by Simon Ng on July 12, 2010
GeoHot, the genius behind blackra1n and blacksn0w, has announced in his blog that he has jailbroken the iPhone 4. In his blog post, he posted an iPhone 4 photo running cydia as a jailbreak proof.
However, don’t expect GeoHot will rollout a new version of blackra1n or other jailbreak tools in near future for jailbreaking the [...]
by Simon Ng on June 5, 2010
You should be very familiar with Spirit that it’s a jailbreak tool for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad running iPhone OS 3.1.3. If you have used Spirit to jailbreak your device, you probably agree with me it’s the easiest and fastest jailbreak solution available. Just plug your device via USB and click the “Jailbreak” button. [...]
by Simon Ng on April 1, 2010
As mentioned in the previous post, user using blackra1n jailbroken iPhone may experience sync problem with iTunes v9.1. Fortunately, few hours after iTunes 9.1 release, iH8Sn0w has come up with a fix for blackra1n.
According to iH8Sn0w, the iPhone hacker who also developed sn0wbreeze and f0recast, the sync issues are only being experienced [...]
by Simon Ng on March 27, 2010
GeoHot, the iPhone genius behind blackra1n and blacksn0w, has made an announcement on his blog that he managed to develop an untethered jailbreak solution for all models of iPhone and iPod touch. The solution will possibly work on the upcoming iPad too.
As of now, blackra1n is the easiest jailbreak tool available and supports jailbreaking of [...]
by Simon Ng on February 8, 2010
As reported earlier, iPhone Dev team has released redsn0w 0.9.4 for jailbreaking iPhone 2G/3G running iPhone OS 3.1.3. If you are planning to upgrade your iPhone to OS 3.1.3, this guide walks you through the whole jailbreak process.
Before we begin, please read through the note carefully:
This guide is intended for jailbreaking iPhone 2G and [...]
by Simon Ng on January 23, 2010
The iPhone Dev team is back and has just released Redsn0w 0.9 beta, an alternative for blackra1n. If you have performed jailbreaking on iPhone on iPhone OS 3.0, you probably know what redsn0w is. At that time, it is a very popular jailbreak and unlock tool that supports both Windows and Mac platform.
The previous [...]
by Simon Ng on January 20, 2010
If you have jailbroken your iPhone with blackra1n on OS 3.1.2, chance is that you may not be able to connect to YouTube after jailbreaking. In early November, I have covered to use PushFix 1.0 to fix the YouTube connection problem. Originally, PushFix is originally designed for resolving push notification issue but it’s found that [...]
by Simon Ng on January 18, 2010
For those who have followed the jailbreak guide and use blackra1n (or earlier version of jailbreak tool) to activate an unauthorized SIM card (i.e. Hacktivated) on iPhone OS 3.x, you may experience problem when using Push Notification.
Earlier, we have covered to use PushFix 1.0 to rectify the issue. However, the fix is not a [...]
by Simon Ng on January 12, 2010
With the release of blackra1n by GeoHot, it seems like we do not expect any new update of jailbreak tools until the debut of iPhone OS 4.0. However, that is not really true.
Some iPhone developers are still working on it. Do you still remember Sn0wbreeze that we have covered several months ago? The team, [...]