The coolest, simplest, coolest iPhone jailbreak and unlock ever - Using iTunes to jailbreak/unlock you iPhone!
Posted by Will on Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 12:12 pm under Announcements, Apple, Developer, Mac OS, iPhone
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’s network.
The team has also “PWNED” the restore screen to their liking. Not to mention replaced the startup Apple 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.
February 29th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
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.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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….