaking and unlocking the iphone4. Since I have been using a jailbreak phone since the first iphone came out. I sometimes forget that with every new phone release, there is a whole new population of users that have… Read More
Siri working on jailbroken iPhone 4 The news just broke that @stroughtonsmith got Siri working on his jailbroken iPhone4. Nice. There is a vid, will post a link to it, then do an embed later. Right now he is not releasing the files or steps till the iPhone4s jailbrake is out there. Also, he wants to do a bit more testing… Read More
Porting Siri on iphone 4, its running! I just read this on 9to5mac, so I still need to research this a bit more, but once I figure out how to install Siri on my iphone 4, I’m on it! And will report back. Now its pretty much a given you will need to be jailbroken to run this, and the first few… Read More
Jailbreaking the new iphone4S, perhaps, iOS5, yes, already with Ultrasn0w and Redsn0w As expected, there is a jailbreak (beta) already out there for iphone iOS5. Also, no surprise, there is not baseband support yet, I expect this will be a bit more complicated given the new way iphone4S is using antennas, but still doable. Now we have be clear about something. The iPhone4s is running the new… Read More
T-Mobile now has an iPhone friendly micro-Sim. Closer… Great, so now you can get a micro sim from T-Mobile. What does that mean? Well, you may know that over one million iphone are running on the T-Mobile network despite the fact that you cannot run 3G. However, what you may not know is that you have to take a pair of scissors (or… Read More
Serious challenge to Jailbreakers in iOS 5. Dont upgrade yet iOS 5 is still not official, but you may want to hold off even when it launches. Seems that there have been some major changes to iOS5 that will make jailbreaking much harder. Currently, when you jailbreak you phone, you are basically overriding the OS to allow access to certain API calls that are not… Read More
Chat on iOS 5 Jailbreak with Cydia creator Saurik I have put forth many times that Apple could kill off or make life REALLY hard for jailbreakers if they wanted to, but they don’t. In this street interview by Haroon, Cydia Creator Jay Freeman talked a bit about how the new features in iOS 5 will not make jailbreak irrelevant nor are they trying… Read More
Jailbreak apps that are now part of iOS I have said this many times before, if Apple REALLY wanted to stop jailbreaking they could. They dont because this is great R/D and well as Marketing data that they get for free. Heck, then even hire jailbreak programmers. So lets have a look at yet more cool iOS features that us jailbreakers have had… Read More
Jailbreak 4.3.1 was released, bugs seems to be worked out. So first off, the post from the dev team blog Only a few weeks after the 4.3.1 untether created by @i0n1c was released, Apple pushed out firmware 4.3.2. Thankfully, it appears Apple didn’t have a chance to fix the hole used by @i0n1c’s untether, so he ported his code over to 4.3.2’s kernel. Today’s redsn0w has… Read More
Untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4.3.1 coming, but not for iPad2 Last week a tethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 came out, Mac only. Well hopefully sometime today we will see a untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1 released. However, not for ipad 2. I’ll update this post once I learn more. MuscleNerd, who earlier confirmed his plans of updating Pwnage Tool and Redsn0w with the ion1c iOS… Read More
Cydia gets a major update. Promise to improve speed and bug fixes Wow, I jailbreak day.. a jailbreak afternoon. Been downloading .greenpois0n.com to jailbreak my 4.2.6 iphone and today just saw QuickPwn Jailbreak for 3.1.1 (for Mac only). And now via that twitterverse, most @TaimurAsad, I heard that Cydia has got a major update going to 1.1. Nice! Its reported that cydia will be faster and fix… Read More
Jailbreak 4.3.1 for iphone ipad2 jailbroken! Get it fast Yup, its out. If you are not still waiting for your ipad2, its now time to jailbreak the iOS 4.3.1! Win. Now this is Mac only so, Windows users will have to wait, however, GreenPois0n RC5 is still good to go for iOS 4.2.6. I will bet 4.3 support will come out soon. BTW if… Read More
No more tethering through Jailbreak on the iPhone? WTH? According to VentureBeat, seems that AT&T has been sending letters out to subscribers of MiWi, a jailbreak app that allows tethering of multiple machines to you iPhone. I use PDANet and have not seen such a letter yet, but I’m keeping my eyes out. The letter basically states that if you use a non… Read More
iPad2 jailbroken and sold out in the same day Gezz. Things move so bloody fast. I think we all expected the ipad2 to be hacked and jailbroken pretty quick, but it did not even take the weekend to crack this nut. The hacker Comex, who also did the userland jailbreaks Spirit and JailbreakMe, has released tweets and a video showing an ipad2 running cydia.… Read More
Expanded Voice Commands for iPhone with VoiceActivator through jailbreak VoiceActivator came out last month, but I just now got around to playing with it. Not sure why I waited so long. This jailbreak app basically provides the promise of rich voice control that is already common with Android. This little hack is so good that it make my iphone jailbreak app top 10 list… Read More
Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 with greenp0ison The site is still down but from what I’ve heard so far, the jailbreak seems to be pretty solid. At the moment, both the greenpois0n website and Cydia’s servers are getting crushed, but it should be back up tomorrow at the latest. There has been a jailbreak for 4.2.1 using RedSn0w, but its kind of a… Read More
Can we expect a Jailbreak for the Verizon iphone 4 out the door? Most jailbreak apps should work for the Verizon CDMA iphone 4. However some data app MAY not. Time will tell.… Read More
Jailbreak killswitch removed, most likely to avoid lawsuits Apple removes killswitch API, perhaps because it may not work, not because of the Copyright Office ruling.… Read More
Jailbreak on Windows Phone 7 .. and its gone huh. Well I was looking forward to seeing all the interesting new experiments programmers were going to did with the new jailbreak for windows mobile 7, but I just saw this on VentureBeat ad it seems the hackers behind ChevronWP7 got talked out of it … by the Microsoft people themselves. Based on his post,… Read More