As you guys may know the new itunes 9.1 update broke blackra1n for windows so in turn the users couldn’t boot their tethered jailbroken iphones or jailbreak fresh iphones using blackra1n. Don’t worry the fix has been released and ill get to the point so download the new blackra1n that works with the new itunes 9.1 below.
Hurray, it’s cat and mouse time again! iTunes 9.1 was just released, and it looks like Apple has taken yet another step (or two) in their endless fight against jailbreaking.
Take this with a grain of salt for the time being, but we’re hearing a lot of early reports that jailbroken devices will not sync with this latest iTunes release. Read more…
Yes you read it right, the dev team may be taking it old school with a userland untethered jailbreak release in the future. If you don’t know what that is, then you must not have jailbroken your iphone back in the 1.x.x days. To all you new generation jailbreakers, jailbreaking the first iphone was as easy as using safari on your iphone and visiting a website called jailbreakme.com then tapping on a link called snaptap. Read more…
A couple of months form now, it will be 1 year since the iPhone 3Gs was introduced to the public. If Apple follows their usual refresh pattern, soon, we will see… not one but two iPhones according to WSJ. Engadget is reporting that the next-generation iPhone would be announced on June 22nd (a Tuesday, naturally) and would be dubbed the iPhone HD (a name that has been tossed around before). Read more…
Smart Phone Medic has published a video to show what they believe is a taller iPhone 4G LCD and Digitizer assembly.
We have finally got our hands on an iPhone 4G LCD & Digitizer assembly. We have seen this assembly on line before but when a very reliable source showed us that they had one we had to get it. Well as you can see from the video we have it in our hands and hope this is the design that Apple is going with. Read more…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is working on a new iPhone to debut in the summer and a second model for Verizon Wireless.
The people briefed on the matter said one of the new iPhones is being manufactured by Taiwanese contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., which produced Apple’s previous iPhones. Read more…
Springboard rotator has finally been released in the cydia store for $1.99. The tweak as of right now has a lot of bugs and conflicts with apps such as infiniboard, five i rows, stacks and many other cydia tweaks. If you have a lot of tweaks installed I recommend to not install springboard rotator as of right now.
Also if you would like to try before you buy add http://theiphonespotrepo.net/apt to your cydia sources and check it out if it works for you before shelling out two bucks. Don’t forget to support the dev if you do actually use this!
Geo Hot’s Response : “Welcome to proper challenge response, guess someone at Apple finally read a book on security. At least it’s not in the bootroms yet.”
The firmwareumbrella published in his blog that he found a new key named APTicket that might be a means for Apple to stop us jailbreakers from restoring to versions of firmwares that are not signed anymore.
This would mean Apple would get complete control over what you restore and when you restore it. While jailbroken devices are able to accept custom firmwares, the new bootroom 3gs and the ipt3g and MC can’t Read more…
At a press conference where he spoke about the April release of the Blu-ray edition of his latest film, James Cameron said watching Avatar on the iPhone would be “dumb.” More specifically he said, “I don’t feel that I’m making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch it on an iPhone, I’m not going to stop them, especially if they’re paying for it, but I don’t recommend it. I think it’s dumb, when you have characters that are so small in the frame that they’re not visible.” Read more…
AppleInsider reports that Radio Shack, which is getting ready to become the next retail outlet for the iPhone in the US, will offer a trade-in program to users of smartphones who wish to upgrade or switch. According to the report, the electronics chain will be the number two retailer in terms of the number of outlets, after giant Walmart. Read more…