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 [...]
by Simon Ng on October 17, 2009
Some iPhone users have reported that Winterboard doesn’t work after jailbreaking with blackra1n, the 30-second jailbreak tool developed by GeoHot. iPhone just can’t change theme in Winterboard.
So, what’s the problem and how do you fix it?
A reader (thanks, Rawsole!) has sent me a tweet for the possible fix. It looks like the problem is [...]
by Simon Ng on October 14, 2009
A few hours ago, iPhone Dev team released an update for its popular jailbreak tool – PwnageTool v3.1.4. As usual, PwnageTool is for Mac only. The latest version adds the jailbreak support for iPhone OS 3.1.2. You can use it to jailbreak iPhone 2G/3G/3GS and iPod Touch 1G/2G.
The earlier version of PwnageTool failed to jailbreak [...]
by Simon Ng on October 5, 2009
As you know, if you’re using Mac, you can use PwnageTool and got the privilege to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1. For Windows user, however, you do not have much option to jailbreak iPhone 3.1 at this moment. I got tons of emails asking when redns0w will be updated and when Windows users can upgrade to [...]
by Simon Ng on October 3, 2009
iPhone Dev team has just released an update for PwnageTool. This is a good news for iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G users. As you know, the earlier release of PwnageTool 3.0 only support jailbreaking on iPhone 2G and 3G. With the debut of PwnageTool 3.1.3, it now supports both iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch [...]
by Simon Ng on September 20, 2009
Earlier, iPhone Dev Team released the updated version of PwnageTool to cater for iPhone 3.1 jailbreak. To simplify your jailbreak, I have updated the jailbreak guide for iPhone 3.1 OS using PwnageTool. For any reason you do not want to upgrade your iPhone to the latest version, you can also refer the old jailbreak guide [...]