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Jailbreakme 3.0 Released
Beardydog writes "Jailbreakme.com has been officially updated, providing the first public method for jailbreaking the iPad 2, and the easiest method for jailbreaking most other iOS devices. The jailbreak works with iOS 4.3.3, and it is recommended that users update before a new release from Apple closes the vulnerability exploited by the jailbreak."
Then again, it's news when Steve Jobs farts around here it seems...
That's only so that people can point out that farts that come in the presence of an android device is superior in every way. And it's opensource so anyone can fart the same.
Because the thousands of geeks with an iPhone or iPad would like to know this?
Meh, call me when it jailbreaks iOS 5 without needing tethering.
Magic doesn't work in my presence. My power of disbelief is too strong.
A real geek wouldn't be caught dead with an iPhone or iPad.
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
Get over yourself.
Plenty of "real" geeks own iDevices.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Steve Jobs farted? OMG! How do I buy one? Does it come in white?
It's fine on your phone, but you DARE try it on your PS3 and Sony will kill you and your children, rape your dog, and piss on your grave. then they'll track all your supporters down and do the same to them. And if you think the courts will stop them, think again.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Interesting. You seem to believe geek is now a culture dependent upon product selection. Is this related to the purchased hipster culture? Do you enjoy the labels you bought? Are you sure they are the right ones? You like forming cliques, and belonging to one when it's gaining popularity, don't you?
what the hell is a 'junk character', anyway?
Why don't you buy hardware that you can actually own? You know, so that you're not afraid that Apple will lock you out of your own hardware.
Plenty of geeks also own refrigerators. It doesn't make refrigerator news geek worthy. There are uses for iDevices. There are benefits. But they are consumer oriented and not inherently 'geeky' devices.
No, it's open source so anyone can extend and alter it.
Although, in reality, everyone still relies on Linus Torvalds to give them their farting orders.
Worked fine on my iPad 2 and iPhone 3GS. iPhone 4 is now stuck in an Logo Loop of Death. I can access it through iRecovery, but I can't really salvage anything. Too bad I haven't backed it up for months, because there is soooo much data that I am going to lose if I have to Restore.
I would. But what's the Android counterpart to an iPod touch? I have an Archos 43 Internet Tablet, which is almost it. But because Archos products run AOSP Android instead of OHA Android, they don't have Android Market, meaning they can't use Market-exclusive applications such as Chase Bank's check deposit tool.
Plenty of geeks also own refrigerators. It doesn't make refrigerator news geek worthy.
Oh yeah?
It's colorless, just like everyone else's.
But it does smell faintly of unicorn meat.
The Nexus One comes to mind
The last time I checked out a Nexus One, I rejected it because it cost twice as much as the cheapest iPod touch. But now it appears to be down to the 300 USD range. Thank you for reminding me to check Google Product Search again.
One advantage to the Nexus is that you don't need ITunes to put stuff on, and you can put any kind of stuff you want
This is true of an Archos 43 as well. The big differences are apparently the capacitive touch screen (Archos 43 has a more PDA-like resistive screen) and Android Market access.
I think people get a little confused. Android phones are "jailbroken" as is. More or less all you have to do to get the same access you have on a JB iToy is turn on allowing third party apps and allow debugging over USB. That'll let you install apps from non-market sources (like Amazon's store, or just straight web downloads), do your own software, etc.
Rooting goes a step further. It is full control over the device and is mostly if you care to run a custom OS on it. That's great if you want that, but it is a step above what is even tried with iToys.
That's the reason why jailbreaking is such a bigger deal than rooting. You have to jailbreak your phone to get apps from anybody but Apple, and if you want to customize many features (like have a different keyboard). Android allows that already. Rooting is only for full custom redos, when you want a different ROM on your phone.
Also, you can get android devices that don't need rooting. There are phones available from some carriers that are "S-OFF" meaning you can write to the area the OS is in and thus flash your own ROM, if you wish.
Galaxy player. Samsung makes it.
But who sells it? Google Product Search doesn't appear to list it.
I heard his farts smell of semen, lube, and week-old gerbil fur.
-- Ethanol-fueled
This is of course not the most popular opinion here but I am quite happy with Apple's infamous total integration approach. Everything works fine, updates happen smoothly, I am relatively certain that there is no malware in the apps. In short, I don't have to think about managing my iPad. It just works.
What would jailbreaking bring me? GUI changes? Sorry, not interested, I am not a teenager anymore. Pirated apps? Not interested, they are cheap enough to play fair. Ok, tethering could be useful, if my iPad were not the 3G model.
So, Santorum then.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
It has Open Sores so that Linux Trovalds can grow beards with the other GNU/Hippies
iDevices...are consumer oriented and not inherently 'geeky' devices
Ridiculous.
The iDevices are general purpose computers with a decent range of sensors (audio, image/video, light, proximity, touch, magnetism, gps, 3d acceleration, 3d angular velocity) and outputs (audio, image/video, light, vibration, cell, wifi, bluetooth).
Whether they are "geeky" or not depends solely on how you use them.
We use our iDevices to control home music and lighting with touch/tilt UI, share our locations in near real-time, make music via matrix sequencing, etc. Right now I'm looking at iphone oscilloscope apps/dongles for quick diagnosis of car issues (and I see there are OBD II iphone apps/dongles as well). If that ain't geeky, I dunno what is.
