TinyUmbrella Update Bringing New Features
Semaphore the developer of TinyUmbrella is working on a huge update for his famous program that lets you backup your shsh blobs. TinyUmbrella frees you from Apples controlling actions and lets you restore to any firmware you want if you use the program correctly. For a list of upcoming features:
● Device History: TinyUmbrella will remember device information of devices that have connected so that saving SHSH’s for those devices in the future no longer requires you to connect the device.
● Save All SHSH’s Available “On-File” at Cydia: TinyUmbrella will now automatically check Cydia for ALL SHSHs for the connected device (or device from history 
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● TinyUmbrella will also help you detect what application is running on your computer that is taking up port 80 and will give you the option to kill that application. This should help many of you that don’t know what application may be listening on port 80 (ie. Skype)
● TinyUmbrella will also tell you what firmware versions you can safely downgrade or restore to whenever you connect the device (or select a device from history)
● TinyUmbrella will be sporting a cleaner UI based on some of the great suggestions from @chpwn (a friend and fellow chronic dev team associate)
● Support for PowerPC and more stable runtime for folks having problems running TinyUmbrella for odd and various reasons.
Long term plans include:
● Activation Support: I’ve started looking into the way the phone requests (and obtains) activation from apple’s servers. I’m confident I can duplicate this process but I have more investigation as the the process is incredibly complicated.
● Full Restore Support without iTunes: I’m looking at implementing my own complete restore mechanism. I have not decided if I’ll directly use @p0sixninja’s libirestore or whether I’ll try to do something that hasn’t been done before… ie in java
Tags: application, associate support, device, device history, firmware, firmware versions
August 29th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
It's already a great program but with all these new features, it makes it a more efficient and valuable jailbreaking tool.
August 29th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
I'm just speechless. This guy has done such and incredible job thus far and with the future possibility to cut the cord from apple completely is a very bright future!
August 29th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
umbrella is a great program needed by every jailbreaker out there
August 29th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Your telling me this guy is awesome and does a very good job. Once this is released of course I\’ll make a new post showing off all the new features along with donating to him for the work put it
August 30th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Tiny Umbrella saved my bricked iPhone 4! I needed to downgrade and was stuck in a restore loop – after many hours of looking I found this program that simply has an option to "force out of recovery mode" – DONE!
Thank you for the great work!