by Simon Ng on July 28, 2010
“Is it legal to jailbreak my iPhone?”
This is one of the frequently-asked questions and a concern raised by some of the iPhone users. Now, with the announcement from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit digital rights group, the answer is clear. Jailbreak and unlocking iPhone is not illegal and do not violate the copyright [...]
by Simon Ng on July 20, 2010
If you are not using an official SIM (say, the one from AT&T), you should be very familiar with the below message shown in iTunes when you connect the iPhone to your computer:
The SIM card inserted in this iPhone does not appear to be supported.
Apparently, you can use PwnageTool or Redsn0w to activate the iPhone [...]
by Simon Ng on June 30, 2010
By now, you should know that iPhone Dev Team has released the updated version of PwnageTool to cater for iOS 4 jailbreak. To walk you through the jailbreak process, I have updated the jailbreak guide for iOS 4 using PwnageTool for both iPhone 3G/3GS.
Okay, let’s go straight to the jailbreak procedures.
Before you read [...]
by Simon Ng on June 28, 2010
After I published the post about PwnageTool for iOS4 jailbreak, one frequently-asked question that has been raised by many readers is:
How can I check the bootrom version of my iPhone 3GS? How does I know it’s an old or new bootrom?
For those who do not read the article about PwnageTool, you may wonder why we [...]
by Simon Ng on June 24, 2010
The infamous iPhone Dev team is working really hard. After the debut of ultrasn0w and redsn0w beta, the team has just released PwnageTool 4.01 to support jailbreak of iOS 4.
As usual, PwnageTool is for Mac OS X only. The latest version of PwnageTool adds the jailbreak support for iOS 4. For Mac user, you [...]
by Simon Ng on February 9, 2010
Yesterday, we show you how you can use redsn0w to jailbreak iPhone 2G/3G running iPhone OS 3.1.3. Not long ago, iPhone Dev team released another jailbreak tool – PwnageTool 3.1.5 to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.3. As usual, PwnageTool only works on Mac OS only. You can use PwnageTool to jailbreak iPhone 2G, 3G and 3GS [...]
by Simon Ng on February 4, 2010
As I mentioned in the previous post, please stay away from upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1.3. Hours after the release of iPhone OS 3.1.3, however, the iPhone Dev team has released redsn0w 0.9.4 that supports jailbreaking on the latest version of iPhone OS. But there is a catch. The jailbreaking solution only works on iPhone [...]
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, [...]
by Simon Ng on October 18, 2009
With the release of PwnageTool 3.1.4, the good news is you can upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1.2 and jailbreak it. The bad news is it’s just for Mac users. I’ve got tons of emails asking about how to jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 on Windows.
Other than waiting for the release of redsn0w or sn0wbreeze (the Windows [...]