October 16, 2009 :: Posted by - Thomas :: Category - News

Apple has reportedly begun shipping iPhone 3GS units with a new bootrom, which might help combat hacks enabling installation of unauthorized software. However, iPhone hackers say Apple’s new firmware only causes a temporary inconvenience for jailbroken devices, and the handset is still hackable.

“It’s not going to be impossible to jailbreak even if the exploit we used is gone,” said Eric McDonald, a member of the iPhone Dev-Team, which publishes tools to jailbreak the iPhone, in a phone interview with Wired.com.

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October 14, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Apple is now shipping the iPhone 3GS with a new Bootrom that is not vulnerable to the 24kpwn exploit.

The iBoot-359.3.2 started to ship last week. A screenshot posted by Mathieulh shows the new version number.

MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev-Team has confirmed that the loss of the 24kpwn exploit would mean a normal jailbreak would be impossible for the time being.

oh oh, from what @cpich3g + @Mathieulh have found so far, a normal untethered JB may be in jeopardy in brand new 3GS units

For the time being we would suggest locating old stock or refurbished units. Hopefully, the dev teams will be able to find another exploit for the new bootrom.

October 13, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The iPhone Dev-Team has released PwnageTool 3.1.4 with support for iPhone OS 3.1.2.

Summary:
* The iPhone 3GS is now supported out of the box in PwnageTool 3.1.4 (or if you have upgraded to 3.1.x in iTunes)
* The iPod 2G is still supported in PwnageTool 3.1.4 but you must already be jailbroken (we’ll update this if there’s a big demand from non-jailbroken ipt2G owners)
* The iPod touch 3G is NOT supported

You can download PwnageTool 3.1.4 FROM HERE. We will be updating our tutorials for the new version soon.

Via iclarified

October 13, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

MuscleNerd has announced that the iPhone Dev-Team is almost ready with PwnageTool for iPhone OS 3.1.2.

“yep it’s all tested and ready, now going through mechanics of release again”

We will update our tutorials as soon as the new version becomes available…

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October 09, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The iPhone Dev-Team has issued a warning stating that PwnageTool is not yet compatible with iPhone OS 3.1.2.

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WARNING! At 10.20AM PDT on October 8th 2009 Apple released the 3.1.2 version (7D11) of the iPhoneOS.

If you care about your jailbreak and unlock, don’t update your device – 3G and 3G(S) owners should pay particular attention to this warning.
* PwnageTool and redsn0w are not yet compatible with 3.1.2
* There is no estimated release time for compatible tools (please don’t bug us about this).
* Any information we have regarding this update will be posted here.
* You can also follow us on twitter – @iphone_dev