by Simon Ng on July 14, 2010
While GeoHot is no longer working on the unlock for iPhone 4, the infamous iPhone Dev team continues to figure out an unlock solution. After weeks of hard work, planetbeing, a member from the team, just announced (via Twitter) that the iPhone 4 has been unlocked!
Looks like I now have an unlocked iPhone 4. [...]
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 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 November 4, 2009
The wait is over. Half hour ago, GeoHot has put up the release of Blackra1n RC3 and Blacksn0w at blacksn0w.com. Go ahead and download the jailbreak & unlock tool.
For those who do not keep track of the updates, blackra1n and blacksn0w are the first jailbreak and unlock tools that allows the jailbreak and unlock [...]
by Simon Ng on November 3, 2009
In less than two hours, GeoHot will release the first iPhone Unlock Solution (known as blacksn0w) for baseband 05.11.07. Other than that, he has also developed an update of blacksn0w (i.e. RC3) that makes this popular jailbreaking tool for iPhone 3.1.2 even better.
It’s an imminent release for iPhone jailbreaker without official sim. Hacktivation is [...]
by Simon Ng on October 13, 2009
As you know, GeoHot has released a jailbreak tool called blackra1n to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 on Windows. As claimed, blackra1n is an universal jailbreak solution for all models of iPhone and iPod touch. This guide will walk you through on how to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.2 using blackra1n on Windows.
Before you start, please read through [...]
by Simon Ng on October 9, 2009
Earlier, I reported that GeoHot is developing an universal jailbreak solution for iPhone OS 3.1 and it targets to work on all iPhone models, as well as, iPod Touch.
The jailbreak tool is called blackra1n and its website (blackra1n.com) is already live.
GeoHot also posted a picture on his blog showing a jailbroken iPod Touch (3rd [...]
by Simon Ng on October 7, 2009
For Windows users, I know you are waiting for the release of sn0wbreeze, the PwnageTool for Windows. The developer of sn0wbreeze, iH8Sn0w, has posted a short video giving you a quick preview of the tool (see it below). As said before, sn0wbreeze is scheduled to release on Oct 12.
Other than sn0wbreeze, GeoHot also announced in [...]