Get over your religious stupidity, and just start using the technology.
Just went over to the site in Safari on my iPhone 4 and downloaded "Cydia". I've now got a trial copy of Insomnia running on my phone. Service just doesn't get better than this. And if it tests out, I won't have to re-logon to my employer's wi-fi network every fifteen minutes to keep the connection live.
"No true Scotsman" logical fallacy.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
A "real" geek wouldn't be caught dead posting on Slashdot, let along with a super-4 digit ID
See? We can move that bar anywhere we want.
AT&T made some big promises about how it would enable unknown sources "very soon". However my wife's HTC Aria has not been updated yet
I've read another article somewhere stating that the update will get pushed out to anyone who calls AT&T and asks about it.
It appears to be a remote code execution exploit in Safari and/or Webkit. I give it a week before iOS 4.3.4 is available. And I'll be installing it, since I don't want drive-by malware* on my phone.
*Dimmer readers may incorrectly think I'm calling Cydia malware.
I just ran it on my iPad and it does indeed work well. The Jailbreak guys (Comex et al) do an incredible job, and I'm really glad that they do it (because it reminds everyone that you DO own your own hardware), but I'm seeing less and less reason to Jailbreak these days.
It has been about 3 years since I last Jailbroke an iPhone. Back then, it was almost essential -- you got some serious additional functionality that wasn't in iOS. Coming back to it now, I'm not so sure. Cydia is pretty slick, but iOS is a completely different kettle of fish. I was quite surprised at how many apps cost actual money -- the spirit of hackers sharing for the sake of hacking has almost totally gone, and now you're expected to spend a few dollars on the best of the little tweaks. For example, an app that can record an AVI of your screen (useful for creating tutorials) costs $5. It's not a bad price, I admit, but it's not what I was expecting. If more of the best Cydia apps were free, I expect there would be far more jailbreaking.
Sadly, the two things I was most interested in -- terminal/bash and ruby -- appear to be poorly maintained and are in a pretty unusable state. Ruby 1.9.2p0 is in Cydia, but when I ran it I got a dyld error about a missing symbol. There's no way that's going to work. The MobileTerminal app crashed too, but I got around it by installing openssh and sshing in to the console through prompt. It was slow (I think OpenSSL is slow on the ARM chip -- or maybe it's just prompt) and pointless (without Ruby/git).
It has been nice to take a look at the state of the Jailbreak scene, but I don't think I'll bother keeping it. It did make me think about what I would like to do with my iPad, if I could (I would like the ability to install a console, a compiler, ruby, vim, sqlite and so on). I would quite like Linux on my iPad. Having XWindows isn't important, though some sort of graphics system would be nice (based on libsvga or whatever) so we can create our own touch UI. Bluetooth support (for mouse/keyboard), power management, sound and hardware-accelerated h264 would also be essential. Is there any reason we can't create a Linux distro that literally replaces iOS, using the same techniques as the Jailbreak to get it up and running? Can anyone comment on whether it is just too hard because of the totally undocumented hardware, or are the components standard enough to make it feasible?
WebOS Devices have a great homebrew community that HP supports. HP donated servers and help them port some of the homebrew only apps. (One example: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/06/hp-soothes-homebrew-crowd-by-reaffiming-support)
I've blogged about it before as well ( http://bryanquigley.com/uncategorized/hppalms-webos)
From the webosinternals wiki: ( http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Portal:Accessing_Linux)
"In general, simply installing the Palm SDK gives you everything you need for full access to the Linux operating system on the Pre or Pixi. There is no special "rooting" or "jailbreaking" process. Simply installing the SDK provides you with unlimited access to the Linux operating system logged in as the root user. Palm does not see this as a bad thing. Palm provides all these tools for download by anyone, anytime, for free."
A real geek wouldn't be caught dead with an iPhone or iPad.
Real geeks have "jobs" as geeks and can afford an iPhone and iPad whereas people with too much time on their hands but not enough money would not.
How often do you hear of a plumber wanting to do plumbing on their time off? Plumbers will often have plumbing jobs left undone on their "honeydo" lists. The same thing goes for carpenters.
If you earn enough money to afford iOS products and you work in IT, the last thing you will want to do is tinker when you are off the clock unless if you happen to have asperger's or something.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
...iPad2 users can finally visit the NYT website without purchasing a broken $20 a month app?
Apple: Site blocked? Don't worry, we have a broken app for that.
I8-D
The link is for the NY Post. The NYT doesn't block, but has a 20 article limit.
I8-D
Why don't you buy hardware that you can actually own?
That's a good point. Since I'm looking to replace my current smartphone before the year's up, what would you recommend? I don't want anything locked-down, but are there any viable alternatives that aren't?
If a device can be jailbroken this easily, doesn't that mean that it's terribly, terribly insecure? Users of Apple products should be extremely paranoid right now.
Thats what I jailbreak for! Really nor amazon, nor google could come close to Grooveshark!
If someone jail breaks their refrigerator so they can install Linux on it would be.
No difference.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
This is one more thing to make you wonder about the people who said iOS is the most secure OS?
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).