The coolest, simplest, coolest iPhone jailbreak and unlock ever – Using iTunes to jailbreak/unlock you iPhone!
By Will Park on Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 12:12 PM PST In Announcements, Apple, Developer, iPhone, iPhone OS
And you thought the code-warriors working on iNdependence were on their game…
Check out this video demonstrating the “iPhone Unleashed” as it’s updating from a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.1 straight to the iPhone v1.1.4 firmware. The kicker here is that the update process, via iTunes, automatically and seamlessly jailbreaks, unlocks, and activates the iPhone into v1.1.4. What you see is an iPhone “that are belong” to the “iPhone Unleashed” team, running a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.4 and locked on to T-Mobile (NYSE: DT)’s network.
The team has also “PWNED” the restore screen to their liking. Not to mention replaced the startup Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) logo with their own. The iTunes-based jailbreak was made possible by hacking the iPhone firmware restore file (that file that ends with the extension .ipsw). This jailbreak is not ready for primetime yet, but we can only hope that there are plans to release it soon.
Oh, and they did all this without any official iPhone SDK support from Apple. These guys are amazing! Props to roxfan, Turbo, wizdaze, bgm, pumpkin and the iPhone Dev Team.
Surely, jailbreaking is gratifyingly subversive, but WHAT FOR if you are on an Apple-contracted carrier? After 1.1.1. I just shrugged: there wasn’t much use of the “third-party” apps — novelty perhaps, but no utility — and the otherwise gem-like iPhone was predictably unstable.
I’ll have to disagree with you 100%. Jailbreaking the iPhone opens up an entire catalogue (multiple catalogues, actually) of third-party applications that are incredibly useful. Navizon is great, for example (sure, Apple and Google rolled out My Location built into v1.1.3, but Navizon still has its utility).
Chat clients, dictionaries, native games, system tweaks…the list goes on and on. In fact, the biggest deterrent to fully adopting the third-party offerings may just be the shear number of applications available for the iPhone. I’ve only rarely had a third-party application crash my iPhone, by the way.
In the end, to each his own….
I am t-mobile custormer to when i got my iphone i took it out of the box and was “hacking” (as most ppl would say not in the iphone scence) from the start but what i didnt realize that along with unlocking my basband i was also opening up my phone to a world of options apple has yet to provid to there customers and as long as companys like apple coutinue to deny ppl the right to use there 500 $ toy the way they want to ppl will coutinue to “hack” i couldnt imagine having a locked up iphone, one of the first things i downloaded was an app called winterboard to make my springboard have a background bc i thought it was kinda dumb you couldnt have one but i do agree with will on this one “to each his own”
Im gonna coutinue to jailbreak until apple decides its legal