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Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released
tlhIngan writes "It certainly took long enough, but the untethered jailbreak for Apple's A5 based iOS devices (iPad 2, iPhone 4s) has been released (official site, struggling due to traffic). It's currently only available for OS X, though ports of it to Windows are forthcoming."
Will there be a way to port it to other OSes? I assume since MacOS is unix based, It wouldn't be a HORRIBLE job to port it to your favorite *nix?
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Android FTW
If Apple really wanted to stop jailbreaking, they'd just have to issue a required iOS update that patches the hole and cut off access for the older release, They don't do that. Instead, they allow the jailbreaks to happen and learn from what they develop such as teathering going from non-existent to paid to included.
I do not expect that anybody has done this yet, but it might be possible.., right?
*NM*
http://www.iclarified.com/entries/index.php?caid=1&scid=25
Last I checked, Windows is not installed on iPhone. Why would there be a Windows jailbreak? This makes no sense.
It's great that they managed to extend the Corona jailbreak to the iPhone 4S. But unfortunately, very soon all their hard work will be rendered useless once iOS 5.1 hits release. As 5.1 is already in the beta-testing stage, there's only a window of a few weeks before it drops. Unlike iOS 4 and below, there is currently no way to downgrade any iPhone to an earlier version of iOS5. The SHSH method does not work anymore because of something new on Apple's end (I believe involving something called an "AP Ticket" but I honestly haven't looked into it very deeply).
The point is, if you want to make use of this jailbreak, you must go to iOS 5.0.1 RIGHT NOW and jailbreak or you won't get another chance until 5.1 is hacked, which is of course never guaranteed.
The only reason Windows Phone 7 hasn't caused any ruckus over concepts like rooting/jailbreaking/unlocking is because it has such a small market-share to begin with. The few people using those phones are typically not even the "power users" who'd care about such things, and the overall lack of developer support for their phone means there's little incentive to CARE anyway.
Really, before smartphones even came out, this was a problem everyone had to put up with. I remember having a Moto Razr with downloadable apps using the proprietary "BREW" language, all locked down with DRM. Your phone got lost and had to be replaced? You lost your apps and had to beg them to let you re-download them without paying again (which they'd often not do).
but goddamn do news posts like this make me â(TM)¥ my Galaxy S2, I owned 3 iphones, never again - EVER.
Yep, I remember that. It was disappointing and sucked. I was always interested in the Windows Mobile devices, at least the ones that weren't deliberately crippled by the carrier (lol Verizon.)
This push to return us to those bad old days sucks, especially as devices are even more connected and powerful than ever. The worst is the spread of it into tablets and, slowly, into desktop PCs.
...just not with a GUI tool. cinject.exe works fine in windows. I know because I'm posting this on an iPad 2 broken on Windows 7. And that was hours and hours before this story hit. Bad editors.
How is this an untethered jailbreak when step 4 is to connect via USB cable?
Michael J.
Root, God, what is difference?
... is exactly why you can't meaningfully compare jailbreak on Android devices that's there by design (e.g. Nexus, or most Samsung phones) to one on iOS where, every time there's an OS update, you have to wait and hope that someone will find an exploit to squeeze through.
Turning off 3G on a cell phone would disable the ability to place and receive cell phone calls, which is, after all, the primary purpose of the device.
So once it's been jailbroken, does anyone know what the status of unlocking is for the 4S?
I believe that there have already been successful IOS5 unlocks for earlier phones, will they still work on the 4S now that it's jailbroken?
Some people jailbreak to just get 3rd-party apps etc, but a lot of people do so to install the unlock and NOT be chained in yet another way to a given carrier.
I don't think I'll bother to use the jailbreak. I've been running so long now without one that I don't really miss it all that much anymore. It took 3 or 4 months for a real jailbreak to come out after ios5 was released (I don't count the tethered crap as a real jailbreak). Evidently it's getting harder and harder to find an exploit that allows a jailbreak, since the hole is closed each time the OS is updated. There are certainly a finite number of security holes that can be used to create a jailbreak, so eventually it must become impossible. With ios5.1 coming pretty soon the jailbreak will again become useless and who knows when or if one will be found for 5.1.
Just a serious question - what will this hack allow me to do that I couldn't do before?
I can already install my own apps on the phone with a developer account. Does this make it any easier?
What does the hack install? Does the hack phone home? Why does it need to connect to a database?
It might be interesting to install a new OS on the phone, but seriously for a $600 device I want something that works.
So long story short what does this jailbreak give me that I don't already have?
Buying that shit is the same as selling your future to the Communist. A full fledged endorsement of Communism and a loud statement that you want to be exploited as a worker too.
Damn buy stuff made in America and they will have no choice but to hire you and endorse your way of life if the rich elite of America still want to make a buck.
You have the power not them use it.
Or watch your family slowly starve.
If you have the latest 4.11.08 baseband, there is (to the best of my knowledge) no way to un-SIMlock it.
My wife is travelling in Australia and China and wanted to use her iPhone there. Rooting and unlocking my Samsung Galaxy S took about 10 minutes, but there is no way to unlock the iPhone 4 if you upgraded to iOS 5. We could have paid Rogers (Canada) $60 to do it, but we didn't think of it until we left for Australia and it was cheaper to just buy a cheap nokia prepaid burn phone and then only use her iPhone on WiFi.
If you aren't part of the solution, then there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
Actually, there's a reasonably active hacker community working on WP7. Nobody has yet found a universal full-unlock (the closest was the ChevronWP7 Unlocker, which let you developer-unlock a device without buying a Marketplace Developer account), but certain types of low-permission homebrew are available for all phones. Some phones (HTC gen1 and some gen1.5, Samsung gen1) have ways of getting full "root" access, and the developer of one of the tools has promised support for more HTC and LG devices in his next release (he's apparently already found the holes that will give sufficient permissions). Nothing very eciting for Nokia yet, but not as many hackers have access to them yet.
The key point in all cases is that it requires the device be unlocked and the user be interacting with it. You can "unlock" your phone, but you can't use the same hacks to steal data off a phone you stole from somebody or something like that, and you certainly can't use them for a drive-by attack.
There's no place I could be, since I've found Serenity...
It's interesting that closed devices such as iphone/ipad gets jailbreaked while devices with "open" OS (Android) gets harder to root with each iteration, take for example the Acer Iconia Tab A500, from Honeycomb 3.0 to 3.1 rooting was pretty simple, 3.2 included new locked bootloader, you are screwed, there is still no way to root the device other than reflashing, IC update may even close that option too. So yeah, for a walled garden there is already clearly a superior competitor (ipad).